The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-01-28
NATIONAL LIBERALS.
Spout Soft Sawder to the Dear
People.
Large Mass Meeting in Emma square
20. w. Ashford, W. &.

from 5OU to 600 people were gathered
in Emma Square to the National
Liberals mass meeting. The crowd
increased as the oratory proceeded.
Mr.. G. w. Ashford began speaking
sharp on time. He stated that he
had sent an invitation to Mr.. Dillng-
ham and MIR. Thurston to be present
and explain that $500 stock deal,
assuring them that they would have
a respectful hearing. He then in a
loud voice called out, "Where are
you, Mr.. Dillingham;" This call
addressed to Mr.. Thurston was re-
peated in the same voice, eliciting
applause and laughter. He had not
seen that evenings BULLETIN but had
been told it had an item stating that
Mr.. Thurston had been persuaded by
his friends to keep away for fear of
raising row, also that Mr.. Dilling-
ham gave his reasons for staying
away in an open letter received too
late for that issue. He would in
troduce the young candidate for
Representative in the Fifth Ward.
Mr., Pua opened by saying they
were before them as the Liberal
party, and asking them to vote
straight. John A. Cummins when a
Minister wanted to grant the United
States power TO land troops, and to
annex the country. The Queen had
dismissed that man from her Cabinet.
John A. Cummins was before them
again, protesting love for the Hawai-
ians, but it was all love of the lips,
and he should not be trusted. The
enemies of Hawaiians were to be
found among themselves, Cummins
and others associated with him. He
begged the people to give their sup
port to G. W. Ashford in that ward,
and to himself in the fifth ward.
Mr.. Ashford said in this campaign
of inconsistencies, when the Sons of
Hawaii put up Massachusetts
lawyer, and the Mechanics Union
put up German lawyer, it was re-
freshing to find the National Liberals
putting up genuine mechanic. He
introduced
Mr.. E. B. Thomas, candidate for
Mobiles who was glad to speak for him
self, having been represented on that
square before by MI. Bush. Before
accepting their nomination he had
examined their platform, finding it
the only one TO hold water. The
platforms of the Mechanics Union
was the greatest rubbish. Anybody
elected on it could do as he liked,
and that's what they wanted. The
platform of the Liberal party was
such as the sons of the soil, and
American and European mechanics
wanted. There was an item in the
policy of the planters to dissolve the
rice plantations and turn them into
swamps. Was that what they want
ed? Ono" and "aole.") People
told him every day that they wonder
ed how he got so low as to run with
Bush and Wilcox. Men like Wide
mann and Cummins weren't too low
TO run with Bush and Wilcox two
years ago. Were Bush and Wilcox
any worse now? Paul Neumann call
ed himself something near mechanic
because he worked in the mines of
California. And Peterson the giant
could sling ink in printing office, or
do anybody's work from that of the
devil upward, and the speaker be-
lieved it. (Laughter.) Why should
man getting only $40 week pay
school tax, when children in the
United States and England got edu-
cation free? And those people pay
ing such school tax had 10 have
coolies imported to compete with
them. There was corporation
formed some years ago called the
Planters Labor and Supply Co., to
get labor for the plantations, yet
they didn't pay for the labor but the
Legislature paid 100000 one year
for them. When the natives began
to complain about the Chinese, those
people had nothing to say. But
when the foreigners complained four
years ago men were sent to the
Legislature to stop Chinese coming.
Then Paul Neumann was sent to
Japan to get japanese, and these
were worse curse than the Chinese.
In every branch of industry Japanese
were intruding Every few years
fresh lots of Asiatics were being in
troduced. Why not pass a law at
once to stop them altogether? All
he wanted was to see a state of
things where the freeman would
know his lines and the slave his own.
John Ena professed love for the Ha-
waiians, but it was only for a few
days. Go up Manoa Valley where
he was building house, and they
wouldn't find any kanakas there.
CA voice = "No; plenty opium"
Laughter.) They wanted men in
the Legislature who would consider
the rights of workingmen, and not
men who couldn't get down to the
mudsills of society. Look at Great
Britain and the United States, where
they sent workingmen to their
Legislatures, and the result was the
passage of good laws. 1t was false
that the Liberals opposed treaty,
but they wanted an equilateral, that