The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-04
CONVENTION
IN ORPHEUM
Where the Republican
County Statesmen
Will Gather.

1.-The Republican County Convention
will meet in the Orpheum.'' said Sam
Johnson, chairman of the hall commit
tee yesterday 1--WE have about con-
Guided that the Opera House will not
answer. The Orpheun is much the
best place. We can throw down the
walls there and have plenty of ventila-
ton. That is important, this weather"
1t is most important to have facility
in throwing down the walls in County
Convention, if the County Convention
is to be patterned after the County
Committee. Some of the delegates will
want all the room there is in the Or
pheum for speech and gesticulation
this time. moreover-will be a very
large body. In fact. it will be the
largest political body, numerically
speaking. that has been gathered to-
gether in Honolulu since annexation.
The last County Convention met in
Progress Hall and was somewhat
crowded there, and there was little
room for spectators This one, being
much larger in the delegate body, must
also find more room for spectators. as
the various candidates will have large
bodies of rooters on hand, primed to
carry the convention off its feet if the
thing can be done.
1t is much more likely that the whole
program will be cut and dried and the
nominations as good as made before the
convention meets. At least. that is
what the several leading candidates are
working for now. But the rooters will
want to be there and shout, all the
hold their jobs.
1t is figured that the body of the |
Orpheum will seat the delegates in
with the sides thrown out to |
out. and the gallery will give the root
ers all the chance there is. Then, in
case anything on the program should
be in danger of going overheard, it is
on the same floor as the delegates. A
little physical suasion can thus be exer-
Used that would not otherwise be feast
Die. Physical suasion goes long way.
n Hawaiian political determine tionS.
It was SO in the last county campaign.
nyyn CO in ba lot .iraaf oI1 n
elections, where men had white tickets
aiken from them and red tickets forced
nto their hands by other men, of mus
lie superior to theirs,
So the Orpheum it will probably be,
md the workers for the party can
govern themselves accordingly. The
according to the order of
nittee, will meet on Saturday, Septem-
nittee, will meet on aSturday. Septem-
'er 10, at ten o'clock in the morning,
nd continue in session until its bust
ess is concluded. This is the plan fol-
owed by minor conventions on the I
nainland. The delegate body assemblies
t ten, appoints preliminary officers and
IS committees on credentials. platform, ]
nd order of business. 1t then takes a
ecess for luncheon, and incidentally for
This is the time when
lates are put up, if they have not been
before. and when states that {
ave been arranged are sometimes {
roken.
At the beginning of the afternoon
ession the convention is called to or
er by the temporary chairman, and is G
organized Then the COM
littees report, and the convention pro-
aeds to nominations after the adoption t
the platform. That is so the noni-
ees will know the platform, and can 1
ldorse it in their speeches. Usually, :
County Convention can complete its
lsiness in an afternoon, leaving the o
strict nominations until the last. The
ahu County Convention, which viii be h
nwieldly as being large. may be a lit
e longer about it, but it should get its :
ork done before midnight on Satur- e