Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-29
MAUI PRIMARY
Invalid, SAYS
eugene MURPHY
Candidate Makes Charges of
"Undue Influence; Would
Postpone May Election

thdrgtS are brought against +. +.
BaldW H. president and manager Of
tn" Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar
60. Puunene. and r. K. Bevins. at
tOrnel Of Waiiuku, in a bin for injunC-
ton filed in the circuit court at Wal
uku by Eugene Murphy against Will
, liam F. kaae, county clerk OF Maui
dealing with the recent primary cleo
TIT
/ The case has been submitted to the
local suIrem" courr by Judge W, +.
Edings on question Of law as to
whether he has any grounds for grant
, Ing the petition and issuing the in
junction upon the statement of facts
IN the petition. The complaint Of
Murphy. with attendant papers, was
filed in the supreme court today.
In the complaint Murphy alleges.
among other things, that the recent
primary eleC&on on Maui, at which
candidates were nominated for the
board OF supervisors and county attor
npy's office. was invalid in that cor
rupt practises were engaged in to in
1uence voters The prayer is that
the clerk he restrained from diStrib-
uting any ballot. for the election of
any persons to fill the offices for
which nominations were made at the
primaries. In other words Murphy
petitions that the election, scheduled
for May 4, be not allowed.
Murphy alleges further that the
voting shelves for marking ballots
were so arranged that they were not
screened from the observation of 9th
ers, and that the voting compart-
ments at Waikiki were so arranged
that any persons desiring could have
observed how the voter was marking
his ballot. Murphy was nominated
for county attorney on the Democrat
iC ticket at the primaries. His Oppon-
ent is E. R. Bevins. Attorneys l.. All
drews and P. l.. Weaver are repre-
senting MIR. Murphy.
Further allegations are made in
Murphys complaint as follows:
Attacks F. s. Baldwin.
The ptaintiff is informed and be-.
lieves, and therefore alleges, that the
secrecy of the ballot required by law
in elections, both primary and gen
eral, was not observed at Puunene,
7th precinct, Bird district, in the coun-
'ty of Maui aforesaid, in that, as plain
tiff is informed and believes, and
therefore alleges, one F. F. Baldwin,
pretending to have a physical disa-
bility, tO-Wit, a sore hand, did call
in to assist him one William McGar-
row (said McGarrow not being an in
spector as provided by law, to mark
the said ballot for the said F. F. Bald
win, and that the said William Nc
Garrow, after having marked the bal
lot for the said F. F. Baldwin, did
work at the said polling place at
Puunene for the elections or nomina-
tons of persons voted for by the
said F. F. Baldwin.
That the said F. F. Baldwin is a
person of large interests and large
influence with the voters at the said
precinct, and your plaintiff Is inform
ed and believes, and therefore al
leges, that at least IS per cent of the
voters of the said precinct are per-
sons who hold their positions at the
will Of the said F. F. Baldwin, and
that the said F. F. Baldwin at the
time of said marking of his ballot by,
disabled voter requiring assistance,
as provided by law, but that the said
William McGarrow was called in to
mark said ballot for the purpose OF
witnessing how the said F. F. Bald
win voted, and to make the same
known to other electors in said pre-
clnct and to influence their vote by
informing said electors of such facts
and inducing them, to vote likewise
under the fear Of mourning the i'll
will Of said Baldwin; that thereafter
and by reason of said acts the vote
cast did not express the will of the
electors.
The plaintiff is informed and be-
lieves, and therefore alleges, that cor.
rupt practises, were engaged in par
ticularly by one E. R. Bevins at Paia,
18th precinct, in the county of Maui,
in that the said E. r. Bevins. who is
the Republican candidate for the Of
flee of county attorney of the county
Of Maui on the 18th day Of March,
1915. did supply and cause to be sup
piled to numerous voters at Paia in
said precinct drink in large quaint
influencing said voters to vote as d.
rected by him, the said E. r. Bevins;
and that the said Bevins in said pre-
cinct received a large majority of the
votes cast by reason of such illegal
influences
The complaint closes with the fol.
lowing section:
That the fact that no valid prim.
airy election. as required by law, has
been held, aud could we'll have been
known to all persons upon whom the
law casts the duty of providing for
the general election to be held for
the county OF Maui on the 4th day of
May, 1915, and that the fact that no
valid primary election, as required by
law, was held, caused your plaintiff to
form an opinion that no valid general
election could be held, but your plain |
tiff alleges truth to be that. notwith-
standing that no valid primary cleo |
tiCn was held. as required by law. a |
general election to fill the offices |
mentioned is about to |