The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-07-29
HOW THE VOTE
WAS BROUGHT IN
Liquor Men Hustled and the Anti.
Saloon Workers Had Much
to DO at Home.

and byways and gathered them in
the lame, the halt and the blind, the
drunk and the sober, the poor and tho
poorer, Hawaiian, haole, Portuguese,
Porto Rican-every man who was
known to be opposed to the suppression
Of the saloon and the elimination of
the liquor evil, and they packed them
to the polls in automobiles and hacks.
They issued street car tickets by the
hundred. They did everything imagin-
able to get the anti-prohibition voter
to the voting place and have him reg
ister his vote against clean town.
The liquor people spent money like
water-or booze-to get out their vot.
ers. And they got them out. No less
than thirty automobiles were chartered
for the day aud all day long during the
time the polls were open the machines
were kept racing through the city get.
ting out the wet vote. And they got
it out, too.
The prohibitionists, on the other
hand, took no measures whatever for
getting their voters to the polls They
did not have a single hack or automo-
bile. 1t was left to the voter and his
conscience as to whether or not he
should go to his voting place and put
himself on record as opposed to the
perpetuation of the saloon in Hawaii
Every polling place in Honolulu fair
ly swarmed with representatives of
, the liquor interests, who were there to
see that no wet vote was allowed to
, escape and no dry vote registered until
after the voter had been pleaded with
[ begged and entreated to cast ballot
toward enabling the saloon keepers to
[ continue to take away the money,
health and happiness of the Hawaiian
race
1t is doubtful if there was a saloon
, keeper, a bartender or a spittoon wiper
in Honolulu who was not busy at the
, polls all day long working in behalf of
the booze interests. Every vote was
} carefully watched. A close tally was
kept of the balloting and the liquor
interests watchers knew at any moment
almost to man who in each precinct
had voted and what votes might still
be brought out through the lure of o
free automobile ride. And many a man
who never before rode in an automobile
, sou plOhuiJ O1 lhG lOabhSlH CuoulOuo VI
fast driven machine hired by the
, liquor dealers campaign committee.
Prohibition watchers, on the othei
hand, were as scarce as hens teetl
about the polls. A tour of most of tn,
} voting places failed to locate a singl,
man wearing the blue ribbon. TIL,
} liquor people had things all their owl
way. Their organization, directed a
e it was by one of the shrewdest lawyer
5 in Honolulu, was perfect and effective
} The voting in the morning was yer,
slow and it looked up to three o'clocl
i as if the vote polled would be yer,
= light But toward the middle of tn
\ afternoon the strenuous efforts of tn,
liquor men began to tell. The automo
D biles went faster and arrived more FIRE
quently at the voting booths, to dis
4 charge their loads of wet voters anC
\ scurry away again to pick up others
The votes began to roll up fast anC
, when the polls closed at five O'Clock al
L extremely heavy vote had been pOlleC
on this island. On the other Islands
however, the vote fell considerably be
low the expectations of the liquor PEG
pie. Probably it was harder to get
automobiles outside Honolulu in which
to carry the electorate to the polls.
All the voting places were very quie
[ all day. There was little or no troubl,
and the police had nothing to do. Elk
} cept for the automobiles charging
noisily up and away again, there wa
e nothing to disturb the almost Sunda!
quiet.
i The Busy Link.
4 Link McCandless, the Land Locked
aspirant for congressional hOnors, wa
4 the busiest little ray of sunshine to b,
seen around Honolulu yesterday. Linl
4 was all smiles, teeth and handshakes
Beaming like the little god Billikin, h,
4 hurried from booth to voting boot
that he might grasp the horny hand o
j the honest voter, tell him how much h
loved him, inquire tenderly concerning
D the health of the wife and babies, anc
drop a mild suggestion into more o.
less receptive ear that along about mex
November it would be greatly appre
} ciated if the honest voter would one,
more walk up to the polls and east 1
L vote for one Lincoln l.. McCandless TO
Delegate to Congress.
Link was everywhere. He fairl.
, overlooked with love for his br0the
man and was eager to let a few drop
of it trickle on all he met, particular,
those who exercise the proud right O
! franchise.
: Incidentally, Link voted early if no
! often. He was the first man to cast hi
vote in the thirteenth precinct of tn,
D fifth district.
Link wasn't the only political as
D pirant who was more interested in hi
own chances than in the wet or dr.
y question. There was Joe Fern, tn
handsome, dignifed and erudite presid
4 ing officer of the city government AnC
likewise there was one Bill Jarrett, a
4 present sheriff of the county and cage
to succeed himself. Link, Joe and Bill
j Travelled together in the chugbubbl
rented by Fern to hasten his move
r ments and increase his dignity and i'm
s portance. The three hiked SWIFTLY
I from one voting place to another, ant
> they must have worn corns on thei
- right hands grasping the luneh-hook
. of the electorate