Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-07
MUST FIGHT TO
get SKG. 0. P.
CHICAGO VOTES
HAWAII Republicans Have to
Reverse Action of Nation
al Committee .

Hawaii viii not get six delegates 10
The Republican national convention
without a fight. That is evident from
the tone of Republican newspapers
which support the action of the ma
tional committee in scaling the repre-
sentation of this territory from six to
tSo.
Republican leaders in Hawaii are
busy getting ready for the territorial
convention on April g. They con
fldently expect 10 choose six delegates.
and several OF the leaders just as con
fldently expect TO get the six seated.
There has been some talk OF sending
on a delegation with the idea OF allow
ing each OF the six third OF a vote.
so that the total vote VIII be the two
allowed by the national committee, but
the majority of the G. o. p war horses
hope that the national committee will
reverse its attitude.
The Boston Herald, commenting on
The scaling down OF representation,
points out that the main reason was
TO reduce the southern delegations TO
something more nearly proportionate
TO the Republican vote in the south
ern states, and proceeds. with com
ment which will be interesting TO Ha-
waii. The Herald says:
The Republican national commit.
teemen hit upon a very ingenious de.
vice for scaling down the southern
representation at this years conyen.
ton. In such = state as this they
left the situation exactly as IL was
before--two delegates to district and
four at large lessening the repre-
sentation of those districts only where
the Republican vote has not at some
material contest reached as higl a
figure as 1900. Such districts must
content themselves with single dele
gate each. The representation at
large remains unaffected everywhere.
ELEVEN southern states, in conse-
quence, lose representation. OF New
Works 43 districts there are just two
which have also failed TO qualify, so
that the Empire state win have fewer
delegates by two at Chicago than with
the Democrats at St Louis. But these
are the only northern districts. Curl
ously enough, affected by the change.
The Republicans have also scaled
Gown the representation OF Hawaii,
Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands.
This is a wise move. They do not
vote in the electoral college. Two of
these units probably never viii, Why
should they take any large part in the
selection Of a presidential candidatesl
This newly applied system has the
further advantage OF giving the Re
publicans of each congressional dis
tricf In the south-and in New York
City--something to strive for. II they
can. al Il congressional sF presidential
election, bring their vote up to 1900
they will have the two delegates, as
t.nder the old arrangement And with
our some such evidence OF party vital
fly they can hardly have the effront-
cry to ask for any large voice in shap-
ing affairs. In fine, the reduction,
which will lessen the total vote in
convention by 80, or from 1913 to 9Sg,
is exceedingly moderate and reason
able.
And you may be interested to re-
member that il win take just ass
votes for a choice. II was $40 four
years ago. And in the Democratic
convention. with the two-thirds rule,
out of a total of lose, 1t Will take 724.
as before. The difference between
these totals under the old system
grew out of the more liberal attitude
of the Democracy toward territorial
units. like the District of Columbia
and Hawaii, which have no electoral
vote to furnish natural basis for
computation.