The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-09

/ without their party's candidate having
made an appearance on the platform
i Though it was announced by every
sneaker that Dreier would appear, and
/ he was called for several times from
/ the audience, the Home Rule candi-
/ date was not on hand.
! Democrats as we'll as Home Rulers
spoke, and the Home Rulers had the
pleasure of hearing their Idol, Theo-
dore Roosevelt, denounced in scathing
terms. There was only one interesting
incident, the arrival of a bowling
crowd of Portuguese boys, with the
Mission Band, interrupting a speaker.
who denounced it as an example OF
The Republican method OF crushing the
natives When the mob came nearer,
IL was seen that a banner carried in
their midst bore the words Vote for
Dreier," and the crestfallen speaker re-
tired amid the laughter of the crowd.
Among the speakers We're Kaulia.
Kanui. Clarke, Makainai. Mossman.
John Wise and others Charles Creigh-
ton and c. K. Quinn spoke for the
Democrats and Franklin Austin of
Murphy Club accounts fame an
nounced his allegiance to the Home
Rulers.
The Home Rulers dwelt principally
upon the vaccination bill, which they
claimed had been introduced, so that
the Republican doctors might inoculate
Hawaiians with leprosy germs, point
ing out the lepers on Molokai as reason
why Dreier should be elected. Joseph
Clarke said that Dreier could be seen
to be the best man, for he was richer
than Harris, and consequently had
more influence.
Makainai said that the Missionary
Republicans taught the Hawaiians to
look toward God and then while they
were doing that, stole everything in
sight. He said the missionaries were
all liars; that they taught the Hawaii
ans we'll 1T the schools, and then sent
them out to drive hacks or dig in tae
street.
He compared Harris to a monkey
with a short chain, while Dreier had a
long chain and could do more good in
the legislature. Mossman charged that
the Republicans in the legislature had
been bribed, and not the Home Rulers,
and he pointed to the fact that Re-
publicans had become suddenly rich.
Kaulia spent his time on the stump al
ternating his cries between kill the
snake" and ''age before beauty
Charles Creighton spoke as a Demo-
crat. but said he stood on the same
platform as the Home Rulers. He
said the Republicans were trying to
drive the natives out of the country,
and spoke of the attempt to keep
Dreier off the ticket by bulldozing,
which would cause the dirtiest pig in
the dirtiest pig sty in the country to
blush for shame.
He claimed also that Harris name
was not on the registration list in the
second district, but had been written
on in ink afterwards. He urged the
Homo Rulers to fight the "oligarchy
of a few sugar barons of the mission
airy persuasion" and asked the voters
to throw out the party in power and
get rid of the clique.
G. K. Quinn, Humphreys old bailiff,
made the most eloquent address of the
evening, though combining himself to
national issues almost exclusively. He
denounced Roosevelt for his treatment
of Schley, Dewey and Miles, and tlie
Republican party for their dealings
with the F'ilipinos.
Franklin Austin announced himself
as u Home Ruler for all time, and said
every missionary son ought to be the
same. He congratulated himself for
being at least free from the missionary
letters. and announced his willingness
to die for liberty. After listening to
this for few minutes, the crowd CALI I
cd for McClanahan and Kinney, but :,
neither appeared. All the speakers ap-
pealed more to the women present than
the men, urging the former to see that
their husbands voted, and did not get
drunk. About two hundred people
were present.