The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-01-28

great ltCnlng 10 see Ills speech rs iegis-
lator, gentleman, who ii might give
a little advice would attend less to poll
tics and more TO their own business 1t
would not be in the condition that
it is to-day. Laughter and applause).
| District No. 5, Robert Wilcox. The last
on the list but the head of the party, a
a gentleman who expects with the assist
ance of the little responsibility that he
has got upon this ticket on the 9TH oil
February to accomplish by ballot what
! he failed to do on the 30th of July by
bullets. (Applause). might go on
with the whole list all over the islands
but have no time, but will mention
one other candidate down here at Eva ;
he has a national reputation for being
expelled from the last Legislature for
bribery l might go on and speak OF
the next candidate, Antoine Rosa, a gen.
tlemau who has no more honor than to
! 90 up to one of our district clubs, sign
our constitution, piedging himself to
support our candidates and then comes
| down here within q week and from
! this platform pours out TRADES and
abuse Of the white men. His speech
from beginning to end was merely
| trying to crate race prejudice.
lie tells you that this thing will not be
settled until the streets run red with the
blood of foreigners. Is that the kind OF
men that you want on National Reform
party? l tell you, gentlemen. that he is
| poor specimen of mixed race who
has retained all the bad qualities OF a
white man and none OF the good qualities
| of the native. Great applause.) These
are gentlemen that set themselves up as
| National retormers and as the National
Reform party tell you, gentlemen, 1t
| is the Bush Wilcox party, and for my
closing remark l may say that you may
| call polecat by any other name, you
will find the smell remains just the same.
| daughter and applause.
Mr.. A. S. Hartwell said Gentlemen,
the name of Robert Lishman stands in
this community for strength and hon
esty. l never heard yet that Mr.. Lish-
man was an orator, but l never saw
Scotchman yet who had not reason to
give for the faith that is in him and l
will call upon him.
Robert Lishman said Fellow
zens, l thank you for nominating me as
candidate, and if [ am permitted to go
into the House shall do all that lays in
my humble power to carry all good
measures that Will p,rtaln to good gov
eminent. (Cries of hear, hear, and APP
plause). l believe in Reform Govern
ment, and | am satisfied that we
have the best government that | have
seen since l 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. l 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).
l believe We would do well by sticking
to the Reform Government. / have
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 a certainty
llldl lllGl nave OCCA ldllul GO CdNLl tlIhC-
(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 nv fellow mechanics because | am
mechanic to-day and 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. (Ap-
plause). There is one thing should
like to mention that would advocate if
l should get elected, and that is,
that the Government pay the high
est rate of wages to its employees
that is paid, in the district of Honolulu,
for l think they have not been paying
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 day, it is impossible
for that man to bring his family up and
clcthe and educate them in 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).
E. 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 1 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 MIR. Chairman and |
fellow citizens: have received to-day a |
copy of paper which l 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
plausel My friends will indulge my
vanity little when l tell you, that this |
document value very highly for the fact |
that it contains my commission as a |
Brigadier General, signed by the Hon. |
John E. Bush, ex-Minister OF the Interior |
and ex-so forth and SO FORTH daughter. |
When | was in the Union army bore |
the rank Of a non-commissionedo officer, |
but where am to-day? Laughter and |