The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-05

cline upon the domestic eouch; ant
that Spokesman Davis took to his bed
What a comparison exists between tn
party of promises at the convention
and the party of performances Of
the stump!
This brings me 10 the political liar
He is a man to be avoided. shunnee
and downed at the ballot box. NeveI
give HIM vote. Snow him under
When a man promises you three o,
four dollars a day for your ordinary
day labor, he is promising what h.
knows he can not perform. He knows
and you know, that he is lying to you
| II he Will try to deceive you before
! election, what harm would he not per.
| form after YOU had elected him? He
| is as bad as the color line candidate
| who advises YOU to vote against Z
man Just because God has given him
/ a skin that is different in color from
your own a color line candidate may
have haole father. If so. when he
advises you not to vote for a haole
he is heaping contempt upon his own
father, the man who has fed, clothed
: and educated him until he has reached
manhood and, what should be, his yea; S
of discretion.
There are a few other men that
should never get your votes. Avoid
the tax dodger. You have to pay your
taxes but some of the candidates have
avoided paying their taxes for years
Don t vote for man who doesn t pay
his bills and whom you know is in
debt. If he is not honest with his
creditors, he won t be honest with you
Just as sure as he avoids his financial
obligations, so surely will he avoid his
HI II
You all have wives, daughters or sis
ters, so don t vote for man who lets
them buy liquor in saloons. This only
leads to unhappiness in your homes,
restitution, debauchery and worse in
your family. Don't vote for any can
didate who is supported by those
saloonkeepers that sell liquor to your
women folk. Don't believe all the talk
of men in office who are working for
their bosses. They are only working
to keep their own jobs. They are
grinding their own axes while you turn
the grindstone and do the sweating
But now | want to say a word espe-
cially to the Hawaiian voters, and
more particularly to those who earn
their living by the daily sweat of
their brows, and with the strength
and muscle of their arms. Many of
you toll on the wharves, others are
working on the Nuuanu dam, while
more are known as the road gang and
4" Sam johnson 50 men Now this very
term of being "Sam Johnson ST men,
or anybody else IS men, is a term of :
1t implies that you are
owned by another, that you have no +
that you can not do as
you like, but must obey the orders of
the boss, or the man who is supposed |
to own you.
This week you viii have the oppor-
tunity to show your independence, to
let the whole Territory see that no.
body owns you, to let the world know
that you are not slaves and can not
be driven and coerced by threats to
vote for any candidates that you don It
want.
You are told that if you don It vote
he straight Republican ticket you will
ose your jobs. DONE believe any
such nonsense. You are told there
won t be any more work. That is all
ct The public works of the Terri
DRY will continue just the same, the
work on the county roads will always
1e done, and the police force will be
no matter who is in office.
fou want to pick out good Supervisors
iirRi 10y, iidilio lIuSbdCt.
Moore are all good men. Don t forget
Moore who is the only Supervisor that
lad the courage to back up Trent and
lig opt the facts of those Sunday pay
oils, when a few favorites of Sam
ohnson s were paid more money than
most of you, and it was charged up
o more Sundays than God ever in
ended should be crowded into a month
There are only two men who are
likely to lose their jobs on the roads
you elect the best Supervisors. One
s Sam johnson, the road superintend
mt, and the other is his henchman .
'Osta. They are making the fight of
heir lives to hold their jobs, just as 5
Brown is to stay Sheriff. They all want
o elect men like Gear, one of the
promising Pollies,'' who will keep
hem in office. No matter who is road
uperintendent your jobs, my fellow
oters, will always be there. Roads
ave to be made and repaired and YOU
'lll be needed to do the work.
Do you remember when an official no {
ice from President Roosevelt was ;
about two weeks ago, stat !
lg that labor employed by the gov
rnment should only be employed for Z
light hours a day, and he directed Gov
rnor Carter to see that his orders
ere put into effect in Hawaii? That
hOws you that the Federal govern
lent and its Federal administration Y
ere are watching the interests of the y
lbOrer. But the County government a
lakes you work longer, for nine and {
IN hours a day. If there were no '
ounty government here you would t
ow be working only eight hours /
ay.
Remember, boys, that you can vote t
or any candidates you like. YOU l
AN PICK AND CHOOSE YOUR G