The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-20
PROMISES
BY WILCOX
Says Each Leper
Will Get a
Million.
JACKSON LOSES
FIGHT AT HILO
Beekley FAvors Cupid Dea'h Of
Fred Shaw tiet Rocks
at Puma.


HILO. October IA very small
crowd greeted Wilcox and his support
ers at the Japanese theatre Monday
night There were some women and
children, few Portuguese and less
than rs Hawaiian. men.
Among the speakers were Wilcox,
the two Kalauokalani's, Anton Fernan
DEE and Billy Purdy. Sam Pua, haole
mahhini named Mccarthy, who came
to the islands from Nome about three
months ago, and Kekino of Waiakea
Wilcox was strong in his denuncia-
ton of the Dole regime and waxed
warm when he reached the subject of
the board of health and the lepers
He said the appropriation of 100000
per year for lepers was not properly
used; one-half of it is stolen by the
board. II Congress takes charge of it
then the appropriations will be a mill
ion thousand dollars a year, and that
all the lepers will be turned loose, He
added that the Senatorial Commission
had inquired into the matter and
would report to Congress that the dis
Tease is not leprosy.
The burden of the song of Anton
Fernandez was fish" Said the fish
bill introduced by Robertson at the last
session of the legislature would de-
prive the Hawaiians of the right to
catch small fish, shrimp and opihi. He
believed they should have liberty to
kill everything that came into their
nets, whether they were two inch null
lets or shark ten feet long.
Purdy said the reason he joined the
Home Rule party was that they favored
county government. He forgot to tell
them that it was because he wanted a
nomination and he was ready to adopt
the principles of the party that first
offered it. He promised to give the
Hawaiians county government, and if
they really wanted it they could get
it by voting for him for the legislature,
otherwise not.
Sam Pua claims that the fourth
plank in the Republican platform is
not in favor of county or municipal
government, as the meaning of this
paragraph expresses the purpose only
OF passing such measure, which shall
where such local government is desir-
ed. The last county bill was vetoed by
Governor Dole, a Republican. When
asked by some one why the Home RuI-
ers, VINO were in the majority, did not
pass The bill over the governors head.
the speaker claimed the time was very
limited and the governor held the bill
for ten days before the legislature
could act, and the session closed six
days thereafter.
Kalauokalani, Jr., went into the his
tory OF the origin OF the Republican
party. He told what Wilcox tried to
do in Washington and attributed his
failure to the influence of politicians
who opposed him. Kalauokalani wants
Wilcox elected because it will give him
job for two years more. He thought
Wilcox did pretty we'll, considering the
fact that he was a new man in Con-
gress, while the other members had
been there ia years.
Senator Kalauokalani said the last
legislature was an honest one and had
passed many bills beneficial to the Ha-
waiians; the reduction in the tax on
female dogs was one of them and it
had helped every Hawaiian who owned
a dog. He said that if the Home Rul-
ers control the next legislature we will
have county government, woman suf-
frage and much needed legislation.
When questioned concerning certain
bills introduced during the last session
and which the speaker was known 10
have pocketed, he made no answer
Herald.
JACKSON LOSES FIGHT.
Last Saturday night the sports of
Hilo were entertained with a varied
program of athletic sports at the ia
panese theatre, under the mana gement