The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-31
THE DEMOCRATS
At AALA PARK

. At lALb PARK |
The Democratic meeting at Aala
Park was well attended. The fair sex
vas conspicuously represented, there
being at least seventy-f1ve women press
emit All the speakers took advantage
Of the fact and appealed to them to
| persuade their husbands to keep sober
on election day so as not to spoil their
ballots. The success of Iaukea in GET
| ting permission to speak at Ralaupapa
{ was one of the stock arguments of the
evening to show that the Democrats
succeed in whatever they attempt. Kin
ney and Iaukeas speeches were es-
pecially mild. They had nothing to say
| in disparagement of the candidates of
| the other parties Mr.. Mossman was
| the only one to propose any definite leg
islation- He named several corpora-
lions and said that if they paid their
| just dues to the Government the in
come of the Territory would be in
creased by s25O000 He thought that
| the Democrats if they got in power
could increase that estimate by an
equal amount
KINNEY'S SPEECH.
Mr. Kinney was the first prominent
speaker. He spoke of the two leading
| parties in the United States, the Demo
Gratis and the Republicans. Millions
would vote on both sides at the COM
ing election. This Territory has been
especially favored above the other ter
ritories. Here we have the same privi-
lege as those enjoyed by citizens of the
different States. We are better off than
the territories of Arizona, New Mexico
or Oklahoma. Mr.. Kinney them
spoke of the foolishness of voting the
Home Rule ticket. If it should be VIC
torious it would have no affiliations in
Congress and could do no good for the
Territory. If we should send a Home
Ruler, people in the United States
would believe that We had not assimi-
lated American ideas and institutions
and would be inclined to curtail the
franchise. Mr.. Kinney compared the
Democratic party in the United States
to a church. The, old members are al
ways glad to meet converts and to do i
all they can for them. Mr.. Kinney ad-
vised the Democrats to vote the straight
ticket. The other parties would scratch
and not get the full value of their
votes. He then condemned Governor
Carter for the undated designations. He |
held the Home Rulers up to ridicule as
being unable to accomplish anything.
MOSSMAN SPEAKS.
Mr.. Moss1nan began by compliment
ing the ladies on their good looks. He |
then declared that the Dernocraticl
party was the one that looked out for
the laboring class. The rich and mid
die classes could look out for Them I
selves. The speaker was sarcastic over
the Republican financial measures. To
keep running the party officials had cut
the salaries OF the school teachers and
had borrowed a million dollars, which /
would have to be paid by the taxpay-I
ers in the future. He said that if the
corporations paid their just proportion
of the taxes there would be no need of
this borrowing. Mossman cited the
franchise for the electric company
and quoted the statement of Mr.. Rob t
ertson in Congress who called it rob- /
berry and a fraud. That was the kind
Of bill that the Republicans passed.
He then mentioned the engineers
engineers from the license and called it |
an imposition on the people. Mr.. Moss |
man spoke of the increase in the capita
stock of the Rapid Transit which he |
claimed was done simply to beat the |,
Territory, which should receive any |
surplus earnings over eight per cent !
dividends had been paid. BY lncreas- |
ing the capital stock this obligation
was avoided. He also spoke or the
proposed new underground telephone
system and said it should have to pay
the government what it really owed or
he would be against it. Mr. Mossman
also proposed that the government
should levy toll on all freight hauled
o,=er the government roads He thought
twenty-five cents ton would be about
the right thing. The Governor could
not veto such measures as these and
the revenue gained by such taxes would
not be felt by the laboring man. The
speaker then commented on the vary
ing scale of wages that the government
paid in different districts. In town 1T !
was $125 a day, in Koolau 81 and in
Eva and Waipahu only so cents. He
claimed that this was through the
corrupt influence of the planters" To |
show up the government interference |
in politics Mossman mentioned the Won n
on the roads at the present time. The
men were loafing and the government
knew it, but the lunas were afraid to |
kick because of the Possible alienation
of probable Republican votes. The
Democrats had had to write three times
to Jack Atkinson before. they could get
the official registration returns 1t /
looked as though the Republicans
wanted to be crooked in this particular
also.