The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-18

THE WORD
Piece Club Will
Run Camara
Anyhow.
PORTUGUESE IN
A PRETTY ROW
Portuguese Kickers Have Lively
Time at Their Hall-The
Press Excluded.

The Portuguese Piece Club decided
| last night at an executive session to
run J. NJ. Camara as an independent
candidate for the legislature to show
| its displeasure of the action of the Re
publican Fourth District committee in
naming Frank Andrade on the Repub-
lican ticket The action was taken
after a long discussion of the clubs
position in the political arena, and aft
err attacking the character of An1rade
the Republican nominee. A subscrip-
| ton list will be passed around to raise
at least $500 to defray the expenses of
the independent candidates campaign,
and a canvass of the Portuguese. Ha-
waiians and Democrats in the Fourth
District will be commenced Camara
said he was in the liquor business, and
his contribution would be to pay for the
drinks he would have to serve to his
| followers
The club opened it's meeting by ex-
| polling two members for circulating a
paper asking Portuguese to withdraw
from the political club, Vivas charac-
terizing one, who is a government en-
ployee, as a man who said "stinking
words in the club, and he wanted some
one to warn the employee not to take
active part in politics. The brothers
| of Candidate Andrade were permitted
to resign as members Following this,
Vivas arose and moved that the club
go into executive session, excluding the
press. Vivas then attacked the Adver-
tiser for it's accounts of the proceedings
of the Piece club.
When the doors were tightly closed
and about fifteen Portuguese non-mem-
bers had been turned out of the hall,
after having been invited during the
day to be present, the club went to
work on the question of Independent
ticket. Silva, Vivas, Seabury, Correa
and others. said the Republican COM
mittee had done dirty work" with
them after the club had gone half way
to meet it to agree on candidates. Sea-
bury gave an account of an alleged in
terview ne had had with George r.
Carter, the following being the CONVEX
sation as Seabury gave it: 1T said to
Mr.. Carter I am a man of judgment
and you can never dictate to me- He
said We want you to run, but when l
said that I would never be dictated to,
Carter said, You are not the man we
want there lin the legislature because
we cannot work you -
Silva said that he told the Republi-
they had cut their own noses" "They
don't want man that they cannot die
tate to-" said Silva.
Pacheco derided Andrade and said the
flower of the Portuguese colony was
for Camara He said Andrade was {
man who had betrayed their secrets t.
the enemy" He said, however, there
was only one party to join in with the
Republican party.
| Vivas explained in the executive ses
| sion that his action in calling for al
/ executive session and ejecting the pres
! was done for good reasons. He coulC
have spoken in the Portuguese Ian
guage when he made the motion ant
thus Cheated" the newspaper man
Pacheco later defended certain mem
bers of the press whom Vivas had ct
tackled. Vivas said the Portuguese
Political Club was pledged to supper
Prince Kuhio as candidate for Con
gress. He advocated an Independent
ticket, even though the Portuguese
rs We're not strong enough to elect thei
man now, for in two or four years tn
number of Portuguese votes woul
command respect from the othe
parties. He wanted the club. whateve
its action, to support the Republica
platform with the exception of plank
which refers to the employment of onl
qualified American voters on publ
works, etc.
Camara advocated an independer
ticket and the vote was finally take
standing to run an independent tickle
Another vote placed Camara in til
field.
The exclusion from the body of ii
hall of an Advertiser reporter did II,
deprive him of a chance to witness IL
proceedings and make shorthand note
Though unobserved by the Piece Gu
he was present throuphor+