The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-11-07
AGAINST
CIVIC FEDS.

N-N~N AONAoiOn. lHdl was plainly
manifest at the regular meeting of the
Territorial Central Committee last
night. How TO do 1t is, however, a bone
of contention or, at least, 1t looks as
though 1t would be-
The revision committee, Representa-
tive #. T. p. Waterhouse, Senator John
{. 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 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 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 We're 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 man can not serve two masters
If one is an active party man, he must
either serve the party or be member
Vi thc SiNiC FtutTdIlOn. fOr instance.
If a 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 man can not be faithful to,
the party he must get out of it, When
he reforms by two-thirds vote of the
Territorial Central Committee he may
be restored TO membership in the Pre-
cinct Republican Club. think that is
nothing but right"
Other than to order copies of both
reports sent to each Of the thirty MEM
bers Of the Territorial Committee, moth
I ing else was done at last nights meet
ing. The formal notices were 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 its machinery.
! When the party was organized in
1900, the first Territorial convention
meeting on Decoration Day and the
day following adopted party rules and
delegated to the Territorial Central
Committee, consisting of as many mem
bers in each representative district as
such district had members in the
House. and its successors, power to
amend these rules.
At that time there We're no counties
and the only elective officials were a
delegate to Congress (voted for in every
districO, fifteen Senators elected from
four senatorial districts) and thirty
a oil
lresentative districts.) 1t is plain, there
fore, that the only party machinery
required was delegate or Territorial
convention, senatorial conventions and
representative conventions and a CEN
trail or managing committee for each
district in each class.
But with four senatorial and six rep
resentative districts, and our division
also into islands, what is now Maui
county was also one entire representa-
tive district and one entire senatorial
district. This also applied to what is
now Kauai county. But Oahu and Ha-
wall, 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 a
representative, which they styled dis
trict" convention, the latter of which
nominated both the Senate and House
tickets. On Oahu and Hawaii, however.
a joint convention was provided for to
nominate senatorial candidates, but no
senatorial campaign committee was
provided for. On Oahu, the Territorial
Iccmmittee acted as such, and on Ha-
wall the separate district conventions
by tacit understanding each nominated
LaI l,A
campaign committees acted independ-
entity.
When counties were organized a new
set of elective officials was provided for
and new kind of convention and cam
paign committee was required. How
to do 1t without creating unnecessary
machinery was, and is at present, the
hard question, for it will at once be
seen that Maui county and Kauai coun-
Ity, each comprising but one county,
one senatorial and one representative
district, and Hawaii and Oahu coun-
ties, each comprising one county
and senatorial district, but two rep
resentative districts. Jealousy exists
between the 4th and 5th districts into
which Oahu is divided and the difficult
ties of travel between the LIST and End
districts into which Hawaii is divided
, lare marked.
The majority, or Waterhouse- Hughes
. report. recommends a county conven-
tion to nominate not alone county, but
also senatorial and representative cam
, didates In Maui and Kauai the central
, committee appointed by their respective
, conventions will handle all campaigns
except that of the delegate, which is
. under the control of the Territorial
Central Committee. On Hawaii and
, Oahu counties, the conventions will
, be held in each representative district
and the respective campaign commit
tees by these conventions respectively
appointed will meet with the other
campaign committee in the same coun-
!, ty and thus form a senatorial and
, county convention for nomination of
senators and county officers. The
county conventions thus formed will
choose county campaign, or central,
icOmmittee which will he in charge of