The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-06

ant United States District Attorney w.
| T. Rawlins defeated the Buffandeau-
| Makalena- -Catchcart scheme to keep him
out, and goes to the convention, but
the slate practically won out otherwise.
This was largely due to the machine
and underhand politics resorted to to
defeat the good party nominees opposed
to the Buffandeau wing. Mr.. Rawlins
discovered the scheme to defeat not
only himself, but the entire opposition
to Cathcart and Buffandeau, and this
feature doubles back on Buffandeau,
who is not only president of the pre-
cinct club, but is assistant secretary of
the County Committee. 1t was his wing
which worked out this move against Mr.
Rawlins, for when the nomination meet
ing was held a week ago, President
Buffandeau, in endeavoring to keep
Rawlins' name off the list in vain,
snapped out: ''Well, / tell you, Raw
Inns, YOU won't get elected, that IS all. -
The executive committee, or, at least,
a part of it, headed by Makalena, was
entrusted by Buffandeau with getting
out the official ballot for yesterdays
election. Those ballots, supposed to be
guarded and placed in the hands of the
election judges, were tampered with,
according to evidence secured by show
ing that extra official ballots were used
by the Makalena faction beforehand,
marked off with the Bufandeau slate,
and given to the Hawaiians of the Wal
alae, Moiliili and Pawaa sections to-
vote direct These ballots they were
to place in the ballot-box, retaining the
new ballots unmarked, as they were re-
ceived from the judges, to be given out
side to others, so that these could be
marked and voted by waiting voters.
1t was rotation scheme. This is the
manner Ia which the Buffandeau fac
tion secured it's high percentage. or
votes, but the man directly aimed at
for defeat was elected, and ran only
three votes behind Makalena himself.
Mr.. .Rawlins made the following state
ment to an Advertiser representative:
"When I reached this voting place at
twenty minutes to . o'clock this after
noon, which was twenty minutes before
the ballot-boxes were open for business,
a Hawaiian came to me and asked if /
was running for the convention. /
told him / was. Then he said: I'VE
have everything fixed He pointed to
his left sleeve and said: Il have
the ticket already marked He theni
handed me the official ballot with the
slate marked on it. ] asked him where i
he got it. I Immediately called DIR. |
Whitney and another gentleman over
to witness this affair. The Hawaiian |
told me there had been a meeting of !
Palolo and Waialae in the forenoon and
the ballot had been given to him, al |
ready marked, and he was instructed to |
go to the judges and get the white bal
lot, then 90 into the voting booth and
make show of marking the regular
ballot Then. concealing the ballot re-
ceived from the judge, he was to come |
out hand the one originally marked |
in the forenoon to the judge, and then |
come outside and give up the unmark !
ed ballot to one of the crowd engaged |
in furthering this scheme.
'I got this ballot from Sam Kepano |
and he said he received it from Jack |
Ikawai. This slate was aimed at me /
particularly. Then I got another bal
lot like this one from Henry Kahiwai,
who had also received ballot markell
like Kepano's. / saw him swap bal
lots in the voting room. went to
Mr.. Pringle. judge of election, and
asked him who handled the official bal
lots, and he said he got them from
Buffandeau I went to Buffandeau and
he said they had been handed to him
bv Makalena. Half an hour afterwards
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