The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-09-14

IN CAUCUS
cFrom Thursdays AdvrtIsero

YtstcTuHN IOT ine purpose OF. consluef
ing the resolutions passed and the rule
promulgated the night before at tn
caucus of the Fourth District delegates
The press was barred at the meeting
and only the committees were present
The Fourth was represented by w. w
Harris, Col. J. w. Jones and Kaleo
The destinies of the Fifth were in the
hands of John c. Lane, Nagaran Fer
nandez and Henry Vida. Fernandez Is
luncheon engagement delayed him and
the work began before he arrived.
In the afternoon ~ five o'clock the
delegates to the number of thirty, rep
resenting all of the Fourth District
| with the exception of the Seventh, met
at headquarters for the purpose of
hearing the report of the noon meeting.
w. w. Harris was in the chair and call.
ed for the delegates from each precinct
, and by this call it was learned that
each of the precincts were represented,
except as stated. The following report
, of the morning session was then read:
| Meeting of special committees from
the Fourth and Fifth Districts. Prop
ositions advanced:
Chairman, temporary and permanent
of convention.
(, Committees on credentials, rules,
platform and resolutions.
| Repre- sentation on committees to be
ten from each district for each COM
: mittec, each precinct to have represen-
tation with the exception that in the
| Fifth District the Seventh and Eleventh
Precincts are to be combined so that
each district will have only repre-
sentation of ten precincts.
, Rawlins not to be under rule of alb
sentees.
: Ballots and their printing.
TeIers.
Speeches.
I Use of voting booths.
Mr.. Lane stated that the Fifth Dis
trict would concede the permanent
chairman of the convention to the
Fourth District if the Fifth could have
the temporary chairman.
The Fourth stated that as the tenn
porary chairman would have the ap-
pointment of committees it was the
most important position and there
should be an understanding first as to
the appointments from the Fourth
would be made as asked, and on that
understanding he thought there could
be an agreement.
Mr. Lane said he thought the repre-
sentation should be by precincts, each
precinct in the Fifth and each precinct
(, in the Fourth to have one committee
/ man on each committee.
AZ lo1 tl,,t
be improper representation as the
Fourth District had more delegates in
the convention than the Fifth.
The understanding was finally reach
ed that the representation on all COM
mittees should be ten from each dis
trict, as follows: One from each pre-
cinct of the Fourth, and from the Fifth
District on the old basis of eleven pre-
cincts, one from each precinct with the
exception of the Seventh and Eleventh
Precincts. which should be combined
and the two thus combined furnish
but one committeeman for each COM
mittee.
Mr.. Jones stated that Mr.. w. 7.
Rawlins whom he understood to have
sailed for Hawaii, as n matter of fact
had not gone to Hawaii but, as he was
informed, was in bed sick and unable
to leave the house, should not in his
opinion come under the absentee rule
stated in the resolution introduced at
the meeting of committees from pre-
cinct delegations. Mr.. Rawlins had
been present at the Territorial Con-
vention when the platform was pro-
mulgated, and had since reread the
platform and would, if unable to attend
the convention by reason of illness or
because of absence from the city on
business, file his written pledge to the
platform, declaring that he was Re-
publican and that he would abide by
and sustain the result of the county
and district nominating convention.
1t was conceded by all present that
Mr.. Rawlins's case was one in which
any rule that might be adopted in re-
gard to absentees, would not apply and
that the Fourth and Fifth Districts
would so instruct their representatives,
on the committee on rules.
Committees to be credentials, rules,
platform and resolutions.
Mr.. Harris read the motion intro
duced by him in the meeting of the
Fourth District committees as follows:
That it is the sense of this caucus
that the convention to meet on Friday
adopt n method of secret ballot, the
/ convention as whole nominating all
| candidates for which the convention as
a whole should nominate; that the
; nominations of Representatives from
| the Fourth and Fifth Districts to be
on a separate ballot; that the nomina-
! tions for Supervisors and Deputy Sher-
iff for the district of Honolulu be on
a separate ballot; and that the Su-
| pervisors and Deputy Sheriffs nominal
ed by the districts of Koolaupoko and
! Koolauloa, Waialua and Waianae, and
| Eva, be announced to the convention
I after the caucus of the delegates from
/ those districts, and, further that nee
essary voting booths be provided.
After considerable discussion it was
agreed that the proposition be agreed
to except in so far as the matter of
making the use of the voting booth
compulsory was concerned, the matter
of compulsion being advanced by Mr..
| Lane.
1t was agreed that the nominations
for all Offices be made at one time and
that the names be placed on the ballot
as provided for in Mr.. Harris motion.
That the order of Offices appearing
on the ballot at large should be
| Sanatora