The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-31
RAIN DID NOT
DAMPEN LAST
NIGHTS ARDOR
Politics at White Heat as Usual---Machne Bids
for Chinese---Kuhio sidesteps From
McClanahan---Moor Gets Pathetic.

There was a small gathering of young
Chinese at the society's rooms on King
street last night, and the Prince and
other speakers were kept waiting for
the meeting together apologizing for
the slim attendance. He said the law
gave the Chinese the right to vote
either by birth or naturalization" He
said there is a hardship inflicted upon
the Chinese through the birth certifi-
cate charge of $3.50, which, under the
monarchy, was but s1.00. There are
not as many voters this year, only 200"
friends. SO this fee will be reduced
There is no one in the secretary's Of
fee with time enough to fill up our
certificates, so we must go to lawyer
and pay about s42.5O which was too
much
BRECKONS LEADS.
r. w Breckons was the first speak
er. He said, he was in favor of any
revision which would cut the attorneys
out on fees. He said, he had often been
in this hall as a guest of the most
hospitable people in the word-the Chi
nese. He had been here as attorney
trying TO straighten out factional diff
ferences among the people. While here
and in other places he had learned
something about Chinese that he never
knew before-one thing was that
Chinaman's promise is as good as
gold. and that when a Chinese friend
informed him that 80 per cent of the
Chinese-Americans here are Republf-
cans, he was not surprised. The Re
publican party has always kept it's
promises; the Chinese as d race kept
theirs How natural it is, then, they
should be Republican
The speaker said that as there were
candidates to speak to the Chinese
Americans, he would simply say to
them, vote the straight Republican
ticket. (Applause).
KUHIO PROMISES.
Prince Kuhio was then called upon
and generously applauded. Willie Kwai
Fong interpreted. Kuhio spoke in Eng
lish saying, there is no one more pleas
ed than he to see the young Chinese
coming forward for their rights, They
and the Hawaiians were ignorant of
the rights which their American citi-
zenship conferred upon them. He said,
he was not familiar with the birth cer
tificate referred to, but if there is a
difference between that of the Chinese
and the Hawaiian, he believed the Re
publican party is the one to give them
their rights and straighten out the
matter. There may be something in the
federal law to prevent it, but if there
anUfhjnp~ no their 6plpOa q
could do in Washington it would be
his pleasure to act for them. If it was
not federal matter, he believed the
Republican Legislature would do ev-
erything to help them. Republican and
Democratic parties are a new thing to
the young HaWaiianS and the Chinese.
He had read considerable and decided
that the Republican party is the one
that was best for the interest of the
people and for that reason he had join
ed it. 1t was the party backed by the
best interests-the business interest.
The newspapers and the Democrats
have maligned us, but If Mr.. Brown
was not a capable man these candi-
dates. who are representative men,
would not follow him. He touched the
McClanahan issue and said, it was folly
to send d Democrat as delegate to a
Republican Congress. It We're better
to send a Republican and let the dom
inant party fight out Cuban annexa-
ton.
The Prince was plainly suffering from
a bad cold and he spoke with difficulty.
He knew something of the issues and
believed he could answer but he did
not think it right to ask him to debate
with MI McCIanahan in English He
had been campaigning for month on
Hawaii trying to straighten out the
lies that had been put in his mouth by
unscrupulous persons. He had nothing
further to say beyond asking the Chi
nese-American to vote the straight Re
publican ticket.
QUESTIONS ASKED.
The chairman stopped the Prince as /
he was leaving to remark that the Chi
Dpse had not been trea ted fairly by the
federal authorities as those who wished
to go to the states were obliged to pass
under the 50-t0n roller-the immiera-
tion office This vas exaCted again on .
their return from the States and to
China 4 vel. He had no doubt of the
ask him. on behalf of his people, to see
the Secretary of Commerce and Labor
relative to the papers issued by the
Territorial officers.
The Prince replied that he would do
his best.
HARRIS IS HOARSE
W. W Harris addressed the gather-l