The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-09-27
Observation-Disclosures.
Ratification Meeting of the Com.
bined Liberal and Independent
Parties


street Armory, for ratification of the
nomination of Mr.. Henry Water
house and Mr.. NJ. p. Robinson as
candidates for Mobiles.
Mr.. j. S. McCandless, interpreted
by Hon. j E. Bush, called the meet
ing to order and asked for the cleo
ton of chairman. Hon. w. c.
Wilder was elected by reclamation.
Mr.. w. Luther Wilcox was invited
to act as interpreter, and Mr.. j. A.
Low as secretary.
Mr.. Wilder in opening the meet
ing said they did not assemble as
Reformers or National Reformers or
Liberals, but as citizens DESTROYS of
selecting the best men for the vacant
Noble seats. Politics made strange
bedfellows and they might find a
curious mixture in those to address
them. 1t had been said that the
National Reformers nominated the
Noble candidates at the general
election and the votes of the old
Reformers elected them. 1t was re-
presented that if the Reformers did
not help the ticket there was danger
that some of those people called
Liberals might be elected. But
after what had been seen in the
Legislature the past few weeks he
didn't know but there might be
worse than Liberals in the world
They were here to ratify the nomi-
nations of the Honorables Henry
Waterhouse and Mark Robinson.
These candidates had given no
pledge of what they would do when
elected, but were nominated for
their known good qualities for the
position. He would introduce Hon.
l.. A. Thurston as the first speaker.
Mr.. Thurston said he was one of
those who assented to the arrange
ment at the general election, but
now he was ready to confess the Re
form Party was like the whale when
it swallowed Jonah-they believed
they had got bellyful. Their OPP
ponents would cry out about the
Inconsistency of Thurston and Ash
ford and Bush and Wilcox being on
the same side. If their former OPP
ponents were supporting the same
principle as themselves they were
not to rebuff them. The speaker
spoke of the Attorney Generals
course in the late events, and went
on to give reasons why the Water
house-Robinson ticket should be
voted for. While all the opponents
of that ticket were not boodlers, all
the boodlers were opposing it. They
all knew Warehouse or Robinson
had nothing to do with the opium
ring. Neither would they be found
supporting personal government,
with it's backstairs and midnight in
fuences, and it was desirable to have
men in the Legislature who would
oppose such state of affairs no
matter in what form the opposition
might come. AS to the other ticket:
Male sold good fish, for he had
bought them from him. Hopkins
was good deputy police Judge
when he could get job, but he had
a punuku (halter) on his nose. The
lottery question was not before the
country at the general election, but
had sprung up since. There was
talk that the lottery was dead, but all
the same it was showed up to every
National Reform candidate as con
dition of his acceptance. Now when
the Advertiser had come out this
morning making the lottery an issue,
the BULLETIN came out this evening
with double-leaded article denoun-
cling the lottery as fraud and a
swindle. That showed the lottery
had become losing game, because
up to this time the BULLETIN had
coi1 not htnrr h Of
against the lottery, but had been
filed with letters-he did not know
whether they were editorial or not
in favor of the lottery. Another
matter before the electors was the
relations between this country and
the United States. Some wind bag
would be heard tomorrow saying,
"There goes Thurston for annexation
again" But he didn't care-the
question OF preserving good relations
with the United States was one
on which the strongest annexation
lists, the most staunch Republicans,
Reformers and Liberals could stand
on the same platform. Waterhouse
and Robinson could be depended on
to do nothing that would not tend
to promote good relations with the
United States. The head of the
Ministry was known for his antagon-
ism to American interests, and was
on record in an attempt to affront
the representative of the United
States. Referring to other candi-
dates, he said personally there was
little to choose between Cecil Brown
and either Warehouse or Robinson
Mr.. Brown might be standing for
the same principles as they were, but
his candidature showed him pursu-
ing an unpatriotic course. He
(Brown) had got mad when waited
on by committee and told he could
not get all the support required,
and said he would run anyway. If
they all worked hard till election
day, they would elect Henry Water
house-Cecil Brown or no Cecil
Brown, Male or no Male.
Hon. j. E. Bush, on coming for
ward, thanked the chairman for call
ing him. He was for good govern
ment, was anti-lottery, anti-gam-
bling, anti-government that support
ed such things The two parties
now brought together were so for
the sake of representative as against