The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-18
.kUHIO IS
ADVANCING
Maui Turns Into
Line for the
Prince.
HOME RULERS
MEET QUERIES
Wilcox Meetings on Hawaii Bring
Out Many Pointed
Questions.


una Loa yesterday which encouraged
them all along the line West Maui
seemingly has taken to Prince Kuhio as
have the Hawaiians wherever he has
appeared. and the reports all are of the
greatest political meetings that ever
have been held in the various points
along the line.
To offset this comes news from Ha-
waii that Wilcox is having big
meetings. The natives come out to
hear him, but he is asked SO many
questions as to his failures that he is
not making much Roadway in counter
acting the influence of the Prince He
has given over any abuse of Prince
Kuhio. and the result is that he is do
ing little more than hold on to his few
followers. It is set forth that wilcox
is now on the defensive and spends
most Of his time in telling why he did
| not do what was expected of him, and
promising better things if given another
chance.
As to the windward side of the island
he had two really great crowds at wal
pho, where Prince Kuhio said he found
very hotbed of Home Rule, and at
Laupahoehoe, the latter place being
one where the people asked so many
questions as to the course of the Dele
gate and the leader in the legislature
that the latter refused to go on unless
the people kept quiet.
Wilcox is using his old arguments
that the lepers are nl-fed and clothed
and that the Board of Health stole half
the appropriation. He is carrying about
a petition for new land laws, so that,
each native shall have forty or eighty
acres of land. He~charges too that half
the unfortunates on Molokai are not
Iepers and would be released by Federal
authorities. He says all the ineareera-
ton is due to the desire of Dole and
others to get rid of the Hawaiians.
Kalauokalani. opio, says that Dole
last legislature was honest and efficient
and that many good bills were passed
and that Dole vetoed them. He de-
clares that a Republican legislature
would disfranchise the natives, while a
Home Rule legislature would give
county bill, woman suffrage and other
things too numerous to mention.
| Kalauokalani, Opio, says that Dole
went TO Washington 10 disEranchise Ra-
waiians and that his opposition. with
others. prevented Wilcox from passing
bills He credited the commission TO
Wilcox.
FALL OF HOME RULIsM.
When the Mauna Loa was at Napoo-
poo. on Hawaii. Wilcox and Sam Pua
made use of the time there to make ad-
dresses. a small crowd Of natives,
among them being many Of the Princes
| followers, was attracted by the speak
| ing, and at the height of a soaring ad-
dress Pua mounted a chicken coop.
While waving his arms grandly, the
] coop gave way and Pua came to the
ground on his hands and knees, making
| a ridiculous spectacle. The natives
laughed and one said. There's the fall
of the Home Rulers The saying took
with the crowd and PGa was subjected
to more ridicule while many took the
| incident as an omen of disaster to the
Home Rulers there.
AT KaiIua another meeting was held
| attended mostly by the old men of the
! district Julian Monsarrat, who is run
ming on an independent ticket, made
an address. Wilcox took the stand and
played upon the feelings Of the natives
BY encouraging hatred of the haoles
Land the same old Wilcoxisms, TO the ef-
feet that the Republican party in Ha-
| waii was not the same as that in the
States
/ One of the passengers who returned
in the Mauna Loa was witness to sew
eraI meetings and conferences, and
! from what was interpreted TO him OF
the condition of mind of the natives in
! Kona he feels assured that Prince ku-
hio viii win. South Kona is practical
tly solid for the Prince.
Wilcox and Pua left the steamer at
Maslaea. Maui
KALIHI REPUBLICANS MEET.
Republicans to the number of several
hundred gathered at the residence Of
James L. Holt, Kalihi, last evening and
heard the doctrines Of the party from
the lips Of those who know what sue
cess and failure mean. II was formal
gathering and an informal gathering
land the folk of Kamehameha road en-
loved the evening TO the full.
The first speaker was Kaeo, the vet
eraI wharfmaster, who said that ne
wanted the people 10 listen TO his words,
for he had learned what the trouble
was, and that il was only through Re-
publfcanism that the people could hope
ZzA. -
former Home Rule orator and member
of the executive committee Of tnai
PARTY. spoke at length and made the
hest impressions Of the evening Sh:
called attention TO the failure Of tAt
legislature 10 do what il promised and
to the fact that the very people 7bc
had come with fair words had gons