The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-18
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delegates In the National Convention
to express by united ballot this choice,
80 long as he remains a candidate be
fore the Convention.
AZ the opening OF ,hc afternoon ses-
sion the chair called for the report Of
the Committee on Credentials. Sec
rotary Emmeluth, reading the report
showed that there were one hundred
and eleven delegates in attendance.
There were nineteen precincts not
represented In convention After
reading in both languages, the report
was accepted.
Il. H. Trent moved to call the roll
to learn Of delegates present Mean
while the report of the Committee on
Rules and Organization was awaited .
and, while the ron was being called, .
w. A. Kinney asked permission ~ /
take out the members Of the Commit
tee on Resolutions and Platform, as nc .
wished them to go over the typewriter /
report he had prepared. Necessarily
such members were NOT present at the
roll call
! Fred Weed served as Interpreter this
afternoon, Lyons not putting IN an
appearance and Lowe passing up the
job. Freds experience served the
convention well
Attorney Watson submitted report
on Rules and Organization lie had
thought his report would be first as
his committee mad certain recommen-
dations with reference TO credentials
lie moved that the portion OF the re-
port calling for the credentials report
be stricken, as having already been
disposed Of SO ordered. Permanent
organization selection Of delegates TO
the national convention at Denver and
action in regard to a National Commit
teeman was the order Of procedure re-
commended by the committee for
which Watson reported
At this stage the name Of Fred Weed
was substituted for that Of T. b. Lyons,
formally and satisfactorily
Watson on behalf Of his committee,
named Col. c. j. Mccarthy rs per-
manent chairman G. W. Ashford
suggested to save time, adopting the
organization as a whole carrying Nc
Carthy as chairman; o. r. Shipman,
vice chairman; John Emmeluth secre-
tary and Joseph Perez, assistant sec
rotary; Fred Weed being Interpreter
Amid humping and cappng Col
Mccarthy was escorted to the chair,
> whence he declared his delight at OBJ
serving in the faces OF all the pro-
. phetic conviction that local democracy
was going to sweep everything before
= it.; and on The mainland too, there was
% q great Democratic victory. He thank
ed the convention for the honor con,
ferred upon him and introduced the
, vice chairman, o. r. Shipman, who
4 said as Mccarthy had said, that there
e would be a sweeping Democratic vic.
g tory in this territory, at the next cleo
N ton he said the Island Of Hawaii
" would 80 solid Democratic.
Waiting for a Hawaiian translation
Of the resolutions and platform com
/ millees platform, some eloquence wa'
n INDUCED in.
o j.. l.. McCandlea8, called on by the
y chairman for a speech, declared II
e effect that the people Of Hawaii SHOULD
"a demand Of the government it's rights
jt lie had brought maps to show how
much there was Of public lands that
ID citizen could get nothing Of. a planI
Re in the Eepub lean platform had calle
p for the Delegate 10 Congress TO worI
Y. for a change in the local land laws
h but nothing as yet had been heard O
x it all. At the next election delegat
VI who would get the American land LAY
system here should be sent to Wash
70 ington-so people here could &c
III homes Hero the executive actual!
Ut dared to legislate 50 that it was i'm
d1 possible for a man to get a piece {
" land and hold it, so full Of require
= ments was the Legislation arbitrarll
- applied by the executive. A man
~ moderate means, not being able
fight in the courts was showed unde
i'm Hawaii and under the present Ian
-, sya6em had no chance for a home
49, all The speaker Indignantly re-
4, ferred to the well known Lanai case
-, lie was tumultuously applauded
a. r. II. Trent, in his breezy Sunda!
ON School style, talked Of Democrats new
as dying, just getting direct transports
M ton to heaven. lie asked where II
he delegate from Lanai might be and, !
answer coming, remarked tnat stint
the government had given the enti
island to one man that one man wi
probably holding convention by hin
IT. self.
to M. po,,,rord of Mani had heard In
'as someone oueat'1ned his Democrat
el. were he not a Democrat he would n