The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-05
Gossip About Tuesdays
Meeting.
Some Say a Slate Was Broken But
Murray Says Harmony Was
The Desideratum.

the importance of the movement be
gun over the shop of the genial black
smith. Timothy Murray himself thinks,
and says, that it is ''one Of the grandss.
and strongest organizations ever inaug-
urated for the uplifting of mankind
AS Murray first set the ball rolling that
resulted-though not as expected-in
the Republican Cluu of Hawaii, he
ought to know.
He has no apologies for his unobtru-
sive attitude at the meeting Tuesday
night. Murray was at the forge yes
terday when he stopped to chat about
his ideas of the political situation.
The gathering over the shop wds
all right" he said, Il took back seat
for the good of the party. | saw that
some people had an idea in their think
tanks that | was trying to be the whole
thing. Now said 1 To myself, I'll just
sit easy and watch the proceedings. ]
was ready any moment that | thought
proper TO take the floor. If anything
mad gone wrong ] would have been on
| deck instantly But all was smooth
and nice. There's nothing like har-
mony and peaceful working. We have
over hundred and twenty-three men,
bers on the roll of the club now. When
the meeting adjourned Tuesday night,
/ they poured up TO the desk to put down
their names.
The main thing now is to appoint
"a good set of men on the executive COM
mittee which is 10 consist of twenty
one members. We will go slow and
/ - 49, Ia,
be no bad methods; no gang or push =
20 run any part OF the club. We al"
out for pure and high minded OBJ
jects."
4 nan who dropped in to talk with
Murray said that the only men he knew
who felt bad over the meeting were
| Turk d. Lewis. Lewis has had lots of
experience" said he, lin politics. He
has been district delegate in San Fran
cisco several times and was once elect
ed as ward-heeler from a wealthy part
| OF that town. known as North Beach.
The speaker was born in Hawaii and
has never been out or IL. He. confessed
a total unfamiliarity with localities in
San Francisco and assumed that
'wardb eeler" was equal to member OF
the Executive Council or something OF
thai kind.
The facts are .hese," said another
mem Der OF the Republican Club OF Ha-
waii, who had been conspicuous at the
meeting: Lewis e. Turk got together
some weeks ago and concluded that
the time vas ripe for organization
They were busy on the front, but not
too busy 20 give some OF their time at
nights 10 the public good.
Said Lewis 20 Turk, Turk, here's
these people in Honolulu without any
of the progressive institutions we have
in Frisco. They amt got no First
Ward Workers or North Beach Comb
ers; nobody seems to have gotten in
here with the savoy to run things
right. Watch my smoke. I'm going
to turn the body polite inside out and
put a little Buckley hot stuffsin the
meeting on Monday
Turk said ne sized up things in
the same way. Here were the two OF
them hustling all day and part of the
night TO get jobs for poor sailormen
bearing the hardship Of being called
crimps and sharks, and with a
knowledge OF now TO run party thai
ought not to lay idle so they got to-
gether. They went to the meeting OF
Monday night ready and resolved tC
run the whole shebang. They agreed
crate apparently singly. Lewis was u
make motions, Turk to second them
and select push to rush then
! through"
The Club member who was talkinl
halted. Murray aau gone to do a deli
cate piece. of craftsmanship and tn,
member grew confidential.
To be square," he said, we were al
knocked sky-high by Lawyer Hum
phreys. We had our crowd and he haC
his Which was the bigger we DOM
know; but he talked all the time anC
we never got a chance to get even :
sharp word in edgewise. Lewis & Turl
are clean knocked out. The Lord hell
the poor sailorman today"
A prominent Democrat who occupied
: chair at Murray's on Tuesday nigh
, SAID he did not look for the Republican
: CluO to be a power. IL know abou
big oaks from little acorns growing,
said the Democrat, but feel sure tina
this acorn wasn't planted right. / don
look for the Republicans to get any
; thing when they do organize il
strength; but what happened Tuesda!
night can he no gauge.
"Nnen the Republicans are full
prepared to enter the lists you will SCI
"A meeting in the largest hall in thi
city. There will be gathering Of n
, magnificent body of men as ever as
: sembled in the Islands. Men o
strength. men whose words are weighed
we'll before being uttered. will be at tn
head of the movement. You can be sur
that Honolulu in all it's history, will
: never have a gathering more represen
a tative of it's wealth. education. brain
and honesty, than the first convention
=, to organize the Republican party.
am a Democrat, staunch to the core
and I expect that we will have no trou
9 BILE in controlling everything In sight a
we will have the majority OF the peo
pie. but don't let anyone fool them
selves into the idea that the Republi
can party will not take a strong hand
| am assured by leaders in Social an
l. political life here that IL Is not con
= sidered timely to organize yet"
J. The Republican Club of Hawaii vii
i. not meet probably for some days. IL
Il understood that President Crabbe
studying the list of members in an en-
deavor TO find the twenty-one. best III
4 ted TO run the organization.