The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-11-07

Grated Win American and Hawaiian
flags and 4 shed wherein reposed the re-
fraius OF luau,
Accompanied by John Wise, he entered
the shed and asked for drink Of beer
and n piece or pig.
pig all gone" said the man who APP
peared TO be the master OF ceremonies.
"The beer belongs to this family ana Il
would not be- seemly or right 10 give IL
to a voter like you. Go to the Democrats
for beer II you are thirsty or to the In
dependents; they have plenty OF beer
IL am a good Republican" said McClan-
ahan, "and love the Hawaiian people "a
my mother"
''Nay, nay" said the host.
McClanahan, not yet beaten, wandered
over to the place where n number of mu-
sicians were assembled and tried more
what he trusted would be lager-producing
wiles.
beautiful music. boys" he said, land
exquisitely sweet" sad to say, no one
treated
Then Mechanism resorted to other
means; he praised the wahnes, distribu-
ting Misunderstanding batteries with the
suavity of n Fort street dude. They gave
him the frosty NIT however, and he retired
discomforted to try to purchase yellow
ribbon with which to play his last card
AS he went the crowd asked Who in
vited the long-legged haole to this luau?'
And echo answered, "WhoY'
At o'clock the string of voters was
st'll very long and it looked a sure thing
that many voters would be shut out
There was a marked absence of disor-
der in this precinct and a drunken man
was not seen i'm the neighborhood all day.
one man in this precinct took twenty
five minutes to cast his vote.
Early in the morning an ancient ma
tive wearing bell-topper which probably
antedated the whaling epoch, put in an
appearance He was CARRIED in a suit of
CT n nd pur cd n which
begun life as feather duster
He was a typical old-tme native and
was surely the most picturesque per-
sonage in the crowd. He would move up
two or three places and then lose his po
sition in the line by leaving 1t to discuss
the issue with other old cronies. At 4:SO
o'clock he still at the end of the line
and odds of two to one We're offered that
he would be shut out
At half-past four 300 out of the 1876 votes
had been polled.
The tall end of the line hustled along
considerably and at closing time about a
dozen votes We're shut out. A large crowd
was present when the polls closed.
FOURTH OF THE FOURTH.
At the Royal School, the polling place
in the Fourth Precinct of the Fourth Dis
trict, the voting went along smoothly
and steadily all day. No hitch occurred
to amount to anything. John II. Wise,
one of the Representatives on the Demo-
cratic ticket, mad a few words with the
inspectors, and was informed that he
would be put out unless he conducted
himself according to the rules. He want
ed to stand within the six feet limit of
the booths, and argued that, inasmuch as
there was no railing there to keep him
from doing so, he had a right to stand
where he wanted TO. The inspectors init
mated that living railing in the form
of a big policeman might prove effective,
and Wise Gained down after announcing
that he was running as a Representative
and was acquainted with his rights.
Governor Dole was the first man to cast
his ballot in this precinct.
The total registration was $50: over half
of these had voted by noon. Here it was
evident that the majority of the votes
cast were for Sam Parker. The yellow
ribbons of the Republican party We're to
be seen on every side and large number
CT natives went to the boxes with sample
ballots in their hands bearing crosses
against the names of the Republican can
d!dates, presumably marking their bal
lots accordingly.
The Democrats and Independents were
apparently about evenly divided There
was little or no excitement evident any
where; everything went along in the most
approved fashion with the exception of
the sowneSs in voting on the part of a |
few. One Chinese was twenty-five min |
utes in marking his ballots and native |
was twenty minutes. Several who We're
waiting their turn at the boxes, seeing |
that the native wore a Home Rule ribbon |
on his hat thought that perhaps he was |
taking his time just to keep others from
voting. But this could not have been the |
case, for the man evidently very
much embarrassed and found consider
able difficulty in marking his ballots.
When he handed them to the inspector |
he was sweating profusely and had the |
appearance of a man who had just come |
through most trying ordeal.
Lawyer Mechanism did his level best |
to have Harry Evans arrested for dstrb-
uting soda water. McClanahan's a Dem
rat and Evans is Sam Parker man.
The lawyers bluff was called, however,
ard Evans is still at liberty.
Sam Parker dropped around now and |
then to see how things were and was
loudly cheered. Wilcox and Kalauokalani
were working hard at the Royal School.
The votes in this precinct We're cast at
the rate of about So an hour.
FIFTH OF THE FOURTH.
At the Kapuaiwa building in the
grounds of the Judiciary building the
polling place for the Fifth Precinct of the
Fourth District, owing to the large per-
centage of Hawaiian voters of the labor
ing classes, drawn from the water and
harbor front. the voting all day long was
a asperatlngly slow.
The polls Were located In the office of
the garbage and sanitary inspectors of the
Eoard Of Health. The door was narrow,
and the little passageway back OF the
counter was still narrower and as n re-
suit the crush about the polls all day was
terrible. From within a line extended i'm
double ranks to the end of the hallway,
fifty feet away, and traied out into the
hot sunlight beyond. Here the patient vo-
tiers stood, waiting the slow progression
- the ballot box With from fifty "a one
hundred in the line It was impossible to
get near the polls TO cast a ballot without
a wait In line Of from an hour to an hour
ard half
There were five little booths wherein the
voters retired To consider within them
selves ana weigh the merits OF the various
candidates and some of them found II
necessary 10 poudor ana scratch their
pates for "A fun hftcen minutes before
they could come 20 conclusion as 20 how
10 vote
Representatives Of an the parties were