Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-10-06
Co. COMMITTEE
Will WORkHARD
IN Campaign

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After an animated joint session of
| the Republican county committee and
the candidates for office last night at
Headquarters, il was declared by
Chairman Coombs that substantial
progress had been made toward an
understanding on the question of en-
plcying runners. This was In reply
to a candidate who thought nothing
had been accomplished by the confer
ence
All Of the candidates had been asked
for their views, and most of them be-
lieved that runners should be engaged
for difficult precincts at least. John
IL Wise, the managing secretary.
while supporting this opinion, related
Instances where runners had worked
against the party employing them,
therefore suggested the necessity of
care in the selection of the men With
regard tora rumor that businessmen
were declining to contribute to the
campaign fund unless with the stipu-
lation that runners be not employed,
he spoke strongly against dictation TO
the committeesof that sort. He said
that businessmen controlling the con-
ventions had prescribed a legislative
and a county platform by which the
candidates we're bound, and that when
the legislature assembled the same
people would be found lobbying for
particular measures. Therefore they
ought to put up the money for the
campaign without strings on it.
Both the chairman and George g.
Guild denied that there was any gen
eral stipulation Of the kind mentioned,
several individuals corporations be-
ing barred by law-haying subscribed
pncond itionally to the fund since the
canvass began at o'clock that after
noon.
A collateral topic was the matter Of
contributions by the candidates them
selves. While few expressed their
willingness to give something to the
fund, several said they had gone to
the limit of their resources in fighting
for nomination at the primaries, and |
that it was now up to the 1
party organization to see them |
through the main campaign as the
choice Of majority of the party |
voters
AS an alternative to paving runners. !
the policy of promising them employ /
ment in the event of party success |
was another point discussed. Senator
Chillingworth attacked this policy as
futile, saying that the supervisors
elected six years ago ignored the
county committee in the matter Of |
patronage, choosing to build ma |
chine Of their own. James G. Quinn |
denied, the imputation on |
behalf Of the board of which he was |
a member, saying that the supervisors |
under the direction of the county at |
torney fought the p2rty's battle to the |
ditch, giving up only under compul- |
sion Of supreme court decision that |
gave the entire patronage to the may
or. Later, when the legislature trans |
ferred patronage from the mayor to |
the supervisors, he went on to say, |
the supervisors made efficiency the |
supreme test in the appointment of
party workers to positions as result 1
Of which he pointed to the many miles |
Of belt road built by that board which |
had oatlasted the work done within |
the past two years. d. Logan con-
firmed the statements of Mr.. Quinn. |
mentioning the additional fact that |
the county committee of the period in |
question had deigned to confer with |
the supervisors on but one solitary.
occasion. /
Finally, the chairman intimated that |
the county committee, having been
asked by the candidates to conduct !
the campaign, was going to do the |
best it could with such financial re-
sources as would be available, and If !;
candidates chose 70 contribute to the |
fund 1t must be without stipulation as