The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-09-25
POLITICS ON
MAUI ISLE
Organization is Badly
Done.
TROUBLE IN ALL CAMPS
Building Boom at Lahaina--Bo
Of a Japanese Found
in the Sea.

MAUI. Sept. 19.-Poltics is still in n
very crude state on Maui. There Is
great need in closer organization by all
the parties IL any effective political
work Is to be done. Even in the Re-
publican ranks-the only party on Maui
that is really organized-there is great
danger as regards dissensions.
Al the last convention Waihee
leader left the convention and probably
the Republican party because he was
not elected as a delegate to the Ter
ritorial Convention. 1t is reported that
he is now talking of disregarding party
lines and of selecting nine candidates
for legislative honors from the three
parties. The dissension of this poiiti-
clan is typical of what is likely to hap
pen at the coming nominating con-
yention II all local faVorltes are not
chosen as candidates for the legisla-
ture. Thomas Clark of Wailuku stated
recently in political address that the
Maui Republicans had secured nearly
all of the most able of the native poll
ticians Hence Republican party man
ayers will have to exercise great Dip
lomacy in the selection of candidates
or some one will be offended and bolt
he party.
Wilcox seems to have made mistake
on Maui At his nominating conven-
ton at Waikiki on September list, the
slate that was carried through the con-
vention is not at all satisfactory to
many of the Independents. In the first
place most of the names on the ticket
are little known in politics and but
few of them have any political infiu-
ence. Then, too, there's great dissatis-
Faction with the apportonment. The
Kula precinct which registers about
seventy voters gets two OF the nine
candidates (Samakele and Eldredge)
and Is thus put on an equality with
wailuku whose registration will prob
ably foot up to more than 400. So an
other nominating convention, a So
called Democratic assemblage Is sum-
moned to meet at Wailuku on the Gath.
This time 1t Is to be a fusion between
Independents and Democrats. WILCOX
simply summoned his friends and ad-
herents here and there all over the ISL
and. but this time the delegates are to
be regularly chosen by the different
precinct clubs. The Independents Will
allow the Democrats one candidate for
senator and probably w. II. Cornwell
will be the nominee. The two other
candidates will be natives, one of whom
probably will be Thomas Clark. Rev.
], Kamakele of Kula has refused the
Wilcox party nomination for represen-
tative. From all this 1t Is evident that
politics on Maui are in rather chaotic
state.
At the Democratic meeting held In
the Waihee native church during the
evening of the 18th, after Messrs. Wise,
Coke, Clark and Richardson had finish
ed speaking, Rev. Nawahine arose and
Endorsed the Observation-Disclosures
doctrine advanced by the speakers and
the people who crowded the church
said that they must follow their "ka-
hunapule."
VIM. White for senator and Charles
Cockett for representative at present
seem to have no opposition in Lahaina.
During Saturday evening the 10Th,
n dance was given at SpreckelsVille in
honor of Manager W. ]. Lowrle's birth
day. A most enjoyable time is report
ed s3@Si
On Monday afternoon, the nth. the
first meeting of the term was held by
the Makawao teachers. The following
officers We're elected: S. Il. Dowdle,
president Miss Eva Smith, vlce-presi-
dent. and Eugene Capellas, secretary.
Lahaina as well as Wailuku is hay
ing building boom. Sheriff J.. NJ.
Baldwin has recently completed block
of buildings containing three stores;
Goo Hip. n well-known Chinese is con-
structing q two-story building contain
Ing five stores: NJ. Mccain is building
a new saloon with n store-house for
liquors built of solid masonry with iron
Eratings for windows. The plantation
is building n pretty new cottage for
Mr.. Oleson, the store-keeper. All these
buildings are on the street that runs
along the water front.
Some of the cane of the upper lands
mt NahiSu is looking very much neg
lected. Iillo grass showing most prom
inently. Several of the lower fields
however present a fine appearance
Kenneth Wallace of the wilder s. S.
Co. is enjoying vacation at Judge ke-
poikai's, Wailuku.
Lahainaluna Seminary Is shorthand
ed in regard to its teaching force owing
to the non arrival OF Z. II. Carleton
w. d, Potter, a u. c. man, is the new
teacher at the school.
Owing TO the late arrival OF the XII
nau at Lahaina Tuesday evening, the
18th, the proposed Democratic cam
paign meeting in Hale Aloha was post
poned until this evening. the 18th.
Messrs. w. II. Cornwell. John II. Wise
Thomas Clark and John Richardson are
among the speakers that will address
the meeting.
The Pioneer Mil will use the large
piece of land in front of the Lnhaina
market for lumber yard Twenty ave
years ago the best taro produce on
Maui was raised on this old taro patch.
The Board of Registrations has re-
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