The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-10-17
DEMOCRATS ARE
WARMING UP
TWO MEETINGS AT WHICH MANY
SPEAKERS PAY RESPECTS TO
THE REPUBLICANS.

Democrats held forth last night at
the head of Liliha street and in Kaka-
ako last night. The Liliha street meet
ing had Bipikane for chairman and j.
K. Prendergast for interpreter.
Kealoha, the first speaker, roasted
Senator McCandless for employing Jap
anese on his new building. Dan Ka-
mahu and Charles Broad followed with
requests for support of the party
ticket, and Trent followed with hu-
morous speech which kept the crowd
in good humor. w. w Thayer follow
ed up his former roasts of the police.
John Emmeluth roasted conditions
which he appeared to regard as a sort
of gerrymander and H. T. Moore
brought up the matter of McCandless'
employment of Japanese, and roasted
the Republicans for holding their meet
ing in front of Clarks saloon in Pa
lama.
Ioela was the first speaker at the
Kakaakc meeting. He talked road
salaries and dives. The road board
only paid men $1.25 day and the DEM
rate. The police machine paid its I'M
behring's $40 month while the poor
Hawaiians working on the roads in the
hot sun, only received $1.25 a day. Last
Sunday he had made the rounds of the
Palama saloons and found a disgrace
full state of affairs existing. He saw
women drunk in SONG of the dives.
W. P. Jarrett asked for straight
ticket voting and H. r. Moore follow
ed with a similar plea and roasted
Charley Hustace's promises. He refer
red to the Democratic promise of $1.5O
per day for laborers and said that it
was the people, not the Republicans,
who paid the taxes. E. Ingham prom
Used fair ballot if the Democrats got
in power and said that Republicans
were afraid they would stay there. He
said that Democrats would win, but
not by the ai1 of a machine.
Jack Kalakiela said that monkeys
ought to vote the Republican ticket
and that natives had better vote for
Gears monkeys in the Zoo than for
the Republican candidates.
! NJ. A. Silva said that the obtaining
of votes by the Democratic wasn't a
question of beer. They relied upon the
virtue of a sane, considerate and lib
eral platform. The Republicans said
little of paying the workingman 81. 80
a day until they saw a plank to that
effect in the Democratic platform. They
had been spending other peoples mon
ey while in office and should have been
more liberal in the matter of wages.
Frank Harvey remarked that Hawaii
was fortunately free from tidal waves
but stated that it looked as if the
Democrats were going to have a tida
wave of votes at the coming election
The Republican party was the rich
mans party. The roads in the pooi
mans district were neglected, while
the rich mans road received careful
attention every time. The Democratic
party was the poor mans party ant
the poor men are the natives, his owl
people.
Richard H. Trent said that the Dem.
ocratic party was the peoples party
the party of the common people who
do the work>And eat the poi and fish
He spoke of his work for the individual
salary warrant and told how he haC
knocked the discount practice into
cooked hat. His rule was to pay a MAJ
hundred cents on the dollar and t,
pay it into the mans own pocket t
buy poi, fish and an occasional hat 70
his wahine, with. He worked for tn
people and not for the bosses, and call
ed upon his listeners, in their own in
terests' to vote the straight Democratic
ticket
Other speakers were Moses Palau
Jesse Uluihi, c. H. Rose, Thomas Gan
dali, Joe Fern and Fred Weed.
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