The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-09-13
NOT 'SLUSH FUND
lust PARTY MONEY
REPUBLICANS SAY
Central Committee Absoked BY
Candidates Of Charges Made
BY Representative Andrews
LATTER NOT PRESENT,
MEETING IS PEACEFUL
Campaign Fund To Be Reduced
To $1,000 - Campaign To Be
Short Lasting Only Nine Days

Absolution without penance was Civ
en- the members Of the Republican ter
ritOrial central committee of the slush
fund" charges made this week by
LorEin Andrews in an open letter, at a
meeting of the Republican legislative
candidates held in the office of r. w.
Breckons last night.
While the meeting was not exactly
Grand Old Party love feast, there
wasn't any fight, for Lorrin Andrews
was not present, for the reason he
explains that he was not properly in
vited. There was a bit of fireworks
but no casualties, for lack of friction,
when W. T. Rawlins explained that
Andrews was mistaken in his charges,
although mistaken was not the
word used by Rawlins.
AS a result of the meeting the Re
publican candidate decided that what
Andrews terms "slush fund.- is to
be known hereafter as "party money,
/ so "pOor men, middle class men and
rich men, alike may have an oppor
tunity of making speeches at all the
prima: campaign meetings without in
dividualy digging up their pro rata,
although the ante is to be cut from
$4,000 to $4,000 and possibly less.
Figures Are Embarrassing
The question of how this "party
money" is to be spent caused the only
embarrassment at the meeting of the
Republican candidates. Rawlins had
suggested that as short campaign
/ was to be held $500 ought to be enough
/ for the primaries. E. c. Peters OBJ
jected with the assertion that it would
! take at least $1,000. When he start
! ed to specify how it would be neces-
sary to spend this money he figured up
a total of $1,000, and then fell back on
the explanation that there would be
need Of "incidentals" and that party
workers. had to be paid.
After Breckons had jocularly advised
that some one start fight so the meet
ing could get under way, Peters was
selected as the temporary chairman
| and Rawlins was called on to express
his views as to how the primary cam
paign should be conducted by the Re
puhlicans.
Must Have Money
Rawlins started the party engine
going by SAYING this was no time for
peanut politics and mud singing be-
he wanted to disabuse those present
of any belief that the central com
mitteemrn were working for any
clique and that he believed because
of expense, campaign meetings which
were as fair for the poor candidate as
the rich could not be conducted with
out party funds. This, he said, was
true because the poor candidates could
aFn 70 a hn
for all the meetings as could the
"rich randidates.
Charles Marques kokuaed Rawlins
talk and f. F. Fogarty said it would be
impossible for the candidates to con
duct their own campaign without The
aid of the comm tteemen, who had ex
pressed their willingness to leave thu
campaign to the candidates, if this wa
what was wanted.
George Smith expressed pretty mucl
the same sentiment and said he knew
it took committee to run campaign
, successfully. He ended by making
, motion that the central committee b,
, authorized to conduct the campaign
This motion was adopted, after whicl
, Clarence Crabbe, chairman of the cen
, trail committee, took the chair and tn
SUBJECT OI lubnCts anu lcuRlH VI
paign and how to be conducted wa
taken up.
, Advises Short Campaign
A. Lewis Jr., advised short cam
paign, first recommending that it b
for only one week, from September 2
? to October 8. This period he fnalI
, extended three days, the dates decide
, upon being from the twenty fifth t
the fifth.
, Lewis in making these recommends
, tions said it would be a patriotic an
: proper thing to put the opening of tn
campaign off until after the Thir
Liberty Loan drive was we'll under way
J which is to start on September 81. Thi
was in line with previous remarks mad
| by Breckons who had given warnin
p that he was going to object to an
-, campaign plans which would cOntli'
with the Liberty Loan campaign.
j. A. Beaver expressed the belle
r that the Republicans cou. get bette
\ results by "buttOn hole campaign
| than by meetings, and by the maxim
of short talks at moving picture house
In all the districts.
t Question of Finances
e When once it was decided that III
| campaign was to be short one, til
+ question Of finances was taken up. p
t tiers asserted that the making Of III
Y candidates to pay $50 much per f.