Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-17
BIG Convention MEETS TOMORROW

hand. If Presbyterian minister of.
fers the invocation the first day, a Con.
Rregationalist or q Methodist or q
Catholic or some other will have the
duty the next day, and so on until the
convention closes.
Convention Call Read.
After the prayer somebody or some
society presents the chairman with q
nice new gavel, and then the chair
man reads the call of the National
committee. This call was read at the
Republican Territorial Convention
here on April Is by II. l.. Holstein, the
National committeeman for Hawaii.
When the chairman has finished
reading the call, or finishes having II
read by some leather-lunged secretary,
he announces the man whom the Ma.
tional committee has selected for ten.
porary chairman. II there is no con.
test, the man named is elected quick,
ly, often with a viva voce vote and is
escorted TO the platform. Tomorrow
however, there promises to be n fight
right at this point-as well as at sew.
eral others.
However, presuming that the TEN.
porary chairman has been escorted to
the platform. he at once starts the ma.
Chinery rolling. All of the cut.and.
cried motions, like ratifying the Ma.
tional committees choices for the
temporary Offices, have been laid out
beforehand, both as to the mover and
the seconder. and are put with. rush.
The temporary chairman always
makes a speech, sometimes a good
one, sometimes bad one and general.
~ a long one. After this he submits
to the convention a list of temporary
officers and workers, which list has
been prepared by the National com.
mittee and gives jobs for the faithful
and the old soldiers. Next somebody
who has been given the duty to per.
form moves resolution that the rules
OF the last convention be made the
rules Of this one, which is carried.
Next in order Is the organization OF
committees of credentials, permanent
organization. rules and order of bust.
ness and resolutions. The roll is call.
cd and each delegation names the mar
II wishes on the various committees
One member Is allowed on each con-,
mittee. Ordinarily all this Is fixed be.
forehand, too, as well as the chairmen
of the committees.
Credentials Committee.
The credentials committee will have
a tough time of II tomorrow, II signs
fail not. This committee has the right
to pass on cases Of persistent contest
even though the National committee
has previously heard them, and In ex.
IRENE cases must allow appeal to the
convention itself, For the last sixteen
years this committee has had no real
work to do, but tomorrow 1t will have
its hands full.
The committee on rules Is more or
less Formally, but the committee on
resolutions is not. This latter com,
mittee drafts the platform - which OF
course is usually drafted weeks be,
iorehand. Taft's platform this year
however, was not drafted up until yes
terday, II was cabled here. Roose
velt's platform has been more or less
worked out for two weeks.
Platform Drafted.
The various drafts of the PLATFORM
ore submitted to the resolutions com
mittee. OF course there will be nc
such faux pas" as Taft having to run
on a Rooseyelt.drafted platform OF
vice-versa. The committee won't bring
In a platform until the nominee Is as
sured.. Sometimes the platform takes
two hours and sometimes two days Ia
settle. II is history in Hawaii that
John ii. Wise, now a delegate to the