Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-07-20
GUT Down TERRITORIES
DEMOCRATS THINKING OF
REDUCING THEIR VOTE
INTERVIEW WITH HAWAII DELE.
GATE ON WHAT is WANTED
IN THIS TERRITORY.
HAWAlrS PLANK.

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New York World says: Fifty.four Of
the delegates in the convention will
represent eight Territories and the Dis.
trict Of Columbia-more than enough
to swing the vote for the candidate
should the balloting by any chance BIZ
close; yet the Territories they repre-.
sent have no standing In the Electoral
College and nothing to do whatever
with the real election.
Under the present plan II Is the pur.
pose to put these Territorial delegates
upon the same footing. as far as voting
in the convention is concerned. as the
delegates from New York and other
States. Many OF the leaders declare
this to be unjust, but the Parker men
are so confident that they have the sit
uation wholly in hand that they are
disinclined to make any determined ef
fort to dcbar the Territorial delegates
from voting. II they can avert II. how.
ever. they do not intend that any OF
the Territorial delegates shall be ap
pointed on any OF the important com.
mittocs.
Made Mischief In 1900.
Four years ago. one single Territorial
delegate, Prince David. OF Hawaii who
was appointed a member OF the Com.
mittee on Resolutions. cast the decid.
Ing vote that practically put the silver
plank into the platform of 1900. on
the question OF reafiirming the Chicago
PLATFORM and OF the Organisms for
which IL stood the committee vote was
a tie until the Hawaiian delegate cast
the decisive ballot.
The Territories were never given rep
rescntation In the National Democrat.
ic Conventions until Bryan got control
OF the party organization. by wa.
tcrinG process much like that which
the promoter employs to initiate the
capitalization OF a corporation Bryan
Increased tls number of delegates by
putting all of the Territories on an
equal footing with the States. In this
way he Increased his own strength
materially. as practically all of the del.
egates from the Territories In 1900
were Western men and followers OF
Bryan. He practically made himself
n gilt of forty.two votes by having the
Territories represented in the convcn.
ton.
Since 1900 two additional Territor.
les have been put on the list-thc Phil.
ippines and Porto Rico. Counting the
District OF Columbia, there are now
nine delegations which are to hav.
full voting power in the convention
hut not n single vote in the Electoral
College. They are Alaska. Arizona.
New Mexico. Oklahoma. Indian Terri,
tory, the Philippines. Porto Rico, Ha.
wall and District OF Columbia. II has
been arranged to give each of these
Territories six votes in the convention,
or iifty.four In all. Oklahoma has sent
twelve delegates, but they are to have
only half vote each.
Talk .of Pruning Them.
With the return Of the party to n
safe and sane policy there are mum.
Der Of delegates who believe that the
six delegates from each of the Terri.
tories should be given only a fraction
OF vote, one-third being the fraction
generally favored. This would give
each delegation two full votes, or to.
tai of eighteen for the nine, instead OF
fifty -four.
The friends Of Judge Parker began
I
this afternoon a quiet investigation OF
the character and standing of the Ter
ritorial delegates. Should 1T turn out
| that n majority of them are capable,
conservative men no drastic move will
be made. but II on the other hand II Is
found that a number Of them have
radical, unsafe ideas. a determined ef.
| fort will be made to have their voting
privilege cut to minimum.
One of the delegates from the Phil
lpplncs is Hugh Bonner. former Chief
Of the New York Fire department He
was sent to the Philippines to organize
a fire department In Manila.
Hawaiian Plank Demanded.
Encouraged by the prominent part
IL tool, In 1900, when II made history
by reatiirming the Chicago platform
the Hawaiian delegation, as soon as II
arrived here this afternoon, began ia
talk of plank II wanted inserted In
the platform of the coming convention
The plank the Hawaiians are after Is
an insignificant AFFAIR, but the fsrt that
they began to talk about II the first
thing on their arrival was regarded as
significant by those who recalled thu
part Prince David played -four year.
ago and the disastrous consequences
7. y. Lyons, one Of the Hawaiian del
egates. said: AT present Hawaii 1
really a monarchy. and Territory o