The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-09
uLlvIUUnhI5 HIT
Lorrin Andrews Gets
Rough JoItins in
Ills Precinct
Jarrett, Rose and Mayor
Fern Are All Sadly
Trounced
(From Sundays Advertiser.)

All set for the convention, with the
Taft League and the Kuhio crowd both
claiming to be bossing the Republican
camp, and Link McCanjless riding
rough shod over the Bourbons in his
own party.
Not few leaders of the parties
were the most surprised of men when
the results of the primaries held yes
terday became known, Lorrin Andrews
for instance is still wondering what in
the world happened to him in the eighth
Of the fourth, and Sheriff Jarrett, Joe
Fern and Charles Rose are pondering
on the mutability of human devotion.
Taft in the Lead.
In the only precinct which had a
chance to express its preference for
presidential candidate, Taft ran away
with the field. His vote was fifyt-three
as against twenty-seven for Roosevelt,
one for George r. Carter, one for I'M
instructed and one for j. p. Cooke.
One of the freaks of the elections
put Ex-Governor George R. Carter in
the wrong boat. Carter, as he took
care every one should know, was out
strong for an uninstructed delegation.
His friends in his own precinct thought
differently, and while they wanted him
to represent them at the territorial
convention, they also wanted delega.
ton instructed to vote for Taft first,
last, and all the time. Consequently
George R. Carter goes to the conven-
tion pledged to support William How
ard Taft for President.
But the most surprised man of the
lot was Charles j. Mccarthy. Nc
Carthy believed that he had the Demo
cratic fight safely slowed away in his
own pants pocket, but events proved
him mistaken, and badly so. Link Nc
Candies wiped up the political arena
with the remains of his rival. In the
words of the ancient Irish song he
"trod on the tail of Mccarthy IS coat"
until there was precious little left of
that garment.
Mccarthy carried one full delegation
only-that from the fourth of the
fourth. In the second of the fourth
he managed to capture three delegates
out of the FIVE elected in the fifth of
the same district he captured three out
of four, and the eighth of the fifth
gave him six out of seven, and the
ninth two out of eight. In the fifth
district his successes were even less. At
late hour last night the tenth of the
fifth was the only district which has
returned a Mccarthy delegate, sending
one out of the SIX elected.
Primary Quiet.
No reports of trouble at the polls
reached the police yesterday. Every
thing went off quietly and in good or
der, except where one or two voters, or
would-be voters, attempted to cast their
ballots in precincts where there was no
record of their names. The challenges
as whole were remarkably few and
far between.
In spite of the fractional fights in the
various precincts there were signs of
good feeling between the individual
lighters, and in several of the polling
places after the scrap was over viz
tors and vanquished shook hands and
declared they both stood for the "good
of the party And the way the Re-
publican workers worked After it was
all over but the shouting, "Jack" At
kinson declared that elf the bunch
works like that ON election day there
HOA DC uiliCn uOuUt do W buO ouptt-
macy of the Republican party in local
poiities.''
Mmray's Fight.
In frantic efforts to save his own
bacon, which was threatened, Super
visor Harry IL. Murray sacrificed his
own faction to elect himself In this
he succeeded, even though he tailed
along last Of the nine successful candi-
dates. He WAS thirty votes below the
last member of the Taft League ticket
who pulled through, and only seven
ahead of KahuRakala, the one Taft
Lacquer who was defeated. The coun-
ty government influence helped Murray
who, it was admitted, would otherwise
have been defeated. This influence
was decidedly noticeable in both the
districts of Oahu, and in opposition to
the Taft League.
Manoa, the battle ground of the last
campaign, was quiet yesterday. There
was no contest there and the only
"vote" that was east was by those
who went out to the tennis grounds to
play.
Governor Interested
An interested group surrounded the
Republican headquarters table as the
returns came IN. among Ihe nnmDer
was Governor Frear, who had been in
vited. He was pleased with the result
of the primaries. J. p. Cooke, chair
man of the Taft League, Chairman
Cooper, Secretary James, and William
Thompson of the Republican territorial
committee, B. Won Damn, l.. N. Judd,
were present throughout the evening,
wkile large number of Republicans
drifted in during the evening. R. w.
Single sent word in that he CONCEDED
TO the Taft League thirty ont of thir-
ty-fve on the Island of Maui.
First OF the Fourth.
A ladylike contest proceeded all day
at Kaimuki, there being two states in
the field, both of them instructed for
Taft and neither siding with any par
tieular faction in the party. One Red