The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-30
kauai IS REPUBLICAN. .
THOROUGH ORGANIZATION WILL
GIVE VICTORY.
A. L. c. Atkinson Returns with Most
Encouraging Report-Naturalizati
Enthusiasm and Death are Factors.

A. L. G. Atkinson returned from a
TWO weeks tour of the Island of Kauai
on mission of organization for the Re-
publican Territorial Central commit
tee. He comes back with reports of the
greatest enthusiasm, and thorough work
of organization by the Republicans of
the Garden Isle, and says that they
have every confidence of winning hand
somely there for the whole Republican
ticket
The situation at Lihue, while perhaps
making better showing than any other
precinct on the island, is typical of the
work and the outlook of the whole ISL
and.
AT Lihue," say Mr. Atkinson, "there
is finely organized precinct club, and
there has been done some of the finest
work of organization l ever say Last
year there were 164 registered votes in
this precinct and 142 votes cast, of
which Parker received So. Now there js
a Republican precinct club of $50 MEM
bership, and nearly every Hawaiian in
the precinct is in sympathy with the
party. The work of organization began
with a thoroughly matured plan of Sc
curing the naturalization of every per-
son eligible to naturalization, who was
Republican in his sympath thies. A fund
of nearly 81 500 was secured to pay the
court costs of naturalization and the
expenses of tha men in travelling from
their homes to the place where court
was held. In most cases the planta-
tions were induced to give the men the
time required to become naturalized.
The result of this work is that there
have been naturalized, 60 Portuguese, 80
Germans, 10 British 10 Swedes and
Norwegians and of all other nation
alities, and there are IS more ready 10
be naturalized at the next term of
,F ], ,ftr ~nY1r fer k1,=n ,
Lihue is the best organized Republican
precinct in the islands.
THE credit for devising and carry
ing out this thorough plan is due 10
John d. Willard. He has been inde-
fatigable in it and the results are the
best testimony to the wisdom of the
plan and the way it was carried out.
Aiding in this thorough organization
and adding enthusiasm to it was the
work of j. H. Coney and W. H. Rice,
Jr. But l do not want to draw inVi-
diOus distinctions. The people of Lii
hue, as of all other parts of the island
are alive to the situation, and splendid
work has been done by everybody.
Every part of Kauai is now organic
ed, almost and the work is going on
steadily. / was sent over there to help
organize Kauai, but l found that Kau-
al had organized herself, and whatever
| was able to do was because the peO-
pie there pitched in and helped, reas-
sured by the fact that the central COM
mittee sendt me over that the Central
committee wants every part of the ter
ritory to feel that the work and inter-
ests are common, and that help will be
sent wherever it is needed and the Re-
publicans of the precincts call for it.
Wilcox has met a decided frost.
Everywhere he held meetings there
were indications of dissatisfaction with
him and with the work of the Home
Rulers in the Legislature.
Il confidently expect the Republicans
to carry Kauai by large mapOrity. l
base this confidence on the cOldness of
the Hawaiians toward the Home Rul-
ers, the fact that so many of them are
avowedly coming over to the Republi-
can party, the large increase through
of the number of voters
and the fact that since the last cleo
tion fifteen per cent of the registered
voters of Kauai at that time have
died, and a very large proportion of
them were men who voted the Home
Rule ticket, and the universal interest
taken by the people in carrying the
island for the Republicans. / found
that Prince Cupid is held in very high
esteem on Kauai"