The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-11-24
THE LIBERAL PARTY.
An Enthusiastic Meeting on Sat
urday Night.
Fiery Speeches by DIR. Hammond, r.
w. Wilcox and j. T.. Bush.

The old Armory on Queen street
was filed to its utmost capacity on
Saturday night, the occasion being a
meeting held by the National Liberal
Party. Many were unable to gain
admittance, and contented them
selves by standing outside and list
ening attentively to the proceedings
going on within. President J. f.
Bush conducted the meeting which
was quite orderly. A few drunken
men attempted to run the meeting,
but they were promptly silenced.
After the reading of the minutes of
the previous meeting, Hon. r. w.
Wilcox, chairman of the executive
committee, read the following names
as delegates to the nominating con-
vention:
Ward 1-R. w. Wilcox, ]. w. Ka-
halewai, and Kamakauwila.
Ward 2-J. w. Pipikane, Kahuakai,
and Kahanawai.
Ward 81. Prendergast, ]. s. Keku-
kahiko, and Jas. Aud.
Ward &C. B. Male, Mauliawa, and
Holoua.
Ward 5-Kanoa, d. w. Pua, and .Ka-
laehao.
The selection of the central execu-
tive committee to be composed of
twenty-one members was postponed
till next meeting.
The chair called upon DR.. Ham
mond to address the meeting. The
Doctor complied and began as follows:
/ have been requested to give lee
ture on ''The legitimacy of popular
election" had no hand in the selec-
ton of my subject; it was published
in the papers before l knew anything
about it, but am here tonight be-
cause / love the workingmen. Before
coming here this evening, was as
sured that would have several hun
dred wOrkingmen present tonight.
/ hold the laboring class dear to my
heart, therefore / am here to talk to
you. The workingmen are people
subject to sudden changes. Some
times they are looked up to by philo-
sophers and the wealthy class, and at
demned by that very class of people.
[Applause]. They publish to the
world that workingmen are the "bone
and sinewn Of nation, and at an
other time they say that the work
ingmen are the curse of nation.
[Applause]. Popular elections give
men the right to vote irrespective of
money. Had / a hand in naming the
subject, / would have had it: ''The
eXpediency of popular election" In
answer L would ask, is it expedient
for any young man at the age of
twenty-one years to vote irrespective
of money. l say, yes, because it gives
men liberty. Your present law on
the voting question takes away the
liberty of many citizens of this great
nation. What is liberty, L ask. l
answer, liberty consists in the faculty
of choosing between means which
lead to given end. Liberty is an
acting power. Men are elected 20 en-
act the laws of the nation. You have
no power to elect men to make laws;
you must obey as prisoners do to
Tailor, either obey him or be locked up.
1t should be the head and brains that
vote and not gold and silver. Zap
plause. You have heard of Nebu-
chadnezzar; how he made a golden
image 105 feet high, and worshipped
it. Your golden image is the $500,
that's what you worship. The quail
fication for voting should be based on
brains and knowledge, and no. on
money. Lord Bacon's famous maxim
was knowledge is power" Those
who arranged your voting laws wisely
placed the qualification on property
and not on your ability to read and
write, because you would then dis
gorge from them what they had taken
by unrighteous means. Applause.
1t is the duty of men to study, to
learn, to choose good and to reject
evil, to learn to do that which ele-
Yates and ennobles nation, and to
reject that which curses humanity.l
The other day / saw a man leaning
against fence. went closer to him,
and found out that he was leaning on
a surveyors instrument. | said to
myself, another law suit. They APP
point man here for surveyor with
out regard to his capacity. | have
paper here in my hand exhibiting iD
given to Inc yesterday, stating that
an appropriation of S63, 900 YVES made
to those men, who know nothing
whatever about surveying Cat least
GWO- Va anu AGAA DONCA
passed an examination whatever. i
think a popular vote would soon
make a change. [Applause.] A man
said to me the other day that it was
the missionaries who had done the
most to stop the importation of intoxi-
eating liquors. / replied to him that
these men when they get into office
would soon take $4,000 to fill their
pockets. [Applause.] Again, if you
have popular election you would not
make law requiring young men be-
tween II and 20 years of age to pay a
poll tax; that would be making poor
people support the government. Elect
no man in the legislature who had
not shown in the past free record.
Peter the Great, of Russia was reck-
less youth. The story goes that he
was taken sick once, and on the brink
of death he said to the priest, "God
spare me to be better man." He
got better, but he returned to his evil
ways. The following poetry is appro-
pirate:
The Devil was sick.
And the Devil saint would be;
The Devil got better,
And the devil saint was he.
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