The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-09-09
PRINCE At
KAILUA
Great Enthusiasm for
Son of the
Islands.

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gated around the wharf and along the
beach. but 1t was evident that some ex-
ira attraction had drawn many men to
town who are seldom seen there.
Throughout the Konas the news had
spread that Prince Kalanianaole had
come to delight the hearts of the people
Of Kona with his well timed oratory,
and the excitement grew still greater
when it was known that he would be
accompanied by three of the best
! speakers of the land.
a mass meeting in the big church
was arranged for noon, when the
steamer would have left and business
men be at leisure, but as Kanuha, one
of the Princes three companions, had
to leave on the steamer, he assembled
| the tribune in front of Kaelemakule's
store and spoke for half an hour to an
enthusiastic audience.
! In his speech he adjured his hearers
to earnestly listen to the words of the
Prince, of whose disinterestedness and
love for the people he assured them.
He laid great stress on the fact that
the deplorable failure of the last legis-
lature was due to it's being composed
of so few men OF principles and SO
nanv without, that a man without
principle could not be gentleman and
was unfit to represent the people.
great bell tolled and the masses wended
their way to the church, where they
were received and shown to their seats
by ushers in full dress.
j. X. Nahale, the deputy sheriff for
North Kona who. by the way, seems
to have quilted the Republican party,
was elected to the chair, and introduce
ed the first speaker Prince Kalaniana-
! ole.
J After stating in a few we'll chosen
words why he appeared here before the
people he turned in his gentlemanly
way to the few foreigners present and
gave them in English a concise synop-
sis of his intended speech.
The speaker was listened to by all his
hearers with intense interest and was
frequently applauded. His earnest and
manly manner left no room for doubt
that his words came straight from big
heart and they surely found their way
to responsive hearts, words that cannot
fail bearing fruit in due season.
He told his hearers that he came not
as candidate soliciting their votes, or
as an Office seeker, nor to tell them for
whom to vote, but that he came to
them as an educator in this new era
or politics which he had studied closely
for that purpose.
He explained the county system with
its duties and privileges, it's educational
value in preparing the Territory for
statehood, machine politics and party
systems on the mainland by which the
minority could control the majority
and proper use of the remaining pub
lie lands The whole Grafton was de-
livered with intense feeling, but with
out passion or eXaggeration of any
kind.
The next speaker was Mahaulu, who
enlarged upon the Princes speech and
whose pleasant manner and graceful
gestures captivated even those whose
education in Hawaiian had been neg
iected.
The third and last member was Ma
kekau, Home Rule member of tie last
legislature. He began in rather a dry
way, giving short history of the po-
litcal changes in recent years since the
downfall of the monarchy. Little by
little he warmed up to his subject and
when he came to speak of the achieve
ments of the last Legislature, when he
coi1aao,,as in ,onm,,asro hristIiro n,ith
! y,,;tt, ridio,,,o "a .a,,oos,,, Ito 80
s,,c, shom,i,'f, s,,oh ia,ahina col,
stan,nina, s,,ni oionai,, &C. thi H,,Is 90
that IA chmroh na,,ar aohnaa hafore
Wiz tbraa th,,raerin. h,,,rahs tha
meetirg was dissoIved eTrihuna
= s,on,,rr ,,,,rI-nw
of'D -
Major Purdy, who returned from
Maimea on TUESDAY, reports senator
in hunting wild cattle nips and tur-
KEYS on sam Parlxer,s land senator
Rmrton and his friend Mr. King who
is with him are used to hunting big
game and saw that the snort in Wal
mea exceIs ANYTHING in their experience
and that tho cowbovs in waimea can
give the western cowbovs cards and
shades and win ont.
A. II never saw ANYTHING like If" said
the Senator to Major Purdy. why,
we started a flock of wild turkeys the
other DAY ana got two Inc balance
new on; ana at the same time one OF
the cowboys started ana IN rev MN
utes returned win one OF the plros' ne
had iassooed IL on the wing am sat
lsIed mat they could lass a quail
me senator says the party VIII sure
~ VISIT Hilo ana the Voicano'-Herald'
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