The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-27
Old KaIauokaIani Says He Will Quit
If Robert Wilcox is Chosen
President.
The Aged Leader is Tired of Petticoat Rule.
Home Rule Convention Has a Lively
Time Ahead of It.

Senator David Kalauokalani will lay
down the reins Of control at the Home
Rule convention to be held today and
ex-DeIegate Robert w. wilcox will in
all probability be elected as president
of the Home Rule party in his stead
And If wilcox is elected there win be
another split In the Home Rule party
led by Kalauokalani.
Today's convention is a Territorial
meeting and not a county convention
for Oahu alone as has been published.
Despite that it is more than likely that
the states Of the candidates. in the va
rious counties will be decided upon at
caucuses to be held today.
The hour for the convention opening
is fixed at $3.50 this morning. though
II will be probably an hour later be-
fore the delegates get down to business.
Altogether there are present between
thirty and forty delegates from the va
-,ous Islands. some of whom have been
hare SINCE the close of the legislature.
while others only arrived on the kinau
Saturday and on the Claudine yester-
day
The meeting Is to be held at the party
headquarters on Maunakea street
though there was some talk yesterday
of holding the convention in the Or
pbeurn. There have been some negotia-
tions with the orpheum management
with this end in view but nothing deh-
mite has been decided upon as yet
The convention is wholly one of or
zanizatfon. officers of the Home Rule
marty will be elected for the coming
year as we'll as the general executive
committee of seventy which will have
charge OF the county campaign. Sena-
tor Kalauokalani is the president OF
the party now and Jesse Makainai. late !
assistant clerk of the House. is the /
yice-president-
Kalauokalani has told his friends
that he will not be an active candidate
for reelection, though many OF them
have urged that he stand for the nom
ination assuring him their votes, and
promising that they have sufficient to
carry the convention Kalauokalani
has said that he will accept the honor
if offered but will not make canvass
He says he is tired of the work ana
has done his share for his party. Ex-
Delegate wilcox is the man who seeks
the leadership of his party. His de-
feat for the highest office within the
gift of his party has not curbed his am
bitiou and he believes that with him.
self in control of the party organization
he can not only get the nomination but
carry the election two years from now
Wilcox and KaIauokalani are no
longer friends Formerly they were as
intimate as brothers A year ago IL {
was Wilcox who saved Kalauokaiani {
from losing the presidency after kuhio
and his friends had bolted the conven-
ton
1t is only lately though that the two
Home Rule leaders parted. And the
Princess was the cause. Theresa USED
20 run the party in the absence OF her
husband. But there has been grow
ng disaffection among the rank and
lie from petticoat leadership. So when ,
asst Wilcox went to Washington there "
vas an entire breakaway from Mrs. N
Wilcox During the legislature there
7as an open rupture between KalaH-
~,
reach was widened when the Delegate
aturned and was told of his wife's 70
-Oubles. Ii,
Now KaIauokalani charges that Will 70
'x has been trying to undermine him ki
the party and he wants the dele CT