The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-02-19
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY, FEBR UARY 10.
Election Returns.

Further Election Returns.
From the Island of Kauai we have full returns
as follows:
DISTRICT OF wAIMEA AND SIIHAU.
5. X. Kuapuu (elected) received. ........250 votes.
" hnudsen --...-----.-.-- ..-..-.-lNU
In this district Mr.. Knudsen, who has been
the Representative for ten OF more years, was de-
fcated, on account of the opposition of the natives
to the large purchasers Of real estate in that dis
trict, by whom they claim to be deprived Of their
former pasturage. The successful candidate
promises to obtain free pastures for them, and
they appear to have "onfded in his promises
lie was formerly porter for Mr.. Rhodes, and a
Well-known fshmarket dealer in this city.
DISTRICT or LIHUE AND KoLoA.
w. III. Rice (elected) received ..-.......-lSi votes.
hOahah
hAlu- OD
The successful candidate in this district is a
young man of promise, whose election to a seat
in the Assembly will be an honor to that body.
lie is considered one of the finest Hawaiian ora
tors of foreign extract on these Islands, and we
doubt not will be able to gain and control an
influence over the natives which few foreigners
can do.
DISTRICT OF HANALEI.
ID. Kaukaha (elected) received. votes.
Judge wanna 81
falahao. %
In this district the contest was confined entirely
to natives, and between the three candidates
there was very little choice, so far as virtue and
fitness are concerned. The gentleman elected
represented the district in 1868, and will be re-
membered as one of the three or four members
who spoke so violently against the bill subsidiz-
ing foreign steamers, and when the test vote was
taken suddenly turned and voted in its favor
why, no one could ever tell, though many sur
missed. He has been a constable in Hanalei,
from which service he was lately discharged.
Excepting the member from Lihue, Kauai fares
hard this year in the abilities of her represen-
tatives.
The Election on Maui.
We gave last week the returns from Lahaina,
Kaanapali and Wailuku. We have no details
from the remaining districts, but hear that NJ.
Kapihe is elected in Makawao, and Asa Hopu in
Hama. The latter was the representative from
the same district in the last Assembly.
Maui this year has seven representatives instead
of six as forlnerly-Wailuku being allowed two
representatives. This increases the total number.
The Election on Hawaii.
This island is entitled to eight members-the
same number as Oahu. We have heard from the
following:
DISTRICT OF KOHALA.
C.. J. Lyons elected. received. ..........2 300 votes.
"
heOhokn-- 80
Mr.. Lyons was the representative from this
district in 1868, and the fact that he has been
returned this year, without even visiting his dis
trict to canvass, would indicate that he served,
during the last session, to the acceptance Of his
constituents
SOUTH KOSA.
Simon Kaai ~(elected) received. ...........S5 votes.
=. T. Jones .------- "
In this forlorn district. the successful candidate
appears to have had everything his own way. A
communication will be found in another column,
describing the election, and if the half is true
that the writer states, not only should a new
election be ordered, but the officers who presided
as inspectors should be dismissed. However,, in
the heat of the election, the Judgment of inter-
ested parties is liable TO be warped. There is no
excuse, however, for che circulation of unfounded
falsehoods regarding rival candidates, as was done
in this district, when Col. Jones was charged
with being the author of an annexation article in
the Male Quarterly, a periodical which probably
he never saw or read. If there is no law to
reach such conduct, it is time there was one.
DISTRICT OF HAMAKUA.
G. W. d. Halemanu (elected) received. III log votes.
Il L. hamaipelekane. G7 "
J. Jones 4 "
Mr.. Halemanu represented this district in 1868,
and proved himself a very worthy member, say
ing little, and doing promptly all work assigned
to him.
In Kau W. I. Martin is elected by As majority
over his rival, K~upakee.
From Hilo, Puma, and Lanai, no full returns
have been received. When these are heard from,
We shall publish the list of new representatives
complete.
The Assembly will have to investigate the
qualifications of some of the members elect, for
the law is quite explicit on the subject, and de-
clares that every representative = shall own real
estate, within the Kingdom of a clear value, over
and above all membranes, of at least fire hun
bred dollars, or who shall have an income of at
least t,co hundred and fifty dollars. derived from
any property or some lawful employment"
1t is stated that several of the persons elected
have neither real estate Dor income as required
by the Constitution. If the law is allowed to be
openly violated, our elections will become a farce,
and every idler who chooses to run for the Legis-
lature, can by falsehOods and trickery secure a
majority of votes.
While the election in this city was conducted
rs fairly as the most radical partizan could wish,
in other districts, it appears to have been quite
the reverse. What will be said of a government
officer sitting as inspector, and threatening to
discharge a voter from public service if he voted
for another person than himself, as was done at
Eva. There, one of the candidates was himself
judge, school superintendent and treasurer, and
because certain school teachers did not obey his
orders and vote for himself, they were discharged.
But if this is reprehensihle in n native officer,
what will be thought of a crown Minister, who
is said to have discharged a man from his employ
for voting for an old and tried friend.
Another enactment, forhidding any member of
the Legislature from accepting an Office of profit
during his term of two years membership, would
serve to check much of the subserviency which
has prevailed among members Of late years, and