The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-20

bore their honors without talking
They were nervous behind the foot
lights
The four Senatorial nominees. Boyd,
| Henriques, Hughes and Quinn, received
their share Of the applause. Boyd and
Hughes made short talks, Quinn ko-
/ kuaed and Henriques kept still.
| The eleven named for House honors
| from the Fourth lined up across the
platform and did their stunts. one
after another making short speeches.
| This was FIST appearances for Cohen.
Single and one or two others. and
| they were cheere3 accordingly, the
cheers for Shingle drowning the chair
| man s best effort with his maliet.
The Fifth lineup was big aud had
to stand two deep, there being thir-
teen in alt Willie Crawford raised a
| cry of q seven-eleven when he rolled
| up on the platform. The ma fority sup
plemented their pledges with short
| speeches. Crawford and Hipa did the
comedy part of the business.
Ballottag for Mayor.
The crucial moment of the conven-
ton, when the ballots for Mayor were
to be marked, came at d quarter to
nine, the announcement of Chairman
| Judd that M K. Hull, John Marcal
limo and w. F. Drake would be APP
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.
It was three-quarters of an hour
from the time the ballot-box was pro-
duced until the last delegate had come
out from the ay-scene voting booth
with his marked mayoralty ballot.
There had been neither delay nor con-
fusion, either, and only few enthus
iastic delegates had spoiled their bal
lots and were forced to get new ones.
The count of the ballots cast before
checking off showed that out Of pos
sible full convention Of 245 there had
been 243 votes, making 122 necessary
for choice.
The first ballot paper opened was for
Lane, and this was regarded as happy
augury by his supporters, and there
were remarks of satisfaction from the
Lane wing. Evenly between the three
the names voted for were read out by
Announcer Mareallino. When the first
sixty were out of the box, the vote
stood Lane 90, Lucas 90, Hustace 20. /
1t was a tie at the end Of 150 and the |
final count stood:
Lane, 90; Hustace, "a; Lucas, 50.
A second ballot was necessary, and
Chairman Judd called for it at once. |
Buffandeau suggested a 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 |
a 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 a 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 |
a vote for Lucas, inasnuch Is 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
Delegations | have come before you
as a candidate and | find that / am
weak Now for the good of the party,
I want to withdraw, if my friends are
willing. I want to say that after the
talk here today I have not had a fair
deal Now, / want you to support the
man whom | consider the better of the
two left in the field. Gentlemen, I
have treated you Hawaiians fairly. I
have two months more to serve on the
Board of Supervisors. and I want to
tell you that I will be fair until my
term is up with the Hawaiians on that
Board and with the heads of depart
ments. / will serve my term out, but
after January l next you will never
find Charley Hustace running for any
thing again in the Territory Of Ha-
wall.
Returning to the platform again. he
added: ~ will take it as a personal
favor if those voting for me will cast
their votes for Mr. John Lucas
ChilIingworth said: 81 have been
John c. Lane in his candi-
dacy for Mayor We have been trying
to play the game fair and I submit
that it is net fair to John c. Lane
that any remarks that have been made
by Prince Cupid here today should be
held against John c. Lane I am sorry
that anything has been said that of
tends any here. John Lane after the
nominations went out and shook hands
with Charley Hustace, and he has been
fair. Nothing that has been said by
Prince Cupid should, in fairness, be
held against Lane
Then. on motion of G. T, Crahha tha