The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-02
A.G.M.R ROBERTSON.
A Communication From the
Third District Club.
1t Denies the Right of the
Central Committee to In.
terfere With Its Nominee
to the Convention.

To AMERICAN UNION VOTERS AND
PERSONS DESIRING 10 Act WITH
THE PARTY:
| GREETING:
| In view of the fact that the general
| public is not thoroughly conversant
| with the details of the controversy
! existing between the Third District of
| the American Union Party and the
| Oahu Central Committee, the ENecu-
tive Committee of the Third District
respectfully submit the following
statement of facts:
The Third District has member
ship of nearly 500, almost one-third of
the entire registered vote of the island.
| The platform of the American Union
Party has been endorsed and sub
scribed to by all of it's members.
Pursuant to the general election
call of the Oahu Central Committee
to nominate delegates to the Constitu-
| tional Convention, q meeting of the
| Third District was held at the drill
shed on Friday evening, April 18th,
| at which time and place A. G. Nj.
| Robertson was duly elected as the
candidate of the American Union
Party of the Third District. by vote
of POI out of 341 cast.
| a few minutes before the hour set
| for balloting to begin, communica-
| ton was received from the Central
Committee, setting forth the arbitrary
and peremptory demand that no nom-
inatiOn of Government officials as
delegates to the Constitutional Con-
| vention would be entertained.
| The fact that a. @. NJ. Robertson
| had been selected as a candidate by
| the Third District was known to the
! Central Committee the evening pre-
vious, and no opposition was ex-
pressed to his candidacy by said Cen
| trail Committee until the receipt of the
| above mentioned communication.
Immediately upon the receipt of
such communication from the Central
| Committee, meeting of the Third
District was held, and a resolution
was unanimously passed repudiating
| the right of the Central Committee to
| arrogate to itself the authority to in
terfere with the right of the free
choice of the district in selecting its
candidate, guaranteed by the Consti-
tutional Convention Act and the laws
governing the party. Further, at the
| time this arbitrary order was issued
by the Central Committee, it was not
the expressed desire of the party MEM
bership that Government officials
should not be elected as delegates to
the Constitutional Convention.
The Third District emphatically re-
| pudiates and denies that the ruling
| made by the Central Committee,
whereby Government officials should
be debarred from candidacy for the
Constitutional Convention, was ac-
cepted as good doctrine and sound DO
litical policy by the membership of
seven of the eight districts in the ISL
| and. On the contrary, the Third Dis
| trict reiterates and reaffirms that the
| Government has not publicly ex-
pressed any desire in the premises;
and, further, as no such desire has
and the ineligibility of Government
| officials not having been mentioned
| in the Constitutional Convention Act
| itself, the Third District has positive
| ly refused TO be cajoled or coerced into
| withdrawing it's regular nominee.
The Executive Committee of the
| Third District further deny that its
| action has caused the Central Com
mittee to be hampered, or to contend
| with many obstacles and discourage
| ments; but, on the other hand, con
tend that if any trouble has been
| brought about, it originated solely
and only through the unjust and arbi-
trary methods employed by the Cen
trail Committee itself.
On behalf of the Third District
its Executive Committee gives an
| etnph attic denial TO the statement
| that it has boIted from the party