The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-12
by asking a vote for the straight
FOR HIGH WAGES.

/ Legislature the first thing he would
do would be TO have a bill passed pay
! ing laborers on the streets two dollars
a day ;tApplause) He promised 9th
er things and called for a vote for the
straight Democratic ticket He spoke
afterwards in Hawaiian.
LONG ON VOICE.
Ioela Kiakahi, a Hawaiian with a
voice that penetrated the walls of
Kawaiahao. was the next speaker. AS
he stepped to the platform he received
generous applause from the Hawaiians.
His address was in his native tongue
and made a hit. His reference to the
meeting of the Republicans at the Zoo
brought roars of laughter. which in
creased at the statement that the Re
publican campaign manager had been
distributing streetcar tickets to all
those who would go out and see them
make monkeys and mongoose of them
selves. His mention of Brown was re-
ceived in silence.
BIGGER THAN CARTER.
Ed. Ingham was introduced and
made fine address upon the issues of
the campaign, dwelling particularly
upon the necessity for a change in the
land act, and referred to the power of
the Territorial forces as mentioned by
Judge Kingsbury. He said the Judge
has overlooked a man who seemed to
have even greater power than the Gov
ernor of misunderstanding A. NJ Brown
He thought this was the time for
change in that office and for break
ing of the machine that has placed
and keeps. incapable men in office. He
said the Republicans mad been long on
promises but short on fulfilIment He
closed with the story of the merchants
who changed wine into water and by
this drew his comparison between the
two political parties
SHOULD BE OUSTED.
Moses Palau, another candidate for
legislative honors, also addressed the
crowd in Hawaiian and ventured the
opinion that the Republicans should be
put out.
WOULD BURY THE PARTY.
Fred. Weed, formerly solicitor for
an undertaken, said he came not here
to bury Caesar but To praise him and
incidentally to bury the Republican
party under an avalanche of Democra-
tic ballots. He blamed the Republican
party and made leprosy an issue of the
campaign and intimated that the Board
of Health is dead wrong in saying the
disease is not durable. From this sub
ject he went into the deficiencies in
school accommodations He had 900
reasons why the Democrats should be
elected but would not give them all be
cause there was a fear of the crowd
going to sleep and being pulled in as
public nuisances. He repeated all this
and more in Hawaiian
SILVA MADE A HIT.
Chairman Peters said he would next
introduce a man who IS the pride of
the Fourth District, q gentleman who
would go to the Legislature with de-
termination to break up the machine.
On being introduced NJ. A. Silva re-
ferred to articles in the Advertiser,
pointing to him as being in politics for
revenue only. He saad that the man
who had made that statement to an
Advertiser reporter either did not know
NJ. A Silva or was a liar. It had crept
into the noddle of some people that be-
cause the Portuguese shad voted the
Republican ticket once they should do
so again. Cutting into a remark made
by Republican speaker the night be-
fore that the Democrats had promised
laborers $3.50 day, he said, they
would do the same. The Republicans
had been in power for six years, but he
had not heard of any one getting dol
lar and a half a day, that party is in
power, the Democrats are not. He
said that every man on the Democratic
ticket was there as the choice of the
people while every one on the Repub-
Hcan ticket is a machine made man.
He said he had been told before the
convention that the Portuguese had
better see the machine" and ask them
who could be put on the ticket, I'VE
declined to do this" he said. because
we were not to b. controlled by
machine" He told his hearers that no
man proposed for Office by the Port
uguese during the next so years would
have recognition by the Republican
party He said. he was fighting for
recognition of his people, not against
any Individual candidate.
Mr.. silva spoke afterward in Port
uguese and was loudly applauded,
He was followed by Curtis Iaukea
who made a telling speech in English,
being frequently Interrupted by ap-
pIause w. w. Thayer was the last
speaker of the night
The Concordia band paraded the
streets on PunchbowI before the meet
ing and was followed to the stand by
a large crowd.
AT KALIHI
About two hundred voters gathered
at Kalihi detention camp to listen to
some real good campaign oratory and
they left at the close of the meeting
resolved to support the ticket. Some
of the speakers at the Punchbowl
meeting went TO the camp after adj
dressing he Portfe7JeSa and coHtribI-t-