The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-30
(From Sundays Advertiser)

(From Sundays Advertiser)
At the caucus of the Fifth District
Republican committee held last night at
the headquarters on King street, the
delegates We're instructed by a unan-
imous vote to vote at Hilo for Prince
Kuhio az the Republican candidate for
Congress.
The caucus also agreed that Stephen
Desha of Hilo should have the honor
of placing Kuhio's name in nomination,
and that John C. Lane of the Fifth
District should be given the privilege
of seconding the nomination.
The call for the caucus was to con-
slider the apportionment of members
from the Fifth District to the Terri
torial Central Committee. The resolu-
ton presented at the previous meeting
giving the LIST, End and 3rd precincts
one member. 4th, 9Th and 9th precincts
one member, 9TH precinct one, Sth pre-
cinct one, 9th precinct one, and 10th
precinct one, was adopted, and the
caucus proceeded by precincts to name
it's members. The 4th, 5th and 9Th pre-
cincts decided that they would place no
candidate in nomination, but would
leave it to the caucus. They believed
lHil tHe pFtClilClS OulSlue Oh Honolulu
should have more than two representa-
tives. The result of the selections to
the Territorial Committee are as fol-
lows:
Precincts /, 2 and 3, w. w. Goodale;
precincts 4. and 6, j. a. Low; pre-
cinct I, Isaac Sherwood: precinct S,
John c. Lane; precinct 9, F. T. p. Wa
terhouse; precinct 10, Chas. Clark.
1t was agreed that the selection of
members to serve from the Fifth Dis
trict on the Territorial Executive Com
mittee, be left to a meeting to be held
at a. m. on Tuesday.
a resolution was presentd by Clark
and adopted to the effect that If the
Hilo convention should leave commit
tee selections to districts, the following
would be their choice:
Committee on Credertials-N. Fer
nandez, w. H. Crawford.
Committee on Rules and Permanent
Organization-John C. Lane, w. w.
Goodale.
Committee on Platform-J. A. Low,
7. McCants Stewart.
A resolution that w. r. Sims be
selected by the convention as it's Sec
rotary was lost
w. III. Crawford's resolution that Ku-
hio be selected as the next Congress
sional candidate, was unanimously
carried
Geo. Lucas presented a resolution to
the effect that as w. j. Coelho, who
has been a member of the Board of
Registration for Elections for the Fifth
District is no longer a resident of Ho-
nolulu, Mr.. Coelho resign as such Off +,
Ger. and that committee of five be ap-
pointN to wait upon the Governor and |
hand hun copy of the resolution. rec
ommending at the same time that N |
Fernandez be selected to fill the pro-
posed vacancy.
The resolution carried with the ex-
ception of the recommendation section.
Messrs. Geo. Lucas, f. Il. =. Water !
house, John c. Lane, Henry Vida and |
r. McCants Stewart were appointed on
the committee.
The Hilo Tribune has the following
relative to the plans of the Hilo Repub-
licans for entertaining the delegates
to the conventions
"The Republicans of the several pre-
cinct clubs met Wednesday night and
have mapped out an interesting pro-
gram for the entertainment of visiting
delegates to the Territorial convention
next week. The convention convenes
morning at Spreckels Hall,
and it Is expected the work of the con-
vention will be completed in one day,
although an effort is being made
through the Wilder s., S. Co. to have
the Kinau lay over until Friday even
ing. Upon arrival of the steamer. the
Hio band and reception committee
will meet the delegates and escort them
to the various quarters provided for
them. At night band concert at the u