The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-21

Ashford they would take the wages
they were sure of.It did not require any
extra cheek for him to do that kind OF
a thing, you see; il has become second
nature. Ashford says | gave the
Chinese the first work on the road,
and drew the money out OF the Gov
eminent Treasury TO pay for the
work. Here he gets OFT another one
of his constitutional falsehOods. He
knows that | nor anyone else received
one cent from the Government in aid
of the first fifteen miles of railway
and equipment. All the Government
has ever paid is last year ana TINS
year, subsidy of 500 per mile per
total of S4,592, bounty enough
to keep nineteen miles of road
bed in order for four months.
The grading for thirty-two miles
was let out by contract to Chinese
after being advertised in the English,
| Hawaiian, Portuguese and Chinese
papers. The only bid for the whole
| work was made by Chinese. Mr..
Ashford says I never put a tive-cent
piece into the Railway Company.
! He knows it to be fact. Again he
! lies to you in cold blood. L have put
over 100000 into the railway in gold
coin and my personal credit. Be
sides, gentlemen, Ashford is an un-
mitigated fraud, and so is any other
man who will lie, as he has done, to
catch votes or catch anything else but
the small pox. [ think that might
justify him if he did not want to sad
die the disease onto someone else
Ashford accuses me of taking money
out of the public treasury and putting
it into my pocket. Gentlemen, under
the present Constitution, which Is
thing he says he worked for three
years, he drew SIS, 900 or thefeabOut
from the public treasury for being
Attorney General. What did he do
for this $4,000? He put this country
into hole that will cost untold mill
lions and possibly her independence.
Now, he wants to make another Con-
stitution and sell it to the taxpayers
for another $4,000 But / feel sure
there is not man in this house who
will give his vote for Doodle.
Mr.. THOMAS had not intended to
make speech, but had come to hear
simply. He said: Gentlemen AS
many of you know, have been selec'
ted as candidate by certain party.
[ am a working man, have been here
a good many years and am pretty
we'll known, especially to Portuguese.
| have paid over quarter of million
dollars in wages to working men.
come here to represent your interests,
and L hope you will consider about
Inc when you come to vote. l have
paid Portuguese in my business $780,
600 Il year-eXcuse me, PHI take that
back-but [ have paid Portuguese
alone not less than $4,000 a year;
therefore, gentlemen, as the first me-
chanic who has aspired to be Re-
preventative, | hope you will vote for
me and the party with which | am
connected. Applause.
HARRY Won HOLT: My Portuguese
fellow citizens: Seven or eight years
ago when q shipping clerk with Irwin
& Co. commenced my first association
with the Portuguese colony. If l had
learnt to talk good Portuguese as
quickly as / learned naughty Portu-
guese | could address you inyour own
language tonight. | have been to
school, however, and have learned
a little lesson, and | am going tC
say it to night. (The speaker re-
peated II sentence in Portuguese
which brought down the house.,
There is not much to say about the
roads just now. They are pretty bad.
Ifyou, gentlemen, elect me my efforts
will be for the people at large and fO1
good roads. The first attention should
be to roads that are actually neces-
sary. After that it will be time
enough to build roads for people with
horses and carriages to go up Pu CHI
bowl and Tantalus. Now, gentlemen,
/ am not going to keep you any
/ tnI1 I ho Loo 4 I
, Portuguese. If / am elected | shall
[ use it again as follows: (The speaker
, here said in Portuguese-L shall saw
go ahead and work, and if you don't
| [ shall say, Manuel, d-nyou 90 ahead
and work.. Roars of laughter1. Mr..
Won Holt added in Portuguese-good
night and thank you. Loud ap.
plause].
MIR COLBURN: Gentlemen and fell
low citizens.-I am running as an In
| dependent candidate for Road Board.
! This is a new departure. [ have no
| platform, but my policy is and will
, be that the money set apart for the
roads shall be spent on them There
| are thirteen candidates running fol
the honor and hard work of the office
The nominees of two of the regular
, parties are Hawaiians like myself
and some say it is the strongest ticket
afioat. Two of them are EMPLOYEES
ola lumber merchant on Queen street.
| That means that lumber ward is
going to be the road board and we
don't want that. l have the utmost
regard for these three young Ha-
waiian gentlemen, but we all know
what it is to be employed by mas
ter, one cannot have that freedom OF
speech and action which one has
when not employed by anyone.
These two young men will be handi-
capped. If it please them to turn the
hundred thousand toward this Ium-
Der yard, perhaps to build bridges we
don't want, the working man wont
get it. [ pledge myself to spend the
/, money in the most conscientious and
: economical manner. Among the for
eigners running on this board there
is one | want to warn you not to vote
for. The Legislature paid him S34, 600.
He says he is public spirited. He
bled us before and those who voted
for him are biting their fingers and
regretting it. 1t behoOves you, gen
tlenaen, to think then, as Mr.. Dill
bingham says, before you vote. A
representative Hawaiian ought to be
on the board. With these few words
} [ thank you for your attention.
Mr.. BOWLER: Gentlemen, it gives
me great pleasure to meet you. [
know something about roads, and
how: Il mechanic ought to repair q
road AS to the $4,000, it was for