The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-05
AGAINST
CIVIC FEDS,
Senator Lane Would
Expel Them From
the Party.

The rules of the Republican party
sadly need revision. That was plainly
manifest at the regular meeting of the
Territorial Central Committee last
night. How to do it is however, a bone
of contention or. at least, it looks as
though it would be.
The revision committee, Representa-
tive F. T. P. Waterhouse. Senator John
G. Lane and John A. Hughes, presented
two reports, Lane being in the minority
Both reports simplify the organization,
but by different means. The majority
report stops there, but the minority re-
port recommends a change in the
method of handling patronage and also
provides that Republicans joining 'any
organization, association or club that
opposes ANY regularly nominated can
didate of the party thereby ceases to
be a regular Republican and can only
be restored to grace by a two-thirds
vote of the Territorial Central Commit
tee.
Senator Lane openly declared these
two additional features were to be di-
rected at the Civic Federation. He de-
clared the Civic Federation to have a
good object in view, to purify politics.
but a man can not serve two masters.
If one is an active party man, he must
either serve the party or be a member
of the Civic Federation. For instance,
if man enters the Civic Federation,
he must serve the Civic Federation and
can not be faithful to the Republican
party and be faithful to the Civic
Federation. He must be a traitor to
either one or the other. The party
must do something for its own protec-
tion. If a man can not be faithful to
the party he must get out of it. When
he reforms. by a two-thirds vote of the
Territorial Central Committee he may
be restored to membership in the Pre-
cinct Republican Club. T think that is
nothing but right"
Other than to order copies of both
reports sent to each of the thirty men,
ing else was done at last nights meet
ing The formal notices We're given
which will bring the amendments
regularly before the next meeting.
An analysis of the present and past
Republican organization in Hawaii will
serve to clearly show the present COM
plications of it's machinery
When the party was organized in
1900, the first Territorial convention
meeting on Decoration Day and the
dav following adopted party rules and
delegated to the Territorial Central
Committee, consisting of as many mem
such district had members in the
House. and it's Successors, power to
amend these rules.
At that time there were no counties
delegate to Congress (voted for in every
distric), fifteen Senators elected from
four senatorial districts) and thirty
elected from six rep
fore, that the only party machinery
required was a delegate or Territorial
senatorial conventions and
representative conventions and GEN.
district in each class.
But with four senatorial and six rep
resentative districts, and our division
also into islands, what is now Maui
tive district and one entire senatorial
district This also applied to what is
now Kauai county. But Oahu and Ha-
waii, while being separate senatorial
districts. each included two representa-
tive districts. The rulemakers them
selves provided for but two conven-
tions a delegate or Territorial and q
which they styled dis
trict'' convention, the latter of which
nominated both the Senate and House
tickets On Oahu and Hawaii, however,
ioint convention was provided for to
nominate senatorial candidates, but no
senatorial campaign committee was
provided for. On Oahu, the Territorial
committee acted as such, and on Ha-
vaii the separate district conventions
ov tacit understanding each nominated
half the senatorial ticket and their
campaign committees acted independ-
emily.
When counties were organized new
set of elective officials was provided for
and new kind of convention and cam
paign committee was required. HOW
10 do it without creating unnecessary
machinery was, and is at present, the
hard question, for it will at once be
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