The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-04-01
REPUBLICANS
WILL FIGHT.
Dreier Men Work
to Keep Him
Running.

While Home Rulers are waiting upon
the decision ~ Acting Governor Cooper
as To- what he is going to DO in the
matter OF putting the name ~ August
/ Dreisr ON the official ballot Eeyuhli-
cans are going ahead and preparing
for the battle as if Their" was "a great
/ fight In prospect There W"' be filed
with the Acting Governor us morning
the detailed claims Of the iome Rulers
| why the name Of their .Ididatc should
be placed on the bal! t. and as there
was assurance given yesterday tina;
there would be fun consideration, the
party H. doing nothing.
There was some show Of work done
on the matter of the candidacy OF
Dreier early yesterday. There were
consultations of attorneys and the re-
suit Of these was call upon the Gov
eruor by representatives OF the party.
They placed before Mr.. Cooper the
claims that as the candidate was a cit
izen of ten years standing, who had
not registered at the regular time. there
could be no disbarring him from run
ming now at special election. The
| law was claimed to be unconstitution
/ al I'm part. and the general point made
that any Interpretation OF the law
shutting out the party from having a
/ candidate at the election would be a
| Acknowledgement Of the members OF the
| party. The Acting Governor will agree
| to wait the filing OF the papers and
! further said that he would take up the
! consideration of the matter on the oral
statement and would make his decis-
| ion at once. The Home Rulers say
| they expect there Will be reference
of the matter to the courts at once, so
! that the right OF their party to can
/ didate will be settled legally. All that
! they want Is the chance to cast a vote
and have 1t counted, believing that In
any contest at the end their majority
in the House would seat the member
II there Is chance for him to serve.
Republicans believe they will win
hands down, but they decided last
evening that they would make fight
for the place anyhow. The meeting OF
the Fourth District committee with
members of the executive committed
was we'll attended. After calling the
meeting to order Chairman Gear said
It had been suggested that there b'
nothing done until the Governor and
the courts had decided that the Hom'
Rulers had n right to name n candi
date II was the sense OF the commit
tee that work be taken up anyway AM
, the committee got to work just a
! though there was nothing in the wa,
of fight. The two chairmen, Kennel,
of the executive committee and Gea
of the Fourth district We're appointe
to watch the contest over Dreier, s
that the Home Rulers may not gal
ground.
| After consultation the committees re
, ported. Chairman Wilson of the com
mittee on meetings said that Their
, would be two meetings in each pre-
cinct. A number of speakers were dis
: cussed, and 1t was decided that tn
speakers should discuss city and count.
{ government and the position of tn
party in the matter Of the d!sfranchise
ment of the Hawaiians.
, Chairman King OF the canvassin,
: committee said that the Young Men
a Republican Club would be asked to d.
> the canvassing OF the district and +
make a thorough visit canvass OF al
I the voters.
The finance committee said that Their
c would be 50 much work to be done tina
it would cost perhaps $500 to make tn
= fight as hard as 1t should be. Terrific
rial Committeeman Cooke interjecte
G that he thought 1t would be impossibl
to get hold OF the money, owing to tn
2 fact that there had been so much col
, lecting going on. There seemed to b
a general feeling that the committe
, would not realize nearly so much mon
ey. Henry Warehouse was chosel
p chairman of this committee. The meet
ing adjourned until this evening.
q 1t Is understood that in the event o
4 the refusal of the acting governor I
hold that Dreier may be on the ticket
then the Home Rulers will try to &c
Beardslee on it, and that their petitio
is row being passed around for sigma
, lures. Dreier, however, says he wi
= Hrht thn ut ditch hnfnrp he give