The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-16

HOME RULERS TRY
TO CAUSE TROUBLE
Orators Tell of Campaign Issues
and Discuss the Prospects
of the Candidates.

Under the shadow of the Iron Works,
amid surroundings which two years ago
We're all Home Rulers, $50 voters gath
cred last evening for the purpose of
listening to Republican speakers preach
the doctrine of prosperity and progress.
1t was meeting full of incident and
accompanied with Interruptions which
showed the presence of objectors to
any proposition which was not in line
with Wilcoxism.
When Robert N. Boyd called the
meeting to, order there were On the
sand lot mauka of the iron works
couple of hundred men, their number
being small owing to the fact that there
was a steamer coming in at the time.
Mr.. Boyd spoke at some length Of the
various candidates for office in the
Fourth district, called attention to their
asked L. L. McCandless to speak first.
Mr.. McCandless began by referring to
the good times which had ruled two
years ago, and to the great change
which had come over the country since.
He said one man in the audience had
told him that he had been idle for five
months and there was no work in sight
for him.
Calling attention to the Iron Works,
he asked if the people did not want to
see them filed with work, so thai there
might be plenty of employment for
everybody, and said if wrong road
had been taken two years ago the route
should be changed now so that we
could go ahead and progress. Turning
to the work of the Delegate, he asked
what he had done for Hawaii, and a
voice in the audience responded that
introduced. McCandless said he was
not q candidate on account of personal
interests for he had no axes to grind,
but because he wanted something to
be done for the good of the country.
w. c. Achi began with thanks for
election two years ago, and then took
up Caypless. He said that the Home
Rule candidate had said that the Re-
publicans were leading the people
astray; that they would not pass city
and county legislation. Achi said that
when Caypless made such statements
he lied. 1t was a fact that bill was
introduced providing for city govern
ments by Senator Crabbe, that s1400
were spent in having it translated and
published and then on motion Of White
it was laid on the table. 1t was the
Home Rulers he said who had killed
city and county government. He said
the law gave the governor ten days to
consider bills but the legislature was
in a hurry to pass their county bill and
rushed it through without leaving the
governor more than three days to act.
It was not possible for any set of men
to consider such a bill fully in four
days. The Home Rulers, however,
passed it without reading section by
section. In fact, they would not wait
until it had been corrected, even as TO
spelling. Today not one of them could
tell what was in the bill
Wilcox two years ago, he said, had
told the people Of his love for them,
but when the Legislature had been e.
lected such men as Pua and Robert
Boyd, who had worked long for the
party, were turned down for the Sec
retaryship, which was given to mali
hini, with the smell of the tar from the
ship on him, Caypless. This gave the
newcomer s25 a day. Achi asked the
people to look into the hearts Of the
two men and see whether Caypless or
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