The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-04-05
PRECINCT FIGHTS ON,
ON THE BIG ISLAND
Frear Backers at Walohinu Lose
Out on RuIes-HlIo Is to
Have a Scrap.
(Nail speeial 70 nc Adverliser.l


HILO, April 1.-The meetings in the
Republican and Democratic precincts
last Friday for nominating delegates to
the Honolulu territorial conventions,
passed Off quietly.
The greatest interest conferred in the
Hilo Republican precinct meeting,
owing to the fact that here the fight be-
tween the Kuhio and the Frear faction
is getting close enough to be interest
ing, that is, 1t is generally believed
that the Frear faction may be able to
slip in one or more delegates.
Those who were nominated were:
Stephen Desha, Carl S. CaIlsmith, V.
E. NJ. Osorio, VIM. Keeaumoku, w. H.
Beers, II. V. Patten, L. II. Austin,
Joseph Olivia, A. NJ. Cabrinha, NJ. de
F. Spinola, Joseph Vieira, j. w. Akina,
G. H. Swain, r. E. Balding, II. NJ.
Leonard, Thos. Il. Cook, John Akau and
j. p. Hale. Swain, Olivia, Hale and
Leonard withdrew. AS there are only
five to be elected, the fight will be
quite an interesting one.
In the Waiakea Republican precinct
there was only one man nominated who
is classed as a Frear man, namely R
w. Filler. Seven were nominated in all
namely, John Bohnenberg, John Kea.
loha, Jas. d. Lewis, r. w. Filler, Dan
Namahoe, Otto Rose and Evangeline de
Silva.
Bohnenberg made short speech in
which he announced that he had always
fonuI,N hn nl 1,
would continue to do SO. If he went
to the convention he would work fol-
Kuhio. Namahoe also came out as 9
Kuhio man in so many words. Filler
and Lewis promised to work for the
interest of the precinct, if they were
elected. There are four to be elected
out of the seven nominated, so Waiake a
will have quite interesting election
also.
Democratic Meetings.
The meeting of the Hilo town Dem
ocrats was rather poorly attended. Thu
following five were nominated: Harry
Irwin, G. K. Mcguire, David Ewaliko
J. M. Kepoo and H. w. Kinney. Al
there are five delegates to be elected
these five are virtually elected now
They are all in favor of keeping tn,
McCandless- Met arthy fight out of tn,
coming convention, and will fight fo
the postponement of the nomination o,
a candidate for delegate to congress un
til the proper time comes at the reg
ular convention.
The Waiakea Democrats held nj
meeting. Presumably they did no
know that they existed.
waiohinu Rejoicing.
The Kuhio men are greatly elated a
the manner in which the nomination
resulted at Waiohinu, the precinct Of
the whole island where the Kuhio-Frea
fight is the bitterest. Each faction pu
up ticket, the Frear faction beini
led by Manager Wolters, while tn
Kuhio men were Kauhane and Georg
Kawaha. When the nominations ha
been closed, the Kuhio men called at
tention to the fact that Wolters' can
didates had not been nominated i
writing, according to the rules, and o.
this point these nominations wer
thrown out, leaving Kauhane and Ka
waha virtually elected, as the precinc
is entitled to two delegates.
In the Pahala precinct, which is en-
titled to only one delegate, Manage
Ogg and Officer Ahu were nominated
so in this precinct there will be fight
AT Laupahoehoe, which has only on
delegate, A. L. Moses, who classes hin
self as an independent, and Represer
tative Harry Richard, who is presum
! ably Kuhio man, will fight it out.
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