The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-21

of Sheriff. Backbone was required for
that job, not the genteeI poIiteness Of
Iaukea- Therefore the reform Of the
Democrats and OF the Advertiser was ;
deluston.
/ Mechanism. as luck would have it.
had fallen into an issue 70 talk about.
that Of Cuban annexation. and he was
making all that he possibly could out
iof the bugaboo. But McClanaban and
Kinney wouldn't be a drop in the
bucket to stop the annexation If the
people of the United States wanted il
The Democrats were trying to afrnf7ana
the people with the annexation cues
ton.
Is The Democrats were working simply
to show bold front Deacon Trent
wants the people TO think that the
| Democrats have the Republicans
beaten, but he knows that the Demo
terats haven't the makeup TO beat any
thing. The party is composed of a few
| dyed-in-the-wool Democrats and a lot
Of disgruntled Republicans. Iaukea,
the man they were talking so much
| Charley Broad took part in the last
/ Republican primary and if he had any
honor in him would be a Republican
yet. n. a. Silva went to the Wailuku
| convention and voted for the Repub-
lican platform and was bound in honor
| to vote the Republican ticket Joe
Fern, that notorious traitor. had been
| a Republican and had accepted the
| bride of a nomination in 1904 from the
Civic Feds. Then he repented and was
| in the last Republican Convention, but
again proclaims himself a traitor and
bolter and accepts the bride of
Democratic nomination. If he had any
honor he is bound by it to vote the Re
publican ticket.
With this assortment of traitorious
Republicans on their ticket how can
such a party hope to exist or succeed?
such a mixture of oil and water cannot
last beyond election day. Smooth
faced Trent, voluble Kinney and polite
Iaukea say so. but their effort is a big
bluff to beat one or two Republicans
if possible.
With these few remarks the chair
man introduced Senator John c. Lane.
JOHN c. LANE.
Senator lane reviewed the ticket at
length, receiving close attention. He
referred ala to his proposed amend
ment TO the suspected leper bill, ask
ing for the election of the Republican
ticket TO help him carry II through.
A. Lewis advocated the election Of
the straight ticket and compared the
one who would wreck the ticket to de-
feat one or two men on it to a wrecker
of a passenger train who wished to
get even with the engineer.
Fred Beckley, who had been adver-|
tised as the chairman of the Home
Rule rally. wanted TO know If the peo-|
pie were going TO elect representative
gentlemen or riffraff to make their
laws, whether Hawaii was to go for
ward or back. He realized that the
best interests of the country were to
the straight ticket.
E. A Douthitt reviewed the work OF
the party and urged support for its
ticket. The Democrats are crawling on
their knees and asking for support, but
they had nothing to offer. Although
imported men had been on the trail Of
Brown they had not been able TO lay
a finger on any black spot in his
record. Brown was worthy of support
In introducing John Wise as the next
speaker the chairman stated that w
A Kinney had sat up nights during the
last campaign trying to work for
Brown against Poepoe, the man named
on the fusion ticket, Of which party
Kinney had been chairman. This was
a sample of Democracy
John Wise, who had made the three
political switches charged up against
Iaukea, but who had landed eventually
among the Republicans, gave his reas-
ons for his political conversions, saying
that he had left the Democrats because
they never got into office and never
had anything TO give.
Frank Andrade made the last Eng
lish speech, comparing the work OF the
two parties. He was followed by Ber-
nard Kelikolio, who made a. lengthy
speech in Hawaiian, receiving consider
able applause.
Mesdames Alapai and Kaai sang sew
eral duets during the meeting, receiv-
ing the bulk of the applause that was
going.