The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-07
IN jHoEvER is elected Secretary of

Nh HoE"h' is eiecteo secretary OF
" the Republican Territorial
Committee will be a member
of that organization. This action was
decided upon after a long discussion
principally INDUCED in by a member
from the fifth district. who fought the
proposed action in a series of speeches
which took up most OF the time of the
meeting.
Another important action was in the
fixing OF a system of holding proxies
and as to the number each person pres
ent at the meeting of the Territorial
Committee should hold The committee
voted without a great deal of discus
sion to restrict such holdings to two
proxies to each person. and limiting
the persons holding them to members
of the committee in question, members
of the last Territorial convention and
members of the various district COM
mittees.
From the opening of the meeting the
discussion began upon the election of
a secretary. The question as brought
before the committee was whether the
Secretary should be a member of the
Territorial Committee or outsider.
The first resolution introduced was one
restricting such an election to a men,
ber of the committee. AS far as the dis
cussion went the only name of a can
didate presented, who was not a MEM
ber OF the committee. was that OF ]. d.
Avery, formerly assistant Secretary
under Secretary Hendry. In recogni
ton of Mr.. Avery's past services TO the
committee and to the party in general.
he was unanimously elected as Secre
tary pro tenn, at the commencement of
the meeting, pending the result of the
discussion as to who was eligible for
the permanent Secretaryship. The res
ignation of Mr.. Hendry, which was
read at the meeting, was accepted and
a vote OF thanks rendered him for his
valuable services to the party and to
the cause of Republicanism- This
opened the way for the temporary
Secretaryship to be bestowed upon air.
Avery.
At the meeting, which was held in
the party headquarters in the Elite
building, "a votes were represented,
eight members OF the central commit
tee being present, the proxies of four
teen being scattered among them, and
two represented by j. A Gilman and i
Representative c.. II. Dickey. The |
members present were John c. Lane, |
who presided at the !
II. Fisher. w. ]. Coelho. T. NJ. Stew /
art. Charles Wilcox and George F.
Renton.
Upon motion Of Mr.. Stewart, second
ed by J. P. Cooke. Mr.. J. d. Avery was
nominated for the Office of Secretary
pro tenn. vice Hendry. resigned. and
was elected unanimously
The resignation OF Mr.. Hendry was
read. He stated that he took the op-
portunity to thank the members of the
committee for their uniform kindness
and courtesy. and expressed a wish
that they continue TO work for the in
terest Of the party and their country.
L. II. Wright presented Ine IOiiOWlIS
motion:
That the secretary of the Territorial
central committee be selected from the
of the committee"
Mr. Gilman seconded the motion
Mr.. Renton thought the committee ,
should first ascertain whether any
wanted the position. as he un-
derstood no one would accept the billet
Mr. Cooke said he knew of two who :
would take the position If offered to ,
them Hr Gilman thought it was In
the lire of duty for the member of the
committee to accept the position. He =
said he did not believe in having an
outsider take the office. If the secre-
-ary was unable to do the clerical
work. he had the authority to have :
some one to assist him. Stewart put :
n an Interrogation here by asking why >
ne secretary should be a member. Mr..
iilman replied that there were meet
ngs which should be executive In ma
-ure. Stewart was on his feet in an