The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-06
EMMELUTH'S ''DEFI j
CHALLENGES WILCOX TO MAKE
CHARGES AGAINST HIM.
Asks For Hearing Before Being Read
Out of the Home Rule Party-Prom-
lses More To Come

Therefore, Wilcox and KalauokaIani
decided not to have anything to do with
him, even talk with him, and Emmeluth
is barred entirely out o. the Home Rule
rarity"
Such is the naive announcement made
by Mrs. WilcoX's resuscitated Home
Rule organ that Representative John
Emmeluth had been officially read out
of the Home Rule party.
AS sort of preamble to this an
nouncement, the Home Rule says:
"R. w. Wilcox was asked to answer
to what was written in Emmeluth's
letter, but he declined to give the full
ness, only to state what he thinks of
the representative. He said, when he
was in Washington he was informed
| tnat Emmcluth has persuaded ID. Ka-
| lauokalani, j. A. Akina, Z. w. Reckley
| and others not to re-eleCt me as a dell
! eEate and because he did not succeed
| 1t therefore turned he upon Kalauuka-
! lani as his victim. He wanted KaIIuo-
! kalani not to be leader for the party.
| Because of the seated reasons, there
fore, it is very desirable to put him out
! of the Home Rule party. He is the
very man that was upheld by d. Ka-
! lauOkalani who was nearly drowned in
! the hands of robbers in time past, but
| now he wanted to run against his
| saviour. man like this, who can
! betray his friend, he can ever betray
! the people"
The letter to which reference is made
| is one sent by Emmeluth tC Wilcox and
| to Kalauokalani by registered mail last
| Friday, and to which they have made
! no response to him. In this letter EN-
meluth calls attention to the action of
| Wilcox end KalGuOkalani in reading
| him out of the party without any char
( ges, trial or opportunity to be heard.
| He calls attention to the statements
| made by Wilcox and Kalauokalani at
! the Home Rule convention and since
| whereby without making charges
/ against him they declare him traitor
! to the party.
He asks that written charges be
! made il they have anything against
! him, and that he have an opportunity
! to defend himself intimating that if
| this is done he can produce some nigh
! ty interesting facts on the subject of
! treason to the Home Rule party
! Proceeding Emmeluth in his letter
! says IF there are charges against
| me let these be made in writing and
! give me chance to defend my name
! Bear with me in Christian patle..... III
til this plotting and it's cause can be
! unravelGd. God knows, as l feel that
! you must know that this is an unholy
| conspiracy against one whose every eff
fort was bent to the reaigation of
Equal rights for the People"
In support of this contention l de-
sire to call your attention to a speech
, of mine made on the last day of the
regular session, Oh The occasion of tn
joint session Of both houses for the
purpose of choosing the four-year term
| Senators Senator William White OF
Lahatna had just been nominated for
the four-year term when | arose and
addressing the presiding officer, Hon.
5. T.. Kaiue, of the Senate, as follows:
" Mr.. President: 1t is our right, riv-
, llege and duty to scan well the records
of these Senators, l charge that it is
> right and proper to consider what this
member and othel Senators have done
who pledged themselves to our party;
, | to consider what the situation is today.
| have learned a great deal during this
, | session in reference tor many matters of
4 interest to our party and especially re
gdrding the faue of measures Whi.h !
desired to see Put through. / nave
stood for the rights of the people as /
could see them ana | have stood on III,
{ platform of the party which put me
here.
1.-The measures to which / refer and
! which | would like to have seen pass
ed We're for the peoples interest and
benefit. l charge that members OF the
Senate of the Home Rule party have
\ been derelict in their duty to their con
: stituents and because of their actions
important measures have been held vi
I in the Senate. 1 refer TO measures by
which the people had their rights de-
fired. There have been meas ures held
: up in Senate committees which should
have been passed and which were ydlu-
: able to this community. House bill -
, limiting the hours of labor on public
/ works and providing that only Ameri-
4 can citizens should be employed on
, such works, and House bill No. III
, making similar provisions in regard to
. Territorial officials are among those to
: which | now refer.
They We're measures that, for the
{ next tive years would have filled the
calabash of every honest, hard working
| Hawaiian in this land. / charge Mr..
! President that /. is a crying shame
, | that such measures should have been
held up under the existing conditions
and the pledges under which we came
Into this Legislature. : have said that
/ was sorry that these things happen
ed, but they had a definite cause and
that cause will be ventilated when, two
years from now, we have got to g be-
fore the people.
" But these Senators care nothing
for the people. Il was my prayer and
Cesire that the promises made our con-
| stituents should be carried out but
what could we do when Senators con-
| Quoted themselves in this way?
4" L am sorry for this situation but
the work done is behind us. We are
near the end of the life of this Legis-
lature and must weep over that which
we did not do.
When l vote today l want to ex-
! press In my vote, my opinion of the
men who We're pledged ana who v'ola.-
ed their pledge to their party ana u
| the people.
! For this reason l say the members
of this Legislature are free to vote for
any man they want for four-year Sem
| ator.
! Let us take the session through and
| look at their records, and then, ] do not
! care whether he is Republican, a
| Democrat or a Home Ruler If he has
! done some Eood for this country / viii
! vote for him and work for him.