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The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-26
REPUBLICANS ON VINEYARD
STREET.

The immaculate Vida was much in
evidence at the Republican meeting
on Vineyard street last evening. He
had several things to say, mostly of
a personal nature, including some
highly fiattering testimonies to himself
Il told you few days ago." he said,
"just what the Civic Federation was
going to do-that they were going to
endorse Iaukea for Sheriff. l HAVE
NOTHING AGAINST IAUKEA. HE
Is ALL RIGHT AS FAR AS / KNOW
PERSONALLY, but do you want a
man as Sheriff who is going to be die
tated to by Thurston and the Civic Fed
Grafton or one who has stood by the
party and its principles for the past
ten years?
'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.
C"Thats right" said polceman)
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 fulfil 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. S. Kaleo on the blacklist. why?
Because he is a Hawaiian and O poor
man. ] have known Kaleo for twenty
years and know that he has good |
character, and that he is just as able
a man and far better than the man
they put up against him.
II believe you all have too much
common sense to allow yourselves to
be put back under a sort OF govern
mcnt you once had run by l.. A. Thurs
ton and his associates.
I'VE have had control of the reins
Of government for the past year and
a half and We should keep on having
control hereafter. IL Is for us to run
this government and TO put people in
office who viii stay by us.
II have been the subject OF attacks
FOR the last two or three months but {
defy any of them, l.. A. Thurston
md the Advertiser, to bring anything
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-26

Captain Robert. OF the French ship
Andre Theodore. received orders yes
terday to tow to Seattle today to COM
plete loading wheat cargo for the
United Kingdom. The bounty-earner
was lying al the Balfour dock yester-
day receiving stiffenlng and she will
secure the balance at Seattle. Since
August 81. when the Frenchman arriv-
ed from Honolulu. the Andre Theodore
has been lying in the harbor, but has
been delayed by lack OF grain.-Ta-
coma Ledger.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-26
REPUBLICANS AT PAUoA.

The crowd at Pauoa last night was
not so large as has been the case at
the average Republican meetings. w.
o. Smith was the first speaker. He
party, saying: IT want to call your
attention to the three parties. The
Home Rule party can accomplish moth
ing. We belong to America, that great
country to which people come from all
over the world. There the Home Rule
party Is unknown, but the Republican
party Is supreme" He repeated his ref
erences to slavery and the abolishng
of 1t by the Republican party. His
speech was n repetition of the one
made during the past week.
JOHN HUGHES.
John Hughes was introduced by
Chairman Booth as "a candidate for the
Legislature. Mr.. Hughes made a
straight plea for the support of the
ticket, saying the voters would thus
serve the best interests of themselves
and their children. He reminded his
audience that every promise made by
'ie iNcPupiNsH party tWO yehIS abo
had been fulfilled to the letter and
those that are made now would be
kept as well. He quoted Judge Dole
and added that he did not want to
drink Americansm from better
source" He touched the Democratic
party, crlticising 1t for failure to dis
cuss national politics and combining
themselves to local affairs only and
damning the machine. He called upon
the voters to cast a ballot for the
Republican candidates because 1t Is the
party of progress, the party of the full
dinner pail.
MCANDLEss ROASTS MOORE.
Senator McCandless addressed the
audience In Hawaiian. expressing the
same sentiments that have marked his
speeches during the campaign. He
touched the Federation but slightly.
1.-TWO demijohns filed with Pauoa
water were on the ground In front OF
the stand. One OF the audience drank
from them and to show his disgust
poured a quantity over his head.)
McCandless went after Moore for
failure to pay his poll tax. He hoped
The Democrats would not get In on ac-
cunt of the many changes that would
occur He roasted Moore again in an
swer to the Asiatic labor charge and
said the only reason Moore did not
lire Japanese was because he was not
n business whore he could hire any
,ody Link made strong appeal for
'otes. and the orchestra sang every
little Bit Helps"
RAWLINs AND THE FUNERAL.
w. T. Rawllns spoke OF his candi- {
acy as regular nominee of the Re
ublIcan party and as such stood before l
he audience tonight. He called upon {
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-26
TERRITORIAL SECRETARY
CAN DISBURSE THE FUNDS
Especial Cable to the Advertiser.)

WASHINGTON. D. c.. October as-The Treasury Depart.
has decided that the Secretary of the Territory properly
bonded dsbe Congressional appropriation support
of the Hawaiian Legislature ERNEST G.. WALKER.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-26

introduced Edward Ingham as the first
EDWARD INGHAM.
Ingham dwelt on the fact that the
Republicans were promising things II
was beyond their power to give
whereas the Democrats had stated
their platform and had not promised to
go beyond it. He pointed to the rec
ords made by Palmer Woods in the
Senate and by Moore and Trent In
county offices as earnests of what
more Democrats could do for the peo-
pie If elected.
Thos. Gandall, the next speaker,
spoke shortly making his principal
point on the platform plank promising
a minimum wage of $3.50 day for
laborers.
MOORE Is APPLAUDED.
H. T. Moore was applauded many
times during his address, which dealt
with the work he had done as a SUI
pervisor. 1t had been said of him
that he had only swum along in the
Republican stream, but he wanted to
state that at least half Of the mea-
sures introduced for the benefit Of the
workingmen had been introduced by
would have given all the plumbing
work to citizens. had been defeated by
the votes of those Republican super
visors who were not seeking reelec-
ton. The Democrats were not hold
ing out sweet bats for votes. but
would carry out their pledges of an
s-hour law and wage of s1.5O day.
Moore asked his friends to support
the Hawaiians on the ticket as much
as the haoles and the haoles the same
as the Hawaiians, and urged all indie
pendent voters to vote as they saw fit
without fear or intimidation.
A MAUI CANDIDATE.
Following Ioela Kiakahi. who made
several hits in a long Hawaiian speech,
Ben Lyons, the fusion candidate for
county treasurer Of Maui, was intro
duced. Mr.. Lyons said that he had
been asked to say a few words on the
Maui situation and he wanted to point
out to the voters of Oahu how the Re-
publicans had treated that county. In
1902 the Republicans had passed a
county act, under which for ten days
the counties had acted, when it was
thrown out by the courts. The bills
incurred by the counties for those ten
days have never yet been paid, al /
though the Republicans have been in
power ever since and have been ask
ed by the country of Maui to make
such an appropriation. This was the
kind of justice the people could expect
from the Republicans. In his county
the fusion ticket was going to make a
clean sweep and the people of Oahu
should send the Democratic represen-
tatives to the House to work with
them.
The fight between Brown and Tau
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-26
DEMOCRATS ON
CAMPAIGNING
WITH LIQUOR
From Wednesdays Advertiser.)

Fromw
OF Democratic meeting Emma
at of
bribery
published dribu
all the meeting
introduce awarding speaker
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-26

The fight between Brown and Tau
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-03
The Power that Rules.

A political campaign is not a social or
literary or religious affair II Is not at
tractive to negative characters, or Chester
fields or theorists or idealists, who do moth
ing but dream and sigh. Those who can
not take as we'll as give have no business
in 1t. Among the voters are all kinds OF
men, and the vote OF the foolish counts
for as much as the vote Of the wise. This
is one Of the beauties, or ugly features,
whichever you think, Of our system OF
government. The privilege Of voting goes
with the duty Of paying taxes in time of
peace and going to battle in time of war.
Rough and ready men are reached by rough
and ready arguments but they are not 90
easily deceived as demagogues suppose.
The man who sits in his study or at his
office desk and sneers at politics and scorns
to vote is an ass. Suppose two-thirds of
the voters did not voter Then one-third
would rule two-thirds A man may helm
to make politics better OF worse, but he
cannot escape it's dominion, its influence
nor its rule. kA
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-03

hatred" and the deliberate dema-
gogue and exploiter of sensational
ism" And certainly nothing has oc-
Cured in our politics. full as II is Of
preposterous incidents, more amazing
than the brazenness Of Hearst in New
York in pretending sympathy with
Theodore Roosevelt and to represent
the spirit OF Lincoln and Jefferson.
Though ordinarily the president OF
the United States is reluctant to make
emphatic procurement in local po-
litical contests. It is we'll for the cause
of decent government in New York
and of good citizenship everywhere
that, speaking with the tongue OF Sec
rotary Root, he should make clear
even to the dullest comprehension the
line that should be drawn in the pres
ent extraordinary case. The Hearst
conspiracy, the diametric reverse of
patriotic, sincere, sane effort to reform
civic abuses which all good men rec
ognize and deplore, strikes at the
very roots of civilized society and gov
eminent, and unless it be now dealt
stunning blow by the worthy citizen
ship of the great state of New York
1t would have to be encountered and
overcome in the theater of national
politics.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-03
rHE srEEL coMPANr,s REPoRT.

THE STEEL COMPANIES REPORT.
The report of the United States Steel
company for the quarter ending Sep
TENDER 80 is to be read as another
chapter Of the story of an essentially
speculative scheme. the most gigantic
Of the time. For 1t is believed by
competent judges that the capitaliza-
ton on which that combination was
fioated and began business FIVE years
ago was a third to one-half water, or
dependent with the best management
upon incredibly rapid growth of the
country. At the utmost the whole
vast issue of common stock, which the
public took in a moment of infatua-
ton, could have no other basis, and
in the reaction that followed reflection
sank almost to zero.
Unprecedented Industrial expansion,
however, has enabled the company to
accumulate profits on a basis APP
proximating the original abnormal
capitalization so that earnings for the
September quarter, after paying in
terest on bonds and dividends on pre-
ferred stock, left net earnings of ST.
23S,S30. But as in previous quarters
for a long time, instead of applying
net earnings to common stock, the
company declared a one-half per cent
dividend. which required only S2,541,-
512, thus holding back nearly 3d.
100000 as surplus for the three
months. The vital point is that these
enormous surplus earnings, over and
above many extraordinary deductions
for special purposes of a permanent
character, are being put into the form
of improvements like the great new
steel works at Gary and not paid to
the investing public that originally
took the watered stock. On the other
hand. the scale of prices Of iron and
steel, fundamental materials in all in
dustries, is enforced unescapably on
the general public on the basis of the
fictitious capitalization.
1t is true, in a measure, that the
value thus added to the property will
reappear in the quotations of the COM
mon stock, but that value was not re-
aiizable by the mass of original stock
holders who could not survive the
shrink that 30 quickly followed the
sensational fiotation of the steel
scheme. The effect in last analysis is
equivalent to wringing water out of
the stock, except that the value is ex-
tracted from the pocket OF the CON
Stunning public and does not even go
into that of the victimiEed original or
early stockholders and only in a frac-
tionsl and indirect way into that OF
present stockholders.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-03
POLITICAL DRIFT.


Prediction predictions look weary the
morning after"
Like a base ball game election results
are not settled until the last ballot is
cast.
Mr.. Bryan stretched a string Of speeches
through the center of Indiana and re-
publicans expect to roll Up a plurality Of
10000
The election OF friendly judiciary is OF
vital Importance to william Randolph
Hearst. Damage suits pendir g In the courts
against him total $IOO00OO.
Graft in San Francisco" exclaimed the
Californian. Say, you effete fasteners
don't know anything about our graft. II
permeates commercial as well as political
life. Why. I'll bet that ~ the citizens un-
dertake to hang the boodlers they'll get
stuck on the price Of rope"
Senator Clark OF Montana is hurrying
home to look after his fences. Affairs in
the Copper state are In a discouraging
condition. Pernicious knockers are trying
to make two former state treasurers dis
gorge the interest they received on state
funds. IF this thing keeps up" remarks
Butte politician. IAN office in Montana
won't pay election expenses"
According TO the esteemed BROOKLYN
Eagle. among those voting for Hearst will
be found every man who Is better than he
ought to be; every man who does not know
any better; every man who has a feeble
mind; every man who wants something
for nothing and every man who Is a natural
born crank" II Hearst gets all these
votes a motion TO make the election unani-
nous will be unnecessary.
In the Indian territory side of the new
state Of Oklahoma both parties are now
struggling to control the Indian vote. This
has resulted in good places for the In
dams in the opening contest There are
fifteen Indians among the ffty-five demo-
cratic delegate nominees The significance
Of this proportion is seen when Il is under
stood that the whites actually outnumber
the Indians ten to one. There are also to
be number Of Indians on the republican
ticket.
Surprises spring up everywhere. The
borough council Of Washington. in this
state, passed an ordinance giving a fran
chise to the Pittsburg Railways company
but the company refused to accept It, be-
cause It provided for free passes for tho
borough officials. The work will now
have TO be done all over again, and the
officials will have TO go without their
passes or the railway company without fits
franchise.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-03
now TO SCRATCH WILLIAMS.

Evidence accumulates that the can
didacy of the treacherous Williams
does not sit we'll with thousands Of de-
cent republicans throughout Nebraska.
The fact that he traded himself into
nomination for railroad commissioner
on the republican ticket as the consid-
Grafton for repudiating his instructions
is not recognized as giving him a
valid claim to party support. The ex-
hibition OF political treachery, which
he made in the state convention, has
marked him as unsafe and unreliable.
and an extra hazardous risk as a mem
her Of railroad commission passing
on interests vital to shippers and great
corporations.
To make the protest against Williams
effective, however, those who propose
to scratch him should take special
care to do so in way that will make
their votes count. To scratch Williams
and scatter the vote among all three
Of his opponents on the fusion ticket
would not accomplish the object The
vote that is withheld from Williams
should be centered on the strongest
candidate on the opposition ticket,
who in this instance is George Horst.
Horst is not only man Of known re-
liability and independence of corpora
ton strings, but he has given assur-
ance that II elected he will perform
his duties irrespective of partisan poll
tics.
Further than this, it should be re-
membered the Nebraska ballot law
makes it necessary that, when anyone
wishes to scratch one or more candi-
dates and otherwise vote a straight
ticket, he must indicate his choice
plainly. In this case, therefore, every
republican who scratches Williams
should be careful to put his cross in
the party circle and then to make
three cross marks in the division of the
ballot devoted to railroad commission
ers-one each opposite the names Of
Cowell, Winnett and Horst.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-03
PENALTY THAT HURTS.
Prison Penalty Annoying to Pro-
moterH of Trade COmbinea
PittsburR Dispatch

moterS of Trade Combines.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Hard fate continues to pursue those To-
ledo icemen convicted OF violation OF tho
Valentine antitrust act Having taken
their appeal from the sentence Of the lower
court the circuit court finds against them
and confirms the sentence Of six months
Imprisonment and $3.50 fine. They still
have an appeal to the supreme court, but
the Ohio law, It seems, does not allow the
appeal beyond the circuit court to act as a
supersedeas, and there is now no visible
escape for them from the doors OF the Jail.
At this distance the public judgment OF
their guilt or innocence must rest on the
findings Of the two courts and their own
plea OF guilty, which they have sought tn
take back when they find that it involves
real penalty. But, accepting the cred
ible presumption that they broke the law
which men, great and small are doing
every day--there is no doubt that the Ohio
procedure Is on the track of the right
penalty. Fines to the men who are making
thousands or millions out Of combinations
to suppress competition and exact arbi-
trary prices are flea bites But when a
man Of that sort has to so to prison Il is
deterrent to all his class; and the higher
In financial circles the man who is sent TO
prison the more impressive is the EXAMPLE
The Toledo ieemen evidently thought that
their plea Of guilty would enable them to
escape with ;le. II is the imposition of
Imprisonment against which they are ex-
hausting the resources of appeal
II the penalty OF Imprisonment Is actually
carried out II Is safe prediction that trade
combinations in and about Toledo will be
very scarce for some time to come.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-03

In word, the Chicago & North
western paid nearly $4,000 for To-
cation for its new freight depot, al
though it was doubtless compelled to
make bids somewhat in excess of what
the current market value would other
wise have been. II the law remains as
it is now, this property acquired by the
Northwestern road will be tackled on to
its mileage returns to the State Board
Of Assessment with a pretense of dis
tributiOn along the entire line of the
road and be absolutely wiped of of the
tax lists for the city of Omaha. so far
as contributing to the support of mu-
nicipal government is concerned
Omaha will lose over $4,000 in city
taxes on this property and no one will
be the gamer except the Northwestern
road, which will put it into it's own
pocket. The taxes for the whole North
western system payable to the city of
Omaha, including the Minneapolis &
Omaha, for 1907 are less than $4,000,
and 1t now proposes to absorb prop
erty that paid more than $4,000 in city
taxes without increasing by one penny
the city taxes paid by the road.
The theft by the Northwestern OF
the city taxes on it's new freight depot
site only illustrates how serious the
evasion of city taxes by the railroads
could become. II the Northwestern
can buy four city blocks and take them
out of municipal taxation, it can buy
ten or twenty blocks in the same man
ner and reduce our tax values proper
tionately. If the Northwestern can do
this the Union Pacific and the Burling-
ton and the Rock Island aud the Mis-
souri, Pacific and all other roads can,
II they wish, do likewise. II would be
quite possible for the railroads TO an
mex half of the best business property
in Omaha to their terminals and turn
1t in for taxation as mileage, leaving
the other half to bear the entire tax
burden of municipal government.
How this can be a fair deal or a
square deal is incomprehensible to the
average taxpayer. There is no reason
whatever why Omaha should not get at
least the same amount of taxes out of
the Northwestern freight depot site
after as before the railroad bought 1t.
The republican state platform prom
ises to amend the revenue law so as to
enable all cities and towns in Nebraska
to impose city taxes on railroad termi-
nails the same as on other property.
and every legislative candidate on the
republican ticket in this county is spe-
clally pledged to push this demand.
Every taxpaying citizen Of Omaha and
South Omaha, regardless of politics,
ought to vote the republican ticket on
this one issue of terminal taxation.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-03
FROM COAST TO COAST.
Two systems Of Railroads Plan 70
Link the Oceans.
wall Street Journal.


wall Street Journal.
George j. Gould says that a transcon'
tinental railroad Of the United states Is as
sured In making this statement he refers,
81 course. to his own system. Meanwhile,
however, Mr.. Hartman. by his acquisition
Of an increased interest I'm the Baltimore
Ohio, appears also to be reaching out for
a -transcontinental system. A short time
ago one Of the leading railroad men OF
the country-not Mr. Gould-declared that
in twenty years the whole railroad situa-
ton in the country would be radically
changed and that the situation then would
be a few systems reaching from the At
lantic to the Pacific. II this takes place il
will be revolutionary indeed, for IL has been
the judgment Of the best railroad expert
ence. that the public and the stakeholder
could best be served by making the Mis-
sissppi river the great dividing line Of
the railroad systems of the country This,
for instance, has been and still is the policy
of the Pennsylvania railroad, which has
thus far persistently refused to enter into
any plan Of extending its system beyond
the Mississippi.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-03
TRIALS OF AN AUTO.
Ridgway's Magazine.

Ridgway's Magazine.
l remember, l remember,
The car l used to drive,
1t started out right CALAMITY,
But never would arrive.
The commutator wouldn't work,
The iump-spark wouldn't play;
Then suddenly twould give a jerk
That took my breath away.
I remember, l remember,
How nothing would stay right;
The aspiration pipe got loose,
The carbureter tight;
The steering knuckle broke one day;
Twas Just before we met
A needless old pedestrian
The man Is living yet
/ remember, ] remember,
The curves i used to swing:
/ thought that twenty miles an hour
Was speed like anything!
The car seemed like a feather then,
That seems so heavy now,
And punctured tires could not disperse
The smiles that wreathed my brow.
I remember remember,
That little runabout;
II always skidded, slipped and bucked
And calmly threw me out.
] have o Palace Flyer now,
But still tbs little fun
For 1 am far less satisfied
Than when / first begun.