The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-17
BOW WONGS TO FIGHT.FEES OBJECTED TO
CLAIM JEALOUSY ACTUATED PRO.
TEST OF ELECTION.
Association Members Are sull Active
Reformers Have Started Mckinley
Memorial Fund

The Sun Chung Kwock Bo, the sheet
of the Bow Wong Reform Society,
commenting yesterday upon the at
tempt made by certain members Of the
association 70 discredit the election Of
officers and disfrauChise the assOcfa-
ton, asserts authOritively that the
parties attempting to secure the in
junction are aCtuated solely by private
jealOusies in the matter. The dis
affected are stated to be merely clerks
who are acting under the desire of the
conservative or consular party, the
very OppOsites of the refOrmers, while
the elected officers are merchants and
prominent linanciers.
The article goes on to state that while
the election may possibly have not
been conducted exactly according to
the charter, that the officers were
elected by precisely the same methods
as Vice Consul Goo Kim, of the con-
sular party and secretaries John Kim
and Lin Shen Chow, the first president
and officers of the association, We're
elected without any objections. These
methods have been used for the seven
teen years Of the existence Of the Bow
Wongs and are now challenged for the
first time at the instigation of the very
party whose partisans had been pre-
viOusly chosen by it.
EANNOl hllb " NAlG ADOW w bAA6oB AlaEA =
were present at the election on Janu-
airy 1 some thirty Bow WOngs, thirteen
Independents who voted with the Bow
WOngs and four or five of the COnser-
vatives who are disgruntled at the turn
to affairs and now seek revenge.
"The whole Chinese community
said a prominent Bow Wong this
morning, "will be affected If the char
ter fails. They are all at heart with
ygat1V oh. fIs ahs
try to discredit US. c. X. All, our new
president, was asked several questions
! By Treasurer Wright concerning our
elections and shown the protest pub
. lished some time ago in the Advertiser
( signed by Joseph Goo Kim, son-in-laW
of the vice consul. If the injunction
! is successful the Bow Wongs will stand
! together and fight to the last
1T Is entirely false to say that We
| are backsliding. We are more pro
! gressive than we ever were. Why, We
have lately started the Confucius Reli
| giOus Society, we are those who have
| taken up the subscription for the Nc
/ Kinley memorial fund. Our society de
votes it's funds to charitable institu
tions.
1.-The young man who is quoted il
| the article appearing in the Bulletin Il
| a personal friend of the editor and was
I reformer. Now he has seen the cOnsu
and experienced change of heart anC
! calls us back siders. There is al
amount of ten thousand dollars whicl
/ has been hypOtheCated, as you cal
it, from the funds of the sOCiet!
/ by the consul which amount al
the subscribers have been shown in
petition was meant for the Chimes
hospital This money we shall demand
through legal process if necessary t,
be disgorged by the consul and turn
ed over to the hospital for which
was intended. II is doubtless the de
sire to keep this money that has le'
to these consular conservatives at
tempting to break up the result of on
election after our officers have been al
ready recognized by Treasure
Wright"