The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-10-24
REPUBLICANS
STILL AT TER GIVES
VIDA SAYS THURSTON AND ASSO-
GATES WANT TO RUN THE
GOVERNMENT

Vineyard street and Pauoa were the
meeting places of Republicans last
night. Vida made a lengthy speech
on Vineyard street i'm which he severely
the Civics, the Advertiser and
others. He said i'm part:
"Doremus Scudder and his associates
Of the Anti-Saloon League have had
"A great deal to say about the Sheriff
and myself discharging people brought
to the station. drunk, They also rails
ed their voices against the saloons Of
this city but what do they do today?
Why, Scudder endorsed Frank Harvey
and Charles Mccarthy for supervisors.
Now, fellow citizens, that shows you
what the Civic Federation and L. A.
Thurston are. Their main intention is
to try to disfranchise the Hawaiians.
That is what l.. A. Thurston wants to
do today. They are trying to get you
to elect men who are not fit to hold
office or to fulfill the duties of their
offices, and thereby hope to show Con-
gress that we are not fit to control
our local affairs.
"Doremus Scudder and his associates
put J. $. Kaleo on the blacklist. Why?
Because he is a Hawaiian and a poor
man. l have known Kaleo for twenty
years and know that he has a good
character, and that he is just as able
a man had far better than the man
they put up against him.
81 believe you all have too much
common sense to allow yourselves to
be put back under a sort of govern
ment you once had run by L, A. Thurs
ton and his associates,
eve have had control of the reins
of government for the past year and
half and we should keep on having
control hereafter. 1t is for us to run
this government and to put people in
office who will stay by us.
ct have been the subject of attacks
for the last two or three months, but
l defy any of them, L. A. Thurston
and the Advertiser, to bring anything
against my character. l defy any of
them to substantiate any charges that
have been brought against me.
"These very people here two years
ago asked me to run on the Civic Fed
Grafton ticket with Rawlins. who was
to run as sheriff. But we were too
loyal to disrupt our party. we stayed
by it and are standing by it today
"At that time I was supposed to be
honest and trustworthy enough to be
appointed Deputy Sheriff to High
Sheriff Henry, by Governor Carter. !
was considered honest and trust
worthy enough by LOrrin Andrews to
be sent to London for the eXtradition
of Henry Kapea. All of a sudden
these very people who had faith in me
turned on me because of what? Be
cause | would not down my party. II
1 am elected to office, l cannot make
you any promises but l am going tc
tell you that I will stand by the peo
pie and do what-I can for them, and
l am going to fight the Civic Fedora
ton and L. A. Thurston to the bitteI
end.
81 have been in the Office of thu
Sheriff as Assistant Sheriff and during
such time l believe 1 have been tru
to my people, and have been true t,
! lily DlpllllStSs ana II tlNNANu W III w
the same again"
! S. P. Correa spoke for the straigh
ticket and Leleiwi roasted the Civil
Feds. Bicknell said that Trent wa
not correct i'm claiming credit for pay
ing laborers wages in full, instead o
in discounted warrants. The board o
supervisors had ordered it, and Bicl
nell had made out the warrants. Bick
nell said he had not sought the Civil
Fed endorsement.
w. 0. Smith said he had seen Kuhio'
work i'm Washington, and that Kuhi
| should be returned. He said the Re
Ipubicans proposed to increase the mum
Der of schools, for the education of flu
| ture voters.
At Pauoa Smith was the first speaker
Il want to call your attention to tn
three parties" he said. THE Hon
| Rule party can accomplish nothing. w
belong to America, that great countr
| to which people come from all owe
the world. There the Home Rule part
is unknown, but the Republican part
is supreme" Smith repeated his re
ferences to slavery and the abolishin
of it by the Republican party Hi
! speech was a repetition of the on
made during the past week.
! John Hughes said that the Republi
cans had fulfilled their pledges an
should be reelected, He criticize
the Democrats for combining their dis
cussions to damnation of the machin
and called upon those present to vot
for the Republican party, as the part,
of progress and prosperity.
| McCandless spoke in Hawaiian, re
peating some of his former addresse
He replied to Moore's charge that h
had employed Japs He said that tn
only reason Moore did not employ Jap
was that he was not in a bushes
where he could hire anyone.
Rawlins spoke against splitting
tickets He made a special plea 70
Kaleo, whom the Civics failed to en-
dorse for the legislature. He suggest
ed that the voters dump Trent as tn
| latter had DUMPED two little boys dur