The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-02-05
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elective office to be placed in nomina-
ton through the primary.
Primary elections to be held at regu-
'lar polling places in each precinct on
the second Saturday of September pre-
ceding the general elections in Nov
ember thirty days notice 10 be given
the county clerks of the offices for
which candidates are to be nominated,
and the same notice of the places
where the voting will be held in each
precinct.
All candidates for nomination to be
nominated at the primary by nomina-
ton papers, to be signed as follows:
For Delegate to Congress, by twenty
| five electors; for either branch of the
Legislature, by fifteen electors, and for
| county offices, by ten electors, the one
so nominated to accept in writing.
Electors to sign only the nomination
papers of men of their own political
party.
Non-partisan candidates to be NOM
mated in the same manner.
| The names of those SO nominated to
be printed on the official ballot of their
own party, all the ballots to be Of the
same color. Each voter to be given one
! ballot of each of the parties repre-,
scented, only one of which he must
mark, the blank ballots to be returned
to the judge of election and ultimately
destroyed.
The law applying to general cleo
ton to apply as far as practicable to
the primary election.
No candidate to appear on more than
one ticket, and in case of nomination
by two parties must choose the ticket
on which he wishes his name to ap-
pear. 'pt
Only qualified electors to be allowed
to vote at the primary. y
SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.
One of the changes proposed by
Chairman Robertson in the bill - Of
which the above is a brief outline is to
have each elector declare his party
allegiance and be given only that ball
lot. This would give the County Clerk
list of the members of each party,
desirable thing in the opinion of Mr.
Robertson. 70
The suggestion brought Judge Archie
Mahaula to his feet. Such a thing, he
declared, would destroy the secrecy of
the ballot. What was to become of the
man who wanted to vote a split tick
ct? A voter would surrender his in
dependence under such law, which,
had it been in effect, would have elect
ed Brown as Sheriff, and then where
would Iaukea have come in?
The judge was greatly excited and 1t
took the combined eloquence Of Far
r!ngton, Ballentyne and w. o. Smith
to head him off. The matter was f.
nally laid over for a week, during which
time it is expected that the public
would be heard from in the matter.
WATERWORKS PLANK A MISTAKE
In the opinion of Mr.. Ballentyne the
platform committee at Wailuku erred
in placing the plank regarding the
transferring of the waterworks system
to the county. At the present time the
Oahu system was conducted at loss
of $4,000 a month and an additional
$4,000 month would be needed to carry
on the necessary construction and up
keep of the system. In view Of the
loss of revenue to the county in the
matter of income tax he thought that
the county was not prepared to accept
| the burden. especially as the people
now received all the benefits they could
receive, even if they did own the sys-
TEN. In placing the plank in the party
platform and pledging the party candi-
dates to carry it out, he thought that
the convention did not know the exact
state of affairs.
Mr.. Harrington said that the plank
had been put in to make a test of the
| power of the Territory to turn over to
the counties property the title of which
was now vested in the Federal govern
ment. He thought the sooner the test
was made the better.
HUGHES IN HONOR BOUND.
Representative John Hughes said
| that the fact that the waterworks
were now run at a loss was the
strongest argument why they should
be turned over to the county. He
thought that better management would
show better results. He had studied
the question and thought that the
transfer would be for the benefit of all
concerned.
Il was elected on that platform and
pledged my word of honor to carry out
every plank in 1t to the best of my
ability. / feel myself in honor bound
| TO do it,
This precipitated another discussion.
the words of Hughes, as quoted at the
| beginning of this article, introducing
the high-lift pump and discussion OF
the virtues of reservoir system.
Eventually the matter was laid over to
be threshed out to a conclusion at some
future meeting.
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