The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-18
PALACE SQUARE.
The Scene Of Much Windy OratOry.
@. ". Ashford ReneWs His Love
for the People.
Speeches by r. Il. Thomas, Bush, the
mongcr Out of His Sphere.

The PUA-BUsH- WILCox-AsHFORD
party held an open-air meeting at
Palace square on Saturday evening.
The number of people present must
have been at times in the neighbour
hood of four hundred. Among other
things
Hon. J E. BUSH said: Education
is of no account when the Queen con-
descends to NEEDLE with politics. The
premier is so heavily in debt that Sam
Damon leads him by the nose. A
queen demands respect, so should the
judiciary; but when queen leaves
her high station and interferes with
our politics, she has overstepped the
bounds of propriety-she has dignity
no longer. j. S. Kekukahiko: Polo
lei-thats correctl. We are not con-
trolled by the sugar planters God
alone is guiding our party into safe
haven. When 1 was governor of
Kauai slept with plantation labor
ers, in poorly-ventilated rooms; my
object was to discover their treatment,
and regret to say that they were fed
on something worse than salmon.
They did not have morning meals at
all. / hear that j. Poe has sold his
birthright to t. r. Lucas, and that
worthless creature of the last legisla-
ture will run in his stead.
S. X. AK: Friends.-ThiS is my
maiden appearance before an inn
mense gathering like this. / have
no knowledge of law and am entirely
ignorant of economical questions. My
only qualification is my common
sense to judge between right and
wrong. / am q member of the Hui
Kalaiaina, but as they are harboring
measures which would endanger our
independence, l have opposed them.
G. B. MALE: / am not accustomed
to facing any large audience. [ have
been brought up as a fishmOnger-a
seller of salmon and dried fish. That
is my real sphere, but as you have
honored me with q nomination / shall
endeavor to aid Bush and Wilcox, our
redeemers. If elected, creeping males
(vines) will shake the very founda-
tiOns of the legislative hall. do not
know anything about law, but L do
know our grievances.
r. B. THOMAS: Gentlemen. This
is the first time [ ever addressed
large audience under the open canopy
of heaven. Many weeks ago the Me-
chanics' Union barred out professional
men from their society, but lawyers
are now on their ticket. They say
that they have no ak to grind. Do
you believe them? Voices: No!1 If
you vote for me you expect no sub
sidy, no Doodle practice done by me.
The platform shall be carried out to
the letter.
Hon. w. II. CUMMINGS: Aloha.
Bribery is now in vogue. If others
should practice corruption by offer
ing you money, accept that gratui-
tous offer and vote for us. The Consti-
sutton has heaped sorrows upon me.
1t is better for you to vote for the
biggest Ounce on earth than to vote
for talkative cuttlefish. [Cries of
"Bullock'' from the audience.] Have
been requested to talk against time,
ample time to rest his jaws. The
into ditch. Audience: You have
been baptised; do it again [ am
told that the proposed treaty now at
Pearl Harbor in order that we may
have a. one cent bounty on sugar for
twenty years.
meeting such as we have tonight is
hos hnl
liberty in high esteem, and it is your
duty to see that it is not wrenched
away from you. / have cOntended for
the retention of liberty by Hawaiians
because I love you. If you elect me
from the Third Ward, shall contend
still more for the retention of your
liberties and the uplifting of your
rights. / come before you to remind
you that the Liberal party is under
definite promises. The leading fea-
up in two words: Equal Rights. I'm
der the present Constitution, you are
not enjoying equal rights. You have
not the equal right of suffrage. Gen
tlemen, we are as far west as we can
possibly be In this world, and the
civilization of the west is far superior
W tlldD VI JuG CdSJ. 1nOSS DSOpIS
pressing the retention of the Consti-
tuition ignore the poor and set the
rich above the poor; that's not right.
The Government is more corrupt now
than the time when the people took
to themselves to abbrogate the Con-
stitution and set up another. Now is
the time to return to the eternal
principles of justice. You were arbi-
trarily deprived of your liberties in
1887. That Constitution was never in
tended to last long. The expectation
of those who participated in it was
that there would speedily come new
constitution which the people would
demand, and L submit that that time
has now arrived. But that class of
the community who are greatly bene-
fitted by it oppose it. 1t is q pleasant
thing for some to hold ten times as
much political power as their neigh
bors, but it is not right. Inequality of
the franchise is one of the serious blem-
ishes that now deface the Constitu-
ton. Many desire that the native
population, the natives of the soil,
should have q new constitution, for
their voice is the voice of the people,
and the "vOice of the people is the
voice of God,n and God must be
obeyed. But some men say: No. 1t
is good enough for them, so they eX-
pect it to be good enough for you also.
They put me in mind of an ugly saw
age nurse who had charge of an i'll