The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-05-29
Lively Primary in
the Rainy City,
TWO TICKETS IN FIELD
Conventions Following Elections Act
Harmoniously and Choose
Representatives.

tory OF politics in Hilo came OH on
Saturday May 10, without single
scrap. There being two tickets in the
field the workers of each hustled for
votes in d manner that would reflect
credit upon any ward in a city many
times the size of Hilo where the meth
DDS of politicians are better known
than in Hilo.
On Friday six of the nominees of the
mass meeting withdrew their names
from the ticket making it necessary to
form other combinations. With the
absence of S. l.. Desha and l.. M.
Whitehouse in Honolulu the original
McStocker ticket was two men shy
and the friends of the ticket were ask
ed to vote for either Capt. Andrews, j.
r. Wilson and Ben Brown, making a
selection of two out of the three men
toned. Before the polls opened the
Purity of the Ballot" party sprung
another ticket on the public already
marked as a guidance for their party
friends who were unable to read Eng
lish and as an intimation to others
marked were just about right to be
delegates.
Some Queer Politics.
These tickets contained the full
twenty-one names and opposite the
name of each who had withdrawn was
printed resigned" At the top was
printed in bold black type "Anti-Ring
Ticket" followed by instructions in
English, Hawaiian and Portuguese, as
follows: when you get your official
ticket from the judges at the poll, vote
for the names marked X. Those mark
ed resigned will not stand. A vote
cast for them is thrown away" Some
of the voters were SO anxious to follow
the instructions that they dropped this
anti-ring ticket in the ballot box and
took the official ballot to the runners
outside for them to mark up for the
next willing voter and SO it ran on.
The names of the candidates to be vot-
ed for on this anti-ring ticket were
printed in capital letters while those
who were not were in small type. The
candidates were
w. Vannatta, Joe Vierra, F. S. Ly-
man, G. F. Alfonso, e. e. Richards, w.
HI. Smith. J. R. Wilson.
Mcstocker to the Front.
1t will be remembered that of these
Messrs. Vannatta and Vierra were on
the original ticket named by the friends
of F. b. McStocker at the mass meet
ing. Down at Waiakea it was given
out that there were $50 votes against
McStocker, but the estimate was too
large. Bob Andrews looked after the
men and of the thirty-four votes cast,
4 h M haI ha arl q
McStocker's name. Out at Wainaku
only ten votes were polled, the people |
paying little attention to the event. |
Richards carried the precinct, getting |
the full vote to McStocker's one. At
Olaa the eighty-one votes We're split
up in twenty-one different ways, but
Mac led with the full vote. At Kau-
mana he led with nine votes. The COM
bined efforts to beat him failed and the
Herald won out in the proposition to
send him to the convention. OF the
five original candidates on the ticket |
but one, ], H. McDonough, was defeat
ed and his failure to win may be at
tributed to his business requiring his
entire attention within the hotel.
At Hilo Court House
At Hilo Court House where most of
the votes yere polled Joe Vierra headed
the list at the close of the count and
this may be accounted for by the fact
that of the 1875 Portuguese who voted
there many of them marked only the
names of Vierra and Alfonso and 1t
looked for a time as though Alfonso
was a sure winner, but the total vote
showed he was defeated by Ben Brown
by only one vote. Mr.. Alfonso has I'M
der consideration plan to contest the
election.
numbers at any of the precincts, only
fifty-eight voting at the Court House.
1t seems they have received papers
from Honolulu instructing them to
stay from the polls and they regarded
the advice. More votes were cast in
Hilo town than in the five precincts
last year: Olaa, Waiakea, Kaumana,
Wainaku and Hilo town; 314 votes
having been recorded by the tally
clerks. Only about one-third OF the
Anglo-Saxons went to the polls. Fol-
lowing Is the report of the judges. the
names of the delegates elected being In
capital letters:
F. B. McSTOCKER .......,.....,.2S4
S. l.. Desha .,.........,,...... Al
w. VANNATTA .........,..,.....2 SS
j. V1ERRA OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 3lS
l.. M. Whitehouse ,..............,. 20
CARL S. SMITH ,.....,..,........2 11
]. II. McDonough .................1 LAT
+, 5. Lyman ,.,,....'...,,,,,.... .lfl
j. u. Smith .....,,.,,.,...,...... 40
X. =. Guard Observation-Disclosures. III
G. r. Alfonso Observation-Disclosures. $50 !
u. Z, RICHARDS ..........,,.....16 4
10. N. Holmes ..,.........'.,,.'.', ~ i
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