Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-12
NAKUINA GIVES
THE LIE DIRECT
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extract from the Advertisers report
Of the Home kule meeting last night,
he said: Anything in that report
which refers 10 my having said even
one word against the missionaries is u
lie and can prove IT," Continuing,
Mr.. Nakuina said:
II never gave vent to any such OK
pressions OF the kind. am a mission.
AIRY myself and would cast aspersions
on myself? ! am president Of the
Christian Endeavor Society Of the en-.
tire Territory. ! am also connected
with the sunday schools and Kauml-
kapili Church and now ! am associate
manager OF The Friend. with Theo
Richards occupy the same capacity
on the Hoa Aloha, which is native
edition Of The Friend. In all Of my
speech ! did not make a single refer.
ence to the missionaries. As J said be-
fore, am one myself
Before going any further, J would
have II understood that am a member
of the executive committee Of tho
Home Rule party, but ! do not COnsid-
er this in any way as being incompaL-
ible with my being a missionary also.
AT the meeting held last night, in
terpreted for Edgar Caypless. If he
said anything against the missionaries
and do not believe he did-he made
the statement, not |. My province was
to translate to the natives what Mr..
Caypless said, according 10 the best Of
my ability. The only thing ] remem.
Der now with reference to the mission
aries in the speech of Mr.. Caypless
was reference to Dole and Thurston.
I'm my own speech referred to the
constitution OF 1887, where they put on
property qualification which debar.
red part of the native Hawaiians
from voting for the Mobiles, and asked
who did this; was II the Home Rulers?
The crowd answered, MOI
Il next referred to the overthrow Ct
the monarchy and asked the same
question. Again did the crowd answer
Mo-.
You ask me why am Home Rul-
er and will make my position plain
in very few words.
IF you will remember, It was Rep
rCsentative Fred. Beckley, my step soa,
Who introduced in the House Of ReDre.
sentatives the resolution against Sec
rotary Cooper. They tried in every
way TO down Beckley. but they lid
not touch him in any way. The only
thing they could do was TO remove mo
from my position in the Record ofilco
With this in mind, and recognizing the
fact that myself, a Republican, had
been removed from office on account
Of Home Ruler, too took up the
cause OF the Home Rulers, and there
stand today. ! am now affiliated with
the native party on whose account
have suffered.
During my speech last night made
reference TO what the Advertiser al
ways says about small crowds at tn,
Home Rule meetings, and ! advised III,
crowd that should anyone meet u =,
porter Of that paper anywhere, Il
| NbNlu w U'Sl W ltll ilin lN't' wei,
only about eight at the meeting Thi:
would make him ieel better. To say
there was big crowd would make hin
feel very sore. and would also maxi,
II necessary for him TO tell another Ito
There were between FIVE and sii
hundred people present al last night
meeting and very great eDtbusia AZ
was shown"
The meeting Of the Home RulCIi
last night was held on the KapaIam;
premises OF Queen Liliuokalani an,
the speakers were Delegate WilcOs
Senator Kalauokalani, d Kalauokala
nj Jr., Edgar Caypless, Poepoe au,
Moses Nakuina. The speeches wcr
OF the usual tenor.
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