The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-19

ocrats held u rousinR meeting last
night The rnEtrum was erected IN
front ~ the Kumnlae block on lower
Queen street and the words of the
speakers were punctuated by the mu-
sic ~ the Kakaako mission chorus and
tho strains of "a guitar waking things
up at n nelghborhood luau.
The crowd was large one, the la
dies being out In force Even the up
stairs In the tenement houses IN the
vicinity were well-nlled with listeners.
There were those In the crowd who
said that number of Iaborers went
upstairs where they could hear with
out being seen. on account OF instruc-
tions having been given workers In the
road and garbage departments not to
attend Democratic meetings.
KIAKAHrs TALK.
Ioela Kiakahi was the first speaker
being introduced. as were the other
spellbnders, by r. Kauwe, champion
hot air vendor of his district
SALARIES CoNTRAsTED.
Ioela said that the Republicans had
been tried and found wanting and
urged that chance be given the Dem
ocrats to make good. The road board
only paid men s1.25 a day and the
Democrats II successful would raise
this rate. The police machine paid Its
underlings $40 month while the poor
Hawaiians working on the roads in the
hot sun, only received s1.25 a day. Last
Sunday he had hade the rounds of the
Palama saloons and found a disgrace
full state of affairs existing. He saw
women drunk in some of the dives.
CONVERTED KALAUOKALANI.
If the Democrats got in they would
fight for the poor man. Even Dave
Kalauokalani Sr., the distinguished
Home Ruler, had seen the error of his
ways and had Joined the Democratic
ranks.
JARRETT'S LADY FRIENDS
w. Paul Jarrett, who was well-re-
ceived, especially by the ladies, asked
the crowd to vote the Democratic
ticket from head to tail" He de-
scended from the stump greeted by a
chorus of '"alohas"
MOORE UNAPoLoGETIC.
II. r. Moore had no apology to make
for coming before the people as Dem
/
on the Democratic ticket as on any
other tricket. The Republican party
had promised certain things and had
signally failed to give them.
HUSTACE'S SWEET BAIT.
Last Saturday night at Aala Park
Charlie Hustace had promised that II
his party got in again the Water
Works and Sewerage departments
would be turned over to the county
and the workingmen would be great
benefiters thereby He branded this
statement as false and misleading and
asked his listeners not to swallow
Hustaces sweet bait. The thing
sounded good but was impracticable
and impossible.
A POPULAR PLANK.
The Democrats had plank in their
platform making sl.50 day. the mini
mum wage for wielders of a pick and
shovel. This promise would, If the
Democrats received proper support,
surely be kept. The tax returns show
ed enough money, If properly spent,
to pay laborers $1.5O day instead of
s1.25.
1t wasn't the Republican party who
was paying wages. The money came
from taxes paid by the people. The
supervisors We're only distributing
agents and Democratic board of su-
pervisors could disperse 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 correspondingly larger
benefit.
REPUBLICANS UNLIBERAL.
NJ. A. Silva said that the obtaining
of votes by the Democrats wasn't a
question of beer. They relied upon the
virtue of sane, considerate and lib
eral platform. The Republicans said
precious little of paying the working
man $l.50 day until they saw a 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 We're going to have tidal
wave of votes at the coming election