Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-06-02
MEASURES KILLED

After two days Of arduous honest
fort, careful discussion and sharp
ontest against the chicanery OF out
lde machine manipulators who de-
Gated at the primaries hoped to
needle the convention into passing
ules to destroy the Republican party,
he first Republican convention Of the
| territory closed its session with its
work we'll done, with the machine
outed and discredited at every point,
With completed plan for party
lction that will appeal to every honest
voter of the Islands. Today discomfi
ure rests only with the clique that
hoped to force gag machine rule upon
| the Republican Party-and in the
hearts Of the Democrats. The prin-
| ciples expounded and the rules laid
down to guide Party activities are in
complete accord with the well recog-
| nized tenets of the national leaders, In
.eeping with the broad and liberal plan
Of Territorial government framed by u
Republican Congress and demonstrate
in every detail that the Republican
Party offers no barriers to any citizen
w.. believes in government Of, by and
for the people.
As was recognized by every well in
formed citizen the success or failure
OF the convention depended upon the
rules for general party government
promulgated by the delegates. The fac
tional machine for which the Adver-
| tiser had worked secretly and not with
out showing considerable capacity for
political chicanery tried unsuccessfully
to carr ythe day. Imposing upon the
honesty and good intentions of the ma
joriry Of the committee on organization,
they were so far successful as to Sc
cure the introduction to the convention
of report almost an exact copy Of the
machinery by which the most corrupt
manipulations of Tammany Hall are
conducted. The men who have cried
machine, and arrogated to themselves
the championship Of pure politics
showed their true hand at the last
moment as 1t was expected they would
do. At this last showdown they cham
pioned the machine methods of most
corrupt corruptionists. Rule or ruin
was their cry. Thanks to the sound
common sense of the delegates the
Thurston- Carter ring neither ruled nor
ruined. The scheme put forth by their
henchman was Quilted and quartered,
almost expunged from the records and
finally SO completely upset and re-
modelled that its own father would not
recognize the child.
thanks to the able efforts of A. s.
Humphreys, A. B. Loebenstein, G. p.
Iaukea and able supporters whose mo-
tives and acts the official organ has
constantly striven to impeach, the
schemes Of the machine manipulators
were exposed, the trick laid bare and
the Republican party saved to the peo-
pie. The arguments were so convincing
the facts SO apparent that even the
chairman of the committee who intro
duced the report was forced to accept
the numerous amendments proposed In
the interests of honest and liberal poll
tics.
The scheme OF the machine manipu-
lators to keep voters out of the party
was epitomized in the following para
graph:
Sec. a. After said permanent organi.
! zation all applicants for membership
must attend at regular meeting OF
the precinct organization in which they
) reside, and sign an application for al.
mission, in which said applicant shat
state that he is a resident of said pre-.
cinct, Is in sympathy with the princi
pies Of the Republican party, and hi
. intends to vote for its candidates. Sale
applicant shall be referred to a com
mittee on membership, which shall in
vestigate said applicants eligibility
and report thereon. A majority vot'
Of the members present at such meet
ing shall elect"
Also In a section placing a price o
annual dues on membership In the Re
publican Party.
Further by requiring that registra
ton for Party primaries close fiftser
days before holding the election.
The first section was wiped out b!
the hearty unanimous vote of the dele
| gates