The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-04

and told him to sit down. He gained
the floor however, and made his pro-
4 test as follows: "On behalf of Messrs.
Huddy, Wallace and Crawford, we OBJ
/ ject to the counting of any ballots
| cast for Hr. Vida on the ground IN
| he was not duly nominated under the
| rules, in that his name was not on
the roll of the precinct club" In sup
| port of his objection he called attention
to Rule Is which proved, he said, that
| no nominations for the District Com
mittee and delegates to the Territorial
Convention shall be received and placed
on the primary ballots unless made at
meetings held for such purpose and
no person shall be nominated unless
he shall have enrolled his name in the
precinct club prior to the placing OF
his name as a nominee
When Mr.. Vida was nominated, he
continued, "the gentlemen overlooked
the fact that he was not an enrolled
member of the club. We say that his
name on the ballot is not there legally.
and that makes it null and void"
You say what is untrue" retorted
Mr.. Sims. You cannot substantiate
that
Mr.. vida's name. was not on the
precinct roll prior to the nomination
and he could not therefore be nominat-
ed" said the lawyer with heat. II
went expressly to the secretary of the
club for the purpose of aseertaining
that point
Warden Henry asked the secretary
when Mr.. Vida's name was on the roll,
and If it was there prior to 2 o'clock
Saturday afternoon. The secretary
said that it had been placed there at
1880 in the forenoon. The crowd broke
into applause and Mr.. Henry proceeded
with the count, giving McCants
Stewart an opportunity to appeal if he
desired to do SO.
There were several wordy scraps"
during the evening, but it was not un-
til a. m. that matters came to a
crisis. 1t was seen that the Sims bal
lots were being outnumbered at that
time. On the Sims side Jim Kupihea
was lolling on a table Birbe, another
Sims man, was near the ballot box.
Clark was talking to Holt, while Ches-
er Doyle, of the police department was
behind the entire group. having been
IN duty at the place all night. Some
me turned off the electric switch in
he hall way and the fun began. Henry /
losed down the ballot box lid with "a
,ang just in time 10 intercept an at
empt of some one to wrest il from
him. Several hearty blows were ex- s
hanged in the room and two men went s
o the floor, one of them being Candi- 9
late Clark. When the lights were
urned on again, Chester Doyle was
n the act OF ejecting Birbe through a
oorway and Jim Kupihea did the same
With two others. J. L. Holt received n
black eye, and SO it went on for a
minute or two. A call was sent by
Doyle to the police station for the '
'atrol wagon and the disturbance I,
topped as quickly as it had begun.
When the excitement had subsidized
! was found that the tally sheets had
disappeared and there was no record
f the count. AT first 1t was decided
o put the ballots back in the box,
cal it up and count them at a later
ate. 1t was finally determined to go
head with an entirely new count |
;hich was finished at a. m. just in L
ime to permit the Reform School in
mates to have their breakfast in the e
anne room. Z
McCants Stewart was on hand when 9
he counting of the ballots came to an I
nd at o'clock and when the result r
Jas announced, he turned to the small
ssemblage and said: Q
Gentlemen, 1 think it is meet that IL
Te should all now unite in singing Q
Praise God from whom all Blessings n
low II
Stewart had his little say but the
rowd did not sing. =