The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-03

ton for the Presidency by the Demo-
cratic national convention, said, a.
mong other things already reported:
.gThe Hawaiian Islands will be safe
under the administration of Judge
Parker
BROWN JOINS DEMOCRATS.
The sensation OF the meeting was the
sudden appearance of Cecil Brown in
the auditorium. AS soon as Chairman
Kinney got sight OF him he pointed to
and called him to the platform. With
out hesitancy, Mr.. Brown mounted 10
the stage and at once swung into a
speech in Hawaiian, OF which the fol-
lowing is a free Interpretation made
By Official Interpreter Fred. Weed:
Gentlemen, felIow-citizens and
brother Hawaiians: / am not here to-
night to discuss with you the merits
of the Democratic or Republican par
| ties. but I am here tonight as a pro-
| test against the Governor in his inter-
ference in politics and his small party
politics, and also to try to show u
you how he is trying to control all tnv
officers of the government, by inter-
| fering in the legislative and executive,
as well as the judicial departments. of
this Territory.
s.In all these arrangements of the
Governor, he having the right to ap-
lpoint all District Magistrates, and his
coercing the Republican convention in
its nomination of the legislative tick
ct, what have you before you? Do you
think that the laws and powers are
to be concentrated in his hands?
| >"He has called me a traitor, as re-
ported in a paper of recent date. 1t
seems that am called not man, and
therefore 1 suppose he means l am
a MANU- Why is such abuse heaped
upon me? 1t is because I have taken
the Independent stand of not being led
around with a ring in my nose. You
! all know me from childhood up, and
have seen me many times in the adj
| vancement of affairs respecting these
Islands. in the legislature, in the ses-
sion of the Senate just passed, and
gentlemen, it is up to you to say
whether l win return to the Senate on
November s, or not"
/ Mr.. Browns address in English was,
III pdtk. as AoAAo"S'
81 have been called a traitor, simply
because would not take to the party
lash nor be dictated to by the executive
department of the government of Ha-
) waii. There are three departments in
every constitutional governmenr-the
executive. legislative, and the judicial
but when one department commence.
; to interfere with the other, then, gen
: tlemen, we are going to have trouble
We had trouble here in 1887, and It wa,
for the same reason we are drifting t.
' today, and the quicker you put you
? foot down, the better. 1 don't car
4 whether you elect me or not, but a
! long as you vote for me as. a protes
: to the government, no matter wha
! Carter says, then I viii be thankful
: # you put your foot down and elee
e every member of the Democratic tick
c ct and leave me out, you will hav
done your country some good and hav
told the executive that he shall nc
dictate who shall and who shall nc
= be in the legislature.
ut is generally supposed that a pei
: son following my occupation has
), free gift of language, but 1 can say Il
night that I cannot express my fee
ings against this serious interferent
of the executive departments as to WI
shall represent you in the Iegislati1
department of the government
y Hoping to meet you at some mo
= meetings, which I hope will be asl