The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-09-13
REP UBLICANS s.
NOMINATE
TICKET
John C. Lane Choice of the
Convention for Mayor
of Honolulu.
ANDREW cox FOR SHERIFF
Delegates Select Men by Secret
BaIIot-Many Sharp
Fights Occur.
cox FOR SHERIFF
JOHN @. LANE, 1873.
CHARLES HUsTAcE, JR., SO.
(From Sundays Advertiser.)


John C. Lane will head the Repub-
Iican ticket of the City and County of
Honolulu, he being nominated last night
by an overwhelming vote for mayor.
The vote in his favor stood 1885, as
against Sc for his only opponent,
Charles Hustace, Jr., who received Al
less than the number cast for Lane. A
curious fact to be noted is that there
are 1873 delegates from the fourth dis.
trict in the convention and Sc from the
fifth. This, of course, does not mean
that Lane was nominated entirely by
fourth district votes, but is merely a
curious coincidence.
1t early became apparent that the
convention was a Lane convention.
This was first demonstrated when Rob-
ert w. Breckons, an avowed and enthu-
siastic supporter, was made temporary
and then permanent chairman over w.
w. Harris, who was recognized as the
leader of the Hustace faction. AS the
convention continued its deliberations,
it became more and more evident that
Lane would have large majority when
the question of candidates for the
mayoralty came to a vote. Conse-
quently the result was not at all sur
prising, and Hustace once more had
the pleasure of moving that the nomi-
nation of John c. Lane be made unani-
NOUS.
Notwithstanding the rather tame pro-
ceedings of the opening session of Fri
day night, the deliberations of the con-
vention yesterday were not marked by
any lack of interest. In fact, they were
decidedly exciting from start to finish,
and every point advanced was sharply
contested.
The first fight yesterday occurred
over the report of the committee on
rules-and the majority of the COM
mittee was badly bumped. The ma
iority report favored the open ballot,
but the minority report, written by that
eminent and disinterested statesman,
John Wise, the agent of the liquor in
terests when he wasn't representing
some other interest that needed handy
man, was overwhelmingly adopted. The
minority report was for the secret bal
lot, and by its adoption the voters of
the city and county were shut out from
knowing whether their delegates voted
as they wanted them to or as John. Wise
or somebody else desired.
The report of this minority, however,
was not adopted without a bitter fight,
and the advocates of the open ballot
were defeated by the lack of judgment
on the part of their own leaders rather
than by the acumen of their opponents.
w. w. Harris, one of the foremost ad-
vocates of the open ballot, withdrew a
motion that would have put the ques-
ton to a test, and to make matters
worse, j. P. Cooke, fearing that the
minority report was to be adopted,
moved to make its adoption unanimous.
This shut off any decision on the merits
of the question, especially when Chair
man Breckons in putting Cooks motion
to make the adoption of the minority
report of the committee unanimous re-
fused to put the negative side of the
question, declaring the motion to make
the adoption unanimous carried with
out giving the opponents of the motion
a chance to make themselves heard.
The adoption of the minority report
rendered necessary the most cumber-
some, tiresome and entirely unsatis
factory system of voting ever seen in
any political convention. In order to
vote for candidates for mayor, the dele
gates were obliged to file up onto the
stage, receive the blank ballots from
the tellers, go to the booths to make
them, hand them to the judges and
then file down to their seats again.
Then the judges counted the ballots and
the chairman announced the result. The
system proved even more unsatisfac-
tory and cumbersome when it came to
voting for the other county officers.
After a long and sharp fight, it was
decided to put over the nomination OF
members of the legislature until next
gr.. IL. ga L. ta1 ION
shall have completed its labors and
formulated its platform. A vigorous
effort was made to have the nomina
tions of county officers also put over
until Tuesday, but this was defeated
The hardest fight of the session took
place over the nomination Of super
Visors. The long existing jealousy be-
tween the fourth and fifth districts
which is always ready to break out into
flame, early made itself evident. The
delegates from the fifth were the prin
cipal kiekers. Being greatly outnum
beFed, they seemed 10 fear that theS
were going 10 be given the short end
Of the deal and they opposed every mo
ton made by any delegate from the
fourth that IN any way Affected the yot
ing for nominees FOR the board Of super
NlsOfs
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convention was not 30 nominate caudl
dates to represent the city and Count :
of Honolulu but candidates 30 represent
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different factions 90 uhtain the adyau
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