Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-03
.HAWAII'S E ECTION
No Certainty ! to the Re-
suit in the Islands.
FIGHT FOR DELEGATE
WILCOX CONTINUES HIS AP-
PEAL TO NATIVE PREJUDICEs.
A Sample Speech, Which Discloses the
Low Plane Of His Cam
paign.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

are being held at all points in the group,
and Prince Cupid Kalanianaole, whom the
republicans nominated as their candidate
against R. w. Wilcox for delegate to Con-
gress, has received enough assurances of
support to make election sure, if all were to
be relied upon, which they are not Both
candidates have toured all the islands and
are still at it, and some of their speeches
would sound strange in American ears.
Delegate Wilcox continues campaign
speeches addressed to the utmost ignorance,
and there can be no doubt that his hopes
are vested in the class of natives in the
outside districts who do not know any bet
ter than to accept the often utterly rdicu-
lous statements he makes. An address de-
livered by him on the Island of Maui dur
ing the present week Is translated in part
follows:
A Characteristic Wilcox Speech.
This is a campaign in which the poor
homeless home rulers are fighting against
the monied republicans who bringing
diseases and propagating them throughout
our beloved country. This evil started from
the days of Captain Cook The missionaries
are now eighty years in the country. They
came to preach the Gospel, but have sue
ceeded wonderfully well in grabbing our
lands, and have got rich thereby, got our
government and then tried to disfranch'se
you, which was only prevented by my PEI
sonal eXertions.
at is well for you that you should know
that 1 was responsible for saving this po-
litical right for you. The United States
government don't want the missionaries
The United States favors the home rulers
because they home rulers themselves
They are anxious to see US win and rule
our own country.
The republican party, is not sincere in
it's desire for the county government act,
for fear that you will run the country.
There is no such thing fas the republican
party in Hawaii-they are land grabbers.
/ The United States realized that fact
through me when l exposed everything to
them. A victory to the party means moth
ing more nor less than. universal pilikia
trouble) to us all. Therefore it behooves
us to exert our utmost to obtain the ma
jority in the next legislature, so that we
can drive out our enemies, these mosqui-
toes, fieas, cockroaches!
His Notorious Leper Colony Bill.
THE leper bill is in reality my work of
love and affection for nay people. 1t is a
work of gratitude Tor those in great dis
tress and pilikia. (This1 iss the act to make
Molokai federal lazaretto, which is bit
terly opposed by the lepers and apparently
generally throughout Hawaii.) The United
States will treat them well, send first-class
doctors, and above ALL good food. The
United States will buy the leper settlement
for $10,000,000, which will go toward en-
riching the Golfers of this territory, and
you and all will be benefited thereby. 1t is
a fact that one-third of those sent to the
leper settlement are not bona fide lepers,
but they are sent there to kill them off, fov
the missionaries want not only me, but all
of US, dead.
The prince is very good man, but
young and inexperienced He does not
realize the amount of work at Congress.
An experienced man like myself is needed
there. a lcng-legged lobbyist, to interview
the various heads of departments. The
prince cannot do that kind of work; alone
am capable of that undertaking. So bet
ter let the prince stay at home.
IF 1 go to Washington l am not afraid
to meet the 100 emissaries sent there by
! the missionaries to block me. The mission
aries wanted to kill me before; they want
ed to shoot me. but God spared me to be
delegate to Congress. If go to Congress
again. l will do all in my power to GUST
Dole and his clique. 1 can do it,
The Old Innoculation Charges.
In his address Wilcox continues to make
such charges as that the missionaries are
| innoculatng native children with leprosy
virus deliberately and Intentionally. This
Is when they vaccinate the children, as is
done by government physicians. This
charge is playing an old native super
stition. result of the careless methods of
vaccination in the past. There is very
good reason to believe that years ago, when
| arm to arm vaccination was the rule, and
before the present modern method was
known. leprosy was spread among Ha-
waiians by vaccination against smallpox.
The vaccination law remains, but the mod
ern method precludes any danger Of inter-
communication Of any disease, for separate
points are used for each patient. Wilcox
knows this. but many of the Hawaiians he
addresses do not
The campaign of the young prince has
been most energetic one, and will con-
encouraging receptions at most points. But
there Is no political prophet with much
courage, for the native Hawaiian appears
to be peculiarly difficult to place" in a po-
two years ago remember the campaign of
1900, when there were clear enough indica-
lions that Samuel Parker would win, but
when the natives went quietly to the polls
and voted for the royalist, Wilcox.
Natives for the Legislature.
An examination of the legislative tickets
in the field shows that there is strong prob
ability of even larger proportion of ma
tives in the house and senate than there
was two years ago. With the single excep-
| ton of the fourth representative district, a
part of the city of Honolulu, which the re-
publicans carried last time afor all their
candidates, the nominees are nearly all Ha-
waiians or part Hawaiians,f Whichever
ticket wins, the legislature appears likely
to be one of Hawaiiansin which means one
| of interpretations and much talk. All par
| ties appear to have felt II useless to at
tempt to win with white nominees.
| Out of thirty legislative candidates on the
| home rule ticket, thirteen were members Of
| the last house or senate and some Of those
| up for reelection are among the NEST in
| competent members of that most incompe1
| tent body A few of the worst ones have
been thrown over. however, and there is a
|. sprinkling of better and more intelligent
| natives in the home rule ticket, The home
| rulers have almost as many whites as the
republicans on their ticket, and they have
| one Chinese, Ng Monwar, Honolulu law
yer. who is running for the lower house.
| He was for many years a law clerk IN
| Honolulu office, and was recently admitted
| to practice In the lower courts He is the
| only Chinese candidate who ever ran for
/ office here, IL anywhere on American soil,
through j. A. Akina, speaker Of the
| last house, has some Chinese bEsSd in his
| veins There are indications that Ng Mon
war is In danger of be,ag knitted by his sup
/ posed home rule friends. The Portuguese
have been given representation the re-
publican ticket. but owing to divisions
among themselves are not at all certain to
| benefit by it.
| One Way Out Of It.
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