The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-26
A REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH.
GATHERING AT DRILL
SHED.
Speakers Make Telling Points, Showing
Up the Futility of Supporting the In
dependent Party.

The Republican meeting last night
was the most successful and largest
affair of the kind ever held in the ISL
ands. Previous to the speech making
at the Drill Shed there was a street
parade in which the Young Mems Re-
publican Club, the Honolulu Iron
Works Republican Club, Uniformed
companies, Republican torch light br1-
gade, and drum corps and many pri-
Vate parties participated. Major lie
gler was grand marshal and Louis
kenake chief aide.
AT the drill shed the crowd was so
dense that hundreds were unable to
placed on the campus and an overflow
meeting was addressed by prominent
speakers.
In the Drill Shed the entrance of
Samuel Parker the nominee for Con-
gress, was the signal for wild out
burst of applause. Paul Neumann pre-
sided. In calling the meeting to order
he said;
The best text for political speech
has been given us by the celebrated
philosopher, Mr. Dooley of Chicago.
Mr. Dooley says he has looked over the
situation and has come to one conclu-
sion: that by reading the Republican
platform he finds mainly that we COM
mend everything. BY reading over the
Democratic platform he finds mainly
that they deplore."
An effective speech was made by w.
c. Achi in which he told some interest
ing facts about the formation of the
Independent Party. He said:
las for the Independents. l do not
think it is the party for the Hawaiian
race. l think that party was only or
gained for WilcoX's personal interests.
AS soon as we received our Territorial
Act l asked the leaders of the Indepen-
dent party to meet with me to consider
political affairs here. 1t was then that
Wilcox himself caused d. Kalauoka-
lani and j. X. Kaulia to form the In
dependent party for his own sake"
Edwin S. Gill contrasted the condi-
lions OF the country under Democratic
and Republican administrations. He
spoke &C the poverty which was APP
parent during Mr.. Cleveland's admins
tration and the prosperity which was
every where present under Mckinley
The speaker said that all had felt the
wave of prosperity. Railroads which
wished to build and extend their lines
were unable to do so on account of the
lack of rails. The Union Pacific, in order
to handle the great amount of traffic
which rolled over the system, needed a
double and even triple set of tracks,
but rails could not be gotten. In every
city signs were hanging out, Men
Wanted" and they could not be found.
Captain Baker of the transport Grant
and formerly a state senator in the
Pennsylvania legislature made one of
the most telling speeches of the evening
In speaking of the candidacy of Par
ker, Captain Baker said:
you certainly could not select bet
ter-looking man. He knows your in
terests. There is but one party. You
want appropriations down here to fix
up your harbors. You want to make
Honolulu a great commercial center.
Can you get these appropriations from
any other party than the Republican
party? cNo!" was shouted from the
rear of the hall.) The Democratic party
is committed against expansion. They
are not with you. Is the Republican
party committed with you? 1t is. The
election in the United States is already
settled. No question about it. It, is
only question of majority"
Sam Parker was received with enthu-'
siasm when he was called upon to
speak. He said:
ION the 9Th of November I predict
great victory for the Republican party.
When we receive the first news from the
mother country after that date it will
be that Mckinley is elected President
and Roosevelt, the cowboy of New York
is elected Vice-President 0oud cheers).
l will also venture to predict that the
cowboy of Hawaii will be chosen Dele
gate to Congress from Hawaii and that
the Senators and Representatives nom1-
mated by the Republican party will be
elected to the Legislature of Hawaii"
John c. Lane an Hawaiian spoke
briefly, making some telling points.
The overflow meeting was addressed by
L. L. McCandless, w. c. Achi, Enoch
Johnson, William Aylett, A. V. Gear.
S. Kaaikaula. ]. L. Kaulukou acted
as interpreter.