The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-13
Home Rulers Are
Won by His
Tact.
TAKES CHALLENGE
TO SHOW CAUSE
When He Finishes Those Who Had
Been Jeerins Stayed TO Ap-
plaud His Utterances.

Hawaiian love of fair play triumphed
over partisanship last evening at the
Kalihi Detention Camp, and as a result
when the meeting of the Home Rulers
had consented to listen to the defense
made by Prince Kuhio and his friends.
there was such a reversal of opinion
that the applause for the Republican
candidate was as great as that which
had greeted the most impassioned APP
peal of the overwrought Home Ruler.
The meeting was the usual Sunday
evening love feast of the Home Rule
portion of the camp. The arguments
We're the same. The speakers boasted
of what they would do in the legisla-
ture and what Wilcox would do out of
it. Makainai spoke at length pleading
with the people to stand together and
refraining from endorsing all the ultra
ideas advanced by his associates. The
speakers challenged any Republican to
stand before them and answer the
charges of desire and intention to lead
the people astray.
But they had reckoned without their
host, for having an evening of rest
Prince Kuhio had determined TO attend
the meeting to hear what was being
said about him, and so he was on hand
TO accept the challenge. But it was not
to be at once, for the moment he ap-
pealed for chance to reply there were
cries intended to prevent his speaking,
and he had to sit and listeE to the
charges and swallow ali the abuse.
When the meeting was closing. how
ever, several men in the audience call
ed for the Prince and demanded that he
be heard. There were SO many of the
fairminded men in the house too that
they won and the audience sat down
again Makekau was put forward first
and he told of the incapacity of the last
Legislature, and how it failed to work.
He sarcastically referred to the boasts
perform, and to how Wilcox with $1,000
a year seemed to be satisfied even If
the people had nothing.
Prince Kuhio began by asking the
people if they did not want to stand
with the best and most progressive peo-
pies, and then turned to talk TO the
necessity to stand in line with the ma
tority party, if anything was to be ac-
complished for the good OF the terri
tory. He said there was no way to Sc
cure anything at Washington without
coming out in line with the majority of
the people of the country. and showed
them that a man without n party
among the hundreds Of party meB was
lost and without influence.
His arguments and Illustrations were
so apt and forcible that in a very short
time he mad the men applauding, and
before he closed with an appeal for the
people to think gravely over the Ques-
tions and then decide for themselves,
there was a storm Of applause which
left the visitor in doubt as to whether
OF not it was not in fact Republican
meeting from the very first.
After it was over there were score
of men who grasped the hand Of the
Prince and told him that he had fur
nished them food for thought One was
a man who recently called the Prince
snake, and he came up that he might
personally apologize. and thank the
Prince for the words which had osened
his eyes.