The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-10-04

party? Seeing what failure they
had made, they were ashamed of their
party, and their candidates were run
ming as Independents. Laughter
The Reform party that once had the
support of the natives and foreigners
should have nailed their cOlors to the
mast; and if their ship goes down, to go
down with their colors flying. Did l say
Independents? No! They are neutral
in everything, and independent in
nothing except to get in. Do l see
my friend of the p. G. ADVERTISERS
here? Whenever he gets me down,
he simply states that / told story.
That little clique of Waterhouse is in
the field again, and they have Water
house. / want to tell you story, and
he proceeded to tell the story of
widower who wanted to advertise for
wife who could use his former wife's
old clothes. That little clique, the
speaker said, wants to run again, and
they want Waterhouse to wear out
the old clothes again. But the ques-
ton is this: A Cabinet has been put
| in, and they have q load to carry.
| Voting for Waterhouse and Robinson
would mean that the Cabinet must
| 90 out. If they We're elected the
| speaker would graciOusly go out. But
| if the Cabinet stayed it would cut
down the salaries even lower
than the Committee of Ways
and Means had done. The debt
of this country must be paid,
and not one cent of it to be raised by
taxation. If this Cabinet could not do
it, it must go, citizens. They were
willing to try. If this Cabinet had
been chosen by the head of the coun-
try - by the Queen - then let the
country give them a chance to see
what they can do. He spoke on behalf
of himself and his colleagues. 1t was
| for those present to decide to-day whe-
Their this Cabinet should stay in, and
bring this country ont from the bur-
dens which the Reform party had
left, or not. He had no abuse what
ever for the Reform party, as that
party had helped in his election. He
believed Waterhouse good man but
poor politician. Robinson and Brown
he thought were respectable citizens,
and Maile and Hopkins as good as
anyone. But he thought the cabinet
should have trial and the way to
do that was to vote for Male and Hop
kins.
J. l.. Kaulukou wanted to see a
good government in the country, but
would not like to see cabinet go out
without being tried. The present
government had been called person
al government, but it is personal only
because such personal power is vested
in the sovereign by the constitution.
There is a rumOr current that some
in our midst wish to annex us to
America, but / assure you | am not
| L. - 10 n0 Il fnp
the sake of two cents bonus on sugar,
wish to see again what happened in
this building in 1887? No!
Mr.. G.. L. Hopkins (cheers) said that
week ago tonight, there was rati-
fication meeting held there. He had
expected to hear something, but hearo
nothing. There was nothing but "apol
ogies" made from the chairman down
They have called us "boodlers." Arc
you "boodlers" (cries of "no.") They
are the greatest boodlers. L shall eX.
plain why Thurston and his party are
boodlers. You are fully aware of whaI
took place in this hall in 1887. Thai
Constitution was intended to benefit
a few-the leaders of the Reform
party; the Constitution was not in
tended for the people. Thurston adj
vocated closer relations with Amer
lea. am greatly opposed to annexa
ton in any shape or form. There il
no way of obtaining closer relation!
except by annexation. / am in favo
of closer relations with America by
means of treaty, but not otherwise
The question of q lottery is agitatin.
the minds of the people. The lotter,
people promise to give us q cable
That would be the means of enrich
ing the people here. If the lotter,
bill passes, the streets of Honolulu
will be paved with silver. (Cheers)
Mr.. Male was not in favor of an
neXation.