The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-06-18
COMMITTEES
ALL CHANGED
GOVERNMENT employees MUST
CEASE UNDUE POLITICAL
ACTIVITY.
FOURTH DISTRICT NEW DEAL
ALL ROUND.
Heads of Bureaus Notified to Interest
Their ordinates-Precinct Club
Work Made Invalid

j. w. Pratt, Esq, Tax Assessor,
Dear Sir: 1t is the desire of the Gov
ernor that all Government officials and
employees refrain from taking any ac-
tive part in politics during the coming
| political campaign
You will please advise all officials
! and employees in your bureau to that
! effect.
| Very respectfully,
"W. H. Wright Treasurer"
The above is a sample of a letter sent
out by Treasurer Wright to the heads
of the bureaus In his department, in
Guiding Pratt, w. T. Robinson, assessor
: of the second division, N. c. Wilfong of
the second division, r. E. Conant of
| the fourth, r. G. Thrum, recorder, and
Henry Hapai, Registrar of Public ac-
counts. Similarly, all the other heads
of departments are notifying those un-
der them of the new order, and a COM
plete change in the Republican party
! committees generally will result.
The work of the precinct clubs at
their meetings last week is largely OF
no effect in view of the new order, and
the Republican Territorial Central COM
mittee as well as the district commit
tees, will be very different bodies when
the designations are all in,
The effect on the general committee is
the greatest in the Fourth district, the
Republican stronghold. Here the re-
signatiOns of b. H. Wright, chief clerk
in the department of public works,
Charles Wilcox, clerk in the same de-
partment and Col. J. w. Jones, stenO-
grapher of the first circuit court, are
in or to be sent in. Col j. H. Fisher,
secretary of the committee, is a fire
commissioner but says that he will not
resign, as he does not consider that he
is called upon to do So This leaves j.
p. Cooke and j. H. Fisher 10 name
the other four members to represent &c
fourth district in the Territorial COM
mittee, as the rules provide that nomi-
nations to fill vacancies snail come from
the members for the districts in which
the vacancies exist.
In the other Oahu district, the Fifth,
, Andrew Cox, who is connected with the
- attorney generals department, viii
. have to resign from the committee and
j. II. Holt will not be able to sue
, ceed T. McCants Stewart, as had been
planned by other members from the dis
. trict. John G. Lane DR.. G.. II. Huddy
. George +. Renton and w. j. Coelho are
left to fill two vacancies in the fifth.
on the other islands there are a num-
Der of prOpDable vacancies On Hawaii
Frank b. McStOcker and w. G. Walker
a of the first district are Chairmen OF
road boards. There Is some difference
= of opinion as to whether this is posi-,
: , tion which comes under the new rule
g, . but under a strict Interpretation OF the
instructions given out, such officers are
! within the rule. In the second district
t West Hawaii j. II. Waipuilani is 1
road board man and in the third dis
trict, Maui and Molokai A. n. Kepoi
kai is chairman Of a road board and {
member of the court Of Chinatown fir,
commissioners. On Kauai and Niihal
Dr. b. f. Sandow is a government ply
I . III zoe =
e road board, If all these members o
e the Territorial central committee are t
o resign, the committee will be almost
# new body.
T. The order will make necessary near
V ly an entire reconstruction of some o
e the district committees. For instanc
in the fourth district j. d. McVeigh, j
. II. Boyd, j. w. Jones, c. L. Wilcox, j
y NJ. Kea, c. b. Wilson, Andrew Brown
= Samuel Johnson and l.. II. Wolf, al
y hold some kind of government employ
l. ment.
II In the fifth district there will be a
IT least one member of the committee af
fected by the order. That is c. L
Dwight acting road supervisor
In the first district, Hilo these a
least are affected. Perhaps there ar
others; N. c. Wilfong, E. E. Richard!
E. d. Baldwin and Charles Williams l
/ the second district, West Hawaii z
q. Paakiki is district magistrate at Wal
+ mea In the third district, Maui ther
e. are several office holders on the distric
committee. Among them are a. \
Kepoikai and w. o. Aiken
The sixth district committee, Kaua
alone is unaffected by the order Thi
s is probably because the party has neve
tr been thoroughly organized on Kaut
IL and there is no sixth district commit
le tee.
al Governor Dole's position in the mat
" ters was outlined by him some msnth
ago, when he brought the matter up
the Executive council. There was
i good deal of discussion at that tim
but no agreement was reached, an
- DOle's trip to Washington postpone
the proposition. The precinct club aC
tivity of the past week resulted in Il
matter being brought up again, and II
governor insisted upon applying in Tel
ritorial affairs the rules laid down b
President Roosevelt for federal official
The position of ROOseVelt's administrj
tion is stated in the following clause
the last circular received by fedeT
executive officers here:
Rule of the Civil Service rules pr,
vides that no person in the eXecuti'
civil service shall use his official al
thority or official influence for the pu
nd pose of interfering with an election
controlling the result thereof. II
en- spirit of the civil service laws and rul
- renders 1t highly undesirable for Fe
~ eral officers and employees to take Z
active part in political conventions
in the direction of other parts of po
tcal machinery. Persons in the go
ernment service under this DEPARTING
should not act as chairman of polite
m organizations, nor make themselves u
duly prominent in local political ma
ters. 1t is expected and required TN
all officers and employees of this depal
ICout,r,,aa on nose avaN