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

ever maze is mere IN TINS Kingdom.
For building up the country, finding
employment for hundreds of men and
increasing the revenues of the coun-
try, / am condemned by Ashford,
who would not pay as much in taxes
TO the government in 300 years as l
have been instrumental in doing this
year. Multiply 300xS43. leave
my fate in your hands, gentlemen,
and take my chances with the rest of
the country. If you elect me | will
do my best to advance the country.
Your interests, my interests and the
interests of every honest Industrious
man in the kingdom lie in one and
the same direction. thank you and
the Native Sons of Hawaii for the
confidence reposed in my honor and
honesty of purpose, to allow me to
run without being tied to platform.
If you elect me don't think you will
ever have occasion to regret it. Now
before l close / will refer briefly to
Mr.. Ashfords unwarranted attack
upon me and interests l have the
honor to represent. There is fami
liar saying that if a man would be a
successful liar, he must have a good
memory: a quality G. w. Ashford
seems not to possess. Mr.. Ashford
did not surprise me with the untruths
he uttered concerning me and my In
terest in the railway. | was only
surprised that he did not make more
false statements. | did not accept
his invitation TO be present as l con-
sldered myself familiar with the
business he promised to speak about,
and knew that if he told the truth ]
should have nothing to learn and he
would have nothing to gain. AS a
matter of fact he knows that | never
offered him anything in my life, for
anything he was expected to do or
anything he had done for the Rail
way Company while in office, and he
does not believe in his heart that l,
or anyone with my knowledge, ever
bribed anybody else. If he does, be
sustains the impressions many peo-
pie seem TO have of him, and con-
demns himself by his own speech,
when he says, in the beginning,
"Mr. Dillingham; is gentleman for
whom l have high esteem" Far
Their on he says, 81 was offered $500
worth of stock IN the company for
service rendered in the Legislature
and Cabinet" Now, if both of these
statements are true, then Mr.. Ash
ford has high esteem for man who
offers to bride Government officials,
and this accords exactly with what
many people seem to think of him.
Ashford talks about employing Chi
nese. What does he do? He, true
to his principles, condemns me for
employing 10 Chinese out of 81 men,
while he (Ashford) employs only two
men, both of whom are Chinese. The
Railway Company have on their pay
roll to-day SO men of the following
nationalities: American, English
men, Germans, Hawaiians and 81
Portuguese. The most of these men
have been in the employ of the COM
pany long time, some have been
with US three years. Also % Japa-
nese and 8 Chinese. Ashford is re-
ported to have solicited votes from
some of my Portuguese at the Wood
lawn Dairy. When they told him
they would vote for the man who
employed them, Ashford told them
that he would raise their wages to
$50. Gentlemen, if Ashford is going
to take my pet dairy away from me
when he is elected, and vote sub
sidy to support higher wages in the
milk business, when | have only had
one dividend from that source in
twelve years; as taxpayer pro-
test. The Portuguese knew too much
for that kind of liar, and told Ash
ford they would take the wages they
were sure of. 1t did not require any
extra cheek for him to do that kind
of thing, you see; it has become
second nature. Ashford says L gave
the Chinese the first work on the
road, and drew the money out of the
Government Treasury to pay for the
work. Here he gets off another one
of his constitutional falsehoods. He
knows that l nor anyone else received
one cent from the Government in aid
of the first fifteen miles of railway
and equipment. All the Government
has ever paid is last year and this
year, subsidy of 500 per mile per
annum on the last four miles, total OF
$4,592, bounty enough to keep nine
teen miles of road bed in order for
four months. The grading for thirty
two miles was let out by contract to
Chinese after being advertised in the
English, Hawaiian, Portuguese and
Chinese papers. The only bid for
the whole work vas made by Chi
nese. Mr.. Ashford says never put
fve-cent piece into the Hallway
Company. lie knows il to be fact.
Again be lies to you in cold blood.
| have put oyer 100000 into the
railway in gold coin and my personal
credit. Besides, gentlemen, Ashford
is an unmitigated fraud, and so is
any other man who will lie, as he has
done, to catch votes or catch any
thing else hut the small pox. / think