Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-07-11
Bigss Convention Ends
AMIDST
Very Stormy Scenes

the Home Rule convention was the
last and withal the stormiest of the
three days sittings in the city. While
there had been a tacit agreement on
the part of the conservative and more
progressive sections of the convention
to pass the constitution and bylaws
as amended on the night before by a
caucus, the members OF which had
been named from both sides by Dele
gate Wilcox himself, the result yester
day afternoon showed that there was
on the part of one side at least no in.
tention whatever to hold to the terms
of the agreement.
The younger clement went into the
Orpheum yesterday afternoon, fully
convinced that trouble had passed
away and that there was an intention
on the part OF the convention to get
down to hard work and let by.gones be
by.goncs. Instead of that, from the
time the amended report of the com
mittee was read until Prince Jonah IA.
lanianaole and his following walked
out of the place. there was nothing but
a storm of protests against the report,
led by Delegate Wilcox and Senator
Kalauokalani, the men who on the pre-
vious night had shaken hands on the
unity of the party. and the passage I
the amended constitution and bylaws
of the convention.
Old Man Starts Ball.
An al nj al nj
the Islands started the talk against
the new constitution and bylaws,
meant by the committee to give more
power into the hands of the people. it
had been changed so as to permit Of
the re.appointment of the old officers
of the executive committee, and this
having been the bone of contention on
the previous day, when John Emme
luth was denounced by Delegate viii
cox, 1t was thought that all would go
on smoothly.
One or two other old men got up and
talked against the report OF the com.
mittee and wanted 1t postponed indef
nitely. II was then that John Wise
arose and in a very eloquent speech
told the members of the convention OF
vic, b.d hoon o.rood on NJ tho roat.
ing held on the previous night, when
tho leaders NJ tho marty had sbatep
hands nm tho nronosition of see;pp the
report of the committee through the
convention. He said he had hoped
the fire of the previous day had been
totally extinpuisbed but he couId soc
} Inv tho drift of tbe remarks nm the mari
of members of the convention that
there werc still n few sharks left and
If great care were not taken. there
vouId soon he another flame
The sneaker counseled the members
lof the convention for the last time IA
stand together and tn beIieve in the
lintegritv NJ the vounp mon of tho mar.
lty who had been so reyiled He and
the men associated with him had Also
lmteIv nothing else in their minds hut
the good of the party and the people.
There was nothing in the constitution
and bylaws that could he taken excep
ton to.
women Mutter.
During the whole of the speech q,
Mr., Wise tre four women from tho
other side of the Island who, If they
were chosen by any duly qualified
body. had no right to take mart In the
deliberations of the convention any
way. kent I'D a series of mutterings
and frowns, and as soon as the speak
err had sat down. one of the number
got up and denounced the new consti
tuition and bylaws as an attempt 10
curtail the mowers of the recognized
leaders of the marty. The old constitu
lion and bylaws were good enough for
them, In the heated argument that
was being INDUCED in, Senator Kaohi
from Hawaii, got up and read some OF
the sections of the constitution and by
laws which the party had gone on uT
to the present time. He declared In a
loud voice that there was no other con
stitution and bylaws, and that there
should be an indefinite postponement
of the report of the committee.
A motion was made to postpone con
isderatiOn of the constitution and by
laws until 1903. Before there was time
for anyone to make a remark even OF
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