The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-05
Declare They Are
Republicans
There.
HOT FIGHT OVER
NEW CLUB PLAN
designations of Straight Party
Leaders Have Been
Accepted.

The Portuguese Political Club at it's
meeting of September 4th, declares that
it is in favor of Republican principles,
so far as the Delegate to Congress is
concerned"
In this language, upon motion of j.
M. Vivas, the Portuguese have given
their assent to the candidacy of Prince
Cupid, and the cheers with which the
resolution was received indicated that
there was nothing to be desired further
in the way of endorsement OF the young
standard bearer of his party. After this
action there was nothing to be done
but for the candidate of the club to de-
clare himself, and he did so in a speech
in which he said that he would support
the Republican platform and If elected
work for the best interests of the peo-
pie, whatever their nationality.
The meeting at San Antonio hall last
night at which this action was taken
was one which was full of words and
i'll feeling. 1t was one which brought
out charges, misstatements and hard
words, but as all things go in politics
these words passed without any actions
which might have made trouble among
friends. The Republicans of the club
were at the bottom of the disturbance
and there was action which separated
from the membership of the organiza-
tion the most uncompromising adj
herents of the old party, their resigna-
tions being accepted. The Camara men
in the club were so hot in their pursuit
of the Republicans that they passed
illegally motions throwing out j. F.
Durao and NJ. T. Furtado. which had
to be taken back and after this was
done their designations were accepted.
The meeting opened with some sixty
men in the hall, and the air was
charged with trouble from the first
The receipt of the communication from
the Fourth District Republican COM
mittee, setting forth that the failure
of the club to comply with the request
of the committee for the names of sew
eral men, had made it impossible for
the committee to name one of the num-
Der for a place on the ticket, the letter
saying that the committee regretted
the failure. The communication was
tabled and then the resignation of Du-
rao was read and the fight was on.
vivas led by moving the tabling of
the communication and he then NOV
ed the throwing out of Durao. He
went on to say that he did not think
there should be any consideration given
the man attacked, for he hau lried to
disrupt the club, and had Deen circulat-
ing petitions for a Republican club
There were many hard things in the
speech which aroused some degree of
enthusiasm. The principal charge
brought against Durao, after that of
trying to make discora and to secure
members for a Republican club, was
that he had tried TO foment race pref
udice against the Anglo-Saxons, which
Vivas said did not exist and could not
be brought to life.
When the motion to throw out the
former. preacher had prevailed Pacheco
read an article from the Advertiser,
which ne enormously stated was in
spired by Furtado and called for the
expulsion of that member. The man
accused entered at this moment ana
the motion was hurriedly put and he
was asked to leave the hall. Vierra
however called for the rule under
which men could be thus summarily
put out of the club md when Camara
read it it was to find that there must
be a special meeting or a regular one
7 after ten days' notice. He therefore
announced that this action was illegal,
and that the motions were out of or
Eder, whereupon Vivas moved the sus-
pension of the rules and this being done
there was a renewal of the expulsion
motions. F'urtado called for the re-
: making of the charges against him and