The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-23


GEAR DISDAINS THE c. F.
A. V. Gear made a bid for race
issue in opening his address. There
had been a new party introduced into
the campaign, he said. 1t was the
Civic Federation, which had attempted
to pick out candidates to be voted for.
In the Fourth the Republicans had one
Hawaiian out of six candidates for the
House and the Civic Federation mad
taken that Hawaiian out and put in
haole. They were opposed to four can
didates, Brown, Vida, Chillingworth
and Gear, all from the Republican
ticket But he wanted the people to
pay 10 attention to the Federation and
to vote the straight ticket.
BY this time there were other can
didates on the ground, w. 0. Smith,
L. L. McCandless and F. w. Water
house having been brought up from the
other meeting. They stood back of the
speakers stand, no seating places be-
ing available, and they We're accessible
to all the f1otsam of men and women
who were drifting around. Many of
the men of the district, and some of
the women, gladly availed themselves
of the opportunity afforded to shake
ntnuS Will tiICSS llcil, W. O' OiiiAS III AZ
particular Mahoi shook hands with
him several times and refused to be
shaken, shift about as the senatorial
candidate would. A drunken woman,
after chatting with one candidate and
exchanging repartee with another,
lurched in Smiths direction, but he saw
her first and faded.
.SCUDDER AS THURSTON'S TOOL
H. c. Vida, the next speaker. was
somewhat bitter in his remarks, al
though he was loudly and repeatedly
cheered on the start. He spoke of the
fact that he and Brown had been
blacklisted. Personally, he was glad of
it He wanted election at the hands
of the people. not by the votes of a
certain clique like DR.. Doremus Scud-
der and others, who were the tools OF
l.. A. Thurston. AS all knew, he ana
Brown had been attacked by the Ad-
vertisar because they had stayed by the
people and had refused to be dictated
to. The Civic Federation had attack
ed him because he had once been in
the saloon business, but now they had
endorsed two men in that business.
Regarding the treatment of prisoners
and the turning loose of drunks, Vida
Sheriff had not been right in turning
them loose rather than bringing them
ND for trial The crowd loudly agreed
with him and cheered with vigor as it
thought of his reelection
ENDORSEMENT SURPRISES BICK-
NELL.
D. Kalauokalani, Jr., spoke briefly in
Hawaiian, being succeeded on the stump
bv James Bicknell Bicknelr profess
ed surprise at his endorsement by the
Civic Federation. He had not sought
it and was working for the straight
ticket.
HARRIS SPURNS THE C. F. VOTE.
! eff a man is not for you he is
against you.' said w. ". Harris, re-
ferring to the fact that he had been
bracketted with Harvey on the en-
dorsed list of the Civic Federation.
And | claim that the Civic Fedora
ton is for neither of Us. / would rather
go down to defeat than be elected by
the few votes that the Civic Fedora
tion controls. -
The enthusiasm caused by this
throw down of the Civic Feds was
echoed in the music of the quintet club,
to which two men hula -hulaed before
the speakers stand and a girl in