The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-11


following are endorsed by this CON-
nittee:
County Clerk D. Kalaukalani, Jr.;
County Treasurer, T. T. P. Water
house; County Attorney, no action;
Auditor. James Bicknell; Senate, w ..
smith; Representatives. A. d. Castro
w. T. RawIins f. w. Quinn, John
| Hughes and E. K. Lilikalani: for Su-
pervisors. w. w. Harris, at large
Charles Hustace, Sam c. Dwight ana
Walter F. Dillingham;. No action on
on John T. Moir, who headed the Ha--
! Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff.
w r. Harrington moved the report
be adopted and E. H. Paris seconded.
/ w A Bowen asked if there would
be further endorsements or was the
| committee to endorse only those who
had been named by the Republican
lparty?
The chair replied that party was not
considered The gentlemen present had
lmet as merchants regardless of party
and the recommendations are made IN
the same spirit Mr.. Bowen said ne
did not know that the result would De
satisfact other candidates might
declare themselves and it would be too
late to endorse them.
The chair informed Mr.. Bowen that
there would be another meeting II the
names of the candidates warrapted II.
The meeting was on the point of ad-
| iourning when J. P. Cooke said there
had been movement made IN wal
Inl511 TO endorse a certain person for
| Governor and it had been freely stated
by those behind it that the merchants
of Honolulu had expressed wish that
the person be endorsed. So far as
he was aware This was not a correct
statement; he had not been asked his
opinion on the subject and he had been
i unable to find any other business men
who had been approached regarding an
endorsement. He therefore wished to
introduce the following resolution:
5 Whereas, It has been communicated
, to the members of this meeting that
representation were made at Wal
iluku, Maui. on Saturday, September 8,
1906 that the business men of Homo
lulu We're outspoken in the demand for
| the passage of a resolution endorsing
certain person for Governor after
the expiration of the term OF Governor
Carter; therefore be it
Resolved That the business inter-
ests of the city of Honolulu. as repre-
, sented at this meeting, has given no
expression to its preference regarding
any candidate for the next governor
ship and we regard any expression as
: fnexpedient and uncalled for at this
, time
The introducer called upon Mr.. Mac
farlane. who had been a member of
the convention, for a statement.
MACFARLANE'S VERSION.
, That gentleman said:
Il learned in Wailuku that certain
Il r
ing that he had a resolution from the
Fourth District calling for the endorse
ment of a candidate for Governor. This
SURPRISED me. for as a voter of that dis
trict and a delegate to the convention,
| T should have been notified of the in
tended movement. I Immediately call
ed a caucus of the delegation from the
Fourth and stated to the delegates that
[ had attended a meeting of the mer-
chants only a few days ago and no
such action had been taken, nor as far
as 1 was aware contemplated. We de-
cided to stand by the resolution if 1t
was presented but not all of the mem
bers of the caucus voted
FARRINGTON'S STATEMENT.
= Mr.. Harrington then took the floor
and said: 1T seems to me there is no
use of referring to a certain party
in YOUR remarks nor in the resolution
/ know to whom you refer and l desire
to make a complete statement of the
matter as far as / was connected with
II. I have been accused of doing un-
derhand politics at the convention IN
: Wailuku. The resolution referred to
was TO have been introduced by John
c. Lane I dot not want to mlsiead
this committee relative to the man, lie
read me a resolution endorsing Henry
F Cooper for Governor and said ne
would present it at the convention He
told me that certain men had been can
vassed and it was all right to intro
duce it. wish to state personally
that I have a great regard for MI
Cooper and would like to see him GOV
ernor, I believe he would make good
; Governor I wish to say. however, that
am not against Carter. 1 worked Tor
fonr hours in the committee to prevent
his administration being condemned
and was one Of those who decided 10
accent the compromise section endors-
ing the administration, leaving ms
name out, rather than have the con-
vention condemn him. l think Mr.
Macfarlane will bear me out in this
"I saw John Lane at Wailuku in ref
erence to his resolution and he tod
me- he had referred it to Kuhio VINO
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