The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-23
POLITICAL POWWOW .
FAILS TO EXCITE
Little Interest Shown In RepubIi-
can ConVention-Many Dele
gates Won't Attend


to arrange a caucus of Republican dele
gates to Mondays convention for
sometime this afternoon. All Of the
Hawaii delegates who will he able to
attend at all will arrive this morning,
and part of the Maui delegation will
be with them The remainder of Maui
and the Kauai bunch will arrive to
morrow. What is almost the eve of
the convention finds the proposed plat
form contained in n mass of suggcs,
tiOns. The platform does not exist, in
other words, and it will be up to the
delegates to get together this after.
noon and tomorrow and whip il into
some sort of shape, if tho ori ginal
idea of e1pcditing business on Monday
is carried out.
There is unusual apathy in regard TO
the convention, and although an effort
| will be made today and tomorrow to
awaken a little cnthusiasm, there IL
chillinPss about the whole proposition
| which even the hot weather has seem
ed unable to dissipatc not even hot
air appears to help. Making a plat
| as there has been no promise of any
thing else nearer fireworks for the
coming convention, there has come
about n sort of "don 't-care much
either way' feeling on all of the isl
ands, with the possible exception or
Maui, whore some of the party leaders
have managed to work up little steam.
| Delegates Who Are Coming
| Lott - 81, H.,
delegation, which will arrive this morn
ing, no list having been sent down.
| Up to last night headquarters had re
ceived notices that the following tS4
out of 1922 delegates would surely be
] present in the convention, on Monday:
Second District West Havaii-H. J..
HoIstein, George c. Watt, z. X. Akina,
John A. Mcguire. Total four; en-
titled to sixteen.
Third District, Maui. Mo1otai and
Lanai-D T. FlcminT, w. A. Collins,
George II. Dunn. PhiIin p. Pail. Man.
uel Prstana Edward WniahOlo, d. Ku,
anu, Fl. B. Pennhallow, George H. Cum.
mings, p. J. Goodness, X. A. Walls.
worth, C. NJ w. Kamai. X. j. X. Ma
wahine, Frank +. Baldwin. Comes Pas
chaOl, w p. Hardy. c. G. Campbell,
|
uuin Vincent, s. f. Kalama. Manuel s..
de POnte F.. !. Walker, II. A. Bald.
win, H. p. Robinson Sr.. VIM. Weight,
R. A. Drummond VIM. p. Haia Jr.,
John Fassoth, J. Kaalaunhi. George p.
Cooke, J. d. McVeigh. w. J. Goodhuo,
Chas. X. Manua. Total, thirty four;
entitled forty. ..
Fourth District, East Oahn--Emil A,
| A L. II n
TOwse, George Macy, John X. Kama
nOulu, G. Kamoa Kealoha, Henry van
Giesen, John H. Wise, Carl A. Wide
mann, J. B. Enos, f. Bufrandeau, II. p.
Bailey, George Male, John Lucas, u.
l.. Wilmington, Clarence l.. Crabbc, VIM.
Thompson, Apaki Manuwai, John Pau,
Sam Leialoha, Chas. Akau, Anthony Y.
Seto, J: 8. Achong, James J. Jarrett,
f. Faxon Bishop. Total twenty six /;
entitled, thirty nine.
Fifth District, West Oahu Charles
Bridges, Oscar p. Cox, John Comes
Durate, Ruel Kinney, David Douglas,
w. K. Mcpherson, NJ. K. Richards. X.
NJ. Duncan, Nagaran Fernandez, VIM.
A. Hall, James H. Hakuole. Henry Vier
ra, VIM. II. Crawford, David F, Motley,
D. l.. Akwai, d. p. Kauhini, VIM. II.
Knox and VIM. Kaka. Total, eighteen;
entitled, thirty three.
Sixth District, Kauai, aud Niihau-
John NJ. KanPakua and s. W Mchculn.
Total, two; entitled, fourteen
Kuhio and Cohen
Rev. Stephen L. Desha declared
through the Hilo Tribune on sunday
that "Kuhio will beat Joe Cohen nv
"A five to one vote in the rare for dele
gate. - DPsha takes Cohen to task for
= saying that KuhiO had never done any
thing for lIilo, and points as evidence
to the new Federal building, which he
credits to the Delegate.
Profteering Probe
, IT is stated that II plank to he pro,
} posed ut the caucus today for en-
> bOdimCnt in the Republican platform
4 will urge that the Territorial Food
Commission or some other organization
be given full power to make an eK.
r haustivc investigation into prOfteer
ing, if there be any, and to fix penal
1 ties for imposition upon any concern
found to have unduly advanced prices
. particularly on food stufTs.
Ahuna Again
3 Robert Ahunn, traffic policeman and
member Of the house of rrpr"s cntativn
will be a candidate for re election this
. time
william II. McClellaaS who has been
4 by sort of common consent entrusted
. with the duty of framing Il platform
I for the Democratic party, has dug VI
= the musty records and past platforms
y from the office Of william f. Miles
. and elsewhere. aud with n trus'y pail
Of scissors and bottle Of mns"ilagr /,