The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-02-03

ing my CaDuIudCy LOT NODlS CndilScu
from two to a slx-year term. This is
not so. | changed the term OF nay own
free will and without influence from you
or any one else. Yours truly,
JOHN EMMELUTH.
Feb. 2, 1892.
The next charge is that l have stab
bed Mr.. Thurston while he was
friend of mine. Now that like the
other statement is false. And the
third great charge that has been
made against me is that have been
lodging the rice question. Now, if
it were true that had been strad-
ding that question, [ should have
had plenty Of company in this cam
paign But such is not the case.
The document charges me with hav-
ing made certain statements at the
spOnsible for what an incompetent
reporter says l said. What l said
that night was that / was not in
favor of taking the duty off rice unless
it was vital to the sugar industry.
But l have occupied the time in
which ought to have spoken on the
questions of the day with my own
personal matters, but it seemed neces-
sary / should have done so in my
own Justification. In closing, | have
only this much to say. You have
heard all our candidates talking until
you are tired Of hearing them. You
have heard their views on all the
leading questions of the day. We go
home this evening and know that
our duty is done. Tonight our duty
is done, but tomorrow morning yours
will come. Tomorrow the duty falls
upon you of saying what your wishes
are for the future welfare of the coun-
try. How are you going to meet that
duty? Are you going to vote for the
friends of the country, or for its enc
mics, or are you going to throw your
vote away?
Mr.. KEKIPI: I ask your indul-
gence, as was taken i'll last evening
and am not we'll now, but as this is
the last opportunity l thought /
should address you. [ wish to thank
| those foreigners who have helped to
choose me and have supported me in
my contest with Mr.. Dillingham; and
| Mr.. Ashford. Because | was put up
as a candidate Mr.. Ashford has said
unpleasant things about me, and now
| it becomes my duty to say unpleasant
things about him. You must not for
| get that Mr.. Ashford was the man
who first started the present Ccnsti-
tuition on the floor of this building,
and has used this new Constitution
as bait to my people, so that l see
very few of you here this evening.
But believe the foreigners here will
help you to elect me. If Mr.. Ashford
is elected it will place a stigma on
every voter in that district, as he is
the man who has caused disturbance
in this country, and 1 will brand him
as a man whose hands are stained
| with blood. All the candidates for
Representatives put forward by this
| party are native Hawaiians, and you
| needn't be surprised if we are all
elected. The speaker here endorsed
you to exercise your right to vote to-
morrow in the way you think best
whether for Dillingham;, Ashford or
myself. [Applausel.
Mr.. KAHoONEI 4 have always
been staunch supporter of Mr.. Will
| cox, but since he found he couldn't
carry me round, he has been saying
all sorts of things about me. Who is
the safer man to trust-WilcoX or /?
Laughter Has Wilcox a home.
Has he name? He has lodging.
Does he own anything? [ have a
home and property, and am a sub
| stantial man. Wilcox has nothing;
he simply floats. laughter Many
| times have asked him to show his
colors. have asked him to go down
to the wharf and shovel coal for 81 a
day, and 1 would give him another
out of my two. But he wouldn't.
How does he live in this community?
He smells bad. [Applause and laugh
| ter. He's a dirty man. One thing
that has caused Bush and Wilcox to
be against us is because Johnnie Bow
Ter didn't give them any of the money
he got by the party. Laughter.
Mr.. Wilcox has gone round saying
Bowler promised to pay those who
voted his claim, and because he
didn't, Wilcox said he was no gentle.
man. In consequence of this | would
not follow Mr.. Wilcox. / went to a
few of his meetings, and saw strange
faces there that l didn't like and kept
away. This is why Wilcox doesn't
like me. WilcOX's ambition is to get
position, perhaps be q Cabinet Min
lister. And if he cannot get it by fail
means he will try foul. ALI he is good
for is to walk round town with q cane
like a dude. Is that a man to be
trusted? After the last Legislature
Mr.. Kanealii from Maui, ran short OF
funds, and Mr.. Bush wrote a note
asking Mr.. Bowler for money. Bowler
said he had none for him, and that is
the reason they all got sulky. Laugh
ter. You must vote the whole Ma
tional Reform ticket, Mobiles as well
as Representatives. They represent
all classes and nationalities.
J. n. S. WILLIAMS Tamidst cries
of Neumannl Gentlemen, I am
sorry, for your sakes. / am not Mr.
Neumann, but I only wish to say
few words on the rice question, which
has not been much discussed, con
sidering that hundreds of Hawaiians
have their kuleanas let for rice-groW.
ing, and, for your convenience, l will
read my remarks: find that in the
year 1890 the total Hawaiian rice.
crop footed up 100000 pounds Of
cleaned rice; of this amount, some
thing over 100000 pounds were eX
ported to San Francisco, valued al
over half a million dollars the bal.
ance, 10000, 900 pounds of rice, was sold
in this country to Asiatics, and melted
something over one million dollars
thus showing that the total rice in
terest has value of over one and q
half million dollars per annum. Now,
gentlemen, it has been suggested that
an easy and effectual way of reducing
the wages paid to Asiatics laborers or
the plantations would be by repeating