The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-08-18


ing on the matter now and on Tuesday
next, at a meeting of the committee. II
will be decided what will be done. John
Emmeluth, secretary of the Territorial
Central Committee, so stated last night.
The matter is to be forced into the
courts on injunction proceedings, to be
brought against the County Clerk. This
is to enjoin him from issuing the notice
of election under the new municrpsr
law, which, it will be claimed, is null
and void. The injunction will be
brought in the name of some taxpayer,
who will claim that the official is about
to bring about an expense on the county
unlawfully.
There is another way in which the
matter could be tested, that is by
bringing mandamus proceedings against
the Board of Supervisors to compel
them to give notice of election under
the old County Act provisions, claiming
that by not doing so the members have
entered into conspiracy to retain their
offices for the next two years without
contest.
If the test is allowed to 90 until
after the election nnder the municipal
law is held and that law was then de-
clared uncOnstitutiona1 or defective the
effect would be that the present Board
of Supervisors and the heads of the
county departments who are elected
would keep in office until January, 1911,
as the terms of the County Act would
come again into force and under them
the elected officials would retain office
until their successors were elected and
had qualified. This would be a severe
blow to those who had gone through the
heat and burden of the fray, as it was
when under n somewhat similar case
against the County Act, the elected or.
ficials found themselves out of office
after a ten.day sample.
The Democrats are planning to at.
tack the municipal law from severai
sides. They win claim ambiguity IN
construction as regards the qualifca.
tions of voters. the clauses dealing with
this being so framed as to apparently bar
some voters qualified under the general
acts; they will claim unconstitutionality
in that the citizens of the county, the
ones most affected by the law, were not
consulted in any way before the law
was passed. and there are other points
in the act supposed to be vulnerable.
McCANDLEsS, TIE SILENT.
|
ment manifested at and after the Demo
cratic meeting at Aala Park on Thurs.
day because Link McCandless failed to
speak. There were large number or
his former Republican running mates at
the park on purpose to hear the Demo
cratic convert in his first address from
a Democratic platform. Among these
was Delegate Kuhio, present to have a
sample of the ammunition that is to be
used against him on the stump next
month. McCandless refused to come
up, however, in spite of the requests
of the chairman of the meeting and the
calls for him from the crowd. Smiling,
| ly he kept his seat, evidently preferring
to let his money continue to talk for
him for the time being.
| 1t is said, with a show of authority,
that the Democratic leaders are not al
together pleased at Link S insistence to
run for Delegate. AS matter of fact
the wisest among the party would pre-.
fer to allow the Delegateship to go by
default to Kuhio, even to head their
ticket with Kuhio and confine their
energies to fighting for Legislature and
county tickets. 1t has been suggested
that if the convention came out ahead
of the Republican convention with an
endorsement of Kuhio it would gain the
party strength all over the Territory
for their local candidates. 1t is recog-
nized pretty generally by all but ono
man that McCandless has no possible
show to beat Cupid in the race and il
has been suggested to him more or less
bluntlv that he would do better for
himself and for the party he has af.
| filiated with if he would cut down his
ambition to Territorial Senate size and
make that run.
McCandless. of course, hates to see it
that way, but the Indications are be.
ginning to multiply that he is getting
ready to tumble. He has pulled in his
financial horns, stopped paying carfare
for his runners and generally getting
out from under.
1T Is ALL KUHIO'S.
George r. Carter would like to be
the Hawaiian Delegate, but it is GER
tain that he will not make any attempt
to beat Kuhio to the nomination. He
has said that so long as Cupid wanted
the job he might have it, so far as he
/ (Carter) was concerned.
This will leave Kuhio IS election and
nomination sort of triumphal march,
| BECAUSE, ultHoupn JHere may DC great
deal of truth in the stories of Demo-
cratic gains from some OF the other
islands, there has been mighty little
detection from the supporters of the
present Delegate.
HARVEY IS GAIN IN FAVOR.
There was general approval express
ed about the streets yesterday of the
stand made by Frank Harvey against
the drawing of the color line in the
present campaign in his speech on
Thursday night, a speech which has
thrown the colorline advocates and tn,
vote'tTaders into confusion. Until Har
vey so publicly announced that there
had been a widespread plot among Q
certain number to unite on straigh
Hawaiian basis, thus confirming every
thing that has been said on the subjee
during the past three weeks by the Ad
yertiser, there We're many who werr
> loath to think that the agitation wa
anything more than is usual in tn,
J. early days of elections. Harvey's de
nouncement of the move settled an,