The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-05-27
WILCOX, BOYD
AND HUMPHREYS
MEN WHO ARE TALKED OF AS
CANDIDATES FOR DELEGATE
TO CONGRESS.
WILCOX CONTROLS SITUATION AS
TO HOME RULERS.
Will Return Home Before Congress
Adjourns If Necessary to Be Here
For Primaries in July

The last reports from Washington
were to the effect that Delegate Will
cox was preparing to return home, and
that If Congress did not adjourn by the
end of June he would start anyhow,
The Home Rule primary elections are
to be held in the middle of July, and
the delegate wants to be here in time
for them. Wilcox is after the nomina-
tion for another term, and the present
indications are that he will get it.
Other candidates are talked of in
both Republican and Home Rule ranks.
Among them are Circuit Judge Humph-
reys and superintendent of Public
Works J. H. Boyd. Humphreys
friends are said to be working in his
behalf, for Republican nomination.
and 1t may be that a Home Rule en-
dorsement will also be worked for. In
this, however, Delegate Wilcox prob
ably controls the situation. BOYD is
also a Republican, but he has many
supporters among the natives, and it
is claimed that he would draw a lot of
Home Rule votes.
Those who know the "little Judge"
say that if he runs, it will be on a sure
thing. Humphreys will not run unless
things are fixed so that he can see vic
tory in sight" said one Republican
committeeman. He's too fly to enter
losing contest of that kind. 1 don't
think he can get either nomination,
though there are Republicans who
might want to put him up"
Boyd is thought to have improved his
chances while in office. He is very
widely known throughout the Islands
and there is little doubt that his name
Will be before the convention He has
no nF
ent with much energy, and his friends
say he can go in on his record"
The Home Rulers are making prog
ress with their work of reorganizing
the party, and have new constitution
ready. 1t provides for a system of pre-
cinct clubs throughout the Islands, and
before the primaries in the middle of
July, the leaders expect to complete
the organization of such clubs. Mem
bers of the committee will visit all the
precincts in the islands and form clubs
The committee will hold a meeting next
Thursday evening, at which these mat
ters will be discussed.
AS the day for primaries approaches
the Home Rulers are more and more
concentrating their strength on the city
and county government proposition. 1t
is said that recent discussions indicate
a radical difference between the ticket
" Dt put up lIlS time ana Ilal WhlCl
went before the people in November
1900. Many of the old war horses are
to be turned down. Political gossip
has it that the Home Rulers will prob
ably nominate as many whites as ma
tives for the House and Senate, if not
more. The honorable members who
helped to make a fizzle of the last ses-
sion are getting the CLASSY eye" from
the committee, and they will probably
get the frozen init" in the primaries
Another man who has been mention
ed as possible candidate is John En-
meluth, of the Home Rulers. When
asked this morning about it Emmeluth
said he had no idea whatever of enter
ing any such fight, and that he expect
ed the nomination of Delegate Wilcox.
Emmeluth didn't want to talk candi-
dates or probable candidates. but was
quite willing to talk issues, and he pre-
dicted that the Home Rulers would go
into the fight practically on the single
issue of city and county government.
'If a city and county government act
had been passed by the last legislature
and approved by the governor" he
said, "there would probably have been
no Home Rule party in existence to-
day. That is what we are for We are
working for two-thirds of both houses,
and we shall concentrate our energies
on real home rule which means a sys-
TEN of local government. That is
the reason for the existence Of the
Home Rule party, and on that line we
shall fight out the campaign. The
Home Rulers will put up very good
men, and they expect the next legis-
lature to enact the desired law. Then
il will be time enough to talk of a div
ision of voters along the national party
lines"