The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-12

/ type of the class. The next Republican
| President, who came in when Lincoln
died. was tailor from the mountains
of Tennessee-What they called poor
white. The next time the party of the
poor man turned to a tanner, tanner
of hides from Cialena-Ulysses s.
Grant The Democrats ran a high
born landed proprietor against him and
my friends, the Galena man tanned his
hide until it was fit to nail down on a
floor. Then Grant was run again and
what did the Democrats do? They
wanted a poor man, a working-man, a
printer, to get them votes and they had
to go to the Republican party to ina
one in the person of Horace Greeley.
Four years from then they went back
to their ariStocrats and named multi
millionaire railroad man for President
Samuel ]. Tilden. has income for a
week was bigger than that of General
Hayes, the Republican, candidate, for
a year; but it did him no good, for
Hayes went to the White House. An
other four years came around. The
Democrats named another West Point
aristocrat and the Republicans canal
driver, James "a Garfeld-a man who,
in his youth, had driven mules for
llN1nS.# Inc next INSpQDilCdn
James G. Blaine, had been printer
and an editor and if you can find any
body poorer than that wish you would
trot him out daughter.) Then we
had Harrison. the only aristocrat We
ever ran for the Presidency and we got
enough of him in one term. The next
time the Republican party turned to
man who began life in country vii
rr;o T1ri-
Yate soldier like any of these young
fellows you nave seen gong through
on the transports; ana today we have
President who, though well born and
bred, did not hesitate to put on his old
clothes and punch cattle on the great
ranges of the West; yes and he ate his
bacon and beans and took his chances
with the bad men of the frontier like
any other cowboy. 1 leave you to give
your own greeting to the name Of
Theodore Roosevelt, prolonged APP
plause.9
Fellow citizens, we have raised the
banner tonight of a Republican Club
and 1 want to say word as to what
that banner means. 1t means all that
any man could ask for his country;
it shows the presence of a rising polit-
zeal generation l1I1DuSu Will pdLliObloili
and zeal and energy; inspired by love
of flag and love of native land, young
men who mean to do the best they
know how to make Hawaii worthy of
statehood and to help her get it. The
men who train under that banner are
Republicans, some by birth, others by
choice, but all are equally proud of
the party whose name they bear. And
,,,rr Nn 1n A
Democrat has to apologize and explain
away when it comes to his party past;
he has to apologize for his war record
and his bad money record and his hard
times record, and for Tammapy Hall
and for the color line in politics. But
Republican need not apologize for a.
single measure which his party has
ever put upon the statute books of the
nation. He does not need to cover up
a single page, he does not have to con-
ceal a single act. There is not the
picture of single one of his national
leaders whom he would turn to the
wall-not one. When he shows. you the
flag, the Stars and Stripes, you can
not find tear or rent that he has
ever made in it with hostile steel or
bullet; it's stars have never been torn
off by him. There is not a man lying
in any patriots grave, dying under the
American flag whose spirit can rise and
point an accusing finger at any Re-
publican. When a new citizen, an Ha-
waiian, joins the party of Lincoln and
Grant, of Blaine and Garfield, McKin-
ley and Roosevelt, he takes the high
est ground which any American can
reach; and finds there seven million
men to welcome him as a brother and
defend him and TO help him make his
way
S. K. NAwAA'S SPEECH
S. K. Nawaa followed with an ad-
dress in the vernacular. He is an easy
and graceful talker, having the natural
Hawaiian knack of oratory. For two
years, he said, there had been sickness
in the country, a fever over politics
which it was the intent and purpose of
the Republican party, whites and ma
tives alike, to cure. There was talk, he
said about a color line, but the gentle
man who spoke first told all about that
and his words will be considered by US
all. We are all poor people who work
for living, and we must remember
that the white man brought all the
money into this country and gave us
In return for it we must
not wrong him. We have got rid of
the idea of fighting the white color, and
We expect white votes for our candi-
date, Prince Kuhio. He is young man
who has travelled far and seen the
world. He came back to us and Joined
the Home Rule party and tried
to teach it the best thing to do; but the
party spurned him; it would not hear
him. Then he became an independent
and finally a Republican. wish, said
Mr.. Nawaa, that every Hawaiian would
have the same idea as our Prince. I
believe he will do the right thing, SO 4
take my speech and think It over (Ap-f
plause.) 81
1t was time for Prince Kuhio to APP
pear Chairman Andrews, whose tongue
never fails him of graceful and telling
phrases, easily launched the Prince on
/ ripping stream of compliment. There