The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-21
DEMOCRATS RATlFY
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they hold there through corruption and
| bribery!
Let me remind you that for every
vacant seat here tonight is the seat
that is being made vacant by that very
action. The Democrats that are work
| ing on the roads today have been noti-
fed that if they were present here to-
night they would get their walkifsg tic
kets On Monday morning!
Gentlemen remember that the DEM
cratic party does not descend to such
low. dirty practices. We want a clean,
fair fight to get our rights. We need
not descend to the cutters to do poll
tics There is no glory in winning a
fight obtained in that way.
Fellow citizens. to bring 1t nearer
home to us. what has the Republican
party to boast of, what has that party
done? Gentlemen, we are witnesses
here tonight, we who attended the
Democratic convention at st. Louis
that the Democratic party was the
| only one to recognize Hawalis fall
| representative vote. No question was
raised of our right. The Republican
delegates labored on this very floor
last week to explain the action of their
| own convention in endeavoring to de-
prive Hawaii of its representation.
when the Governor of this territory
stands here and places the responsible
| ty Of that act upon the chairman OF
the committee, he has tried to avoid
the responsibility of saying that it
should have rested with the Hawaiian
delegation
In his Hawaiian address Iaukea re-
ferred feeIingly to Wilcox and also to
/, his widow who sat in a box.
MAN ON HORSEBACK.
]. L. Coke of Maui. one of the dele
gates from Hawaii to st. Louis, re-
ferred to himself as the Democratic
man on horseback because he rode
horseback from Hama, through the
| jungles of Nahiku, etc., to Maalaea
Bay to get steamer to come to Homo
lulu to address the meeting. Mr.. Coke
said that the Democratic party in the
United States was the best friend the
native Hawaiian had. There was not
better delegation at st. Louis than
the delegation sent from Hawaii.
| He understood that delegates to the
Republican convention had said the
ST. Louis convention was noisy. That
was true Seventeen thousand people
contributed because LilcN DeHSNG1 I1lS
Democrats were going to control the
/ United States again. That did not
sound good to the Republican national
committeeman from Hawaii. But to
Mr.. Coke the noise was as music to his
ears. The contest now being waged is
question of principle and as far as
he could see he couldn't understand
how man living in Hawaii, unless he
J was an officeholder or expected to be
i one. could be a Republican.
What has the Republican party done
for this Territory" asked Coke.
/ Nothing" he answered. If the people
were satisfied with affairs, vote the
Republican ticket The speaker
thought things were getting as bad in,
Hawaii as in the United States. He
drew a picture of calamity creeping
over the United States. 1t was be-
coming terrible he said, and words, he
said hardly fitted the conditions. The
Republicans had done nothing for Ha-
wall. There is a general lack of pros
perity here.
Prosperity has taken the wings of
the wind and dug itself into the earth,
was his metaphor.
Mr. Coke said the Republicans want
ed clean politics, but he advised the
Hawaiians not to believe such tales.
The last election here, held under Re-
publican auspices, was not clean, but
dishonest.
IT was told by a Republican inspec-
tor of election in the county election
that in their precinct in Honolulu they
had voted forty dead men and men who
had removed from the islands,
MARSHAL NEY WANTED.
Marshal Ney'' was called for by TAU
zea to speak, but Turrill announced that
the descendent of the famous general Of
Napoleon was a Republican and had
also left the Islands. It was discov-
cred however, that it was a Hawaiian
named Nei who was wanted. The gem
t1eman addressed the audience in his
native tongue
Mr.. Coke then gave the press a verse
he had composed, but which he had
forgotten to quote. The verse was as
follows:
Six little delegates
To Chicago blew,
They went to the Republican
convention and now