The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-20
One Statesman Will
!. AmendOrganic
Law.
AMUSING PLEDGES
OF NOMINEES
Caypless and Wilcox Make Char
acteristic Harangues to
Palama Crowd.

Home Rule candidates for legisla-
tive honors passed in review before a
meeting Of Palama voters last evening
and told them of their qualifications
for the nominations they were seeking.
The men had been picked by Wilcox at
meeting of the Executive Committee
and the Home Rulers of Oahu will hold
convention next Wednesday at which
formal nominations will be made. Ka-
lauokalani is expected home tomorrow
and his hand will be felt in the conven-
ton to be held.
Wilcox, Caypless and Becl1ley We're
the principal speakers at last evening S
! meeting and the time of the former
Twas devoted principally to the Senate
ing was enlivened by the remarks of
NJ K. Nakuina and Mon War, the Chi
nese district court attorney, who now
processes to be Home Ruler.
The speakers, nearly all of whom
said they had been picked as possible
legislative nominees, were Ramona,
Wm. Ringer, Edgar Caypless. Asa
Kaulia, John Prendergast, ]. M. Poe
poe, Rev. Mr. Oil of Waialua, S. K. Ma
hoe, NJ. K. Nakuina, Ng Mon War, F.
w. Beckley and Kaleihuia.
Nearly all of them related their past
history to the minutest detail, giving
also educational, legal and other quail
ifications, which might fit them for the
Legislature, some of them, in defense of
their own qualifications, being COM
PEELED to bear down rather harshly on
the theories advanced by other candi-
dates.
Ramona, who was the first speaker,
advanced one or two novel ideas which
he promised to advocate in case he was
elected. One was to do away with all
Orientals on the waterfront and make
an eight hour working day for the Ha-
waiians. He promised also to intro
duce a bill in the legislature amending
the organic act so as to make five years
necessary voting qualification instead
1 of one year. as at present, to shut out
the foreigners who have recently ar
rived. He was against any candidate
who owed debts, for he would very
probably take bribeS.
VIM. Ringer promised in the event of
his election that Hawaiian should be
taught to all school children who de-
sired it. He said he had been working
for Wilder & Cs. for sixty dollars per
month, but had given up his place in
order to work for Home Rulers for
nothing. He said he didn't owe a cent.
but cries from the audience, You do;
yes, yes!" seemed to contradict the
statement.
Edgar Caypless who was introduced
as coming senator said that the whole
world had been looking upon these
islands and especially upon the Home
Rule party, because they had risen as
an oppressed people and were now
holding the oppresSors under their feet.
The Hawaiian had attracted more at
tention during the past two years, than
for the whole tune from 1920 to 1900.
You never had political history be-
fore 1900" said Caypless, cit was a one
man history before then, and it was so
contemplate that the people of the
United States knew very little about
1t, and when they learned about it
later, they We're so ashamed that they
didn't want to say word about it"
He told then of the faction which had
gone TO Washington at the time of an
neXation and told the people that the
islands were republican; that the sugar
planters and officials were everything,
and the few kanakas didn't amount to
anything. No American, he said, was
proud of Hawaii then, or of the over
throw of the Queen, but that had been
Kept a secret by the missionaries.
Then when native delegate was Sc
lected, the Republican leaders didn't
believe 1t possible, and the missionaries