The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-08-28
LIVELY TIME
IN SECOND
Fight Over Who
Has Right to
Vote.


Fourth District spent nearly two hours
last night in deciding who Is entitled
TO vote at the primaries, and ended
the meeting without making use pl
the decision. only nominations ior
delegates were made, and the eluo
finally agreed to abide by the keHuo-
lican Executive Committtee's ruling
that only registered voters Of the pre-
cinct could vote at their primary ana
NOT men who had moved in from other
precincts. This step was taken to pre-
vent colonization of voters, the scheme
for which, it was hinted by heoup
lican leaders, had already been haIch-
ed.
Incidentally several leaders stated
that the Advertiser had told the truth
when II said that the Fourth Dlstrlc1
had been chloroformed by the fll'h
at the Republican Executive Comnlttee
held some weeks ago.
The meeting last night was held III
n tent erected on the Makiki grouriS.
II contained several hundred voters
ycban Col Soper announced the object
of the gathering.
Tho meeting was long and lively
Tho contest was spirited from the pe-
Ginning. but always friendly. At times
Tho crowd gathered around the chalr-
,,,or,s table. but this was as much dua
70 tho rain as to the warmth OF 'he
argument ....,.,o.,1
BEFORE any business was trahsac's|
Mr. ]. A. Gilman called attention W ~
rule of the central committee oroN'u
ing that those only couln No'e
nrimaries who had been registereu III
the precinct. ,,. o,,b
q r. Wilson said the precinct c'"p
ruIes proved the opposite; any o'e
could vote at the primary who was en-
titled to vote at the next generai e'eo
tinn and who lived in the precinct.
col. Jones stated that the committee
had interpreted the rules differently 81
nc to prevent colonization III any
urinary. otherwise it would be pos
sibIe to bring in 200 voters just to No'e
at the primary, and who would say
+bot they were residents. j. II. flsher
contended that any resident OF the as
trict who could vote at the next eIec-
tion was entitled to voice III 'l'e
urinary. He said no wrong couid pos
sibly result from this.
r. NJ White was opposed to this view
and said that every voter could vote III
his old precinct. r. w. Aylett took TINS
view, otherwise, he said. he could pr'is
over several wagon loads of voters ana
they could vote at the primary thoush
from another precinct. {. H. wilson
said he had explained otherwise TO sew
eral hundred natives, and eugSesteu
that the committee could not chahse
the precinct rules. Col. Jones said the
rules were so framed, in order that the
primaries would not be open to fraud
Dr Grossman and II. j. Johnson ar
gued that only voters could take mana
in the urinary Col. Soper thought the
rules provided that anyone who signed
the Republican roll might do so.
]. II. Fisher said the committee had
no right to change a rule without
months notice.
Senator Crabbe, who was present,
was called upon to explain the action
of the committee, and said that the
committee had decided that voters
must attend primaries in the precincts
in which they are registered, ana u
not registered in any precinct, then IN
the one in which they are residents.
This action was taken by the commit
tee because of the report that there
had been a great deal of colonizinG.
He said the committee wanted
straight clean election and intended to
stop fraud
MIR. Fisher read a section from the
rules adopted by the committee relative
to the county elections as showing that
the precincts had the right to act.
1.-THE whole trouble was just as the
Advertiser said" said Crabbe in re-
ply. "The Fourth District was chloro-
formed by the Fifth. Fisher and I
were the only members present and we
We're Chloroformed."
C. b. Wilson said he was a member
of the committee and had not been no.
titled of the meeting. He was sur
Drised to read Of the action the next
morning. Fisher also said he was noti
fled and supposed that the committee
would have resolutions prepared, in
stead of which the Fifth put in reso-
lutions and did the chloroforming.
There was a lot of useless discussion
over the question of voting, some mem
bers not being disposed to accept the
committees ruling as final once dur
ing the discussion the lights went out
but 1t was not the Fifth, and so moth
ing happened, Finally after a further
half hours talk the meeting finally got
down to nominations for delegates
Kumalae, who was present, managed
to get in three names, and Aylett one OF
two.
The nominations were not closed and
will be added to on Friday. They are
as follows: ]. 4, Gilman, T.. Kouke
#. j. Church, John Ouderkirk, ]. II.
Soper, Geo, b. Mcclellan. j. A. NJ.
Johnson, Gus Schuman, r. Doble. John
A. Hughes, Hiram Kolomoku. c. II.
Brown, Il. r. Mossman, John L.
Joseph, A. F. Clark, Frank Kruger and
w, NJ. Cunningham.
G. NJ. White introduced his resolu-
ton pledging all county nominees 10
abide by the action of the county con-
Vention and to pledge their support I,
the Republican party. This was car
ried.
Col. Jones explained the necessity for
instructions, and said the delegates
would not be bound to vote for anyone
In case the candidates for which they
are instructed could not be nominated
AnDf her fnaatinfy MIN A..