The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-22

CONTEST

now holding certificates of election.
The same is true if the vote of the
fourteenth precinct of the Fifth is
thrown out.
the respondent, Mayor.elect Fern, will
present their side on these questions
this morning.
When the Supreme Court, with Judge
De Bolt sitting in place of Justice Bal
lou, assembled yesterday morning to
take up the mayoralty contest, Chief
Justice Hartwell stated that Justice
Wilder, since the decision of the court
the other day overriding the demurrer
of the respondent to the petition, had
written out his dissenting opinion, and
he, the Chief Justice, had been very
much impressed with it, and had he
had it TO read before delivering the
opinion of the court it might have mod
fled his own opinion.
The examination of the individual
petitioners as to the information they
had as to irregularities and fraud on
which they based their action in sign
ing the petition, was then begun. Not
all the petitioners were present, but ac-
tivity in serving subpoenas as well as
the news spread from mouth to mouth
brought them all in during the day.
The Great Source of information.
cit appeared from the testimony of
these thirty.six men that Nagaran Fer
nandez, James Kulike, and Frank Ber-
lehman were the chief sources of infor-
nation, while Naone was the primary
authority for most of the information
and belief as to the too ornate crosses
which certain Haaulu voters had put on
their ballots. James Kulike seems to
have been the principal authority as
to the alleged irregularities of Willie
Crawford in the fourteenth precinct of
the fifth, and Bertelmann as to the Wal
: kane and other Koolau precincts. But
: Nagaran Fernandez, according to the
, overwhelming testimony, was the most
active agent in disseminating this infor-
nation. One after another of these
petitioners testified that they knew lit
!, tie but what Nagaran told them. In a
| large number of cases it appeared that
Nagaran told the petitioner all or most
of what the petitioner knew concerning
the matter. and having thus Informed
him and induced belief in the infor.
| nation, Nagaran would ask them to
II sign and swear to the petition on infor
nation and belief.
The Fishmarket Fountain.
Even in other cases where a peti
tioner had heard of the matters alleged
in. the petition-at the fshmarket, FOL
one place, that seems to have been 6
very fountain of learning on the sub
jsct-and con the Streets and "fron
I. the, politicians" which were testified
0 to as being the sources or springs o,
! Information, the origin of the informa
a ton could be traced back to Fernandez
. Jack Read Paper.
F. w. Macfaarlane and H. M. vol
Holt got their information in the meet
d ings of the Republican Central Com
h mittee, Jack Atkinson reading papei
|. on the subject there on one occasion
John Hughes said that he had heart
many things from many people IL
single person whom he could state a
the source of any particular informa
= ton, although he had heard Nagaral
Fernandez on the subject.
P. w. Burns frankly admitted tina
q he had neither information nor belle
!, concerning the irregularities and frau
charged in the petition. but he ha
s heard that Lane had been defeate
Z, unfairly, and he thought if he had h
4 ought to have another chance, so h
signed the petition.
70 Mephistopheles Willie Crawford.
. james Kulike, whose name heads tn
list of the petitioners, gave the mos
is direct testimony as information o
II Irregularities. His is the fourteenth o
the Fifth. He said that Crawford ha
y offered to bet him that Achi woul
"a win in the precinct. Crawford ha
s. been within the polling place as cler
is all day. He had kept the official tall
=, during a part of the count, until hi
." eyes failed him, and in tallying tina
I'd he feigned to mark tally for Ian
IN when in fact he did not so mark i
ID Crawford has also spoken to four {
five Chinese voters in Chinese as the
- came up vote. Kulike asked one of IL
30 Chinese, as he came out of the boot
what Crawford had said to him and Il
Chinese had replied that he sal
or "Don' It forget our bald.headed frier
It, Cathcart; he is the only one a
IN working for On another occasit
n. during the day, according to Kulils
fit Crawford had announced his partisa
ship for Cathcart.
n The court began the afternoon sc
sion early, one o'clock. On the
in assembling of the court at that hol
Ut Chief Justice Hartwell announced tn
the court was ready to hear argume
IA on the three propositions of law tn
ne have been mentioned above, but bo
AZ sides suggested that as the petitione
Ve were all in court, it would save the
% time and convenience them il TIN
ua were examined now to whatever exte
ne the court desired them examined. I'll
I'M suggestion was acted on. One of t
ne petitioners testified to hearing tn
ny votes in one of the Koolau precirc
=. which had been improperly marked +