The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-09-02
PRECINCT ROWS
IN COMMITTEES
Cooper Objects to Polling Booth
Being 100 Close TO the
Home Of BuTandeau."

There was strenuous business for the
executive committee 81 the Republican
county committee last evening and the
headquarters in he Judd building was
iammed with insurgents, regulars, IT.
regulars, protesanis, petitioners and a
half.dozen other elassifcations, not for
getting the gentlemen who represent
the brewery interests.
The third precinct of the fourth dis
trict was what first had the floor, or
rather Insurgent Cooper Of that pre-
cinct, which is the region of "oa
and downward, took the floor and held
IL for considerable time, politely but
insistently epdeavoring to get the com
mittee to take some' action in regard
to what he seemed to characterize as
an attempt on the part of the Andrews
men to get the primary polling booth
too close to the house of one Eugene
Buffandeau.
This created somewhat of laugh,
but Cooper was in deadly earnest; he
seemed to take the matter very Sc
riously. He had been informed, he said,
in fact he declared that he was moral
ly certain that there was a notice to
be printed in The Advertiser to the
effect that the polling would take place
in the little Chinese store on Bereta-
mia avenue, near Buffandeau's house,
whereas he and his fellow insurgents,
although Cooper called himself and
his MaDoa friends "regulars,' petit
toned the county executive to put a
stop to any such proposition.
Cooper contended that the Chinese
store favored his opponents. He said
he wrote letter to the precinct execu-
tive committee and that letter was ig-
nored; and he was morally certain that
the voting would not take place in the
government booth, unless, perhaps, the
county executive committee took some
immediate action. The government
booth, said Cooper, was more central
and easier to transportation
Fernandez, of the county committee,
did not see how there could be any
interference; it was matter for the
precinct to decide.
O'Neill recommended that the coun-
ty executive committee recommend to
the executive committee of the pre-
cinct that the government polling booth
be used at the primaries instead of the
Chinese store on Beretania avenue.
to elapse before the polling after the
notice had been published in the news
paper. Chairman Crabbe stated that
no notice was necessary in the first
place as far as newspaper publication
was concerned; as the matter was un-
derstood and had been regularly an
nounced. He went ON to say that it
was merely a matter of recommends
ton and that the county executive COM
mittee could not force the precinct TO
poll at any particular place.
1t is the fact that there does appear
in The Advertiser today a notice to
the effect that the voting place on Sat
urday shall be in an empty store on
Beretania avenue. This selection was
made for the reason that it is the most
convenient place for the majority Of
the members of the precinct 1t may
not be quite so handy, in their own
estimation, for persons owning automo-
biles, but since they are thus equipped
it will mean very little extra gasoline
for the auto crowd to find the Chinese
store, while for the great majority, who
have to walk or take cars, the place
officially announced will prove the more
convenient. 1t is properly equipped and
altogether the better place, in the opin-
ion of those considering the convenience
of the large majority of third precinct
voters.
Crawford wanted to know of Cooper
why a meeting of the club could not
be called and the matter fought out in
the club.
Another part of the petition was that
proofs of the ballots be furnished all
candidates. Somebody remarked that
Bon had promised proof, but that
Vivichaves evidently didn't know what
was a proof.
Chairman Crabbe delivered himself
of the sentiment that there was alto
gether too much scrapping in the pre-
cinct clubs; that it was bad for the
party "Let us have fairness ani
squareness in the precincts among the
members of the clubs,'' he said. "Thi'
squabbling is rotten"
Cohen moved that it be the recon
mendation of the executive committed
of the county committee that proofs Of
the tickets in all precincts be furnished
to all opposing parties, and this motion
was carried.
An Obnoxious Secretary.
Next on the program was a petition
from the sixth precinct Of the fourtl
district, asking that the secretary o,
CAubJ OOhh AAaNOi NC AOhAONVh. W
inquiry was made as to why the pre-
cinct didn t attend to its own bushes
in this regard, it was answered that tn
secretary sought to be deposed had tn
enrolment book and refused to let any
body have it, and there was no way o
getting at all the names in order to cal
a meeting to depose said secretary.
The petition was very prompt,
tabled.
When the Primo Flows.
Then came the scrap In the seventh
precinct of the fourth district.
II will be remembered that five gen
tlemen failed to get their names 4
nomination as candidates for delegate
TO the convention because of a Stat
made up by the executive committee o
that precinct at the last moment.
The protest received and which wa
mp for consideration, included an oh
I'll lection TO men not really members o
the precinct having things their ow
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