The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-25
HOME RULE
FIGHT TO
Be HARD.
Independents Call
a Convention
for HiIo.
MANY CANDIDATES
FOR OFFICE
Warm Words Mark the Executive
Committee Meeting-Beer
Saloon Suggested.
v EsPITE warm war of words over

n ESPITE a warm war of words over
the proposition. the executive
committee of the Independent
Home Rule Republican party last
evening ordered that a call be sent by
the secretary of the committee to the
chairmen Of the various district COM
mittees of Hilo, Puma and Hamakua,
for a convention to be held at Hilo to
nominate a successor to the late Rep
resentative Ewaliko This convention
will be held at time to be fixed by
the various committeeman.
There would have been little life in
the session of the committee had Ka-
nui and Bipikane been absent from the
meeting, but with their presence there
was enough to make it quite worth
while for those who appreciated the
humor Of the affair. There were only
two matters of Importance up and the
men named added to the gaiety of the
proceedings not little by their frank
criticisms of men who were both pres
ent and absent members of the commit
tee. Bipikane was outspoken in his
scoring of the late legislature and made
the hall ring with his words of denun-
citation. His text was that the nominee
for the Legislature should be the choice
of all the people, and not of any set of
delegates sent TO convention. He said
ha fnr - co faxx
bers of the committee in attendance
was that they were Disguised by the
work which was done and left undone
by the last legislature. He said the
members had not attended to their
duties and had done nothing for the
bettering of the condition of the peo-
pie. He opposed any proposition for
tconvention of delegates for the nomina-
ton of the delegate from the first dis
trict, owing to the fact that the dele
gates did not always represent the will
Of the people. There was not little
chatting at this as the members pres
ent recalled that Bipikane had been a
candidate for the nomination for the
lower house in his district, but the dele
gates had seen fit to name another man,
a younger one.
The criticism Of the legislature did
not pass unnoticed, for both Senator
! kaiauokalani and Representative Prem
dergast took up the cudgels for the law
makers and scored the objectors. They
insisted that the regular members of
the party did all that any man could
ask of them but there were traitors in
the camp, and these managed to nullify
the labors of the diligent ones. At any
rate the members of the committee
would not listen to the objections of
Bipikane and voted almost unanimously
to have the convention. While there
have been no candidates given the
weight of the endorsement of the mem
bers OF the local committee, there have
appeared several men who want the
place. Among these are the following
Henry West, of Hiio; j. Kamoku, of
Puma; William Naleilehua, Of Hama
kua Several of the leaders of the party
here have written to Sam Pua, who was
a candidate for the Senate here, but
who is now a resident of Hamakua
asking him to make the race for the
place. He has refused, as he is in bust
ness now. The universal idea at the
meeting was that the Republican can
There was more than little discus
sion at the beginning Of the meeting
over. the fact that there was nothing
being done for the maintenance of the
meeting place Kanui began to urge
the reviving Of his resolution provid-
ing for an assessment Of the various
members of the committee, to raise the
funds necessary. There was liberal
criticism of the men who do not sub
scribe for the work of the committee,
and at one time there was a point made
that the men who had received some
thing from the government should pay
the most Of the expense, and that the
men now under the Territory should
be called upon heavily. 1t was shown
that there was no member Of the com
mittee in office except Robert Boyd, and