The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-13
TO MAKE
A QUORUM
Republicans Plan
Additions to
Committee.
IA CAMPAIGN
| FOR EDUCATION
Members of Executive Committee
Plan Augmenting Of Their
Body for Work.

Members of the Republican Terri
torial executive committee who think
there should be some work in the way
OF organization done by the party, are
lrevolving in their minds a plan to make
safe quorum of the body in Honolulu
all the time. The departure of Coelho,
which was followed by the calling into
the city of Judge Kepoikai, kept a
quorum here but all recent attempts
| to hold meeting have proven futile
| Owing to the fact that there is a con-
/ tinual absence of some of the members
| of the committee, the plan has been
| formed by some of the members of the
committee, to call together the Ter
| ritorial comittee and endeavor to have
| a resolution which will enlarge the ex-
lecutive committee by the addition of
two members, one each from the third
and fourth districts. This would give
| to the executive committee a member
ship of at least six, counting the alb
| Sence of Coelho, resident here The
| executive committee with these addi-
tons would ordinarily have to. make
its quorum above a majority but to
overcome this the plan goes further and
suggests the placing of the number
necessary to do business at the same as
now obtains. Should this plan succeed
there would be no occasion when there
would not be quorum in the city.
| The principal objection to this course
| is that which was raised yesterday by
Chairman Kennedy, when the subject
was preached to him. He said that in
his opinion, without any investigation,
| there could be no action by the Terri
| torial committee which would make
such a plan possible of execution, as
the size of the executive committee was
| fixed by the convention and could be
| changed only by such a body. Should
this view be correct, there is no way
through which the difficulty may be
met, except the filing of the place of
| Coelho, whose absence from the terri
| tory might make his seat vacant. If
| there could be found some way to carry
| through this Course then there would
| be a safe quorum here for business
when needed. A.
Should either of these plans be fol-
lowed and business body secured, the
| next step which is IN contemplation,
| is to have inaugurated a campaign of
education, such as is carried on by the
League of Clubs in the States. The
course would be that which was sug-
gested and followed by Senator Hanna
in maintaining perpetual headquar
tiers of the National committee at
Washington, where the work of keep
ing In touch with the workers of the
party goes on. The course would in
volve the holding of a meeting each
month, at which the various points of
party organization might be publicly
discussed. and from which central point
the distribution of matter designed to
awaken interest in party work could
be prosecuted.
The party workers here feel that
which would reach every voter in the
Territory. This they would aim to ac-
complish by the Organization of clubs, |
which would make the necessary poll |
of the residents and their politics, and |
then the work of the club would be to |
make votes all the time. There could |
be secured any amount of material for |
dissemination and this would be poured |
into the people who would, it is thought |
read 1t, and the party ranks would be |
swelled accordingly in ratio to the |
amount of matter sent out.
Owing to the absence of ]. p. Cooke, |
there are now in the city, of the mem
bers of the executive committee, only
Chairman Kennedy, and Messrs. Kepoi-
kai, Stewart and Wright