The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-07-08
The REFORM PARTY
Held Mass Meeting At the Rides
Arrt.arN.


voters came together at the Rifles
Armory Wednesday night 10 rStfy
the nomination Of Mr., Yours. Mr..
7. c. Porter WIS chairman aud Capt
]. II. Fisher secretary.
Mr.. W. c. Wilder was the first
speaker. He was glad Mr.. Young
was nolninatei,znd believed be would
be elected. In the interests OF god
/ government Gnd progress in Hawaii
they would never be sorry if Mr..
Young WIS elected.
Mr. Alex Young. who WAS received
with loud applause, said; am glad to
be before you tonight 70 speak > few
words 10 NV fellow mechanics But
/ tlrSt, thank you for my nomination and
SSy that Il I should have the gooi fortune
10 Dc elected | viii nv 10 serve you-nos
being politician but only mechanic
As well ~ l have the Iron Works Co.
Gentlemen. / VAS looking for NV eng
mics but see only friends Nv Sttention
WAS called 70 Sn article IN the Elele. Ii
was nv character, and I tell yo1. gentle
men. II | hSd known I WAS such bad
man l could never have been tempted 10
receive nomination l question, &nd
some q you may decide II, whether l
can represent the mechanics or not l
came here IS lourneynSn aud worked
long SnG hard IS 5 lourneym&n. ! sue
eeeded 81 Isl n getting up cut q she
ranks, which l think Is the desire ol
every ho1e>r, deserving mechanic There
: no want that the woEAlngu2a knows,
thSr don't know, SnG often enough was
unwilling 70 meet the butcher o. baker
because could hardly find the money
to pay them. have noticed objections
10 myself - candidate Thsv sGy I
an rich Il owning plantation stock Is
weSlsh they may be right, but 1 MAIN
t4in that before long. the man With the
moSt plantation stock. vii Dc the poor
eSc man IN the country. I have word
Of comfort Tor these. Sni thSc Is parhSpS
l owe more than al the people N the
House put together. Another objection
Is, am not married 70 : Hawaiian l
cannot help that IS there we're none in
the country where I WAS married
daughter II i said that I would food
the country with Chinese deny that
Snd DEFY any one TO bring : grain OF
prof IN word o. deei for It. Applause
have conducted the Iroa Works for
twenty years. aud have had sometimes
my7e sod sometimes less l2borers At
preSen- there are shout go Leng be-
fore there VAS any Chinese question.
Chinese merchants have pleaded with NE
% take N Some Chinese friend l said no.
I warned wears ago, white carpenters
snd mechanics who were employing
Chinese, az IInst It, aud have told them
Whist they we're coming 10, and now those
are the men who paint the finger OF
ss0-n az me and say: There Is the man
who wants 10 food the country with
Chinese" They SAY, you talk finely.
Mr. Capitalist Young, but you can't get
ChInSmsn 70 do your work That Is :
lie. There are : hundred H2wsiizns IN
on shop who could Be replaced 6y
Chinese have been abused on this
Chinese question because | opposed Mr.
hinneyS oil IN lis original fOEm, but SIS
L Vas amended I voted against the in
definite posCpolement q the Dill. Now,
gentlemen, our main industry Is sugar
and We al zgree that il cannot De grown
with white labor. Whom are We to get?
There l. no substitute for the Chinese.
don't say this because | am fzyOrer
Of the Chinese. I viii never have one
20 work in my shops When l bought
controlling interest IN PepsekeO. l dis
charged every Chinzulsn above the ranks
Of 3 fed lzborer- Now, gentlemen,
propose TO shOz that the white mechan-
les and the Hawaiian planters need each
r--r- f--~r-
other. In 3 common sense view It
would Dc vel for the planter to see.
I got NJ fingers burnt the other dzv.
Some one proposed 10 bring out Scotch
men 10 EOrk 2s plantation lsb0Fers ard
l said they would never do 70 work IN
the fields alongside OF Chinsmen and I
sid / would rather manage 500 Chinese
under those CirCumst4nces than 100
ScOtehmen. Since tizel I Eare been
branded IS bad Se9tchnaG- (Tne
speaker here told humorous story 10
illustrate the relation Of mutual Deepen
dence between mechanics and planters
l have mentioned this to shoE that II
the mechanics are 10 prosper they must
let the planter have plantation labor. l
an as anxious as anyone OF yoa, that no
Chinzmzn shall ever handle . tool in
this country Gentlemen, IS actions
speak louder than words l accent ny
words by my actions. Il has also been
stated that an being elected in order
70 Gust the present ministry. That Is,
don't know what 70 cal It, II IS not true
have nothing 10 say against them.
have known some OF them ever since
came to the country, many from their
yu1th I'D. Mr. C1mmins Is = large
hearted Hawaiian and good man and
Z good representative OF this race, pub
Ec-spirited man too. l viii support q
Government that VIII ne progressive IN
al that pertains 10 the best good Of the
people aud THAI while progressive, viii Be
sufficiently conservative to avoid launch
ing the country into further needless debt. /
4 Government that vii without fear OF
fzyOr administer the laws Of the King
dom zs they exist and that viii seek 10
introduce such further legislation as
may Dc still required for the better gov
eminent Of His sIzjesty's subjects
Throughout the realm j Government |
that VIII so lar Is may be within It's
power, foster, protect, and seek by the
introduction Of suitable labor, and other |
wise 10 develop the main industries Of |