The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-07-21
Partisan Primary Is
Chief Issue Before
G. O. P. Convention
Continued From Page One.)

CredentiaIs-H. Il. Wishart. / !
Walsh, Joseph Ordenstein, e. J. Craw.
ford, j. X. Kula, and Carl Widemann.
chairman.
Rules-F. NJ. Anderson, Theodore
~Vredenberg, Peruvia Goodness. c. f.
Chillingworth, a. L. Castle. John X.
Kealoha and w. c. Achi, chairman.
Platforn-E. a. Capellas, VIM. Van.
malta, George Kawaha, Emil NJ. Null
Ter, Mrs. Sarah A. Buck, A. w. Col
Inns, Clarence Crabbe, C. Arnold. An
drew Adams, j. K. Lota, S. x. Kaeo,
n Wm. Thompson, chairman.
Revision of Rules-Norman X. Ly-
man, Thomas c. White, Peruvia Good
ness, w. I. Garden, E. j. Crawford, w.
o.. Crowell and a. L. Castle, chairman.
Delay in obtaining the reports of
the principal committees-on platform
and resolutions and on revision of the
party rules and regulations-kept the
convention in a series of recesseS with
virtually nothing accomplished until s
O'Clock in the evening, when the plat
form was submitted. At that hour
he Kauai delegation was due to sail
for home on the Inter-Island steam
ship Kinau. The kinau was held for
an hour, but adjournment was not
taken until after II o'clock, and many
Kauai delegates left their proxies in
the hands of those who remained for
the wind up.
William Thompson, chairman of the
platform committee, read the pream-
BILE of his report, but left T.. S. Capel-
las of Hilo to intone the full text. Sec
ton after section rolled along smooth
ly, with here and there a patter and
occasionally a genuine burst of APP
plause, until revision of the primary
law was encountered.
I'VE believe" declared the platform,
that experience has has demonstrate
ed that, under a form of government
such as ours, the best results in the
enactment of legislation and in the ad-
ministration of public affairs can be
maintained through the maintenance
of virile and effective party organiza-
tions, n we pledge the representa-
tives of our party in the legislature
to the amending of the law so as 10
provide the partisan and Independent
primaries in such a manner that each
voter shall vote only as a member of a
party and not as an Independent and
that the integrity as well as the sec
recy of the primary be maintained"
William Kane objected to this plank
in Hawaiian at length, James X. Ha-
kuole thought he detected something
behind the woodpie' and seconded the
motion of Kane to delete the section.
This plank" he declared, pins You
down to your own party. If you want
to vote the Democratic ticket you
can't"
Sure, What do you want?" was
the rejoinder of Senator Jack Lucas.
Andrew Adams, a member Of the
platform committee, argued in favor
of the proposed revision and explain
ed its intention. The secrecy of the
ballot, he said. would be maintained
,unimpaired. The only purpose of
the change was to prevent Democrats
and Independents from meddling in
the party affairs of Republicans. Any
Republican who did not like the can.
didates chosen by his party had the
privilege of voting for q Democrat
not at the primary to be sure, but
in the general election.
Would Bar Split Tickets
E. A. Capellas, another member of
the committee, supported he plan
from the floor. Democrats, he said
instead of voting for their own candi-
dates at the primaries, frequently
voted for the weakest Republican
candidates, hoping to defeat them in
they were nominated. Under the pro-
posed change in the law, split tickets
would be rejected and such irregu-
larities would be impossible.
Senator Kealoha of Kauai was not
convinced and argued with Kane and
Hakuole.
Joel c. Cohen favored the intent
of the plank, but thought any lay
embodying it ought to make sure that
the voters should declare his party
utilization at the polls, so that Re
publicans should receive only Repub-
lican ballots and Democrats only De-
mocrat ballots.
A. X. Vierra was vehement against