The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-01-22
REFORM MASS MEETING.
The Balance OF the Speeches Delivered
Monday Evening.

the name OF Robert LlShman stands in
this community for strength and Ion
esty. | never heard yet that Mr.. Lish-
man was an orator, but | never saw a
Scotchmar yet who had not reason to
give for the faith that is in him and |
will call upon him.
Robert Lishman said Fellow citi-
zens, | thank you for nominating me as a
candidate, and if | am permitted to 20
into the House | shall do all that lays in
my humble power to carry all good
measures that will pertain 10 good gov
eminent. (Cries of hear, hear, and APP
plause). l believe in Reform Govern
ment, and l am satisfied that we
have the best government that | have
seen since | have been in this country.
L consider that they have done well,
taking into consideration the poor start
that they had when they came in. They
have been in existence little over two
years. / don't say that they have
pleased every one, and perhaps | may
say that they have not pleased me alto
gether, but | am satisfied that we have
better roads, an improved water supply,
We have got the electric light, and be-
lieve we would have waited for years
under the old government before we
would have got any OF the great advan-
tages which we now enjoy. (Applause).
believe we would do we'll by sticking
to the Reform Government. | nave
viewed the Opposition party and | am at
a loss where we could get candidates to
carry on honest government, as some OF
them have been tried before as far as
three times, and | know for certainty
that they have been failures each time.
(Cries of hear, hear, and applause). You
are aware, gentlemen, that | took an
active part in Chinese restriction and
that failed. l would like to have stuck
to my fellow mechanics because l am a
mechanic to-day and a friend of the me-
chanics but it was not for the benefit
OF the mechanics, it was simply to route
out this present government and put
something in its place that was not to be
compared with it, and on account of that
l was obliged to leave them. Gap
plause). There is one thing should
like to mention that | would advocate if
| should get elected, and that is,
that the q )vernment pay the high
est rate of wages to its employees
that is paid, in the district OF Honolulu,
for think they have not been pay ing a
sufficient rate of wages to laboring
classes so that they were able to keep
their families in decent manner. /
think that laboring man that is paid
less than dollar a day, it is impossible
for that man to bring his family up and
clOthe and educate them in a respect
able manner. Gentlemen, | will not en-
croach longer upon your valuable time
as we have superior orators to what |
am. / thank you kindly for your atten-
ton. (Applause).
f. S. Cunha, in answer to calls, said ::
MIR. Chairman and gentlemen There
is nothing left unsaid for me to say.
will simply thank you for nominating
me, and ii [ get elected shall endeavor
to do my best for the good of all. Gen
tlemen, thank you again, and hope
that you will not have misplaced your
confidence IN me. (Applause.)
RI. Greene said Mr.. Chairman and
fellow citizens: | have received to-day a
copy OF paper which | did not before
know existed in our midst. 1t is named
the Voice of the Nation, issued every
day in the week except on the Sabbath
and on Sunday. daughter and APP
SG,1
vanity little when tell you, that this
document l value very highly for the fact
| that it contains my commission as a
Brigadier General, signed by the Hon
John f. Bush, ex- Minister OF the Interior
and ex-so forth and so forth. daughter.
| When was in the Union army | bore
the rank of non-commissioned officer,
| but where am | to-day? daughter and
| | ghnntI @
great injustice to the editor of this paper
Who is himself Major-General on the
right wing of the National Reform party
if did not announce as he has an
nounced here, the tactics on which he
conducts his campaign. 1t reads as fol
lows: "The Workingmen's party pro
pose to win this fight by honorable tao
ties Gentlemen, when a great engine
was turned out of the Taunton Locomo
tive Works, the first thing was to ties
the boiler; then having gotten up steam
the master mechanic stepped on to tn
footboard, seized the lever, let on tn
steam little by little until the huge irol
monster moved cautiously out OF the sho
on to the main track. Little by little h
lets on steam, a little more and littl
more until the grand machine move
, under full speed. At the first station h
finGs heated box, or loose screw, or
bolt too tight. What does he do, tur
back to the yards and dump his gran
machine into the waste pile of old iro
and begin a new machine? No; tn
} engineer steps down from his footboarC
eases a screw here, tightens nut theI
, and bolt here, and finds his machin
in perfect order, aud with confidence h
opens wide the throttle and dashes OF
2 into the night at full speed, over moul
tains, down grades and along dark, dee
] ravines, confident, trusting, stalking h
1 own life and the lives of all who ara wit
t him. Every friend of the Reform part
knows that our Constitution is rot abs
lutelv perfect; but those who shall kno
i better than the master builders what
g needs, who are better qualified to mai
e such improvements upon 1t and IN tt
, distribution of its provisions, in.the a
l. plication of its provisions, than thO
who have made it and those who ha,
labored SO faithfully to test 1t. "a
y plause.) Gentlemen, SO much has bee
l. said tonight in regard to the Nation
It Reform party that it is not needful +
}. me to say more. A wise General beto
y leading his troops into battle, reconnOite
to learn as near as possible the streng
of the enemy, and not only his streng
d numerically, but the nature and exte
" OF his Notifications. Referring, gent
< men, to the tactics of Major-Gener
e Bush, allow me to say that | have I
It cononitered a little along the enemi
k lines, and find in the Fourth ward
small squad in command OF Major Tho
K. Lucas, (aughter.) who has stat
l. within the last two or three days that
" / Greane-Genl Il j Greene-hOaSt