The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-10-08
TWO THOUSAND At
DEMOCRATIC RALLY
BIG CROWD AT AALA PARK TO
HEAR THE DEMOCRATIC SPELL
BINDERS SATURDAY NIGHT.

There were between fifteen hundred
and two thousand people at the De-
mocratic rally at Aala Park Saturday
evening. 1t is claimed that there was
much larger crowd than was present
at the Republican rally the week be-
fore. According to some this is to be
accounted for by the fact that the con-
troversy about what occurred at the
Republican meeting served to advertise
the fact of the Democratic meeting and
many went to it to see if anything ex-
citing would happen.
The best of order prevailed at the
Democratic rally. There were seats
for about three hundred directly in
front of the band stand which was used
as speakers stand. Surrounding
this arrangement Of chairs, people stood
up i'm a serni-circle eight or ten deep
and back of this still they stood in
groups in more open order, in large
numbers. Still further back there
were scores of women and children
usually in family groups, and other
all doubtless attracted by the lights,
the crowd, the activity and the ex-
element.
Arc lights arranged about the
grounds lighted up the space in front
of the band stand very brightly. Not
withstanding the large crowd and the
! fact that children were running and
playing about all over the park, there
were no interruptions to the speakers,
nor any disturbances that interfered
with the progress of the meeting or
with the speakers.
There was excellent attention paid
to the speakers from the beginning,
but there was little enthusiasm shown
until Curtis p. Iaukea spoke. He was
loudly and repeatedly cheered.
On the platform were seated all of
the county and legislatives candidates
= besides a number of other Democrats,
| including many members of the County
and Territorial committees. H. j.
! Mossman, chairman of the County
' Comittee presided. Rev. J. w. Bipi-
kane opened the meeting with prayer.
! In opening the meeting Chairman
! Mossman spoke of the Democratic plat
form as one that represented the real
wishes of the people and one that would
be lived up to. Frank R, Harvey elicit
ed an enthusiastic response when he
gave an account of the incidents that
led to his selection as the candidate
of the party for Supervisor at large
instead of Fernandez. He said he had
been willing that Fernandez should
have the nomination but the party in
sisted on his taking it and he had
obeyed the will of the party.
w. A. Kinney made a stirring ad-
dress in Hawaiian especially relative
to the candidacy of Curtis P. Iaukes
for sheriff. Following Kinney, Iaukea
spoke for himself and was most en-.
Enthusiastically received.
NJ. A. Silva scored the Republicans
whom he said had used the Portu
guese voters, but had never done any
thing for them. He charged the Re
publicans with acting in bad faith to-
ward the natives and the Portuguese il
passing them over to give good lands
to the alien and religious fanatics, tn,
Molokans. H. T. Moore spoke effec
, lively of his record in the Board o
Supervisors. r. H. Trent captivatet
the crowd with a humorous handling o
Hawaiian words and half-white talk
c. j. Mccarthy made an effective
speech on the legislation needed in tn
territory to which the party stooC
pledged.
Other speeches were made by S. K
Hui, Fred w. Weed, David L. Kaha
leaahu, Edward Like, editor OF tn
Aloha Alma, Charles B. Rose, w. P
Jarret, Edward Ingham, Thomas Gan
dali, NJ. G. x. Hopkins, Joe Fern
Jesse Ulihihi, w. w. Thayer, DAME
L. Kamahu, Moses Palau, j. X. Napau
kehau and S. X. Mahoe.
There was singing during the even
ing by Madame Alapai and Madam
Kaai and by the Kaai glee club an,
! music by the glee club and the Con
cordia band.