The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-26

ing as to whether Goo Wan Hoy was
stump. several of his personal follow
ers, including several of his campaign
ticket card distributors, applauded, but
that was all except a Hawaiian who
called attention of the crowd in Ha-
waiian TO the Full Moor" Cathcart
spoke of "eertain newspaper
in town. having made charges against
him, and of the investigation of the
charges by a committee (which de-
cided there was nothing in the charges
that would call for me to resign from
the ticket He then made TRADE
against the "certain newspaper,
which he said is the same newspaper
which ''abused Brown, while he was
running last campaign for Sheriff, I
and is the same newspaper which
has ridiculed and abused the Hawai-
ians, and it is down on any man who
is independent and will not permit it
to control him. He added: II be-
lieve that l can say that / have con
Quoted my office fairly and squarely,
and I have never made any distinc
ton between rich and poor, haole or
Hawaiian. No matter what his race
or condition in life, the man who came
before me got a square deal and that
has been so all the time 1 have been
in office. and if you reflect me, every
man will be taken care of and get a
square deal. +"
Then Catheart made his most bonn
oastic statement. ga vote against
me" he said, Ethis election means
vote for those who have abused and
ridiculed YOU and for those who want
to take away your franchise and those
who want to govern these Islands by
n commission. A vote against me is
a vote against those who are your
friends. If you vote for me it viii be
a vote for a man who viii run his
office without outside dictation. I be-
lieve you like an independent man, a
man who does his duty fearlessly, and
I expect you to say: sCathcart, you
have done well and we return you to
office. -
"That's right" shouted David Not
ley.
Won Holt in Portuguese.
Harry Won Holt, candidate for Treas
urer, made his initial speech in Ha-
waiian, interspersing it with oldtime
stories and put the crowd in an excel
lent humor. He told of his childhood,
how he had been raised with young
chiefs, and he hoped that in this cam
paign the Hawaiians would not forget
that.
He referred to some things that
Trent, the Democratic candidate. had
4oor1 81, I, i
something about regretting that Won
Holt had had any occasion to refer
TO him as a malihini. Won Holt made
joeular remark about this, and said
that he could make the remark in Ha-
waiian. or, at least, in such phrase
ology that Trent would never be able
70 fathom it. Mr. Trent feels he is
going to get left and he is trying to
call the white people to his side and
array them against me, if he can. -
Mr.. Won Holt said that while he
could speak only little Portuguese.
vet he felt that the Portuguese should
feel attracted to him, as years ago,
when the Portuguese immigrants ar
rived in Honolulu, he was present as a
member of the steamship Office staff to
receive them and he became so well
known among the immigrants that they
dubbed him Meynheer Mendez de Me-
deiros
Wise Answers Taukea.
John Wise. candidate for Sheriff,
started off in answer to statements
made on the soap-box rostrum by Iau-
kea. The latter, he said. had referred
to Wise having participated in the rev
olution, after he had been educated by
the missionaries He said when he re-
turned here in '93 he looked at his
Hawaiian mother, and then at the peo-
pie who had educated him. For
months he tried to decide which it
should be-his Hawaiian mother, or the
haoles who had educated him. Blood
told and he Joined the revolutionists,
and he did so with knowledge Of
the oppression and trouble that would
result. He was held a political pris-
oner for a year. He thought he was
right and his conscience tells him to-
day that be was right. ''Todav Tau
kea accuses me Of that. He spoke of
the reasons why he should be elected.
that he would keep the police depart
ment out of politics.
But what IS the trouble there now2
Why do these outrages take place in
Manoa, where a man can be almost
killed in the dead Of night? Why
don I they stop it2 Did you ever hear