The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-17

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sounded good but was impracticable
and impossible.
POPULAR PLANK.
The Democrats had a plank in their
platform making $3.50 a day, the mini
mum wage for wielders of pick and
shovel. This promise would, if the
Democrats received proper support,
be kept. The tax returns show
ed enough money, if properly spent,
to pay laborers $50 a day instead of
SLIPS.
QUESTION OF DISBURSEMENT.
1t wasn't the Republican party who
was paying wages. The money came
from taxes paid by the people. The
We're only distributing
agents and a Democratic board of SUI
pervisors could dispense money every
bit as well as the present Republican
board. If all the Republican office
holders died today the laborers would
continue to hold their jobs.
THE MORE THE BETTER.
Since being a supervisor, Moore said,
he had cast his vote every time for the
workingman. If more Democrats were
elected supervisors the workingman
would receive a correspondingly larger
benefit.
REPUBLICANS JNLIBERAL.
M A Silva said that the obtaining
of votes by the Democrats wasn't
question of beer. They relied upon the
virtue of a sane, considerate and lib
eral platform The Republicans said
precious little of paying the working
man s1.50 day until they saw plank
to that effect in the Democratic plat
form. They had been spending other
peoples money while in Office and
should have been more liberal in the
matter of wages.
The speakers remarks We're trans
lated into Portuguese and were warmly
applauded
TIDAL WAVE PREDICTION.
Frank Harvey remarked that Hawaii
was fortunately free from tidal waves,
but stated that it looked as if the
Democrats were going to have tidal
wave of votes at the coming election.
The Republican party was the rich
mans party. The roads in the poor
mans district were neglected, while
the rich mans road received careful at
tention every time. The Democratic
party was the poor mans party and
the poor men are the natives, his own
people
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
E. Ingham said that whole lot of
people were afraid to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket on account of not know
ing just what the Democrats would do
if elected. He pointed to Moore and
Trent as examples of Democrats who
did things and asked that their works
be taken as an earnest of what others
of the party would do if elected. The
Democrats, he said, would obtain a fair
ballot, which would effectually prevent
funny business at the polls.
NO MACHINE AID.
The Republicans were scared that
the Democrats, il they once get in,
would stay in. So they would; not by
the aid of a corrupt machine however,
but by good work and fair and square
dealing.
JACK AND THE MONKEYS.
Jack Kalakiela told the crowd if they
W anted to be monkeys to vote for the
Republicans. If not, to support the
Democrats. If the latter were elected
the natives would no longer be referred
to as monkeys; nothing would be too
good for them. The natives had better
vote for Gears monkeys at the Zoo
than vote the straight Republican
ticket. They would be better off.
TRENT UNBENT.
Richard H Trent said that the Dem
ccratfc party was the peoples party,
the party of the common people who
6o he Hxrork he moi oh
He spoke of his work for the individual
salary warrant and told how he had
knocked the discount practise into a
cooked hat. His rule was to pay a man
a hundred cents on the dollar and to
pay it into the mans own pocket to
buy poi, fish and an occasional hat
for his wahine, with. He worked for
the people and not for the bosses, and
called upon his listeners, in their own
interests, to vote the straight Demo-
cratic ticket.
EFT AL.
Other speakers were Moses Palau,
Jesse Ulufhi, c. Rose, F. Gandall, Joe
Fern and Fred Weed.
AT EMMA SQUARE.
The ticket, the whole ticket and
rothingN but the ticket was the theme
dealt with by practically every one of
the speakers on the bandstand at
Emma Square last night, at which
meeting there was a good attendance
and plenty of applause and cheering.
This cheering, however, would have
seemed better if it had been a little
more general and not confined to a
small bunch of road workers, decorated
with campaign buttons and cards, who
rent the air not always at the appro-
pirate times.
The three principal speeches of the
meeting were those of j. w. Cathcart,
George a. Davis and Chas. Chilling
worth, each of whom roasted the ones