The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-01-19
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hant tu ths thi 4 pi-trict
There was large gathering Of
Portuguese residents OF the THIRD
District ut lhc Royal School ycstcr-
day evening. Public notice that Mr.
{. W. Ashford, National Lib rat
candidate Tor Representative, was
going to discuss Mr. y. f. Dilhug-
ham. candidate of the Sons Of Ila-
waii in the same District, and the
Oahu Railway, brought many resi-
dents Of other Districts to the spot.
Registration vas going on in front
schOOlrOom, while the speaking was
done from the town side veranda
The registering business held a large
proportion of people away from the
voices of the orators. Mr.. j. NJ
Camara, Jr,, transmitted the English
discourse into fluent Portuguese.
Mr. G. w. Ashford, introduced
by Hon. A. Marques, was the first
speaker. In opeNing he claimed
the National Liberal was the party
of the poor man, its principles based
on his welfare. Only few of them
could vote for Mobiles because they
were poor, and he could not see the
justice of one man voting for six and
another for only one. Mr.. Diling-
ham was personally esteemed by the
speaker, hut was sailing under false
colOrs. He came before them with
out any declaration of principles, as
the nominee of few native lawyers
constituting the party of the Sons of
Hawaii. Their only principles were
that Hawaiians should have every
thing under the Government, which
the speaker did not believe in. Still
Dillingham; was no more Hawaiian
than he was, but was to he dictated
TO by the missionaries. These peo-
pie had held control ever since they
came here, and what had they done
for the workingmen? The Portu.
guese knew that all they had got
since coming here was wrung from
the missionaries. They sweatcd but
had not got enough. Dillingham;
came before them with promises of
work to Portuguese. The Govern
ment had voted money for his rail-
road, and he took it and hired Chi
nese. The very first thing he did
was to give u contract to 200 Chi
nese. He got grant from the Cabi-
net of half the harbor. The speaker
in ha a
grant reduced from greater one to
that passed.
Dillingham; was the little wheel of
a company known as the Hawaiian
Construction Company. He had two
partners in it, but had not put five
cents into its capital. They paid %
to 90 cents a cubic yard for filling
up land, and charged up 81 a cubic
yard. Portuguese and native labor
ers were left out and the contract
was given to Chinese. If Dilling-
ham was sent to parliament he would
work for his own interests. He
would draw tie peoples taxes and
put all in his pocket except the 20
cents he would pay the Chinese for
building the railroad. Mr.. Ashford
said he was offered $500 worth of
stock when in the Cabinet for ser
vices he rendered in the Legislature
and in the Cabinet. He said no to
Mr.. Dillingham;. For what he had
done as public officer he took no
private rewards. That day he went
into the Interior Office to examine
the stock held by the Oahu Railway
and Land Co. He found five shares
of Oahu Railway stock credited to
one of his late colleagues, who would
thus share in the bounty of his friend
Mr.. Dillingham;. There was only one
of his late colleagues at present in
politics and that was Mr.. Thurston
who was running in Maui, who ex-
pected an easy election there with
the assistance of his missionary
friends. He would not pretend to
say at the present time how much
those five shares of stock influenced
Mr.. Thurston in granting away half
the harbor to his friend Mr.. DilIing-
ham. He found Mr.. Dillingham;
credited with S354 900 of stock on
which he had not paid one cent of
cash. He found another of his near
relatives credited with $25, 200 of
stock. Each of his children and all
of his relatives were credited with
sock, and he ventured to say that
not one cent has been paid of all that
total of 100000 of stock. Pro-
cecding, the speaker said Dillingham;
was not satisfied with getting the rail-
road free Of taxes hut wanted every
thing in sight. He was under the
thumb of capitalists and would have
to do what they told him. Dilling-
ham would vote for flooding the
country with East India coolies, who
Marsden said would work for 10
cents day. The Eva plantation
in which lie was interested, it was
claimed, could only succeed by cheap
japanese labor. Vote for Diling-
ham if they wanted to have thou
sands of japanese coming with
smallpox. He was good hand at
promises. The missionaries have
played the game of promises before.
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