The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-30
COL. IAUKEA BE-
GINS HIS CONTEST
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election, certifying that you, having
received 1888 votes for said office. q
greater number than any other can
! didate, We're duly elected To the said
office of delegate to the seth Congress
of the House of Representatives OF
the United States from the Territory
OF Hawaii, at the election so held as
( aforesaid.
You are further notified that 1 in
tend TO contest your declared election
as aforesaid before the 59th Congress
of the House of Representatives OF
the United States of America, on the
following grounds, namely
1. Because the official ballots as
prepared by the Secretary of the Ter
r:tory of Hawaii, he being the officer
charged by law with said duty, and
by him furnished to the various In
spe ctors of Election throughout the
entire Territory. were illegal, in this:
that each of said ballots had printed
thereon a mark or symbol to wit: a
number, whereby it could be iden-
titled, contrary to The express provi-
sicns of law regulating such election.
?. Because said official ballots, with
the numbers thereon as aforesaid,
We're actually voted by the electors OF
said Territory, in the following pre-
cincts, to wit: the 3rd of the first dis
trict, the 1st and End of the second
district. the End, 5th, 9th, 18th and
18th of the third district, and the Srd,
9Th, 9Th, and 10th of the fourth dis
trict, and the 1st, End, 9Th, 18th, Sth,
9th, 10th and 18th precincts of the
oil 1icf1 iaf
testor is advised and believes, and up
on such information and belief states
the fact to be, said ballots with the
numbers thereon. were actually voted
in each and every other voting pre-
cinct of said Territory, with perhaps
a few xceptions,-thereby rendering
the ballots voted at said precincts lille
gal and void, inasmuch as the secrecy
of the same as guaranteed by the laws
oe said Territory was destroyed, in
this, to wit: That at the time said
ballots were handed to the individual
voters by the officers of election the
number upon each ballot was called
out and the same was entered in the
poll book opposite the name of the
voter to whom said ballot had been
given, thus enabling any person hav-
ing access to said poll book, together
with the ballots. to ascertain how and
for whom each elector had voted.
s. Because certain officials, en-
ployees of the Territorial Government,
and partisan workers, having prior
knowledge of the fact that said official
ballots were to be numbered as afore-
said, both on the day of election and
before that date, used said knowledge
for the purpose of illuminating and
threatening various electors in said
Territory with loss of employment un-
less they voted in accordance with
their demands and against the con-
testor. That at the time of said cleo
tiop and for some time prior thereto,
there were a great number of cleo
tors to wit: about fifteen hundred,
employed by the Territorial Govern
nlent throughout the entire Territory
upon the public roads, and in various
departments of public work, and that
these electors in particular were, by
other government employees of supe-
riol rank, threatened and intimidated
with loss of their said employment
unless they voted against this con-
te.stor and in favor of contestee. Fur
thel that certain corporations doing
business in said Territory. and en-
plcying a large number of the electors
thereof, made similar threats to and
against their said employees. thereby
ccercing, intimidating and forcing the
said employees to vote against con-
testor and in favor of conteztee.
L. Because at Honolulu, within said
Territory, and at other places within
said Territory, as confession is inform
ed and believes, and upon such in
formation and belief states the fact
Il, be, employees of the Territorial
Government engaged in working upon
the. roads and other public works were
Organized into political clubs by ofl-
Gals in authority over them and dur
ing. the campaign preceding the cleo
ton were prohibited by said official Is,
their overseers, and others immedl-
ately in control over them from at
tending or in anywise participating IN,
meetings held by confession, or others
i'm his interest, in furtherance of his
candidacy, and were threatened with
loss of their said employment should
they in any manner disobey this pro-
hibition.
s. Because such clubs organized as
aforesaid were on the day of said cleo
ton, under the command of an off,
Ger or overseer, marched in body to
the polls, in uniform and wearing the
regaIia of their said clubs, and were
then and there threatened by said
.oyerseer or officer in charge that un-
less they voted against confession and
in favor of contestee that they would
lose their said employment under the
government; that, by reason of the
numbers which were to be left on
their ballots it could be easily ascer-
tained how and for whom they voted:
that by~this method and for those
reasons many who intended and de-
sired to vote for confession were in
TIN idated and coerced into voting
against confession and in favor Of con-
testee.
6. Because large numbers of the
electors at said election We're induced
by bribery in the payment of money
and other things of value and promise