The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-25

| paign which began last night was re
| moved at meeting of some of the
members of the various Fourth District
] clubs at noon yesterday. The Johnson
! Lane dissension had been spreading
until it was becoming epidemic and it
i was to save the party from defeat that
the meeting was decided upon and a
! plan of campaign that would have the
/ appearance of peace, if not the real
thing.
THE FIGHT IS PAU.
Territorial Committeeman Robertson
acted as chairman and few minutes
after noon he called for order and an
nouneed that the committee Were ready
to report This was conference COM
/ mittee composed of w. w. Harris,
Harry Murray and Representative
/ Quinn from the Fourth and Senator
| Lane and H c. Vida of the Fifth. Mr..
| Harris read the report which gave to
| the Fourth the right to nominate two
| Supervisors for the District of Homo
| lulu and one Supervisor at Large On
| the county Llckel the fourln SHOULD
name the Sheriff, County Attorney and
the County Clerk. The Fifth will be
allowed to name one Supervisor. for the
District of Honolulu. Treasurer and
a Deputy Sheriff. Besides these, there
will be four outside Supervisors to be
named by voters of the Fifth living
out of town. Candidate for Auditor
will be selected in the convention. The
report was more than was expected,
for the chair did not suppose that the
matter of nominations for county Off
GERS other than that of Supervisor
would be gone into. He SO stated and
then called upon the different precincts
for an opinion.
Mr.. Lucas did not see why there
should be any concession made by the
Fourth District when the majority of
votes came from there. He said there
was a bit of nonsense in giving the
Fourth the right to name a County
Clerk when the man who now holds the
office would be elected over any can
Gidate the convention might name.
Murray reminded the speaker that
the names of individuals had not been
mentioned by the committee; it was
the detail of the arrangement that /
would have to be decided upon. |
Mr. Harris favored the report and
thought it was up to the Fourth to
concede. He considered the matter of
the elective officers fair one and
hoped the report would be adopted as
it meant that the party would pull to-
gether and elect their men.
Mr.. Robertson said this meeting
could not pledge the convention, but
could recommend this plan to the dele
gates
Col. Jones said if the plan was agree
able to those present they could give
the report their assistance, which
should have an effect. I'VE can not
bind anyone who is not present. said
the Colonel, land we should not act
hastily. The report should be consid-
cred in all Of it's phases. The Fourth
District has majority of votes and
it wants all that belongs to it without
encroaching upon the rights of the
Fifth. We should go slowly and do
nothing hastily or without the full
representation of the different precinct
clubs.
FAVORABLE TO THE REPORT.
The chair said again that the report
had gone beyond the expectations of
the committee and he wanted to know
if it would pass if the Fourth should
nominate a candidate who could get no
support from the Fifth. Would the
Fifth be obliged to abide by any such
action?
Jones said the report had better be
referred to the district committee as
caucus The report, while not bind
ing. will have it's weight.
Mr.. Hustace, chairman of the county
said he wanted his COM
tIfttee recognized or put out of exist
ence. He believed this report should
go to them and be referred back. If
his committee was to have no influence
there was no use in electing another. ! ,
Mr.. Ziegler said he would advocate
the best man in his precinct and he
did not believe he should tie himself
TO any candidate that was not a suit
able person for the position. Mr.. Lucas
followed with the assurance that if
good man was put up in the conven-
ton he would vote for him; otherwise
he would not
BACK TO PRECINCTS
A majority of the precinct represen- ,
tatives were in favor of adopting the {
report and a motion TO that effect was {
offered, but before the chair put it Mr..
Lucas moved that the report be re- :
TERED to the different precincts at the
meeting in the evening. ;
The amendment was accepted by the y
mover and carried. The meeting then
adjourned
Sam Johnson seemed satisfied with :
the report and the result of the meet
ing. it leaves him out of the Fifth and
free to put his men to work in the
Fourth to do as he may bid. The po
lice machine and the road machine
will probably work in harmony from I
now on to election. The status of Vida I
does not seem to have changed and /
the men who openly opposed his can
didacy before this meeting are as de- a
ever to work for his de- I
feat in the primaries. Lane says his l
men are standing like a stonewall for
him in the Fifth and that the Fourth ;
can not defeat him for the nomination