The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-01-21

ne was WOrklngman ana mad worked
among the Portuguese many wears.
He hadn't figures with him but could
safely say he had paid quarter of q
million dollars to workingmen in this
town. To workingmen of all nation
alities he had paid not less than
$4,000, and TO Portuguese exclu-
sivcly not less than $4,000 a year.
He would like them to vote for him
self and if they thought the party
he was connec ed with was good vote
for it likewise. He was there now
to speak for himself and thanked
them for their attention. Gap
plause).
Mr.. II. Won Holt, candidate for
the road board, first became acquaint-
ed with the Portuguese colony some
years ago when a shipping clerk with
w. G.. Irwin q Co. Had he then
learnt good Portuguese as well as he
learnt naughty Portuguese he would
not require an interpreter. How
ever, he had been to school that day
and would give them the benefit of
the lesson. (Mr. Won Holt spoke
sentence in Portuguese, saying he
was known to them as "Harri," and
he was greeted with loud applause
and laughter.) Most that could be
said about the roads now was that
they were pretty bad, and If they
voted for him he should endeavor TO
improve their condition. If l do be
elected and any of you are working
on the roads, and do not do things
right, | may use the naughty Portu-
guese again and say Portuguese
translated freely, go ahead, boys,
work boys, contound you'll" (Roars
of laughter).
Mr.. John f. Colburn, candidate
for road board, said that of the can
didates for that office three of them,
Hawaiians, like himself, were EN-.
ployees of two business houses. Two
of these were on one ticket, and
people said it was strong one. If
the two employees of one lumber yard
down town were elected, that meant
that the roads were to be controlled
by that lumber yard. If the money
for the roads was to be spent in the
interest of private business, or for
bridges not needed, the workingmen
would get none of it. He pledged
himself if elected TO attend to the
duties faithfully and do his best TO
procure good roads. The money
would go to the men doing the work,
Hawaiians and Portuguese. There
was one candidate against whom he
would warn them. That was man
who had got S34 600 out of the
Government, which he couldn't have
got in any other way, and some of
the members of the Legislature who
helped him to it were now biting their
fingers.
Mr.. j. f. Bowler, candidate for
road board, was glad to address them
as mechanic who knew what good
work on roads and bridges was. AS
Mr.. Colburn had been good enough
to refer to the S34 900, he could say
that was got for work performed
Some of those before before him had
work ed for him in the works it was
paid for and he had paid them all for
it. Nobody could say that Johnnie
Bowler ever robbed man of a dol
lar or took bride. MIR. Colburn
had spoken about candidates employ
ed by lumber yard. And what
business was he in? Keeping a feed
store, and he wanted TO get on the
road board for what he could make
out of it. There were six independ-
ent candidates, among them John
COlburn, two-faced Hawaiian, who
came asking you Portuguese for your
votes. He (the speaker} had stood
by the people before, when V. V.
Ashford and associates were over
throwing the Government and get
ting new constitution, which G w.
Ashford was trying to change again
and get them 10 help him. Ashford
perhaps wanted share of the feed
when he couldn't get his hands on
the cash. These people were fond
of talking about the money he had
got openly but had nothing to say
about their own steaings round the
corner. In the very work for which
he had been paid, John Colburn had
been paid for drayage. The speaker
advised them to vote the National
Reform ticket for Mobiles, and please
themselves for Representative, but
whether they elected him or not do
not be deceived. And they could
rely on it, that man who used per-
sonallties to put himself ahead was
n. g.
Mr.. Jas. f. Morgan, candidate for
the road board, said it was late, and
he would ask them to vote for Jas.
f. Morgan and not be bashful about
1t. The ticket he was ON consisted
besides himself of John Phillips, a
mechanic, and Robert Lishman, the
best friend the Portuguese ever had.
II was only an honor to himself, as
he should have to give up time to
the service. They didn't intend to
put boulevard around every taro
patch, but they should attend to
roads on the water front where Por-
tuguese worked in the mud. He didn't