The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-10-20


person to represent sober-minded and
ton.
Inanking you for the action your
committee has taken, which is quite In |
harmony with my letter to the nomi- |
mating convention of your party, and |
when relieves me from an awkward |
Pos,uon' 4 remain, very trdiy yours,
tSigned): ]. O. CARTER
WHAT MACFARLANE SAYS.
The following Is Macfarlane's reply
70 letter Of the same tenor from the
Independent party:
Honolulu. October IS. 1900.
MT. george Markham. Secretary Inoe-
pendent Home Rule Party. city.
sir-l am in receipt or your COM
munication OF this date in which you
INFORM me that at a meeting he'd at
the headquarters of the Independent
Rome huie party. my nomination as
representative for the Fourth District
had been revoked because OF my "aifil-
iation with the Democratic party"
~ Is a matter or surprise to me that
afhiiation with the Democratic party"
should all at once be held by the Inde-
pendent psne nt,daon Home Rule party Y be sueh a
When my name was placed upon your
ticket had already received the nomi
nation OF Representative upon the
Democratic ticket. and had accepted
the same. and tins fact was known -
the members Of your convention when
they personally endorsed me for the
same ofhce on their own ticket Was
not. therefore. my affiliation with the
Democratic party known TO you at the
time you nominated me? II. tnen, my
afhliation with the Democratic party
was no bar then, what has happened
pray, to make 1t Objectionable nowy
| You inform me tnat my nomination
was revoked at a meeting held at the
headquarters of the Independent Home
Rule party. What meeting it was. and
what authority II had to take my name
on the ticket Is not apparent.
|. The nomination by your party was
not sought by me. and / question your
authority to revoke my nomination
lnow. In the interests of the Hawaiian
people, whose interests You specially
lclaim to represent and safeguard.
protest against any sucn dec.araIivn OF
var upon those ''affIiia dig with t-.e
Democratic party" and / claim right
here and now that the Hawaiian peo-
pie do not. and will not, and cannot
support you in any such stand.
III the Independent Home Rue party
choose to set Prince David kawanana-
koa aside and vote for X. w. Wilcox
as a. delegate to Congress-. do / under
stand that they will read Mr.. Wilcox
Vtt VI Ntt TlOlut tsQIe
party II he 'affiiiates with the Demo.
Gratis" in Congress? IL not, then is no
this declaration of war on Democrat,
I here queer way to secure for Mr.
Wilcox the recognition or the Demo
Gratis in Congress. unless. indeed, tn,
few at headquarters who are assuming
to run the Independent Home Rule par
ty have concluded to affiliate" will
the Republicans?
1 challenge the position you have as
sumed in behalf OF the Independent
: against the Democrats as one unsup
ported by the rank and file of the In
n dependent party, and feel safe in say
e ing that II would be rejected in an
n representative convention that mign
be assembled.
: The issue that you have thus raise
e against the Democratic party can onl
a be settled at the polls on the 9Th Of No
= lvember next. and / cannot believe tina
< the Hawaiian people will commit politi
e cal suicide by cutting themselves o.
from the good will and protection c
= that great party.
e IL Is true that / am an ardent sur
Il porter OF Prince David for delegate I
a Congress. Perhaps this Is also a maj
IS ter Of offense to you IL SO. the pol
II must decide the question. for I prefs
Ie to 60 down to defeat with Prince Ds
m vid than to victory with Mr.. Wilco.
,r r. G.. MACFARLANE.