The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-11-10
HAWAII CASTS OUT
DEMOCRATS BY NO
UNCERTAIN BALLOT
KuhiO Defeats His Old Rival L. L. McCandless For the
Fifth Time By More Than 1000 Votes; Republicans
Win Six Seats In Territorial Senate But Lose -Four
Votes In the House of Representatives

Hawaii by an overwhelming vote
yesterday repudiated the Democrats
and all their works. The voters re-
elected their Republican Delegate to
Congress and made the complexion of
the Legislature in both its branches so
overwhelmingly Republican that the
few scattering Democrats WIZ will Oc-
cupy seats in the Legislative chambers
at the next session will have to take
one another home at night to keep
from being scared to death.
KuhiO defeated his perpetual oppo-
nent, Lincoln l.. McCandless, for the
delegateship, by more than 1000 votes.
With the few votes on Niihau missing,
complete but unofficial returns from all
the islands give Kuhio 1895 votes and
McCandless 1874, Kuhio's majority be-
ing 202l votes.
At ten o'clock last night McCan-
dless, at Democratic headquarters in
this city, conceded his own defeat and
issued a statement thanking all those
who had supported him in his fifth
futile fight to be sept to Washington.
Complexion OF Legislature
Will HdNb lNtlNt
men in the senate and the Demoe rats
three, as against eight Republicans
and seven Democrats in the senate Of
the last legislature.
In the house there will be twenty
four Republicans and six Democrats.
In this instance the Democrats made a
gain yesterday, the last house having
but one Democrat and Home Ruler,
who was virtually a Democrat, and
twenty-eight Republicans.
MeCandless made a substantial gain
over his total in the last election, cut
ting down Kuhio's lead materially.
But the Republican candidate was at
all stages of the voting so far ahead as
to have no apprehension of the ult.
mate result
Kuhto Confident
The Delegate confidence in his re-
election was exemplifed by his appar-
ent Indifference last night. At nine
o o'clock, before any considerable part
of the total vote had been reported
he was seated in the Union Grill, calm
ly consuming u steak and talking of
anything but politics, while McCand
less was at Democratic headquarters
hopping about like a spider on a hot
'griddle.
The Democratic candidate, however
took his defeat with apparent good ma.
ture. When it became evident that
his last hope had faded into the limbo
that already contained the sorrOwful
hopes of four other hOtly contested
campaigns, McCandIess made a state
ment in which he conceded the election
of Kuhjo and thanked those voters who
had stood by him in his fight for con
gressional honors.
Anyway, | IN going to be good
loser he said, smiling as cheerfully
as if he had won. And he stopped tC
cheer wildly at mainland bulletin
favorable to Wilson.
The Republicans, with five holdoveI
senators, the Democrats having two
elected seven new senators and the
Democrats elected one.
The newly elected senators are Johr
H. Coney, Republican, Kauai; Robert
Hind and G. p. Kamauoha, Republi
cans, Hawaii; II. A. Baldwin and G. =
Cooke, Republicans, Maui, and X. w
Shingle and :. p. Correa, Republicans
and NJ. c. PachecO, Democrat, Oahu.
.iIThe Follower senators are $. l.
Desha, Republican. and K. II. Makekau
Democrat, Hawaii, w. T. Robinson
Republican, Maui; A. l.. Castle, G. +
Chillingworth and r. w. Quinn, al
Republicans. Oahu, and NJ. A. Makaele
Democrat Kauai.
The hottest fight for senatorial hon
ors was that between NJ. c. PachocC
and Jack Lucas on this island. Lucas
ran well but was nOsed out by his
vociferous opponent. On Maui DR.. J
II. Raymond was completely showed un
der, both his Republican opponents
topping him so high that he was never
even in the race.
Oahu spent very peaceful day yes
terday. There was an election going
on in which two candidates for dele
gate to congress and lot of men who
had ambitions to represent their eOun
trymen in the legislature Of the Terri
tory had considerable personal inter
est, but one who had not been warned
in advance would hardly have know
it,
However, though the voters of the
island were not so intensely interested
as to make lot Of noise about it, al
they used to do in days not 80 very
far in the past, they apparently knew
what they wanted and went after it
1t may be added that they ran true
to form. The fourth district, home ap