The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-01-14

| Vi SUSTAINING In6 OaDllleI. uOn'I ask
you and l don't want you to pledge
yourselves to support the Cabinet per-
sonally; support if you chose the prin-
ciples which the Cabinet has put forth
and which they propose to lay before the
Legislature whom you elect if you APP
prove OF those principles; if you believe
the Cabinet are going to carry out those
principles, If you believe from the per-
sonality of the Cabinet that they will
carry out what they propose, then sup
port the principles and thereby inciden-
tally the Cabinet, but don't send men to
the Legislature TO support the Cabinet
whether or no, no matter what they
have done. applause. Mr.. Thurston
also spoke at some length in Hawaiian,
which was not translated.
| J. W. Gibbs said MIR. Chairman ::
! There has been a great deal said here by
the last speaker that if you think it is
all right, it is all right, and if you don't
| think it is all right, it is all right any
how, which is the whole substance of it.
| | wish to state here on behalf of the Hui
! Kalaiaina and the Workingmen's and
| Mechanics Union that that article which
you have read tonight about us stealing
! your name and platform is an emphatic
| lie, because we have never passed any
| such resolution in Joint committee.
Mr.. Thurston III have done any in
| justice to the organization | sincerely
regret it. l supposed what has been
published in the newspapers was au-
thentic, that they had adopted the name
that has been published, of the National
| Reform party. Ii they intend to stand
| Nv ha ol I
ton.
Mr.. Gibbs On behalf of those socie-
ties l will accept your apology, Mr..
! Thurston.
w. G. Achi said MIR. Chairman and
gentlemen: Two years ago was on the
opposition ticket in this district. The
Reform party had just taken hold Of
affairs then and nothing was certain,
nothing had been tried. From that time
until now we have seen that the Govern
ment has made fair attempt TO lead
| the administration of affairs in the pro-
per channel. When we look back at the
last two years and compare them with
| the two years before these last two, |
think we are perfectly safe in saying that
| these last two years beat those other two
years all to pieces. In my travels here
| tofore before this new administration
came into power, had to 60 to several
OF the islands,. One of the notable i'm
provements has been, wherever the
money has been spent and wherever
people have been hired to work they
have done their work thoroughly and
we'll So it is in this city and on this
island. l believe that if these affairs are
carried on in the same ratio OF increase
as they have been III the past, that we
shall improve very much in the course
of the next two years. The principal
part of this Constitution which we have
signed and adopted this evening states
that this meeting, this club is for the
| purpose OF assisting and selecting honest
representative men for the Government.
l have been born in this country and
intend to live here until | die. L think
it is a proper duty and an important one
which devolves upon us Hawaiians, to
look after this matter very thoroughly
and see that the men that we select and
the men that we vote for are men who
will see that the interests OF this country
are carried on so that we will not only
look to the present but to the future. Ii
| thought that this Constitution which |
have signed was going to contain any
statement Of support OF the Ministry |
would not have had anything to do with
it but its statement is that we are to
pick out good, honest, representative
men to go to that Legislature, and as
Mr.. Thurston, the Minister, has said be-
fore me, if those men find that the coun-
try has been benefited on those grounds,
why we stand ready to approve of that
action, if not, why they must 60 out. l
feel that if we can send men to the
Legislature who are going to carry out
the principles OF the Reform government
and they find that these Ministers have
not carried out the policy, why it will be
the order of the day to call mass meet
ings and demand OF the Representatives
that they fire these Ministers out. There
have also been rumors on street corners,
but they only deal with generalities and
never can be traced to any source, and
that is why you want to chose honest
men to go there and find out If there is
any truth in these rumors. My idea al
ways has been for the peace and safety
of our homes, and think it is wisdom
on our part to pick out those men to
serve us in the Legislature who will be
bound to be true in that respect and who
will not cause any disturbance for our
families or for our safety.
My friends may think that the reason
| have not come out as a candidate on
any side, and the reason l have come
out and joined this society is because l
have and am looking for a nomination
from them; that l have turned to this
side because have position of notary
public from the Government; because L
expect Government position, but there
is nothing of the kind. Therefore, |
wish my Hawaiian friends to distinctly
understand that it is for no purpose OF
that kind, for there is nothing that will
tempt me from my own business.
have no idea whatever of running as
representative from this district, but
what l do wish is that all the residents
of this district should join in one voice
in bringing forward one man who will
carry out the ideas which have
already stated. l must go where my
feelings are and my feelings have
been SO far with the idea OF consti-
tutional government. Therefore it is our
duty, and l would request all of those
r,raSant m chOOaa honest representative