The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-02
REPUBLICANS
ARE OERELICT
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS HAVE
NOT PROCEEDED ACCORD
ING TO THE RULES.
CONVENTION REPRESENTATION
OF THE DISTRICTS.
Kauai, in Spite of Small Vote, Gets
Almost as Many Delegates as The
Hawaii District.

Hawaii District.
In only few of the precincts of thH
political districts of the islands hay |
the Republicans so far cared out the !
instructions of the party rules in the |
matter of preparations for the coming !
campaign. Some failed to hold pre- |
Cinct club meetings, while q ) FAR as is !
known only one district, the fourth, has
complied with the following portion Of
section 1, article 2, of the rules recently
adopted: The number of delegates to
which each precinct is entitled Ito the
district committee) to be computed and
published by the district committed
biennially in the month of June, in the
call for the election of delegates to ;he
| district committee. Upon a failure to
issue such a call the Territorial central
! Committee shall act"
In the Fourth district. OanI Clarence
| l.. Crabbe, chairman of the committee
has given notice of the number of de-
| iegGtes allotted to the varioHs ~ e.
! cncts. The figures are as follows: Dis
! trict committee, precinct one 10 Z: s,
| 10, 8. IA, g. 4, l, total So. CenCcll com
mittee, Precincts l to z: 4, ,, :, !, 3, 2.
| l, total, 2S.
The figures in the Fifth district, Oahu
show that that district VIII have d
district committee of 80 m tmberS and
! will send 10 members to the Territorial
! convention. The precinct representa-
! ton in the committee, will be as fol-
lows, the numbers being in the order OF
| the precinct numbers from l to 10: 3, ?,
! 2 2, l. g. T. g. 3, total, 50. In the ter
ritOrial convention the Fifsh precincts
will have representation IS follows: ?,
/, l, l, 1, /, 4, 3, 8, 2, total 10.
The first district will have a commit
tee of II members and will send II
members to the Territorial convantio :.
The other Hawaii district, the second,
| will have a committee of % and viii
send II members to the Territorial con-
vention
In the third district, Maui and Molo-
kai the district committee will consist
of rs members and the representation
in the convention will be Il delegates.
Kauai the sixth district, will have 10
members in the convention, on the ba-
sis of at least one from each precinct
though her total Republican vote, com
puted otherwise, would only give her
five. The district committee will con-
sist of II members.
The Territorial convention will there
fore consist of 81 members, with Oahu
and the Maui and MolOkai district the
most largely represented The Fodrth
district, with rs members, will be in
strong force.
Inc precinct system OF CdlCuldlluB re-
presentations results in little cOrreSpOn-
dence between the total vote in dis
trict and the number of delegates such
district is allowed. The first senatorial
district, on Hawaii had 419 Republican
votes in the last election and has IL
| delegates to the party convention. The
fourth senatorial district, Kauai, cast
. 10 Republican votes in all, and has
ten delegates. This is owing to the
= fact that each precinct, wherether 1t
had the so votes which is the number
for each delegate or not, is entitled to
t one delegate.
: The district committees provided foI
> by the rules have not carried out the
, party instructions as to organizing Sc
) far, and the failure of such committees
, and of the precinct clubs, to take any
, action, will greatly increase the work
: to be done by the general central COM
= mttee.
4 The rules of the party, as adopted by
the Central Committee recently, con-
tains the following provision as tc
district committee organizations:
There shall be district committee
t in each representative district, which
> shall consist of delegates from the pre-
u cincts of such district upon the basis
Il of one delegate for every twenty-five
v voters or fraction of twenty-five Vote'
cast in the precinct for the Republican
candidate for Senator receiving th'
highest number of votes in his precinC
J. al the last preceding general election
e Provided that whenever after dividing
4 said Republican vote by 25 there is
q remainder of 10 or more, then the pre-
:. cinct shall be entitled to at least on
If delegate to said district committee, al
: though the Republican vote as afore
said in said precinct shall be below q
\ The number of delegates to which eacI
- precinct is entitled to be computed an
" published by the district committee bi
enniany i'm the month of June in tn
call for the election of delegates to tn
=, district committee. Upon a failure t
D. issue such call, the Territorial Centra
~ committee shall act"
The failure to carry out the rules q
the machinery provided by the rules
too cumbersome. The selection of Sen
atOrial candidates may cause furthe
difficulty, owing to the fact that III
boundaries of some of the Senatori,
districts do not coincide with those &
the Representative districts The Gi,
trict committees, which name the lC
gislative candidates, are formed az
coTding to the representative district
In the Senatorial districts where theI
are two district committees, a join
convention is ordered by the rules,
the two district committees within I'll
M senatorial district.