The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-21

lihi last evening
captain Cluney, X. r. G. Wallace.
william Mutch and the able LAWYER
ABOVE mentioned were gathered On the
latters veranda discussing the events
of me night before. -, NJ
PEOPLE actually went to register on
friday who mad been taught how to
sign their names within the last few
DAYS, for when they were requested to
M IN their residences, occupation. etc.
they couldn't do it. They had simply
mastered their names for the occasion.
Ten Chinese applied and numerous
Portuguese registered
Hacks pulled up at the Reform
School Saturday afternoon loaded with
all kinds of voters" who had been
brought to the polls in hacks to insure
their getting there. Liquid refresh
ments and cigars came with the hacks.
All this >-4sgusted the better element,
and the judges, with T. McCants Stew
art and other members of the Executive
Committee, exerted themselves to make
things run along smoothly and hon
estly
The riff-raff gathered around, those
VINO had no business there, as well as
some who had, occasionally gave vent
haoles and the missionaries, and SINH
lar ungentlemanly expressions.
: When the registering was pau, Fri
day, only eighty@seven names were re-
corded. When the voting commenced
at o'clock Saturday afternoon there
were 14O registered. So there was con-
siderable hustling at the last moment.
somebody was trying to wiring in a
cold deck, SAID Captain Cluney
AS stated before, when the judges dis
covered the ballot box had been stuffed.
they unanimously declared the election
null and void. q
AT this point in the proceedings, T.
.,.cCantS Stewart stepped forward and
asked of the judges:
Do you declare these elections null
and void?"
We do, said the judges
w hat are we to report?" said Ia
blan.
Simply that the ballot box contained
more ballots than there were registered
voters" answered the lawyer.
AS chairman of the Executive Com
mlttee l am going to take charge of
this ballot box and l announce that /
shall call a meeting of the Executive
Committee to decide on what to do
with the same -
Fabian said mol"
T. McCants Stewart then read a rule
of the local club giving the Executive
Committee full charge of all properties
of the association in the absence of the
association. Stewart started Off with
the ballot-boX under his. arm when W.
II. Sims-so Stewart relates the Incl
dent-tOok hold of il also. And then
these two men held a lengthy and
strong y-conteSted argument as TO who
had right to the box. Sims declared
that he was standing up for the judges
while Stewart was holding on for the
Executive Committee. All last the box
was placed on the table and Sims,
overcome by Stewards eloquence, said:
You're right
Stewart continuing with the story
said: James Holt handed me paper
ana in the presence OF the judges and
the assembled people | emptied the bal
iOlS out of the box into the paper,
wrapped them up and gave tnem to
Mr.. MutCh, who is member OF me EX-
ecutive Committee, and then l jumped
on my bicycle and started for nome"
Before the party broke up Sims re-
guessed that the meeting of the EXecu-
tive Committee be called for Sunday
morning at II o'clock. This was agreed
| upon but as Stewart expressed it, I'VE
couldn't get in telephone touch with
,he members"
II has been decided to hold the Ex-
acuCive meeting tonight, Monday, at
the kalihi-waena School house.
Sims changed his mind about the
ballots after Stewart lett and advised
Fabian and Timoteo, the two native
judges that they ought to have the
ballots.
Fabian demanded the ballots as one
of the judges, from Mr.. Mutch. Mulch
held on to them as member of the
Executive Committee Not much"
he said.
X. r. G.. Wallace, the man of muscle,
stood by in case he was needed; he was
going to see that the Executive Com
mittee got the ballots all right. Then
Sims changed his mind again and said:
Mulch, can trust you, take the bal
lots"
You'll have to trust me-" said
Mutch. Mutch's rig carried the ballots
home.
1T was a case of Loves Labor
Lost" said Stewart, speaking of the
matter generally.
I'VE regret very much the outcome
of this Affair."" said he I'VE believe
the primaries are at the basis of all
government, and that they should be
safeguarded as carefully as the gen
eral elections The last pubic move
ment in which I was concerned was in
New York in 1898, when attended as
a member, and also as a meIhbCr of the
business committee, of the National
Conference Of Leagues for primary
elections. Other members were the
Secretary of the United States Treas
ury and ex-mayor Strong of New York
together with many governors and
mayors of the country. The object of
the conference was to have laws pass
ed in the respective states for the pre-
lection Of the primary elections.
You may say that concerning the
elections on Saturday, the majority of
legal votes were for myself for dele
gate.
There was a contest before the club
in which Sims, Holt and myself were
nominated. | secured the majority Of
the votes and became the regular
nominee. Holt made speech in which
he said he would turn his followers
over to me for my support
1T was only the other day that the