The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-10
INDEPENDENT CONVENTION
HOME RULERS CHOOSING THEIR
ta CANDIDATES.

A Pledge as erequisite-Question
of Delegate to Congress Not Yet
Reached-Carter and Macfarlane.
1t was 10:3O this morning before the
Independent Convention had made a
start At the appointed hour of opening,
10 o'clock a dozen old natives hung
about the door of the drill shed. Slow
ly one at a time, the crowd enlarged
until there was finally a fair showing,
though not one half of the seats in the
hall were filled. Wilcox, Kalauokalani
Kaulia and other leaders arrived about
fifteen minutes late.
Prior to the call for order all sorts
of rumors were afloat in the delega-
tions. One was to the effect that Will
cox and his friends had arbitrarily
fired out such delegates as were oppos-
ed to their leaders candidacy for Con-
gress. This proved to be true. The
coup was effected yesterday. F. ].
Testa was one of the men turned down.
He was given the option of endorsing
Wilcox or having another delegate ap-
pointed in his stead. Testa replied
that before he would support Wilcox
he'd eat his shirt waist, or words to
that effect. He was accordingly drop
ped, and Wilcox had scored a point.
Another rumor, to the effect that ].
o. Carter and E. C. Macfarlane would
present letters declining nominations
for the Senate later turned out to be
true. -
D. Kalauokalani opened the meeting
Wilcox sat at his left hand and Kaulia
at his right.
David Kanuhu, Mahoe, Kailimai Me-
ekapu and Nehemiah were appointed a
committee on credentials and one hun
dred and twelve delegates from all the
districts were found to be duly quah-
fed 5. K. Mahoe and others started a
discussion on the matter of tempor-
airy chairman and Kalauokalani was
elected
Having after infinite debate settled
the preliminaries of the convention, no.
limitations for senator We're called for
The following were named many of
them receiving the endorsement of sew
eral districts:
r. N. Boyd, S. K. Pua, e. C. Mac
farlane, d. Kalauokalani, James K.
Kaulia, George Markham, D. Kanuha,
]. o. Carter, ]. w. Bipikane, Frank
Harvey, William Auld, j. Kanui, Jesse
Makainai, John Emmeluth, Joseph
Clark
One of the delegates stated that he
had been informed that ]. o. Carter
had written a letter asking that his
ton, and the delegate asked that the
letter be read.
The following is the letter which was
read:
Honolulu, H. T., Oct. 10, 1900.
d. Kalauokalani,
Chairman of Convention of the In
dependent Home Rule Party.
Sir: Yesterday afternoon, Messrs.
Robert Boyd and George Markham, re-
presenting themselves as acting under
your instructions, handed me a pledge
which you as leader of the Independ-
ent Home Rule Party required me to
sign as a prerequisite to nomination
by the convention of that party. A
reading of the pledge, particularly item
three convinces me that you have start
ed upon a course that can only be con-
sidered mischievors by thoughtful men;
and as friend of the Hawaiian people
ask you to reconsider your proposed
policy as one fraught with danger to
the native race.
Being \forwarned of the course you
would pursue l must ask you not to
consider me as a candidate for any
position on the ticket of your party.
My appeal must be from your conven-
ton to the Hawaiian people.
Very truly yours.
]. o. CARTER.
A letter from E. C. Macfarlane, ad-
dressed as ]. o. Carter's was was then
read. as follows:
| Sir: Messrs. Robert Boyd and George
Markham called upon me yesterday,
giving me to understand that they bore
message from you, the purport of
which was that pledge had been pre-
pared by you and other leaders of your
party, which l must sign If desired a
nomination as senator for the third
1 Irar of fn1 1fgfrf fpf nd II 1esVs1 1faV1
that you admit that the pledge came
| from you to me.
My answer to your message as given
to them was that / would refuse to
sign any pledge, but they requested me
to give the matter further considera-
| ton, which I have done, and the result
of such deliberation leads me to say
more emphatically that 1 will not sign
pledge, particularly such as one as
was presented to me for consideration.
I cannot believe that the Hawaiian
people will approve of your action, and
l shall be content to abide their deci-
sion at the polls.
l remain, very truly
e. c. MACFARLANE.
The pledge to which reference was
made in these letters was as follows.
The only name to it as it was presented
to the convention was that of James
Quinn.
To whom IT may concern:
We do hereby pledge ourselves TO
support the Independent Home Rule
Party.
First, We do hereby declare that we
are not a member of the Democratic or
Republican parties in the territory of
| Hawaii
Second, We pledge ourselves to sup
port the platform of the Independent
Home Rule Party
Third We do hereby pledge ourselves
not to confirm any Of the appointments
of Governor Dole's, in section so of the
territorial act.
Upon the reading of these letters and
this pledge, a delegate I'm the rear of
the hall said that no self-respecting
man would sign such a pledge as that.
Other delegates. however, took the posi-
ticn that If Carter and Macfarlane did
not want to sign 1t the convention could
find plerty OF other candidates. 1t
seemed never to have occurred to any
one to inquire by what authority the
pledge was prepared and made pre-
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