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Two Thirds of the Vote.

Two xnlrOS OF tne vote.
The question of the restoration of
the. monarchy is gone from us forever"
said Wilcox. I'VE are now a people,
however. who can vote. You all know
we have two-thirds- of the votes or this
country. / say to you that the people
WHO have been living on your rights and
held the reins of government are now
without that power If you want TO
rule, it is for you to decide. If you don't
want to rule you must so decide. say
to you that believe God was with US in
the fight at Washington. The Queen
feels happy because now two-thirds of
the voting power rests with you. The
monarchy Is like dear person that has
died. Let ii go. Look to the future.
We can send a Delegate to Congress.
You all know IL has been stated in the
newspaper Of Thurston & Company that
changes can be made to this law of the
franchise. but we are not to look to
that. Because you have the power in
your hands l ask you to do right, as
pledge myself to do. We are all A
mericans. We should not consider per-
sonality. In September is the time to
register for voting for the election of
fifteen Senators as Well as Representa-
uves. The only restriction Is that a
person should be able to read and write
either Hawaiian or English. / consult
tA Will OtlOlt itdNlDS w dSHluS
ton. They told me to tell you that the
best thing for you to do is to organize
our own party. In other words, to have
home rule, to carry on your own affairs
without looking to either party. WheT
you become a State that is the time fol
you to go to one or other of the two
great parties. At the present time we
are only to have a delegate in Congress
We have been for seven years in pair
and trouble. That is now all over. Lei
us consider the future well. / was ask
ed abroad what my party was. i too
them that We were going to be inde
pendent because we have nothing to d.
with their politics. We can send a Dele
gate to Washington to work among tn,
people in Congress for the benefit O
'ur country. / staid in Washington an,
watched our interests until we succeed
ed. / worked quieuy while in Washing
ton, said little and refrained from in
dulging IN personalities. / kept m
mouth shut to personal affairs
i The president then announced that a.
y adjournment would be taken to visi
the Queen az Washington Place 10
seph Heleluhe. the Queens secretary
was 10 have been on the stand to max
speech, bat was prevented by Hines!
The meeting then adjourned until Ia
d. m.
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THE AFTERNOON SESSION
Delegates Present Reports and II
structions From Constituents.

1t was nearly o'clock before the af-
ternoon session commenced. The delay
was occasioned by lengthy luau given
at the residence of the president of the
Hui Kalaiaina Society. Prior to that
event all the delegates proceeded in
body to Washington Place where they
were received by Liliuokalani. The ex-
| Queen was exceedingly gracious to her
| former subjects and made a neat ad-
| dress. She spoke for nearly ten min
| utes, refraining from making any pub
lie declaration of her political tenden-
cies. or from uttering anything political
that could be construed into an attempt
to frame their judgments as to what
| party they should any themselves with.
Speaking slowly and distinctly so that
not word should be lost upon her Gag
er listeners the Queen IN part said:
1T is useless for us to abstain from
taking our future stand. Our future
prosperity depends upon it. AS soon
as the United States flag was hoisted
over these Islands, and our Hawaiian
flag was lowered by the authority OF
the American government, it meant
that 1t had come to stay. 1t is my wish
: Tor your future welfare to stand shoul-
er to shoulder and seek every mean:
r that will conduce to the benefit of tn,
whole nation. When the flag wen
= down, it went down for good w.
must now do. our duty as American
6 citizens"
The address was received with ap
plause. the delegates paid their old
time homage, and went to the luau pre-
pared by the chairman
, List Of Delegates.
e The first order of business transacte
o at the afternoon session was the call
ing of the names of the delegates
q Those who responded We're:
II First District-1. ..2.
- H. ....... In town, but sick, and name
!. not reported to the convention.
- Second District-1, J. p. Kaohi; ., A
- > keohoehu; 3, ......: (absent on ac
count of Illness. Name not yet report
~ ed).
= third District, j. Hihio; 2, G.. +
y Kauimakaole: 8, b. Kamai; 4, J. w
Naehu; 5, Geo. Kipi
~ Fourth District-1, d. X. kalauoka
n lani, Jr.; 2. j. W. Iona; 3, j. Luahiwa
~ =, >. Il, kamai; 5. r. N. Boyd; 6, j. +
"a Nakookoo; Z, ]. p. Haiola.
Fifth District, w. Mossman: 2. I
7. $. kelhheenalu; 8, S. K. Mahoe;, 4, +
le ;. kukaulalii; S, J. K. Paele; 6, ]. "
90 Hoiona; z, Geo. Markham; s. B. K Ha
~ ole; 3, 5. p. Nainoa; 10, Kaluapalao,
"a tw); ii, ........; (not present and nam
= not yet reported).
al The delegates to the convention the
c. took their places on the Eva side ,
a the drill shed apart from the gener,
an audience. the woman delegate fro
he koolau with the rest
,r. A committee of three on credentia
he was appointed and made a favorab
ss, report upon the individual credentia
en- presented by the delegates.
w. Debate en- Comrnittee
he
he A lively debate occurred during Il
Sc afternoon on the following resolution
he BE 1t resolved that the members
IN. the Executive Committees of the H
lie kalaiaina and Hui Aloha Alma be ma,
IT'S consulting members of this Convei
In ton"
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D.. mont ~ tho engagement
hl''holl u New Lon
WI Hiram bingham Of
Miss Mitchell IL
NJ. ss..anda having visited
ks,n,' n niece of the IA
M,,, hnmorlst "fk Mar-
n r,g elIs mother is one OF
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Kaulia Advises.

Mr.. Kaulia stepped to the edge of the
platform and said:
by virtue OF the laws which the
United States have passed for us, we
have been invited to form a political
party TO carry out the benefits which
have been extended by these laws. In
the United States there are two great
political parties-the Republican and
the Democratic. During the last seven
years that have passed here there has
been but one party-the Annexation
party. At the present day IL has split
up into the Republican and Democratic
parties. You may remember at a meet
ing of the Democrats held a short time
ago | was called upon 10 speak and
declared myself an Independent. We
have for seven years been living in a
famine; now / say the period of fatness
has come. Would IL be wise for me to
advise you to join either Of the parties
now formed here? / say let us go on
free and Independent. During the past
seven years we were deprived Of al our
benefits. Is 1t now the time for US tC
| uIsi.e with otner parties and give our
new privileges away? No.
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Rsmsmbsr Republicans I!

You are here today to decide whether
We will be Republicans or Democrats,
r, A., ,or Won 10 make that decision. and
,sb,.n vou return to your respective
homes YOU viii organize. Always re-
member the Republican party-wnat
th,v have done for ua. Think wen III
you DO not decide to join these TWO
great political parties: think what we
are TO do, and do u right. You have seen
the Republicans organize tneir parry
here. ana you can observe Wnat tne
Democrats are doing In the work OF or
aaulzing. The matter rests with you
To- decide what party you VIII ally your
selves with. We are here 70 discuss tne
merits and demerits Of both parties and
make up our minds what we are 10 90
/ You must always bear In mind that the
flag we once loved has gone from US
| II was on August IL, when the Ameri'
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Resolution adopted for Organization Of
an Independent Party for the
HaWaiianS.

can flag was raised. our Hawaiian flag
came down, and from that Gay our
chances for the restoration of the mon
archy were gone forever. / now intro
duce to you my associate in political
work, Mr.. j. X. Kaulia"
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NATIVES In CONVENTION LAY PLANS
FOR SEVERANCE FROM THE HAOLES

slavery. That put Cullom down. Till
man introduced and fought hard for
the f,clause regarding the tax penalty
until it was knocked out. Bacon was
another man who worked hard to make
the natives citizens OF the United
tot
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II Hydraulic Engineer BOG
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Wilcox Ma<es Statements.

Wilcox stated that Mr.. Smith spoke
the gist Of his address being that the
missionaries had brought civilization TO
Hawaii. and that IL the property qualifi
cation was removed. civilization would
be swamped by Ignorance. Mr.. Smith
urged for the restriction clause, as the
Hawaiians could not rule themselves /"
Every day Wilcox went before the
Committee, until he was told by the
chairman not to come too often, but
other members told him the chairman
had no right to bar him out. Moon of
Tennessee was the one who introduced
the resolution which threw out the re-
strictions upon voting. Moon also in
troduced a resolution to remove the tax
qualification. Knox insisted that 81
poll tax should be required. Most OF
the Republicans In the Senate opposed
the Cullom bill on account of the prop
erty qualification. For three days Cul-
lom and Morgan in behalf Of the Dole
government fought for the restrictive
| clause. On the third day they did no,
| have many supporters. Wilcox had
| many. among them being Pettigrew
Taylor and others. Knox he said was 9
schoolmate OF Hartwell and that ac.
counted for his opposition to the Ha
| waiians. Tillman was a strong mar
for them. He howled like a dog in tn,
Senate and he made Cullom shudder
Pettigrew Informed Wilcox that h.
would do everything for the natives
but nothing for the foreigners. whel
the question OF the tax law came up
Pettigrew claimed the attention OF tn
| Senate and called their attention to tn
law which was TO the effect that in cas-
the taxes were not paid in Hawaii tn
delinquents were thrown into prison
clothed In convicts garb. fed on a littl
poi. and worked at the rate of Sc. cent
a day, and practically put them 4
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CONTRACTORS.

contractor aud Builder.
,g1oe httinE brick, wood or
If1s shop, Palace Walk resi-
~ Ave, near kewalO.
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WE'LL q Co, LTD.-Engin-
<uelans and Boilermakers. Ito
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Who IL the Devil 2

You must remember that the Repub-
lican party has threatened us; so do the
Democrats. They say in their threats
that we will be disfranchIsed. l say
who Is the devil in Honolulu who can
do that? IL was the United States
which has given US these privileges, and
there is not one who can now deprive
us of that right. Smith and Hartwell
have been In Washington trying to de-
prive us of our voting privileges. They
tried hard. but the American Congress
uid not heed them, and we are now en-
joying today the privileges In spite of
the opposition made. They tried to do
the same thing to US as they have been
doing TO the negroes of the South. We
can work hard and show strength by
the ballot box.
II say let us organize an independent
party"
With these concluding words the
4 speaker introduced Robert Wilcox, the
delegate of the two political clubs, who
| returned to Honolulu from Washington
by the Peking with the ex-Queen.
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Wilcox to the Front.

The first portion of his address was a
long account of his trip to Washington
in company with Edgar Caypless, the
attorney OF the Hawaiians. He de-
scribed Jneir various visits to different
newspapers along the route. stating
that each one told them to drop the at
| tempt for the restoration of the mon
| archy. At Washington the newspaper
| representatives told them the same
/ thing. For that reason they decided to
work for election privileges. From this
i point on Mr.. Wilcox gave a minute de-
/ scription of his efforts on behalf OF the
/ Hawaiians with the Committee on Ter
/ ritories. He spoke Of Celso Moreno and
the speeches which he made before the
committee. which ne described as being
full of personalities only. a so of Cayp-
less and Colonel Little of Hilo. who was
looking after the interests Of Hilo land
| squatters. The names of RepreseDta-
tives In Congress were tripped off Will
coN's tongue AZ III he We're to the man
. or born. on January q he attended 9
. meeting Of the Committee on Territories
| and was introduced to Mr.. Knox, the
| chairman. He was allowed to expires:
his views I'm behalf Of the natives. Botf
sir. Smith and 4hr. Hartweil were pres
ent. Wilcox spoke in regard to the vot
ing privileges and against the propert,
e qualifications. He told them that tn
3 Hawaiians would he deprived of thei
: rights If the restriction of propert,
: qualifications were placed upon the ma
tive vote; the planters would be tn
only onea who could vote. Cayp'es
e spoke on the same subject, and Moren
d confined himself to the cry of Dow
ri with the missionaries"
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gNGlNEERS

. TRAIN, Architects. suite
Book. Fort 81.
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AnslCIANS.
ARCHrrECTS

|lEE . PAGE. Architects and
elnlge Rooms - Arlington
hholum, a. l.. sketches ano
f.malrs furnished at short no
- y. ". hox ~.
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which Political PartyP

since then clubs of Hawaiians have
been formed all over the islands. ana
they were met In convention TO consider
the question OF which politicai party
they should Join. by our persistence.
however, said Kaiauokalani, we nave
,een made portion Of the United states
Of America, which gives US all citizen-
ship. We have been given the right ei
baIiottlng without restriction. and can
nov vote for members OF both the Sen
ate and House OF Representatives
Having that power shall we make use
OF II and unite to make the best OF TINS
privilege. or shall we stand aloof anc
let II got You are assembled here TO
day for the purpose OF considering th'
report of our special delegate Rober
W. wilcox. I tell you on this day w'
have in our hands by virtue OF that law
passed by Congress. the power to vot'
| ,vi,hout any restriction. You must beai
this In mind; we have friends both OF
the aide Of the Republicans, and on tn
Democratic parties In Congress VIII
/ worked In harmony to give US this vot
/ Ing privilege.
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pAYsIcINNs

IL CLEVELAND. NJ. Dome
hours. , To y a. m. = 70
i ftl -.
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Convention Meets.

At 10 o'clock yesterday morning about
ninety Hawailans, three OF them women
OF the Patriotic League. representatives
OF the Hui Kalaiaina and Hui Aloha
Alma. the Hawaiian political clubs or
the old royallst school, met In conven-
ton In the drill shed. On the platform
were Mr.. Kalauokalani, president ct the
Kalaiaina Society. who acted as chair
man during both sessions yesterday.
Robert w. Wilcox, the delegate 70
Washington sent by the clubs. j. h
Kaulia, president OF the Aloha Alma So
ciety. and n few others well known III
the ranks Of the royalists. The chair
man called the meeting together and Q
prayer was offered by one OF the visit
/ ing members from Hawaii.
The chairman then stated the oojec
OF the meeting. which he said was oc
casloned by the changes In the govern
ment from a Republic to Territory o
the United states. and by the fact tina
| the Hawaiians were citizens with a ful
franchise. by reason OF the change u
the form Of government, the desire
the Hawaiians for the restoration
the monarchy was past. but there wa
attn "A lingering feeling among the Ha
waiians today that something could
done for them. They had hoped Ion
that some European power would IN
tercede for them and restore the throne
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What the Woman said.

The woman delegate from Koolau,
Kaulupaloao by name, made Il fine ad-
dress on the duties of the women in the
local political field. She had been Sc
lected to represent her people and to
watch and support the husbands who
We're there in the Convention. The
women should not keep in the back
| ground, but should press their hus-
bands on to what was right. The weak
| er sex was deprived of the right of vot-
| ing, but they could help the men by
| their actions and thoughts. You have
heard the reports OF the other delegate
of the district Of koolau,' she said.
| The women of the Patriotic League
| have sent their aloha to- you, gentle
men of the Convention, and are with
you.
| An ex-soldier, eXpoliceman, ex-cus-
toms house guard. and ex-other things
under the Republic of Hawaii, and
representing q precinct of the fourth
district stated his instructions Were
similar to those already given. J. Holo-
ua, tenth precinct. fifth district, ditto
One man from Molokai had not yet re
ceived his instructions. but knew his
constituents were of the same though
l as the Convention.
/ The chairman then asked: What i
the party of the Hawaiians for the flu
ture? Is it Democratic, Republican OF
Independent? Some one in the audi
ence shouted independently :
A resolution was introduced as fol
: lows: Moved that the Hawaiian
: should stand as an Independent o.
: Home Rule Party" 1t was carried
unanimously, and the new party politi
took it's place in the local political field
The chairman instructed the dele
gates in regard to the coming election
, in November and the matter was full,
discussed. The chair further exacted
promise of the delegates present in th
1 following language: "Wiil you as Ha
waiians unanimously enter into an
5 election that may be held, whether 4
2 November or in special election whic
S may be called by the Governor, stan
together at the election and enter tn
campaign as Iadependents?' The dele
gates raised their right hands. It wa
el carried unanimously.
Il Meet Saturday Night.
II ]. x Kaulia then called attention t
e the proposed mass meeting for Satur
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Continued on Page 81
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D mGH-Phlladeiphls Dental
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nENTISTS

DENTISTS.
ny Mott. smith bldg. COZ Fort
~ NF oifice hours ? 10 q
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,lossNAN. D.D.s.-Alakea 81.
~ above Masonic Temple. Ho-
! ifft hours , a. m. To y. m.
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ORrlcIANs

~ VISION ia the cauue OF
II, .,nt Of sil headaches. neu-
y I, u,,'ness t,' which are often at
w health. Properly utted
asps Will give imfu.di-
n LUCAS. Optlcian. Love
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Delegates From all the
Islands Urge the
Separation.

The native voters have declared
or Home Rule Party. The delegations
from various portions OF the Islands
brought with them oral and written in
structions not to league themselves
with. or have any voice In the organiza-
tions of the Republicans or Democrats.
They came out fat-footed for the Inde-
pendent Party. They claim by their
leaders that they control two-thirds of
the votes OF Hawaii and will use them
TO choose and elect a delegate to Con-
gress. and TO elect majorities in both
the houses OF the next Hawaiian legis-
lature.
II is learned that the ex-Queen while
not an active agent in politics, is ex-
| tremely iight-hearted over the future
prospects at the ballot boxes, feeling
assured that her old followers would
exercise their right OF the franchise ex-
tended to them by the American Con-
xress. She is also quoted as having
stated that the natives should not vote
| for Curtis Iaukea for the opposition
shown toward Judge Kaulukou wher
the latter was first nominated for the
chairmanship of the late Republican
i Convention. She has intimated In no
very mild language that Iaukea should
have stood by his own countryman In
stead of placing In nomination a haole
The Hawalians win form an Inde
pendent Party to combat the two Ma
tional parties already in the Held. Yes
terday n convention Of natives met u
/ the drill shed and took this step.
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Ir wATERuOusE. .-Orice and
- Klfs 81. near klapai. office
Mama M. 1 20 2 and 7 10 ;
r,phone pai white.
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.TESOGRAPHERs

|'.e'll.-sienographer '.'ll .el and Type
Ihurston 4 Carter.
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WALL DIR. o. E. WALL
ssp a. m. 20 4 y. m. Love
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The Hawaiians win form an Inde-
pendent Party to combat the two Ma
tional parties already in the Held. Yes
terday n convention OF natives met In
the drill shed and took this step.
The resolution which called into birth
this new party In local politics was as
follows:
Moved that the Hawaiians should
stand as an Independent OF Home Rule
Party"
The resolution was carried unani
mously and created much enthusiasm.
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~ MlLLER.-stenographsr
y Noom 30 Judd Bldg.
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Debate en- Committee.

A lively debate occurred during the
AFTERNOON on the following resolution
BE 1t resolved that the members of
ire executive Committees of the Hui
Kalaiaina and Hui Aloha Alma be made
consulting members of this Conyen-
ton"
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|rAgnAM = Veterinary Surgeon
stil Office King ST stables,
IL ais day or night promptly
~ spsclallles. obstetrics and
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hTs " take acknowledg
lN 4 cn.nta district of Kona.
kss Nehis oince. King ST..