The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-04-09
LOOKS MUCH
LIKE HARRIS
SMALL VOTE is BEING POLLED
IN ALL OF THE SEVEN
PRECINCTS.
REPUBLICANS SEEN TO BE OUT
IN FORCE.
Campaign Committees Working with
Carriages to Get out the Voters.
Close Tab on the Lists.

CHAIRMAN GEAR OF THE RE
PUBLICAN FOURTH DISTRICT
COMMITTEE STATES THAT FROM
PRESENT INDICATIONS THE VOTE
WILL FALL SHORT OF 1000 AND
HE THINKS HARRIS WILL WIN
BY A MAJORITY OF 400 VOTES.
The votes came slowly in most Of the
precincts today. 1t was a day Of hus-
tliug for voters on every hand. Scores
Of buggies and wagons were used to
bring voters to the polls, but by 2
Z clock it became evident that the total
vote was not going to be large.
This afternoon the hustling for voters
is being kept up, though continuous
voting from now on to the closing of
the polls will not make a full vote in
some of the precincts. Both sides ex-
press confidence, neither Republicans
nor Home Rulers, however, generally
claiming any very big majority for
their man. The Republicans of Ma
kiki appear to have turned out we'll
while in the precinct below King street,
which had the Board of Health build
ing for a polling place, there were
signs of a big Home Rule vote, This is
a Home Rule locality, however.
At lis there had been 1856 votes cast
at PunahOu and King streets, where
the total registration is 453. The early
vote was mostly whites, and is thought
to have rolled up a good majority for
Harris Later in the day the natives
came in greater numbers, and the num-
Der of whites and natives voted is now
probably now about even. The result
seems to be close here. though Harris
men are the more confident.
At the booth at Piikoi and Kipau
streets the vote was 29O out of 911 re-
gistered, up to 1870. This is very small
and there is not time with quick voting
for the other G99 and over voters to
cast ballots. Republicans think they
are in the lead here.
Emma square voting runs about the
same. There were 2ll votes cast out of
500 registered a about two o'clock.
Votes were coming i'm slowly. Natives
had appeared in large numbers. Natives
| who have been watching here think the
result is close Senator Kalauokalani,
/ who kept tab all morning, expressed
| the opinion that Dreier was ahead
| At the Board Of Health building there
! were crowds Of natives all morning
! Early in the morning there were speech
es in Hawaiian by both Home Rulers
and Republicans and all day a lot of ma
| tvs stood and sat around on the grass.
The voting ran higher proportionately
| than at most of the other places 19S
votes being cast before two o'clock out
of 534 voters registered Dreier is ad-
mitted to depend a good deal on rolling
up votes here, and it is claimed that he
is doing his best in this precinct.
The presence of the Alameda and
Moana in port kept a number of natives
on the water front at work. who migh2
otherwise have visited the polls The
Moana leaving at three and the Ala
media at four allow them to hasten to
the polls if they feel like il.
At one forty five seventy seven votes
had been registered at Honolulu Hale
next to the post Office in the sixth pre-
cinct This represents a little over one
| third of the entire vote of the pre-
cinct one hundred and ninety seven in
all.
Polling votes at the precincts i'm the
Fourth District started in merrly this
morning, many of the natives being evil
| IDENTIFY disposed to look upon the OC-
! CasiOn as one for a general holiday. AT
the fifth precinct Kapuaiwa Hale
where the Board of Health building has
! been utilized for the voting, matters
! were kept lively this morning by the
! presence of two orators or rather spiel
! ers, one for the Home Rulers and one
! for the Republican party. An audience
! of natives, seated on the green strip OF
| turf that borders Queen street makai
| of the Health building, listened appar-
! entity impartially to the efforts of the
! two takers, both of whom were at an
! early hour seriously handicapped by the
| hOarseness incumbent on their efforts.
None of the audience Of about fifty
! who made themselves comfortable in
/ the shade of the trees and the building
! seemed to pay any particular attention
! to what was said and all had the air
| of expecting something to happen all
| the time and Of perfect COntentment if
! they had to wait all day for it to come
/ off
! Partisans of both sides were ready to
! freely advise the approaching voter as
! to the desirability of placing his vote
! with their candidate and every once in
a while a wagon load of native voters
would ride up smilingly in a rig pros
| vided by the Republican committee, the
! alaCrity with which they joined the
| knots of Home Rulers after leaving the
| hustings leaving the question in doubt
| as to whether they had not accepted
! the ride more as an accommodation
/ rather than any actual pledge Of their
| voting a particular ticket. Up TO nine
/ thirty hfty-four votes i'm all had been
! registered.
/ TT the Honolulu Hale, next to the
| postottiCe things We're run in much
/ more orderly fashion as bchooyed a
| down town precinct People came IN
/ quietly and deposited their votes and
! went about their business promptly.
/ With the exception of the signs pasted
| on the dOorWays there was little to
show that anything beyond the ordinary
| was going i'm. Many votes We're cast
| early this morning.
The first precinct polling house at
| the foot of Punahou street is conduct
! ed in a small one-rOOmed cottage tenn
! pOrariy placed close to the corner Of
! what is known as the Waikiki bend
| There are some 423 voters registered
in this precinct, eighty of whom had
cast their votes at IL o'clock this
| morning. Many natives were idling in