The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-11-10
TWO MODES
I. PRESENTED

For the information ana convenience
Of the party workers and the general
public interested in the proper and fair
adjustment OF the present difficulties OF
abe Republicans regarding their organ
ization rules. the reports OF both ma
jority and minority OF the committee
are herewith printed in full.
BY comparing them with the present
rules-which are very generally dis
tributed and additional copies of which
may be obtained at Republican head
quarters or from Chairman A. G. NJ.
Robertson, or Secretary Harry Murray
IN the County Sheriff's office-it will be
seen that by the observation-disclosures
plan the old district committee" Is
given the functions of a senatorial, rep
resentative and county nominating con-
yention In Maui and Kauai counties, with
an executive or campaign committee
elected by It, as at present, one member
from each precinct; while on Hawaii
and Oahu, where there are two repre-
sentative districts, the two district
committees each nominate representa-
tives and then elect an executive COM
mittee" as above. But the executive
committees" of the fourth and NTH
districts combined on Oahu, and the
FIRST and second districts combined on
Hawaii, then become a county and
senatorial convention, which dominates
the senatorial and county tickets and
elects county campaign or executive
committee, having full charge of CAM
paigns and patronage within its county
and districts. This is similar to the
plan in vogue in many cities of elect
ing delegates to ward conventions, these
conventions electing a lesser number
of delegates to city conventions which
make the actual nominations, and was
the system of convention elections
originally in use here.
The Lane plan elects delegates to
both district and county conventions
directly at the primaries-two sets at
once But the district convention APP
points no executive or campaign COM
mittee. The county convention elects
the executive committee which controls
all matters in the county and its sena-
torial and representative districts.
Lane. however. would make all county
executive committees subordinate to
the Territorial executive committee.
Ali patronage, no matter how trivial,
must go through the Territorial COM
mittee after passing/ the county COM
nittee. This feature and the mo
traitors wanted" rule which he wants
to add. Lane says is to strengthen the
party against the Civic Federation, as
the Territorial committee can be relied
on to cut out all traitors" but neither
the county committee nor the Repub-
lican Supervisors can be trusted to do
so.
A minor issue raised is thatlthe more
delegates the more party workers. To
meet this, Lane would have double the
number OF conventions, while Water
house and Hughes favor doubling the
size of the conventions by making the
basis one delegate for every hfteer
votes. as against every twenty-five
votes as at present.
The waterhouse- Hughes report omiti
10 provide expressly for the nomination
Of either senators or county officers II
Maui and Kauai counties, but that !
doubtless a clerical omission, as adding
the words "and, In counties compris
ing but one representative district
candidates for the Senate and for coun
ty Office" at the end of section
article II, to which section they alread,
recommend an amendment or simila
words, would cover 1t.
MAJORITY REPORT.
The following is the majority
Observation-Disclosures report:
Your special committee on rule
which was appointed with special rel
erence to the rules referring to di'
trict and county committees and cor
ventions, beg leave to report as TO
lows:
As far as the Territorial conventio
and central committee are concerno
we recommend no change. But we al
in favor of combining the work of Il
district and county conventions. W
believe that the same delegates thf
nominate the different candidate
should have voice in the selection @
the committees who will have charg
of the campaign work.
As in this Territory there is no rel
resentative district containing nor
than one county we do not see the n,
eessity of having a separate conventio
for the counties and districts. Th
contention of some of the members G
the party is that the more convention
we have the more active party worl
ers we shall have. If this is the sens
of the majority of your committee W
DelleNe IudI DtIIer RESULTS WOulu
accomplished by increasing the size @
the conventions rather than the nun
Der of conventions. We, therefore
recommend that article lib be stricke
out and that the rules governing tn
district conventions be modified {
that the district conventions shall nor
mate the county candidates as well {
the candidates for the Legislature. Al
that the executive committees appoin
ed by the district conventions be Il
county committees as well as the di
trict committees.
In cases where there are more thu
one district as in the case of the cou
ty of Oahu and the county of Hawa
we favor a county committee compos,
of the members of the two district e
ecutive committees sitting together
one committee and that the charm;
of the county committee together wi
four members from each of the ty
districts shall constitute the county e
eeutive committee Then we wou