The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-09-22

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speeches. Crawford and Hipa did the
comedy part of the business.
Balloting for Mayor.
The crucial moment of the conven-
ton, when the ballots for Mayor were
| to be marked, came at n quarter to
nine, the announcement of Chairman
Judd that NJ. X. Hull, John Marcal-
limo and w. +. Drake would be ap.
pointed judges of election and that the
balloting would proceed being received
with satisfaction.
Charley Clark wanted to have his
delegation voted in full strength, al
though two members were absent and
there were no proxies for them. Judd
ruled against him and refused to argue
the point, although Clark quoted chap
ter and verse of the rules to uphold
his contention.
Lane Led on First Ballot.
1t was three quarters of an hour
| from the time the ballot.box was pro.
duced until the last delegate had come
| out from the fly-scene voting booth
with his marked mayoralty ballot.
There had been neither delay nor con-
fusion, either, and only a few enthus-
iastic delegates had spoiled their bal
lots and were forced to get new ones.
The count of the ballots east before
| checking off showed that out of pos.
| sible full convention of 245 there had
been 243 votes, making 122 necessary
| for a choice.
| The first ballot paper opened was for
Lane, and this was regarded as happy
augury by his supporters, and there
we're remarks of satisfaction from the
Lane wing. Evenly between the three
the names voted for were read out by
Announcer Marcallino. When the first
sixty were out of the box, the vote
stood. Lane 80, Lucas 20, Hustace 20.
1t was a tie at the end of $50, and the
final count stood:
Lane, 90; Hustace, Ga; Lucas, SO.
A second ballot was necessary, and
Chairman Judd called for it at once.
Buffandeau suggested way to save
time. but it was not accepted, it being
decided by the chair that it was better
to be sure, though slow, than swift with
chance for confusion and possibly
worse.
Lane and Lucas Gain.
On the second ballot, which stood,
Lane 113, Lucas 90, Hustace 81, it
could be seen that Lane had made The
most substantial gain, although Lucas
pushed his total eight ahead of his
first effort. When the ballots first be.
gan to come it looked like Lane
landslide, but Lucas evened at one
stage, and then again, when the votes
were nearing an end, it was seen that
vote for Hustace was going to be
vote for Lucas, inasmuch as it kept
him from losing on the ballot.
Voting for the third time started
without any delay, Lane having fallen
nine short of majority. A halt was
called, however, and Hustace asked
leave to address the convention.
Hustace withdraws.
,"Mr. Chairman and Members of this
Delegation: / have come before you
as a candidate and I find that I am
|, weak. Now, for the good of the party,
want to withdraw, if my friends are
willing. / want to say that, after the
; talk here today l have not had fair
deal. Now, l want you to support the
man whom I consider the better of the
two left in the field. Gentlemen, /
have treated you Hawaiians fairly. I
have two months more to serve on the
: Board of Supervisors, and / want to
tell you that will be fair until my
5 term is up with the Hawaiians on that
Board and with the heads of depart
ments. / will serve my term out, but
after January next you win never
: find Charley Hustace running for any
thing again in the Territory of Ha-
: waii.'
: Returning to the platform again, he
g added: 81 will take it as personal
! favor if those voting for me will cast
their votes for Mr.. John Lucas.
Chilingworth said: ~ have beer
supporting John G. Lane in his candi
i dacy for Mayor. We have been trying
to play the game fair and / submit
that it is not fair to John c. Lane
that any remarks that have been mad,
! by Prince Cupid here today should b,
t held against John G. Lane / am sorry
t that anything has been said that of
!, tends any here. John Lane after tn,
nominations went out and shook hand
y with Charley Hustace, and he has beer
fair. Nothing that has been said b,
il country delegates objected, and on I
vote the motion was losr. rs
Judd called for business to proceed
the choice of Supervisors being next
III Smith consulted his watch, announce,
,t that any business done on Sunday wa
r. illegal and removed his motion. I
10 was again lost, standing vote bein
~ called for
u The rules were suspended at thi
iuncture to allow Kanekoa to take til
oath of allegiance to the party, he ha,
n ing been away when the other cand
- dates for the House qualified. Ami
u many warnings not to make a speecl
It, Kanekoa affirmed his Discrimination
I'd knife.
Supervisorial Choice. III
The vote on the ballot for the count
as officers, which was taken on ballot
printed on yellow paper for some O.
hd cult reason, resulted as follows:
SIS One Vote for Supervisors.
Balloting on supervsorial tick,
was next taken up, the process of va
he ing and counting being slow and wear
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