The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-09-24
REFUSE TO LET
THEIR NAMES
Be USED
Some of Those Proposed as Can
didates on Citizens
Ticket Balk.
HUSTACE STICKS FOR MAYOR
Secrecy by Committee Tends to
Make the Situation
Uncertain.
(FrOm Monday Advertiserl

Much uncertainty prevails in polith-
cal circles regarding the proposed
Citizens ticket. The list of tentative
candidates named by the lenders of tbs
Citizens Committee of Fifty, which IN
promoting this municipal ticket, will
apparently, be shot full of holes before
the committee has chance to hold q
mass meeting to place the nominations
formally before the people.
The general talk yesterday on the
street was that this movement is being
agitated by slot of sore-heads," but
the members of the committee which
put forward the names Saturday night
as possible candidates were none 0f
them men who had been turned
down. by the Republican county con
ventlon.
Meanwhile some of the candidates
named have come out in statements
emphatlcally refusing to permit their
names being used as candidates on this
Citizens ticket.
Castro Not Candidate.
Expressing himself as not being in
accord with the talked-of Citizens
ticket and refusing absolutely to allow
his name to be used as a candidate for
the senate on any such ticket, A. ID.
Castro last night said:
"As far as l am concerned, am toe
much of a party man to go beydHd' the
pledge / took before the convention.
While L realize and recognize the fact
that the party~made mistakes during
the last convention, l feel, however,
that since 1 submitted myself to the
rules, to the methods employed, as wolf
as to the procedure of the convention
as whole, / must accept the verdict
as rendered. 4"
Hustace Stands Pat.
Refusing to allow his name to be con-
sidered for any other Office except that
of mayor, Charles Hustace, Jr., last ev-
ening said:
~ am out for the mayoralty ana
nothing else. intend to make =
hard, but clean fight to secure this Of
fee and will not consider being side
tracked for any other office, as suggest
ed in the citizens ticket.
81 also believe it foolishness for any
one to think of opposing the choice OF
the Republican convention in its legis-
lative ticket. The consensus of opinion
is to the effect that the selections made
are in general good. Any opposition to
this ticket ought to be throttled, more
especially so if those making this OPP
position were defeated candidates at
the hands of the convention"
Alfonso Sticks by Pledge.
G. f. Alfonso, who was a candidate
before the Republican county conven-
ton for nomination as representative,
will not permit his name to be used as
a candidate by the Citizens commit
tee. Speaking of his stand in this re-
gard last evening Mr.. Alfonso said;
"When went into the convention
as a delegate / went pledged to the sup
port of Emil Berndt as candidate for
supervisor. I was also a candidate for
the house and / took the pledge in the
convention to abide by the rules and
the results of the convention 3 delibera-
tions and nominations. / intend to
stand by this pledge as I stood by the
first and will remain with the Republi-
can party
Several others of those whose names
appear in the list of nominees by the
Citizens committee are reported to
have declined to permit their names to
be placed on the ticket as candidates
for any office. Among these it is as
serted that John Lane refuses to be 3
candidate on the ticket.