The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-18

ance of the candidacy upon him.
Shingles candidacy for the House was
| also unanimously endorsed The dele.
gates decided against the unit rule in
the voting and decided also to move
for the adoption of a voting rule in
convention whereby the precinct votes
will be announced by the various chair
men as the roll of precincts is called.
This will give each delegate an indie
pendent vote and will also allow the
voting to be done quickly as well as
openly. For the precinct chairman,
Single was elected. The sentiment
expressed at this meeting was for work
for clean, strong ticket.
Seventh of Fourth.
In this precinct a number of candi-
dates were endorsed, these being: Su,
pervisor, A. H. R. Vieira; Sheriff, Car
los Long; Auditor, BickneIl; County
Clerk, Kalauokalani; Treasurer, Harry
Won Holt; Senator, E. w. Quinn, and
Representatives, A. d. Castro and John
IKamanoulu. As in the Fourth Precinct,
Ithe meeting took no action on the
Mayoralty nor the County Attorney
ship, although the hone was expressed
that a suitable candidate might be
found for the latter Office.
Eleventh of Fifth.
A caucus in the Eleventh of the
Fifth resulted in S. P. Correa being en-
dorsed as a candidate for the House.
Ed Henriques for the Senate and Viii
liam Paikui as a Supervisor.
Ninth of Fifth.
Henriques also received endorsement
in the Ninth of the Fifth last night,
that precinct delegation also endorsing
Paikuli, Wise, Cathcart, Bicknell, Ka-
lauokalani and Won Holt for the various
positions for which they are candidates.
Convention Organization.
1t is generally expected that while
the convention will be a warm one
that all the business will be concluded
in the one day, even if the clock has
to be stopped to prevent business rum
ming after midnight into Sunday 1t
is settled that A. S. Kaleiopu will call
the convention to order and appoint
the committees. while A. T. Judd, who
is from the Fifth, will probably be
chosen permanent chairman.
The convention viii meet at nine
o clock and get busy Immediately, the
district caucuses to be held while the
are celebrating. There
will be fight over the manner of vot>
ing. but it is pretty certain that the
voting booths used last time will not
be required There will be some to
come out for open voting by delegates,
others will insist on the secret ballot,
while the majority will probably be in
favor of the vote by precincts, ballot
ing among themselves and having their
chairmen announce the results. This
will save a good deal of time.
There will be no general caucus of
district delegations tonight but many
Of the precinct clubs will have meet
Ings.
Today promises to see more and
warmer politics going on than has ever
been before the case in Honolulu, even
On the eve Of an election.
In the meanwhile, while the Repub-
leans are struggling with each other,
he Democrats are working away as
earnestly and as quietly as ever, max |
ng no announcements and little noise |
,ut saving up nice little pile of wood. |
The Labor Meetings,
Little was heard yesterday from Acht |
md his following of their meetings the
previous night. There was mighty lit !
lie, in fact, for them to boast about,
he total number attending the meet
ngs being less than two hundred in all
he city. while some of these were
present as runners for the other parties.
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