The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-09-18
TRYING TO AVERT
FRACTIONAL ROW
IN G. O.P. RANKS

A fight threatens in the ranks of the
Republicans over the selection of q
chairman Of the county committees.
Hasty steps are being taken by sup,
pcfters Of one or the other Of tho
candidates now in the field for this
position, to the end that the contest
may be brushed aside and man har.
monious to all factions of the party
put in Office. -, -..1tg
Several of the prominent supporters
Of Kuhio in his late primary campaign
met in o private caucus last evening
with the express pufpose of deciding
on a course to follow or a candidate
70 back when the county committee,
men meet Tuesday TO organize AMI
name a chairman. tfaa ~.
Names Of three men are SO far heard
as material for this position They are
John Wise, George @. Guild and Ed
Fogarty. Wise is said to have the
backing Of the Kuhio faction, while
John Lane is reported to be working
hard for Guild. Fogarty Is undertook
to have the strongest support "
II rs an open Question whether Guild
would take the position IL offered. II
is known that no Is not working for
/ it himself, but that his friends on the
committee are doing so for him at their
own instance ceiling that he is the
only man of the three who could swing
all factions together and get them
working in unison through the coming
campaign. ".S j.I.
Every effort, ii appears now, will be
made to settle the question OF chairman
without contest The danger of any
fight now to the interests OF the party
in the general election is conceded on
all sides, and there seems to be little
disposition, even among the candidates,
to press theiS candidacy at the cost of
harmony. ~
The recent primary election, with Re,
pull lieans cOntesting against each other
for nomination, has had some tendency
to disunite the party here in some
ways. During the primary il was the
Kuhio faction against the Rice, j. aud
the Murray.COhen faction against the
Lane. But the primary being over now
and the factioDal conditions done away
with, leading Republicans are anxious
TO hiring the party together and fight
through the campaign as one unit.
That is why they are laying stress
on the importance Of selecting a chair,
/ man who win be favored by all com
lmitteemen. They raise another point,
/ too, which is that the chairman should
be a sound business man, in whom
everyone willShape confidence. aud a
man Of executive ability who can work
out the plan of campaign and see that
| II is carried out properly.
Those who raise these latter points
saw that Guild POSSESSES these qualif.
cations and could be introduced us a
harmony candidate. ~ "a ~.
Guild has told his friends that he
is not a politician. They have, how
ever, turned this point back on him,
saying that that is one more reason
why be should be chairman. 1851.
FOgarty is clear headed campsiqn
er, aud hut for the desire OF the Kuhio
faction 70 oppose any pronounced Ric .
man would be chosen without trouble,
Wise Is recognized as an impossibility
II the party is to raise any campaign
funds. A good many have already
stated that they viii trust Wise with
not dollar, and this appears. to be the
general feeling, even among the KuhiC
hackers themselves. tl'F,.
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