The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-23
WHAT THE PEOPLE OF
HILO ARE TALKING ABOUT

at it. It was supposed that the Re-
publicans would vote for their candi-
dates and if they had we would not be
getting the long end of laugh from
the people down there"
wait until next year, my son." said
the Early Riser, land the laugh will
be on the other foot. There will be
about two hundred more Portuguese
voters then and the Home Rulers are
not going to win them. That will
give the Portuguese about 345 voters
enough to give them a say in the de-
alterations of the party. If the Repub-
licans give them a square deal their
votes will go their way, otherwise you
may hear of an independent move
ment that will shake the county.
There will be larger number of Re
publican votes registered next year
than Home Rulers for the reason that
the average Hawaiian does not move
around much and he rarely neglects to
register The result of the last cleo
ton has opened the eyes of 1he white
people to the fact that a vote counts
a lot in a close election. Another
thing, I believe that many of the Ha-
waiians will be tired of their Home
Rule officials at the end of six months
and they will be glad to have change.
We must watch the primaries, how
ever, and see that we have only Re-
publicans to vote. The primaries this
year were a farce; men registered as
Republicans in the club and the next
you would hear of them they acted as
delegates in the Home Rule conven-
ton. That is the sort of a Republican
we can do without. Not only did they
sit in that convention but they worked
against the Republican ticket on cleo
ton DAY. I am in favor of hunting
out those fellows and give them a
chance to vote where they belong"
when the next election comes a.
round they will all be Republicans,
said the Meddler, and they won't care
whether they are in your circle or not"
81 guess they are going to investi-
gate the count in Honolulu all right"
said the Cheerful Liar, land if all the
reports are true there will be change
in the result. They tell me that there
were good many ballots thrown out
there that would not have been if the
markings had been for the other side.
Yet cannot see how that can be when
the inspectors We're not all of the same
thrown out in this county but it was
fairly DONE
"a recount here would not change
the result said the Early Riser, the
Home Rulers did the most voting and
that settles it. If the Republicans had
stood by the ticket and with the sup
port given it by some of the Hawaiians
we would have won out. But they did
not do it and that settles it for year
at least. I do not believe it will go
Home Rule next time
81 do not want to hear any more
about politics for another year.
said the Kicker, ''let us have peace
What we should do now is to work
on the Supervisors to get Front street
widened." said the Meddler. IF they
will do that they will have done some
thing worth while and they will build
a monument for themselves
Did you hear that Lalakea will in
sist on having Ryan in the tax office?"
asked the Kicker. He says that as
long as Ryan is a Home Ruler and
worked against the Republicans he
should have recognition. If Ryan goes
in there I guess there will be some
fun before he gets out of it. For some
reason he has it in for the corporations
and he will make it warm for them il
he can get in a position to do it.
LAS long as the plantations pay the
biggest percentage of taxes do not see
where the Kick is said the Early
Riser, there are instances on record
where the legislature has neglected to
make appropriations for roads and
the plantations have been called upon
to advance the coin so the work could
be done. 1t shows ingratitude now to
do small things in order to make it
unpleasant for them"
Il know of one institution that will
go by the board on account of the leg
islature neglecting to appropriate suf-
ficient funds to carry it along and that
is the Hilo Hospital" said the Cheer
full Liar. '@The Trustees do not have
enough money to pay the expenses and