The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-03
HOT GAME OF POLITICS
EXCITING TIMES AT SATURDAYS
PRIMARIES.
Machine and -Machine"-O over
1900 Votes Cast on This Island
Where fractional Spirit Was Rife.

Fully coo votes were cast at the Re
publican primaries in this Island Satur-
day.
This is twice the whole number of re-
gistered voters of Oahu at the election
which chose the last Legislature of the
Republic of Hawaii. 1t is 800 more than
the whole number of registered voters
at the election in 1896.
There was the liVeliest interest i'm the
primaries at every precinct At none,
except at Waimanalo where there
seemed to be most curious misunder-
standing, and at one other, were there
less than thirty votes cast. And where
there were as few votes cast as this
number, there was only one ticket in
the field, and hence nothing beyond
public spirited interest in the primary
to call out voters In some of the pre-
cincts, there was the keenest kind of
contests, and a very large vote poned.
In general way, where there was a
contest it was between the element
which is credited with being the ma
chine" element in the party, the
| Earnest Patriots as they are some
times called, and the element which
has from the beginning antagonized
the machine element, sometimes called
by the opponents, the missionary" ele-
ment. This line of division was clearly
cut in the second precinct of the Fourth
district and the seventh of the Fifth
In the former the machine" element
succeeded in electing more of it's can
didates than the missionary" element
In the latter, the "anti-machine" won
out.
ANTI WINS.
Taking the island throughout, both
districts, the "anti-machine" probably
has the majority.
The most bitterly fought primary was
the one held in the second precinct of
the Fourth District, at the Beretania
street school house This precinct is
entitled to six delegates. There were
two tickets i'm the field, distinct not
only for delegates but for precinct Off
GERS. Late in the progress of the prim-
airy, split ticket was brought out by
the "antimachine" element as the re-
suit of the discovery that a large num-
Der of native voters We're willing to
vote for some of their candidates for
delegates on the anti machine" ticket
were William H. Hoogs, j. w. Jones,
j. Il. Atherton, Lorrin Andrews Jonah
kumalae, and William Haywood.
Those on the machine" ticket were
George Mcleod, Charles Wilcox, j. w.
Jones, j. NJ kea, Andrew Brown, and
c. b. Wilson. The split or compromise
ticket contained the names of J. Is.
Atherton. Lorrin Andrews, Jonah Ku-
malae, Charles Wilcox, j. NJ. Kea and
c. B. Wilson. With the exception of
j. w Jones who was on both tickets,
and Lorrin Andrews who tied with An
drew Brown for sixth place, the ma
chine" ticket was elected.
FREE RIDE TO THE POLLS.
No effort was left uninterrupted bv
either side to get voters to the polls.
The supporters of the winning ticket
had number of Pains busses in their
service, bringing voters to the polls.
Toward the end they We're picked up
anywhere, and everywhere, asked if
they did not want a ride, and were TAX
en- to the polls If they passed the or
| deal of challenges, their votes were
cast and counted. 1t is said that many
natives from Palama and other places
outside the precinct were thus voted.
Natives were brought up i'm crowds and
squads. Blocks of Five" was the way
they were spoken of. The work of
bringing voters to the polls, singly or in
squads, was not confined to the ma
chine" element. The "anti-machine"
element had its conveyances out, and
all afternoon and evening there was a
row of vehicles i'm front of the school
house, either just arrived with voters
or being held in readiness to start after
more.
Though the contest was keen and the
rivalry fierce, ii was carried on with
good temper.
In the seventh precinct of the Fifth
district there was another keen contest.
The two factions were headed respec-
lively by w r. Sims on one side. and
j. l.. Holt and Y. McCant Stewart on
the other. The candidates nominated at
the precinct club meeting Thursday
evening We're Stewart, Holt and r. c.
Winston. When it came to the primary
r. c. Winston consented to have his
name appear on Sims ticket together
a M a
Thereupon. the Holt and Stewart fac
tion took his name off their ticket and
substituted for it that Of DR.. George
II. Hubby, who had come within one
vote of as many as Winston at the pre-
cinct club meeting Thursday night.
THE FATAL SHIBBOLETH.
In the absence of Rev. Timotea,
Judge Wilcox appointed II. II. Hitch
cock as one of the judges. There We're
a good many challenges especially of
Chinese and Portuguese on the ground
| that they could not read and write the
| English or Hawaiian languages. The
| Sims faction had a number of vehicles
| in service bringing in voters, and it is
| alleged by their opponents that prison
! guards and other government employees
were voted solidly for the Sims ticket,
| in some cases Holt tickets being taken
out of their hands and Sims tickets be-
| ing substituted. The Holt and Stewart
! faction had a four horse bus engaged
especially to bring voters from upper
| Kalihi and other places where there are
no regular means of conveyance. But
when they wanted the services of this
conveyance, it is said the driver was in
no condition to render them. you
may draw your own differences" said
one of the Holt partsans, when speak
ing of this incident.
The result of the election in this pre-
cinct was the election of Holt and
Stewart and tie vote between Huddy
and Winston, T. McCants Stewart says
that his side lost at least twenty or
thirty votes by their inability to use
the four horse bus they had engaged
TURK AND LEWIS,