The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-22
GOVERNOR
/, DENOUNCES
BUNCOMBE
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e2pTeSScu the views anu IHe OpLuluHs o.
our candidates for The Legislature.
There seems to be a difference of opin-
ion among the people and 1, for one,
hope to see the people convinced that
they are wrong in wanting to vote
split ticket. / am a straight ticket
voter and 1 hope that you will all vote
the straight ticket. The Republican
party to which we belong was formed
before we were born and viii be a
party after we are all gone. 1t is the
party of progress we belong to and
hope therefore that you will all go to
the polls on November and vote the
straight Republican ticket"
Frear Greeted With Applause.
Gov. Frear, who was received with
applause as he came on the platform
nd frequently throughout his speech,
said:
HMr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens.
If l remember rightly, few weeks
ago the papers announced that the Re-
publican and Home Rule parties intend
ed to carry on their campaigns this
year without booze, beer or buncombe.
] do not know if such a statement has
been made by the Democrats, but have
a sufficiently high opinion of many
among the Democrats to believe that
they would at least dispense with booze
and beer and would not eountenance
buneombe. But, if the representations
that hear have been made on the other
islands are correct, the candidate of
that party for Delegate to Congress has
been relying on buncombe pure and sim
pie.
"There is no question but that the
permanent future welfare of this coun-
try is bound up in the proper DISPOSE
tiOn of its publis lands, and / am happy
to state that this disposition is to be
in the hands of the Republican party
and not that of the party with the
policy of buneombe.
HAccording to the reports, the can
didate of the Democratic party is max
fRg land his issue and Is reIying prin-
,eipally on the promise that If he is
4 elected he viii see that every elector
gets on hundred and sixty acres Of the
public lands for SO, or practically
nothing. But he knows, just as well
as you and L know, that he could not
fulfill such a condition under any cir
cumstances, for even if he were elected
and passed laws as he promises there
is not enough public land in the whole
of the Territory to go around at the
rate. There is only a total of 1,676,705
acres of pubic lands in all, and 13,147
registered voters.
"That is what I call buneombe. That
is worse than buncomoe. Such promises
are an affront to the voters of the Ter.
ritory. That is gross Insult, not only
to the intelligence but to the honesty
of the voters of this Territory. 1t is
assuming that the voters are mere chill
dren TO be enticed by empty promises;
that they are feathers to be blown and
drifted by every passing zephyr. 1t is
an assumption that the Hawaiians and
the Portuguese of this Territory are
incompetent of exercising their right
of franchise intelligently. A good
many have already argued that it was
a mistake to give the natives the right
to vote, but the natives have been vot-
ing for the past seventy years and L
challenge comparison between the
manner in which they have exercised
their franchise right and the manner
in which the franchise has been exer-
fised in a majority of the States OF the
kainland 1t is not the man of great
knowledge or the man of wealth who
votes best. The learned man is often
preJudieed along certain lines and the
wealthy man generally votes to pro-
tect his individual interests, no matter
how honest he may try to be. I for
one believe in the Hawaiians and their
good sense and honesty. 1t is such
people, the common people, that Roos-
evelt relies upon, and 1t was on the
great common people that Mckinley re-
lied to lift politics to higher plane
and to assist him to carry on his bust
nesslike administration.
81 have had ample evidence that
the Hawaiians are not duped by the
ridiculous promises held out to them.
have seen the aftermath of MeCand-
less speeches. 1 have heard of the
questions that stumped and embarrassed
him at his meetings, where he was asked
if the 100 acres he was promising were
to be ont on the black IA flows or
where.
81 appeal to you people tonight for
a campaign of careful, earnest and hon
est debate upon the questions of inter
est to the Territory. | appeal to you
that you insist that we shall have a
businesslike Legislature, composed of
men who Will study all questions on a