The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-05
KUMALAE
SQUELCHEO
Kuhio Gives Reereant
Republican a Hot
Roasting.
Especial to Advertiser).

| neaded Cy Jonah kumaIae, who at
tempted to break up the big Republican
ratification meeting here last night,
were put to rout by Prince Kuhio., The
Home Rulers were utterly vanquished
by the impassioned speech of the Dele
gate. Incidentally, Kuhio's speech was
the first gun of the campaign.
While the speechmaking was in prog
ress, Kumalae and Poepoe, covered with
1eis, arrived from one of the country
districts where they had been working
| up Home Rulism. Kumalae looked
with scorn upon the speakers and then
announced his intention of getting the
! crowd away and turning the affair into
a Home Rule meeting. They pressed
forward and came near T. McCants
Stewart who was holding forth on the
band stand. Kumalae and Poepoe jibed
and jeered until finally Stewart invited
them to a joint debate. The Home
Rulers then began firing questions at
| Finally Kumalae asked:
What has Kuhio done in Washing
ton for Hawaii"
III answer that came a voice from
the crowd, which was recognized as. be-
| longing to Prince Kuhio. The Dele
gate mounted the rostrum, and in an
swering and routing the Home Rulers.
made the speech of his life. After maxi
;pu n fa1.- ,oraIir,oi,oorv ,o,,a,I-s, S,,,aolr
| ing entirely in. Hawaiian, Kuhio said,
in part:
The work of the Home Rule party
is to down everybody else. The Home
Rulers as you see them here are vile
mouthed and selfish. Natives who have
accepted of my hospitality do this to
me. 1 have not come her to fight or
get into trouble. My business here is
to voice the sentiments of my party,
and to go to Washington to ask Con-
gress to give Hawaii something. If you
| Home Rulers, who say so many bad
| things about me, don't want to vote for
| me, you don't have to.
Il was taught Home Rule politics by
| Wilcox, my fellow countryman. The
Home Rulers We're victorious in the
first campaign, and Kumalae was then
a Republican. The Republicans have
Roosevelt, the Democrats have Parker,
and now you Home Rulers whom do
you intend to have for President? zap
plause and laughter). / have run for
office against the Home Rulers, not be-
cause it was Hawaiian party, but be-
cause the party is not right and does
not represent anything. Do you think
1 am going to do anything for you at
/ .IN1s
and will do for the Republicans and
| Democrats, but nothing for you because
you represent no good principle.
when you Home Rulers go around
on your campaign you call me names.
but that does you no good"
Kuhio then answered the charges
made by the Home Rulers in Kohala
that he had mistreated Morris Keoho-
kalole in Washington. Several people
had been proposed to him as secretary
but he give Morris the chance because
he was q Hawaiian and he was am
bilious for him, but In Washington
Morris had disgraced himself and the
Hawaiian people by his conduct. Al
though Morris had received 800 &
month from Uncle Sam, Kuhio said he
had personally sent money out of his
own pocket to Morris wife because
Morris spent all he had in carousipg
y He had gone to New York and Atlantic
City, fallen in with disreputable com
panions, and he had supplied him with
money on three occasions which hac
5 been spent recklessly. He had giver
him $50 to get to San Francisco but thai
was also spent in riotous living.
Poepoe and Kumalae then charged
Kuhio with attempting to destroy the
J.. Hawaiian language. Kuhio said he
had heard that the Home Rulers were
telling the natives this lie. On the CON
}. trary he had labored with Senators
J.. Foraker and Mitchell to have the Ha-
waiian language made equally off1cia
with English in court and legislative
}. matters, but the Senators said it could
not be. Only English could now bt
officially used. He tried to have it uset
2 thus for a term of twenty years ant
then pleaded for ten years only a:
spoken, not written. For himself M
was a Hawaiian and would do every
thing for his race. 1t was not his pur
pose to break down what was dear t.
him.
Poepoe finally acknowledged that Ku
hio was right Kuhio said he was sur
that the questioning all along had onl.
been for the purpose of bu'l-dozini
him.
Kuhio completed his speech ami,
cheers.
, KALAU DID WORK.
Kalauokalani Jr, son of the HON
Rule leader, who is now one of tn
staunch young Republicans, arose an
told why he became a Republican
Wilcox and Kalauokalani had tn
honor in the Home Rule party. but
did the real work of organizing it Will
was Home Ruler. I did the har
/ work TO keep the party UP. 1 wrote tn
. platforms. but largely at the sugges
ton Of my elders but even then m
conscience pricked me because kne7
things We're put in the platform whic
We're not right. 1 did not write tn
platform with my heart in it. All thi