The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-10-20
PRINCE POURING HOT
SHOT INTO HIS
OPPONENT
REPUBLICAN TOUR ON MAUI WILL
BRING GOOD REsULTs-WIL-
COxs' STATEMENTS ARE DENIED
HOME RULERS COMING OVER.

LAHAINA, October 1S.-Prince Ku-
hio, nominee for Delegate to Congress,
on the Republican ticket, landed at La
haina last Tuesday evening. He was
accompanied by Archie Mahaulu, Rev.
stephen Desha and II. H, Makekau,
who were on their way to Hawaii to
look after their political interests, al
so came ashore to speak. very large
crowd had gathered at the wharf to
hear the prince talk, and as soon as he
landed, his campaign Of education on
Maui was inaugurated.
r. II. Makekau started the ball a.
rolling. He, having been Home Ruler
once, and therefore knew the ins ana
outs of Home Ruleism, showed up VIII
cox and Kalauokalani in fine style. The
crowd was against him when he start
ed in, but before he was half through,
the people were shouting. He also
brought out the legislative escapades
of William White and j. K. Hihio, To-
cal candidates who were members of
the first Territorial legislature. AS
each anecdote was given out in clcnr
and emphatic style, the crowd readily
saw the point and cheered him again
and again. Coming from one who was
in the legislature with the others, MS
expose of their local men was greatly
appreciated. He even went so far as
to advise voting against his own broth
er who is running on the Home Rule
ticket.
The golden tongued orator of Ha-
waii nei, Rev. Desha, was the next
speaker, and the enthusiasm he put in
to the crowd was something wonderful.
A crowd was never so near being 9yp-
Noticed as that crowd was His apt IL
Illustrations and his semi-classical Ian
guage endeared him to every Hawaiian
ff.NV, FNssal u
going hundreds of miles to hear, and
it prepared the way for the prince )
speech which followed.
There were prolonged cheers when
the prince got up to speak. He said in
part. L am the Republican nominee
for Delegate to Congress, but before L
say any more, wish to tell you why |
left the Home Rule party He told
how Wilcox and Kalauokalani had
called a meeting of the delegates and
how out of 142 deegates only IL were
from Hawaii, Maui, Molokai and Kau-
al; how he tried to get the two leaders
to change the constitution so that
there would be a more equal represent
alton; how he succeeded at night so
far as to have Wilcox and Kalauoka-
lani agree to promulgate the new con-
stitution and yet refused to do so when
the convention met the next morning;
now WllCOA anu INeileluOhellelllA NOAlSh
to have the old constitution so fixed
that there would be three leaders in
the party, the prince to make the third;
how he walked out.
He also told the natives of the for
nation of the Kuokoa party by his fol-
lowers and the purpose for which Ii
was organized, viz: to educate the ma
tives to the idea that there are only
two parties in America, the Republican
and the Democrat parties, and in or
der to be benefited, we must accept
either one or the other-which shall we
affiliate with? With the stronger par
ty. Which is that? The Republican
party! The Republican party has ev-
erything in its hands and we must send
a Republican to Congress, We must
have a Republican local legislature If
we would succeed in getting the best
and our due share of federal benefits.
He had taken all these things into con-
sideration and had decided not to run
as a Kuokoa, the party he knew very
well would carry him to victory; he
has chosen the Republican party, one
which he knew was distrusted by the
naties. He pleaded with his fellow
countrymen to consider these things
dispassionately and to choose that
which would benefit Hawaii mel.
He showed up Wilcox as one who Is
saying he loves his country and his
people and yet goes to Washington and
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