The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-12
The Independent Opposition Holds
Forth in the Sanctuary.
J. .. Garter and Henry WaterhOuse
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speeding the conditions under which the
meeting was to be conducted. He
called upon s. W. kaikuahine, Vice
President of the Board of Trustees, to be
Chairman, and ]. Alapai and w. Fl.
Kahumoku, members of the Board, to
act in consort with the Chairman The
meeting was opened with a prayer by
the Chairman. j. H. Kaiwi was elected
Secretary
j. NJ. Poepoe moved that the prime
movers in issuing the placards should be
the first to address the meeting, but he
was put down by the Chairman. The
latter said that those who were to speak
during the evening would come forward
in the order he called their names, and
were only to speak for ten minutes.
ID. w. Pua Kealaula, an Independent
! candidate, was first called, and said that
the King, the National and Independent
tickets were as one, the same as the
Father, Son and Holy Ghost. 1t was
not the salary of $500 he was after, as he
had means. If you want the pay, he
said, will give it all to you, only elect
me. Let opium come in that the Gov
eminent may benefit by it. Immigra-
ton he strongly opposed. With regard
| to the currency question, the limit of sill
yer should be 800. The law as it
stands now is hard on poor people.
j. Kanui, candidate on the indie
pendent ticket, asked the question ::
''What is our trouble?' He then went
on to speak of the decrease of the nation,
| as well as the increase. According to
would take until the year 1852 before the
last Hawaiian would be swept away.
w. S. Lokai and j. z. HanaaumOe,
| candidates for the Legislature on the
Workingmen's ticket, were the next
| speakers. The latter favored free liquor,
no immigration, the taxing of machinery,
the lowering of duties on imports and to
regulate the law respecting the Board OF
| Health
Hon. James Keau, National candidate,
spoke ON the gold law. He said some
people cry against it and some do not.
He proposed, if again elected, to vote to
regulate the currency and to support
further immigration; also, to vote for
large appropriations for the education OF
Hawaiian youths abroad.
J. NJ Poepoe was called upon, and
spoke in substance, to the effect that in
the law are our rights and wrongs. He
| strongly advocated free port for Homo
lulu as a means of increasing traffic,
thereby giving more employment.
| w. c. Achi, of w. r. Castles office,
and an independent candidate, spoke OF
the proper education of Hawaiian chill
dren, and especially in foreign lands, a.
doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc. H,
favored immigration, and spoke depre
catingly about the great man from San
| Francisco"
j. o. Carter, independent candidate
was next called upon, and was greeted
with cheers After speaking of his cleo
ton in 1872, and of his defeats in 1SS-
and 1884, he said he had been asked to
stand again at this election, and if de-
feated, would not fail to come forward
again in 1888. They might as well elect
him now as at any other time. Lon.
| obligation rested upon them to see him
returned to the Legislature. He asked
| whether they were satisfied with what
the members elected for Honolulu at tn .
last election did for them? He Wante
to say to them that if they were satisfied
1 IL L Il IL kho;
| he should not follow in the footsteps oi
| the late members. He would Away
| oppose a ten million loan. LOtterie
| he was ashamed of. He was al
advocate of gold. A large proportion o.
silver works injuries to the peoples in
terest He deprecated the free use OF
liquor. The present Ministry had failed
to run the Government from financial
standpoint. -Four years ago the Treasury
was full of money, and the debt was
small To-day it is without money, and
the debt larger than that of any country
in the world. Each one of them was in
dividually responsible for that debt.
There was debt of 81 900, 900, bearin :.
interest of $4,000 year. That was not
| the way to run Government, to have to
/ go outside and borrow money. He
knew that within the past two years
from 100000 to 100000 had gone
out of the country in consequence OF th>
owners of it having no faith in the Gov
eminent. The debt upon the Govern
ment was like mortgage upon house.
What had been done to Kunuiakea re-
Gently would happen to the Govern
ment.
H. S. Swinton, an independent candi-
! date from Lunalilo Home, got up and said
he was not hypocrite but fearless
man, and called upon them to return
fearless men.
Henry Warehouse, another indie
pendent candidate, mentioned the fact
of his having represented Honolulu in
1876, and that he had had numerous
calls lately to stand again, and had de-
cided to do so. In few days he in
tended to visit his constituents through
out the district.
j. u. Kawainui, editor of the OPPOSE
ton "Pae Alma, - said he felt as if he had