The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-25
POLITICAL LOAU
OF GOOD THINGS
All the DelicaCies of the Season
at Hand, Including Fine
0ratory.
(From Thursday Advertiser)

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If the way to the voters hearts is
through their stomachs, the Republican
party workers of the first, second, third,
fourth and fifth precincts last night
succeeded in reaching the hearts of a
large number of them, for about fif-
teen hundred citizens gathered in the
pavilion erected on the Dowsett prop
erty, on Punahou street, and partook
of the numerous good things to eat, as
well as listened to the oratory that the
several speakers had prepared for them.
In every case the talks were of the
straig ht.from the-shoulder variety, and
there was no mincing of words in the
several appeals made for straight-ticket
voting. In fact, nearly every speaker,
haole and Hawaiian alike, dwelt upon
the necessity of having the Republicans
stand by their candidates and vote the
straight ticket. The danger of the split
ticket propaganda was pointed out and
the example of what happened to the
businessmen s choice for supervisors
four years ago shown.
At that time Norman Watkins had
been nominated by the fourth district
convention for the board of supervisors
and William Kane held similar posi-
ton in the fifth district. Kane was
picked out by the silk stocking voters
as the undesirable candidate and their
votes were therefore given Mcclellan
who ran on the Democratic ticket. The
expected did not happen, however, and
. when the votes were counted it was
found that Kane had been elected as
we'll as Mcclellan, but Watkins, the
favorite son of the silk stocking pre-
, cincts, fell a few votes behind the
Democratic candidate and had to stay
at home.
Danger of the "Best Man.
The Republicans of the fourth were
| therefore appealed to and asked to re
member the result of their desire tt
} vote for the best man in the past. il
was also pointed out that there were
I some desirable candidates on the ticke
today, who, though they were every
=, thing that could be asked for as suit
able material for supervisorial timber
!, were considered weak when it came t.
the question of being vote-getters. 4
/ vote for a Democrat would mean tha
the weak candidates would have to fine
!, two who would vote for them in orde
to make up the lead the Democrat
} would get over them.
} During the evening John Wise pre-
scented to the voters table showing
4 how the last Republican convention hat
been made up and the result of the con
4 vention deliberations. Wise showed
that of the 1927 delegates to the con
q vention, 81 were professional men, IL
were clerks, 102 were laborers, 46 wer
D businessmen and 4S were tradesmen.
Out of the twenty.one professional
d men, five had been picked by the con
vention as candidates for some office
D and out of the forty.six businessmel
nine had been chosen. Ten clerks GU
D of the 40, three tradesmen and thre
u laborers were the remainder of the con
vention choice, showing that the pro
D fessional and business men had gotteI
l. larger percentage of the political OF
fees, and that if the laboring classe
now came worward and asked the busi
nessmen to support Motley, they wer
VI only asking for the same kind of squar
deal that they had given the business
men in the convention.
Candidate Bartlett, in his address, re
s minded the voters that he had alread
pledged himself to have nothing to d
VI with the liquor laws if elected as a ST
pervisor. The papers, Bartlett claimed
d had all received a statement signed b
d himself, as well as a statement signe
by large number of the saloon mel
81 who pledged themselves as being pei
fectly satisfied with the present workin
d of the liquor law, and that they did mo
intend to ask that the same be turne
d over to the board of supervisors.
Vote Straight Ticket.
:. Charles A. Cottrill was the last speal
. err of the evening, and, besides shown
/. forcibly the need of voting the loca
- Republican ticket straight, because tn
n men nominated were the choice of tn
convention elected by the people to pie
" the party representatives, Mr.. Cottri
n dwelt upon the national issues and al
gued that when the votes were cOunte
n on the fifth of November, William How
ard Taft would be found elected tn
c next President of the United States.
The speaker also took occasion to te
ID of the surprise that he had on readin
d the result of The Advertiser stray
vote, to find that there had been a ms
d iority of the Honolulu business me
voters who had shown preference I
d Roosevelt over Taft. This, too, afte
the stand that Taft had taken in tn
d last congress in the interests of Hf
d wall s chief industry, especially whe
he knew that it would be used agains
Ell him in his campaign, Taft had bee
man enough to tell Underwood an
Ell Champ Clark that he was going to vet
the bill introduced by the Democrat
Ell putting sugar on the free trade list, an
he had done this in the interest of Hi
NJ waii.
Taft deserved the best wishes of tn
ID lnAnnle of Hawaii vzhn had alvvavs fnnn