The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-08
LIBERALS MEET.
The Old Armory Crowded With
HaWaiianS.
Candidates Unanimously Ratified
Bush and Wilcox Air
Their Views.


secret meeting at the Queen street
Armory on Thursday evening at Z
o'clock. All the candidates for Mobiles,
Representatives excepting w. II.
Cummings and c. w. Ashford) and
Road Board were present, and pledged
themselves to support the Liberal
party's declaration of principles and
to work for the adoption of a new
constitution. These candidates will
hold mass meeting at Emma Square
tomorrow evening.
At 7:30 o'clock the door was opened
and the immense gathering of people
congregated outside began streaming
into the hall until nearly every avail
able space was occupied. Between
three and four hundred native voters
were present besides few foreigners.
The meeting was very enthusiastic
throughout.
Hon. JOS. NAWAHI-In politics we
Hawaiians should unite and leave
out personal feelings. We must
be unanimous in casting our
votes for our candidates for Mobiles,
Representatives, and Road Board.
We shall carry the day if we only
unite. The executive committees of
the National and International Lib
raj parties met this evening, and they
were unanimous in adopting our can
didates. We acted in unison as if
connected by family ties. No objec-
tions were made to our candidates
being mostly Hawaiians. Our foreign
friends rather favored it, and have
pledged themselves to support them.
Their browning ambition is to have a
new Constitution. The candidates for
Mobiles are G. B. Male, VIM. r. Holt
and A. Marques, each for six years
E. B. Thomas, four; and Captain J.
Ross, two years.
j. S. KekukahikO, the committee of
one appointed to wait upon the can
didates for the Road Board, presented
his report, which was adopted.
The President then introduced the
members of the Road Board, who
were received with rapturous cheers.
S. G.. DWIGHT: / am not going to
make long speech. shall state my
views regarding the Road Board on
Saturday evening. If we are success
full we shall endeavor to leave all
work appertaining to our office to the
lowest bidders. Favoritism will not
be practised. S. Mahelona and my
self have been objected to because we
are working under the same master.
That will not influence us in the dis
charge of our duties. The rights of
the people shall be our aim.
SAMUEL MAHELoNA: now give
you my consent to become your can
6i6ntc fO, h0 D4oI
aim to discharge our duties faithfully.
The public roads and bridges shall re-
ceive our close attention. The money
entrusted to our care is public trust,
and we shall sec that the peoples
wishes are fulfilled. We shall not
adopt the principles now in existence,
i. e., to have the roads where the
wealthy live we'll attended to and
those of the poor neglected.
A. FERNANDEZ: fully agree with
the views of the previous speakers.
We shall do what is right and fair.
Hon. r. w. WILCOX: Fellow citi
zens: During my recent tour around
Maui and Hawaii / have found the
people enthusiastic in our cause, and
without doubt, the Liberal party
shall be the flag of Hawaii. They are
united, head and heart. A new con
stitution is their universal patriotic
cry. If ever there is a party repre-
senting patriots it is the Liberal
party. If the Queen and the cabinet
are in. the wrong we are not afraid tC
say SO. We do not wish to flatter her
If we begin to fiatter hel
she would begin to expand with the
knowledge of her own Importance
and q disastrous result would follow
The greatest and worst evil among
Hawaiians is personal jealousy.
they see any Hawaiian rising to re
nown, they begin to work to bring
him down. Another evil is, wheI
any Hawaiian has attained the up
most round, he turns his face agains
his own people, and takes to foreign
ers os his equals. This is very detest
able. Foreigners follow q revers,
policy. When they rise to eminenc,
their friends would buoy them III
there. They would work to bring vi
their friends. 1t is not right tina
we should be jealous of each other
Our number is small. The native
Hawaiians are still decreasing, anC
we cannot tell where the limit will
be. The half-castes are increasing
however. They are the natives hope
To have hope in our future welfare
we do not want ignorant men to bt
the nations leaders. They will
surely lead us to destruction. The
Hui Kalaiaina and the Mechanics
Union are like dead crabs, they art
bodies without flesh. We hav,
chosen for representatives the mos
popular men in their districts. G
w. Ashford has been the one who
publicly exposed to you all the secret:
of the Reform party. If you de
not vote for our candidates
you will be the sufferers, because
you are poor. The wealthy will not
suffer. Several clauses in the Con.
stitution are suicidal to your inter
ests. The Reform party are jubilant
over it. They are laughing over
your misfortune. They sneeringly
say what fools these Hawaiians
are. S. K. Pua, our candidate for the
fifth ward, is the son of Noble Pua
He is as determined as his father
therefore vote for him. Those candi.
dates who have pledged themselves
to support our platform will work fol
our interests. If they prove false
you are at liberty to shoot them, and
no jury will convict you. Cheers.
If we have all control of the next leg
islature perhaps our Queen will look
to us favorably. 1t is perhaps an en-
couragement to her if she sees hel
people working as unit. She would
then look to our wants. The cabi-
net will not remain long if we get in.
HON. J. E. BUSH: The Hui Kalai-
alma and Mechanics Union are con-
Quoting q ruinous policy. Two of