The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-04
Committee Will
Settle As to a
Candidate.
FOURTH DISTRICT
REPUBLICANS ACT
After Long Discussion the Cues
ton Of Naming a Man
Goes Over.

A FTER discussion which covered
w the entire range of the local stu
- alton. the Fourth District Repub-
lican convention yesterday afternoon
decided that the matter of a nominal
ton and the choice of a candidate in
case one Is to be named, should be left
in the hands of a committee of three
Il is to be given TO this body to con-
tinue it's canvassing the sentiment Of
the Republicans of the city, and finally
when time has developed what shall be
the action, call the convention together
again and report for endorsement.
The meeting of the convention, adj
journed from Friday last, was one
which resulted in very much oratory.
| There was a good attendance of mem
| bers, the quorum being present within
a half hour of the time of the meet
! ing. When the convention got down
to work the following members were
present: Chairman Gear, Messrs. Wolf,
! McVeigh, Johnson, Wilcox, Wilson. |
Kehokii, Fisher. Brown, Boyd, An
drews, Crabbe. Burgess and Secretary |
Coney. Messrs. Ney and Wright were |
in the gallery. |
unfinished business of the meeting was
taken up; the filling of vacancies in
the list of committeeman. The Fourth |
District was the first to be called. but
Committeeman Crabbe said he had in
terviewed the president of the Fedora
ton of Labor and the result was that
request had been made that there
be no filling of this place until after
Friday of this week, owing to the fact
that there is to be a meeting of the
Federation at that time. The conven
ton left theplace vacant until the next
meeting to give the opportunity to the
Federation to act. When the Seventh
District was read Col. ]. II. Fisher was
elected unanimously Col. Fisher had
sat with the committe last week, but
owing to the fact thatlt was mis-
understanding, and he was not in real
ity a member of the committee, he had
to be chosen. He protested saying he
was oppoSed-to Capitalization, for
this reason he was for city and county
government, and wanted the idea car
ried into politics and a larger number
of Republicans interested in committee
work.
AS chairman of the special committee
which canvassed the city for opinions
as to the advisability of selecting a
candidate for the special election, Col.
Fisher reported at length. He said
that during his rounds of the business
section of the city. he had found an
almost unanimous sentiment against
the putting up of a candidate for the
Republican party. aMny business men I
had said that they would not take any
part in the campaign, and their clerks I
said the same thing. Among the me- I
chanics there was a sentiment that &
there should be a nomination made. I
The natives were of the same opinion, '
and they usually said that they wanted '
to have a chance to vote, no matter !
who might be put up for the party's I
candidate.
Andrew Brown and j. d. McVeigh [
made similar reports from the native g
population, but Burgess had business
mems side to present. He said that he /
had seen forty business men, of whom o
two only favored nomination. and f
they had a qualification with their ap- b
prevail. J. II. Boyd asked if the men b
seen had said anything about contri- r
buttons, and was answered that the t
men would not contribute largely nor e
would they see that their employees v
were at the polls. The business men r
said that there was no reason for the S
fight at this time: there would be no C
legislature and the seat would not en- n
able the party to control legislation n
anyway. so the whole thing struck "
CESS said, the business people were of "