The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-22
KEWALO
IS IN LINE.
Orators Tell of
Republican
Plans. |
SHOW HOW HOME
RULERS FAILED
Kaneohe Men Turn Out in Force
to Greet the Speakers.
MoiIiili Gathering.

ritory last evening, and the meeting in
Kewalo by the Fourth district commit
tee was in more ways than one sue
cess. While there was a large number
of voters present, they began by jeer-
ing the speakers but as the facts were
presented they succumbed to the mass
of arguments, and finally, before Jonah
Kumalae had finished, they were ready
to listen to the statements of fact and
cheer the good words of the speakers.
Robert Boyd called the meeting to
order and laid before the voters the
propositions of the campaign, saying
that 1t was time for careful consid-
GRAFTON of the facts and the candidates
before deciding as to the men who
should be supported He presented to
the meeting as the first speaker S. F.
Chillingworth, who devoted his ener-
gies to pleading the cause of the leader
of the party. He said that the pres
ence of Wilcox at Washington caused
no sentiment at all, for he was a man
without affiIiation and had no friends
to speak for him. If the Prince was
sent ON, he said, there would be no
Republicans of the majority party who
would not paove to assist him in his
every effort for the good of the terri
, tory.
the people on the need for legisla
ture which would pass laws for the
betterment of the conditions of the
territory, w. w Harris was intro
duced. He began by saying that he
had almost lost his way in the maze
of bad streets which were the bequest
of the Home Rulers to the Kewalo
people. He then took up the work of
Wilcox, saying that he had gone to
Washington with every prospect for
good, and had finally accomplished
nothing for the people. Referring to
the hard times, he said that if Wilcox
had secured for the territory any APP
preparations, there would have been
work for the people on the harbors
and public buildings. and they would
not be, as now, wanting work to secure
subsistence The Congress-. he said,
had passed appropriations amounting
to one billion of dollars, and yet of that
vast sum Hawaii had not received one
cent.
AS to the leper bill, he said its effect
would be to make federal officials, who
did not know the Hawaiian people, su-
preme, and they would use their posi-
ton to follow their scientific studies.
The people would find that the lepers
would be simply matter for experiment
and upon their death they would be cut
up into pieces, which would be sent 10
the laboratories of the world for exper-
imentation. He pleaded with the voters
to send to the legislature men who
would be a unit for the best legisla-
ton He said If the Republicans
should secure a majority of the legis-
lature the result would be better roads
and streets, the paving of the thorough
fares of the city, so that the people
would be able to get about without
boats when the winter rains came on.
Everything, he said, depended on the
people sending good men to the legis-
lature so that they might have proper
representation, and thus secure proper
laws.
Jonah Kumalae began by referring
to the fact that the Home Rulers had,
during the last legislature, killed every
bill which was introduced by the Re
publicans, and had thus prevented
some of the most important legislation
from being passed. He told how
Prince Cupid had opened his houses
for the reception of the homeless dur
| ing the plague fires, and during all
that time Wilcox, of the Home Rulers,
had done nothing for the people AS
| to the roads of their district, he said
that he had worked for bill to pro-
vide for the paving of the streets, but
this, like all other bills, had been killed
! by the Home Rulers. He again re-
ferred to the fact that Wilcox was the
! first man to sign the annexation roll.
Carlos Long spoke at some length of
the need for straight voting, If the
people would secure the best results.
He said that the United States had
given to the people full franchise,
which was more than the people of
any other of the new territories had,
and he adjured the people to show that
they appreciated citizenship by voting
right, which, he said. was to cast
ballot for the Republican nominees.
He spoke of city and county govern
ment, saying that the people had
right to have share in the workings
of the government, and they would be
given this privilege under the form
upon which the Republican commits
sion was now working. He deplored
the statements that the Republicans
were not in earnest in this matter, and
said that if this was not the case the
people would not find himself and
other Republicans standing on the
platform advocating the election of the