The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-10

each district.
/ Immediately the constitution was
read there was roar of disapproval.
| The friends of Kalauokalani, seeing
that the convention was against him,
| decided that they must stave off the
| vote. and so there was a motion to
submit the document to committee OF
thirty. This was put to vote by the
| chair but he weakened under the
fstorn of protests. Kuluwaimaka or
Hauula said he understood that 1t was
all a method of attack upon Kalauo-
kalani and he was opposed to 1t as he
came to the city representing forty
1 men who wanted the old order. If
there was change he said the Home
Rule party would go to pieces
| EmmeIuth said. amid storm, that
there was an entire misrepresentation
that the proposal was to move forward.
That 1t would be as impossible to stand
upon the order of things of two years
ago as by those of 1892, and he wanted
! simply to go forward. He did not want
to link his name, he said, with party
which stood still. Every change made
was TO give the electorate more power.
He thought the convention was as rep
! resentative of the Home Rule party as
the convention of two years ago. The
issues were those of the present day
down before the party which was not
Fiafraid to meet them, He then moved
frat the Constitution pass.
Haipoole OF Laie said he had come
as the representative of sixty voters OF
his section to uphold Kalauokalani and
to uphold the Delegate. George Mark
ham followed, suggesting that he did
not understand the proposal and that
there should be printed the new consti-
tuition and the delegates take it home
and study 1t at leisure, so that there
might be a vote taken in September
as to what are to be the changes. He
said there would be a split If there was
discussion now and he wanted the dele
gates to go home and consult their
people, Ewaliko said that the plan
was to make the party truly repre-
sentative and thus give all a voice. He
agreed that if there was any disagree
ment there would be a row and Home
Rule would be over. There was grow
ing disorder Many delegates were
standing and some talking from their
seats, the young men being those who
kept their seats, when Kalauokalani
said that he believed that if there was
any further disagreement there would
be break up of the party. This Gre
ated more disorder, which did not at
once cease as Wilcox rose to speak.
He was gray with passion and spoke
with heat throughout. He said in
part:
II am here to say to you that this
is no time for war. The Advertiser
has said that we were to be broken up
and it seems to be coming true. If
there is to be a break in the Home
Rule party 1 will break it up and l
will then start a Home Rule party. /
can take out any one of you and fire
you out for good. It's a shame that
you will fight over what one man says
shall be done. He don't spend Ave
cents over sending your delegate to
Washington, yet he comes here and
tries to dictate to us what is for our
good, and to break up our party. In
the last Legislature he was the one
who got up the county BILL Why didn't
he bring it up before. If this is to go
any further I'll ask every one of
you to go out and then I'll call those
back that want and start new Home
Rule party. I am like Napoleon. The
people have given me the power and L
will use it, You can't break up the
Home Rule party so long as l am here.
for 1 will carry the day and the cleo
ton. In the United States the way
they do is to stand together Let us
do this so that the commission coming
down here shall find us united in our
wishes and we will gain our ends.
AS to this constitution, how about
Hawaii and Kauai? They have 5000
votes there and those people have moth
ing TO say. 1 believe that we Should
let all the people vote. Where is the
haole's head If you believe all the
haole says you may be sure the Home
Rule will fail. All these old people
with their ten cents and their small
change, they have helped the Delegate
to go to Washington. There are peo
pie who are trying to have you help
your enemies. 1t is a good thing TO
have a man like Kalauokalani here.
He takes things COOL Another man
would be pig headed and would not
lead you SO carefully and rightly.
II want to know why We want a new
constitution. There is time enough to
wait. OF course youngsters are foolish. |
They have not been born long enough !
to know everything. We must, have |
patience. Let everybody pull together. !
Have no enemies. 1 want to ask every !
body to be Christian in their feeling.
How are we going to have municipal !
government or put the governor out if |
we carry on this way? If we have pa |
thence we will govern. When the next |
Congress meets will be back in Feb |
ruary to see that the legislature Ia
working right. and 1 want to see -coun- I,
ty and municipal government all
through. Then you'n have all to say
and not as now. If we continue on in
this course they will have it in the pig |
pen Advertiser that the Home Rulers |
are all broken up. 1 want to be right
here and put in the right Senator's
Senators for the next election-myself. |
l want to put in men who will work
for the people and carry on the county |
and municipal government.
why was / said to be not good by
these people? 1t was not because I
fought against them in the revolution.
No. 1t is because they cannot buy me.
All the missionaries are down on me.
What have they done for the Islands? i
I have been the only one to do any
thing for the Islands. They do nothing
but. talk. I work for the people.
If You turn out Kalauokalani
and disrupt Home Rule, then the ISL
ands viii drop and the haoles will be
on top Give every one a copy OF the
Constitution and let every one know