Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-19
THE "HOME RULERS"
Delegate Wilcox's Speech at
the Honolulu Convention.
AMUSING HARANGU E
CONDEMNS THE ANNEXATION
AND PRAISES THE QUEEN.
Extraordinary Sentiments Expressed
by the Legislative Representative
of the Territory.
AMUSING HARANGU E

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HONOLULU, T. H. July s. 1902.
The home rule republicans holding
their territorial convention here today They
have already nominated Robert w. Wilcox
as their candidate for delegate to Congress
again, and are taking more radical stand
I'm the matter of the race issue than they
did even in the last campaign. 1t has taken
only few days Of work by Wilcox to line
the party up for another campaign in which
down with the whites and Hawaii for
the Hawaiians'' will be the cries.
The convention was aroused to cheers by a
speech from Delegate Wilcox that was most
remarkable. coming from a member of an
American congress. 1t denounced the an
neXation of Hawaii as grabbing of the
islands. and it scored the missionary par
ty'' of Hawaii as severely as Wilcox knew
how. The following is free translation of
the remarks made by the delegate in this
address, which seems to make of Hawaii a
small Ireland and of the delegate from the
islands a sort of Irish member" in The
American House of Representatives:
Unwilling Americans.
aloha nui to all of you. We are now in
the family of the great United States, not
by our own desire. They took lion
takes lamb OF course. as you all know,
1 was elected your delegate to Con-
gress- 1t was hard struggle to win, but
We conquered in the end. That position l
hold until March. 1893.
When first lost our country and
when the monarchy was overthrown and
the United States landed troops on our
shores. America did not want us to be-
come annexed. 1t was through the mis-.
siOnarics that we lost our country and our
monarchy During the time the Her Kalai-
alma and the Aloha Alma societies were
started and John Richardson, William Aud,
j X. kaulia and ID. kalauokalani went
delegates to the United States to look after
our rights.
Then came the war with Spain and the
United States grabbed our islands. Three
commissions from the states and two from
here were all in favor of annexation. Well,
the missionaries managed to get nearly
all the land and now they want the rest.
ALI ''Cut and Dried"
''All the old folk dubbed together to send
a delegate to look after the rights of the
people. and l went there as your delegate,
not to be roasted by the missionaries. Rob-
ert NJ Boyd contributed $40 toward this
fund. Prince Kalanianaoe contributed
some, as did the old folks When l got to
Washington l found everything was already
cut and dried before my arrival.
Il was asked concerning the property
qualification for voting which 1 preferred.
the property or educational as a necessary
quality. | replied education as | knew all
the natives could read and write. Through
me no taxes are necessary for voting. you
do not have to pay them now as for
merry
The missionaries have tried to take
away your votes. but God would not allow
them 10 fulfill the wishes Of their black
hearts God ,willed t that / should go to
the United States as your representative
as the United States wanted. Keep to
your vote. one little vote is worth every
thing There Will be millions of dollars
spent by the United States in improve
nents at Pearl harbor and other improve
nents, What good will all that do you
unless you have a vote