The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-11-06
RESULT CLOSE
FIFTH OF THE FOURTH.

| Down at the Kapuaiwa building good
vote casting was achieved. Here the
Home Rulers have usually been con-
ceded a stronghold though the last Ter
ritorial election proved that breach
| had been made in their forces. the
| ballots were a little slow in coming In
at the start but with only 3S2 as to-
tai there was never any danger OF
clogging and three o'clock saw less
than a hundred franchises to be ex-
ercised. On the fare of general indica-
tions the vote was proving an even
thing for both sides.
SIXTH OF THE FOURTH.
The voters of the Honolulu Hale as
usual took things in leisurely man
ner. the central position of the polling
place proving temptation to leave
personal duty until the last. The totai
of $50 was halved about two O'CLOCK
but a full ballot was confidently ex-
pected.
EIGHTH CAPTURED SPEED REC
ORD.
Continuous and rapid work was nee
essary to get through the list OF over
; seven hundred voters In this precinct
and the citizens seemed to realize the
Importance of voting early. over
five hundred ballots were in before
three o'clock with a constant line
awaiting their turn. Republican
majority was anticipated here and the
news was spread abroad that the Home
Rulers were splitting their tickets.
THE FIGHTING SEVENTH.
Grn etc
! ton was generally looked to to pro-
duce the excitement of the day and
! lived up to expectations, though with
one exception no serious disturbances
occurred, thanks to the police super
intendence. Native voters were
grouping in tn. neighborhood soon af-
ter daylight and by the opening of the
polls some three hundred were in line.
| The booth was set well back from
| the road behind the lawn plot of the
station which was roped in and kept
| clear. The space between this and
the car tracks proved an animated
| arena of voters replete with their own
| convictions and desirous of unburden-
! ing their beliefs. The voters at the
| opening of the booth were lined up In
double rank elbowing and pushing for
room while police officers kept them
from rushing the line.
POLICE OFFICER ASSAULTED.
! one husky Home Ruler, too impa-
| tient to await his turn pressed for
ward and was arrested by the out
stretched arm of Special officer Nc
Duffie who had his back to the man.
The native, who with others of his
ilk was declaimirg loudly against po-
lice voters then inside the booth, who
he declared had no business to be
there, stepped forward and struck the
unsuspecting officer over the mouth,
telling him with the impact of the
blow. Other officers jumped for the
man and the Home Rulers pressed
forward and for moment big row
seemed imminent. No arrests were
made as the police did not wish to give
| the Home Rulers a chance to make
capital out of the affray. The name
| of McDufiies assailant was quietly as
certained and he may yet have to
| answer for his l.nprovoked assault.
| Native women, old and young, WIN
some and others more earnest than
attractive, stood by the station walls
and segregated voters suspected of
uncertainty endeavoring to win them
to a Home Rule vote. High Sheriff
Brown was in attendance most of the
day and his popularity seemed un-
doubted. While Wise was conceded
his chief possibilities in this precinct,
it seemed to those intimate with cleo
tion procedure that the fight was fairly
even. Four hundred had registered
by three o'clock.
Everything was quiet at the Seventh
of the Fifth throughout the evening.
majority of the inspectors was
against Chairman Birbe to accept
ballot whereon the y looked more like
a V. Shortly afterward another ballot
carrying a somewhat similar flaw came
up, when the majority ruled against
the chairman to reject It, Mr.. Birbe
slammed down the lid of the receiving
box and declared that the count would
stop right there until the dispute over
the marking should be settled by the
Secretary of the Territory.
After some talk the chairman yielded
with the caution that the majority
would have to abide by it's own decision
and reject every ballot like the last
one questioned, which looked like a Y
as much as the previously accepted one
looked like V. Other ballots were
rejected on account of doubled imprint
of the Y stamp opposite name, 9TH
ers on account of blurs of stamping
ink in either front or back. Some went
into the waste basket for having more
votes for an office than the number of
candidates to be elected thereto. Any
ballot partly stamped and partly PEN
cilled was rejected under official in
structions. A majority of the rejected |
ballots were Home Rule votes, al
though good many We're Republican
and split. Up till 1915 the number OF
rejected votes was So.
At the hour Just named an Adver-
tiser reporter took an exact transcript |
of the tallies, showing as follows:
Supervisor at large-J. II. Boyd, 119; |
Fernandez, 1l6; Harvey, 1917 Lucas, 76:
Renton, 81; Robinson, S3.
Fifth District Supervisor Dwight
9S, Kealoha 81, Mahoe 1O4. Pahia SO.
Sheriff-Brown S4, Wise lis.
Clerk-Kalauokalan lO7, Murray a.
Nakuina -.
Auditor-Sherwood 50, Wilcox los.