The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-05-22
HEAVY VOTEAT
PRIMARY
| Interest GREAT
Total Ballots Cast Thirty Per
Cent Higher Than At Elec
ton In September
~ t.tstt $500
CANDIDATES KEEP THEIR
AUTOMOBILE STAFF BUSY
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Cohen Sends Out Score Of Cars
Flying His Name and Mayor
Lane Follows Suit 8

There was polled at yesterday : mn.
nieipaI primary election much larger
vote, from twenty to thirty per cent
bigger than at the territorial primary
held last September, There was also a
greater amount Of interest and en-
thusiasni shown in yesterdays election
than there was when the voters chose
party candidates for delegate and the
territorial Legislature.
Automobiles by the score were in uso
all day, from the opening 20 the eios.
ing Of the polls, carrying to and from
the voting booths those whose duty
was TO place cross after the name Of
the candidates. preferred. To J. G.
Cohen fell easily the honor of having
the biggest number Of machines In use,
all displaying his name in flaming red
letters on canvas backs.l
Mayor Lane also had a number Of
gasoline burners in service, one of them
carrying husky, but tuneful woman's
quintet club. This mnehine made the
rounds Of the city and visited all the
polling booths, where music was fur.
nished to all, irrespective Of party
4 81 II y psssohal pieIerences.
~ ~ W. 2pe slIy PIeclnc. ,ne e,se.
.loh Isn quesiy aeu peaceepiy. Inc
szcep,io1 was y .ne .enth Of INC
.ouI'a z. nsoe, Mne'e W. u,sPu.nnts
wi w I esIese,se merits Tn eersaIn
sanuioates XIV mo nknt Inc ponce
eoYe ~ signe anu ING ngh' Was pau.
wy msh was in = hurry 70 ge' away
arg 1uiu VI. .ne VtnsF WIZ sent nome y
aicep. a.'sl me- siyep nc 1n,uTneo ~
unoelsnirs ana 1lnsh pnyter, plus = pug
nv, Dn, yvhn Da,ieycofn stream nau
gsepy'nseu anu 'nere was no motv
llI'Hin,
King Booze husy
In this precinct Quitcra number Of
pefsons seemed to be under the in
iiuence Of booze, mostly Hawaiians, but
none We're IN a condition that might be
described as drunk They we're In a
maudlin state.
'sThis precinct Is getting worse and
worse" one Of the election inspectors
told The Advertiser, rand there seems
10 be no end TO the blind pigs around
here, The evil has been growing year
Ivy yearyand this year Il seems worse.
liIt should be looked into and stopped
Tor Il is a sluf on The people of the
district, the great majority Of whom
are decent and self-respecting.
In the eighth Of the fourth, Emmn
Square, there was a slight dispute Ia
regard TO the voting Of one man,
When cleared up & amounted 70 this;
that one brother had voted for another.
When thecrrQr was discovered every
thing was fixed up and the eighth went
along in the even tenor Of its way.
In the first Of the fourth, kaimuki,
tho only tfouble arose over the actions
of George Makalena, who seems d
have been called into the booth by Q
voter to see that the inspector Of cleo
4 tion marked his ballot correctly. This
was, apparently, violation OF thu
rules and once pointed out no further
! ases'of a similar nature we're tolerated
Kaimnh Vote Heavy
AZ nine m the morning eighty voter.
had cast their ballots at Kainuh. AZ
two.thirty in the afternoon the vote
cast reached z0O out Of GOA Registered
kaimuh beng now second only TO the
ninth IN the fourth district IN the mum
Der a, q voters .,1i regi 8.
three s clock had PEELED ,s $40 votes e.
p precinct had had, p s., faster X. than any
other gtI,st.i fourth and iifth districts was a
follows;
Third Of the fourth, Manoa, 2;l5 ?