The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-11-16
GEAR AND SENATORSA|P
CORRESPONDENTS DURING THE
CAMPAIGN.
Gear Denies Instigating the Movement
to put Him on the Ticket-The Adj
vertizer Publishes some Certificates.

The Bulletin yesterday evening pub
lished correspondence passing between
A. V. Gear and the Republican Terri
torial comittee during the campaign,
relative to the effort then in progress
to replace the name of Henry Water
house on the Republican senatorialtick-
ct, with the name of A. V. Gear. The
first communication is from Mr.. Gear
to the chairman of the committee,
James A. Kennedy and is dated October
20, 1900. In this Mr.. Gear says he has
been urged by intimate political friends
and large number of voters to become
an Independent Republican candidate
for the senate and that a sufficient
number of voters have voluntarily prof
fered him their support to assure his
election Many of these, he says, alb
sOlutely refuse to vote for Mr. Water
house. At no time, he adds has he
sought a legislative nomination. He
asks the consideration and suggestion
of the committee as to what
he should do under the cir
cumstances, avowing himself a
firm believer in party, but re-
lieved from any obligations that might
have been inferred from his previous
willingness to withdraw for the sake of
party haramony by the more recent ac-
ton of the nominating conventions ana
also by the fact that certain sup
posed supporters of the present ticket
have openly advocated fusion with the
Democrats"
The committee replied to this October
23 by resolution in which the committee
said it would regret to see him appear
az an Independent candidate, and would
suggest that he advise his friends that
such a step on his mart would ieopardze
the success of the party, and seriously
injure his usefulness as a republican"
To this Mr.. Gear replied October 20,
accepting the judgment of the commit
tee except as to the proposition that to
appear as an independent Republican
candidate would seriously impair his
usefulness as a Republican. Your ac-
ton" he says, relieves me from any
responsibility for any of the universally
recognized weak points in the Repubii-
can Senatorial ticket My action should
convince you of the utter falsity of the
impression emanat ting from members
of the executive committee that I was
personally instrumental in instigating
the petition to which l have called your
attention"
In connection with a republication of
this correspondence the Advertiser this
morning publishes a certificate signed
w. II. Kahumoku, dated Halawa, Eva,
November 1900 stating that the signer
called on A. V. Gear at the request of a
friend during the campaign, and was
asked to circulate a petition for the
substitution of Gears name for that
of Henry WaterhOuse, Mr.. Gear pro-
missing him, if successful in securing
signatures to the petition to pay him
for it. Kahumoku, however, refused
to circulate the petition, as Waterhouse
was a friend of his.
The advertiser in the same connec-
ton, also publishes a certificate signed
]. X. Namaolau, f. K. Naauao, Kaa-
mama, A. L. REGARD, Hawai- X. George
Fred H. KauWahi, George Kaolopa, ].
Kawehi. II. Nahale, William Olepau, in
which it is stated that at the request
of different friends they called on A. V.
Gear and were asked by hem to cir
culate this petition, which they did and
were paid for their work from his office
at his request.