Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-09-06
COUNTY COUNCIL
HITS ARCHER HARD
Down And Out As Far
As Committee Is
Concerned
PROTEST FROM SIXTH OF
the Fifth HANDLED hot
AcHl AND Low GO At IT OVER
EVA MANS EXPULSION
FROM THE PRECINCT
CLUB.

Last night was protest night with
the Republican County Committee and
big crowd packed the Fort street
headquarters.
First came a protest from the Sixth
Of the Fifth, Eva, and Waianae. signed
by Albert Warehouse. +. X. Archer
and A. w. Van Valkenburg.
This protest covered two complaints.
first that +. X. Archer was a member
OF the Precinct Club In spite OF his So
called expulsion and. second, that GER
tain ballots had been Illegally thrown
out. A mass of documentary evidence
was produced by both sides.
Members OF the County Committee
present were: w. G. Rowe, II. T..
Murray, Ben Wright. W. F. Drake,
Chas. Hustace. Jr., &. W. Zeigler. j. G.
quinn. Of the Fourth; F. NJ Keanu. 3.
c. Dwight. L. X. c. Lane. Ed Hen
riques, NC. Amaha, Is. p. Fabian, Of
the Fifth.
Proxies: C. w. Booth. A. II. Moore.
w. l.. Emory. Geo. Chalmers. Geo. Ma.
kalana. s. w. Logan, J. w. Cathcart.
Among the others present were.
Plantation Manager Low. +. b. Nc.
Stocker. +. T. p. Waterhosse. d. p.
Hanale. James Boyd. w. c. Achi. Sup
ervisor Frank Archer. Senator l.. l..
NcCandless, Sol. Mahelona.
Archer to the Bar.
| Chairman Hustace recommended
first that the committee decide wheth-
er Archer was member Of the pre-
cinct club and then handle the matter
Of ballots.
+. r. =. Warehouse said that Al.
bert Warehouse had asked him to
state that he had been unable to get
up certain principal witnesses and re-.
quested that n night be set apart for
the investigation.
Hustace understood that Albert
Warehouse had been notified. lie
should be present.
Murray did not believe In making Il
a hardship to men on the other side.
He moved the hearing go ahead. This
carried.
Murray moved to take up the rejec.
election. Carried.
Hustace called for some enlighteu-
ment rs to why Archer was expelled
from the precinct club.
Achi Defends Archer.
ACHI uskeN u He COUlu TcpTeSeiit
Archer. Thurston was sick. Granted.
Low asked permission to defend the
other side. Granted. He said he was
the protesting man aud thought II
right that he so act
| +. Il. y. Warehouse wanted to know
II II was understood that Albert Water
house was not represented. II was ~
understood.
Archer Was Boss.
Low said Albert Warehouse did not
come into this. 1t was matter oi
Archers membership.
Low said Archer had control OF ev-
erything In the precinct as far rs the
executive was concerned. He even
had the judges and the judges showed
IT. The appellants were 40 interested
that they had two stenographers pres
ent. He read the minutes as taken by
these gentlemen. The minutes may
have been written by stenographers
but they were by no means steno-
graphic reports
Sacred Evidence.
Low said this transcript" was their
most sacred evidence" After the
precinct meeting he drove back, hi
said. to copy the roll book. To see that
II had not been stuffed. lie found that
Archer had signed. When the meet
Ing was closed the roll book shOuld
also have been closed. lie read the
rule on the subject. That clause. he
said, made II law. Low showed him.
self quite legal light. r. X. Archer