The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-10-20
FA|RCH|LO HAS
C|NCH ON kauai

The Supreme Court yesterday render.
ed decision in the mandamus proceed
ing of John s. Chandler against Secre.
tary f.. A. Mott-Smith to compel the lat
ter to receive bis nomination papers and
place his name on the official ballot.
The Secretary had refused to do so be-
cause the nomination was not rendered
to him until Monday, October 5, while
the Secretary, and now the Supreme
Court, holds that Sunday, October 4,
was the last day on which such nomi-
nations could be fled according to the
| law.
| The court holds that the act requiring
nominations to he fled not, less than
thirty days before an election is not in
conflict with the Organic Act and is
valid.
| As there was no dispute as to the
facts, the principal point to be decided
was how the thirty days mentioned in
the statute were to be counted. The
Supreme Court held in accordance with
previous decisions that if the nomina-
ton was fled on Monday, October 5,
it would only leave twenty-nine days
before the election, when the statute
requires thirty.
This upholds Secretary Mott.Smith
and knocks out Chandler as a candi-
date. The result is that George II.
Fairchild is the only nominee for Sen
ator from the Island of Kauai, and his
election, if nothing unforeseen happens,
is foregone conclusion.
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conditions, he said that Hawaii was
cursed with that mother of all monop-
olies, the monopoly of land; because
land is the source of wealth, the pri-
mary element of all production, and
that the only radical remedy for this
evil is the abolition of the local land
laws which foster this land monopoly
He said that the Republican party
into whose hands the people had given
! the whole power of the government
had done nothing to make the public
J lands of this Territory accessible to It's
J citizens.
He claimed that in declaring openly
: and frankly for the abolition of the
present despotic land laws and the ap
plication of the principles of the land
, laws of the United States to this Ter
: ritory, to the end that the public lands
5 may be held and utilized for the ben
: eft of bona fide homesteaders, tn,
! Democratic party has shown itself t,
/. be not merely nominal democracy
G but real democracy.
: eff the people of this Territor,
e want proper representation at Wash
ington," said he, "they will neve
r, get it by electing a man who is s.
t. fenced by party authority and muzzle
/, by the party of special privilege. LIE
3 them elect man who is untrammele
by these influences who will not b
e dictated to, nor bow to the omnipoten
g their needs. He felt, therefore, tina
;. he could truly represent the great bod
n of the people, those who work flo
e their living, better than either of HI
# competitors. neither of whom had ha
d that intimate knowledge with toll an
d with the workaday life that he hat
# At the same time he had learned bus
# ness. and without boasting could sa
Il that he was business man and coul
m as truly represent the business int
% ests of the community as either of h
70 competitors. He promised that
elected he would strive to serve til
whole community honestly and wit
the whole of his ability.
le Ii. II. Moore, candidate for Senate
20 spoke particularly of the plank in IL
n, platform of the party which pledge
he the party to work to open the So
o. fisheries of the Islands to the citizeI
a of the country. He thought when til
in was accomplished that something Dug
ID to be done to protect by law Il
ne fishes from indiscriminate fishing, al
I'd this the Democratic party would do.
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