Abstract

Crude Sugar; Refined Politics

In Hawaii, the politics are white and refined, though the sugar is crude and brown. Some of the smooth, white, refined politics have lately been on view. In September 1922, Governor Wallace R. Farrington appointed a new Attorney General, an appointment confirmed at the next session of the local Senate in 1923, the Governor having thus acted "with the advice and consent of the Senate," as the organic act constituting the territory provides. The Governor believed that he was establishing in office his personal assistant in the chief law officer, John A. Mathewman; Mathewman, singularly enough, regarded himself as one of several executives constituting the government, with definite powers laid down by the law, a tribune of all the people.