The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-28
HARRIS HEARD
At PARTY
RALLY
Large Meeting at
Downtown
Square.
Fourth District Leader
Makes Vigorous
Showing.

there was meeting OF Republicans
at Emma Square last evening which was
largely attended The Portuguese band
was there and there was a torchlight pro-
-cession. James F. Morgan presided at
the meeting and made a few introduc-
tory remarks. The speakers were Lorrin
Andrews, w. w. Harris, Major Camara,
C. A. Long, E W. Quinn and some
others. The principal address was made
by Representative Harris and was as
follows:
MIR. HARRIS ADDRESS.
Mr.. Chairman, FeIlow-Citizens and
Ladies and Gentlemen: After the par
ty of jefferson had been duly convened,
the convention of the unterrified
awaited in breathless suspense the re-
port of its platform committee. In the
silence of that moment the convention
listened TO the reading of a document,
that, for its lack of issues, for its
pledge of hearty support to mainland
principles adopted by the ST. Louis con-
vention and which would ruin the pros
perity Of Hawaii, for it's condemnation
= of the appointive power of the Cow
eei.nor of the Territory of Hawaii grant
Ell by the Congress of the United
States, in the Organic Act, for it's cry
te, high heaven against the right of
the executive to remove from office
men who are incapacitated by their
inability or otherwise to hold Office, and
whose capacity or incapacity make or
mar the administration which the peo-
pie hold responsible, for it's wall of
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that the welfare of the Territory is
best conserved by the cooperation, and
the working together of the Legislative
and executive departments in the en-
actment of such measures by the Leg
fslatiVe department as will insure an
economical and efficient administration
for its advocacy of increased eXpendf-
lures in salaries, at the expense of thel
taxpayers, for its declaration that thrift
and ability in the wage-earner and mer-
chant shall be taxed to the utmost to
sustain these increased salaries by in
crease, of revenue through the income
tax, for its absolutely false represen-
tation that the Republican Delegate toI
Congress urged private measures in j
advance of public matters of inlpor-
tance, for its really humorous pledge
of its Delegate to Congress to dissem- |
mate correct information among the
members of Congress and in the de- /
partments at washington relative to
local affairs, when as a matter of fact
such candidate for Delegate to Con-
gress, has been so uncertain in his own
mind as to the true condition of affairs
locally, that he has stood upon and
supported the platform of three poli-
tical parties in the last year, for its
ler1f
for its distress at the passage by the
last Republican legislature of the loan
bill, and the floating of said loan by a
Republican administration in the mon
ey markets of the world at par for its
endorsement of the Republican par
tvs action in appropriating the funds
obtained from the sale of territorial
bonds for productive works only, for
its endorsement of the Republican par
tvs pledge to revise the tax laws. for
it's support of the Republican party's
plank to pension Liliuokalani. for its
approval of the action of the last Re-
publican Legislature in passing the
labor law for the protection of the
working man. for its approval of the
action of a Republican administration
in the matter of fishing rights, for its
favorable mention and endorsement or
the sound and wise policy of the Repub-
lican administration and Legislature in
it's liberal appropriations for our pub
lie school system, as a platform it will
go down in the history of politics in
this Territory, as the strangest combin-
alton of endorsement and denunciation,
contradiction and Incompetence, that
up to this time has been produced. Toi
enlarge on this platforms inconsist-
encies. and its inability to appeal tol
the electorate of this Territory, will
ask the attention of this audience.
First its pledge of hearty support tol
the platform of principles adopted by
the st. Louis convention. which among
other things advocates a revision of
the tariff. Sugar, our main export to
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