The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-29
The INDEPENDENTS.
EmneIuth WifhdraWs in Favor
of Henry Warehouse.
Lishman Makes One of the Nest sensi-
BILE Speeches Heard During
ths Campaign.

The independent candidates held
mass meeting yesterday evening at
the Armory, Mr.. Antoine Rosa pre-
siding The attendance was very
meager owing to the threatening
weather.
Mr.. j. Emmeluth in neat speech
withdrew his name as an independ-
ent candidate for Noble in favor of
Henry Waterhouse. His reason for
doing so will be found in a commu-
nication 10 this issue.
Speeches were made by r. Lish-
man, j. F. Colburn, Harry Won Holt
and James f. Morgan.
RoBT. LIsHMAN spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and fellow-citizens: |
appear before you this evening as q
candidate for the road board, and if
you elect me / feel confident that /
can provide you good roads. We
ought to have good roads in this dis
trict, as we have the very best of ma
terial for road making within easy
reach of the main streets of Homo
lulu. The road board is one of the
most important parts of the govern
ment, having the life safety, and COM
fort of their fellow citizens in their
hands, to say nothing of the very
large amount of the peoples money
to spend. l ask you to be careful in
the men you elect, and to whom you
entrust the expenditure of your
money. I feel safe in saying that if
you elect John Phillips, James f.
Mrgan and Robert Lishman you will
have the very best streets; your
money will be honestly spent.
What are your roads now? In sum-
mer you are blinded and smothered
with dust so thick that it resembles a
sand storm in the desert In winter
you wade around ankle deep in mud
plowed field after q thunder storm,
and why is this? Because your pres
ent road makers in dry weather put
cart load after cart load of Punchbowl
dirt and red Eva dust upon the
streets. After the first shower, they
scrape it off and cart it away in the
form of mud, only to replace it again
the first dry day. Gentlemen, think
how much time and money is thus
uselessly wasted which could be put
to better advantage. Our roads should
be made of clean lava rock properly
prepared, and once laid down, not
constant scraping would be required.
But neither our present Road Super
visor, or his boss, the Minis
ter of the Interior know
anything about road making.
Look at the Esplanade to-day. 1t is
disgrace which cries out against the
gross incompetency of the road au-
thOrities. To-day, after our late rains,
the Esplanade, where not knee deep
in mud, is one great inland lake where
the small boys amuse themselves by
sailing about on RATS made of planks.
This place should be one of the first
to be fixed; it should be properly
drained and graded SO that the mer-
| chants can get to their warehouses
without the need of a row-boat; that
| draymen be not placed in danger of
| drowning their horses, and when the
| dock laborer can work without being
waist deep in water or mud during
the long hours of his daily toll. The
| quantity of stagnant water on the
| Esplanade is serious menace to the
public health and should receive the
attention of the Board of Health.
Beretania street should be completed
at once and not allowed to drag along
at snaips pace as it is now. It is
wonder to me that the luna of Bere-
tania street and all his gang have
not died from laziness long before
this. All lumber and material re-
| quired for use upon the roads should
be bought after proper tenders have
| Inn,, fI1;C Lo
then no one firm should have it all,
but the patronage should be evenly
distributed among all merchants deal
ing in the articles required. If [ am
elected [ shall see that no Chinese or
Japanese are employed by the Road
Board, and that all labor shall be
done by Hawaiians, Portuguese, or
other natiOnalities-but no Asiatics.
The place for the Asiatic is in the
plantation fields, and not upon the
roads to take the food out of the
mouths of the wives and children of
our Hawaiian and Portuguese fellow
citizens. My motto will be fair
wages and no grinding of the laborer
down to Asiatic prices. The iabOrer
is worthy of his hire; so let him have
just wages, that he may bring up his
family decently, so that the children
will fill the parents places in the fu-
ture. Every day we see hundreds,
yes, thousands of dollars of the peo-
pies hard earned money squandered
through gross negligence. But, gen.
tlemen, this will be remedied if you
elect Phillips, Morgan and Lishman.
While on the street to-day l was
asked by friend eff was aware that
there were three Sans running
against me for the Road Board?" /
told my friend 1 was only aware of
two; he told me if the two Sans got
in who had their names on the list,
the third Sam would have all the
management of the roads; l tumbled
TO who the third Sam was and left. 1
am aware there has been some of the
candidates on other ticket who have
asked you to strike off some of my
colleagues names and put them on
my ticket. They tell you they want
me to go in as L am practical man.
l tell you, gentlemen, they don't care
anything about me, if they can only
get there themselves. 1 ask you,
gentlemen, to vote for J. Phillips,
t.,