The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-11

Fifteen hundred people stayed be-
fore the bandstand at Aaia Park last
night until after midnight to hear all
that the Democratic candidates would
have to say in their opening rally of
the campaign. A thousand others stay,
ed until late.
From the standpoint of the Demo
Gratis the rally was a very good one.
The candidates received good attention
and at times considerable applause,
while two or three of the speakers were
enthusiastically received by the crowd.
The rally was unique in one respect,
that of the number of languages used
by the candidates to express their SEN
timents to the voters and in which to
pledge themselves to the various planks
of their platform. Hawaiian was used
by all, either at first hand or through
a very clever interpreter; English was
spoken by many Hawaiians as well as
by all the haoles, while, in addition to
these, others spoke in Portuguese, IN
Spanish and in Chinese.
The arrangements for the rally were
good, the quintet club music was re-
ceived with thunderous applause, being
more in demand than the speeches, in
fact, while the order was quite up to
that at the usual rally.
Opened with Prayer.
The rally opened in decidedly orig
inal way, Edward Ingham, the chair
man, calling upon Rev. Kuikahi to lead
in prayer, whereupon the candidates on
the platform stood and the big crowd
silenced down while the candidate
clergyman asked the Divine blessing
upon the meeting.
Mr.. Ingham then made the opening
address, saying in part:
"In announcing this formal opening.
of the campaign, / do so with sense
of gratitude and feeling of assurance
for the splendid outlook for our party
in the campaign and election. 1t is
very gratifying to us to know that we
have won the hearts of the people to
our cause and I believe that the evil
dence to be shown of the influx of
to our ranks from the camp
of the enemy will be rebuke to the
administration of the public affairs by
the Republicans, who have been in
control of the government, executive
and administrative, since annexation,
and the fact that the people have be-
come disgusted augurs well for our
success in November. We feel that we
have no apologies to make for our
ticket, and we can confidently ask you
to support that ticket We believe we
have far the best ticket before you.
cit is true that we are late, the last
party to begin our campaign, but if
our friends, the enemy, find any en-
in this, let me remind
them of the Scriptural saying: 'The
first shall be last and the last shall be
first.
"The papers have undertaken to
,ensure our nominee for Delegate to
Congress for having affiliated himself
with our party. / will answer for our !.
believing that it would be
something concerning which he would !
feel delicaey of speaking for himself. !
feel that our party has gained much ,
n convert of a man of distinguished
ability and stability like L. L. Nc
Jandless, who has been actively identi- |
led with politics in this country since |
before annexation. He has always |
aiken an interest in politics and now |
las found out that the principles advo- |
.ated by the Republicans are not salts
actory to him, nor for the best inter
st of this country When Mr.. Nc
'andless changed his politics he did |
lot change his principles, but Joined
he party which had believed and work
d for a land policy like his own for
ears, principle and policy which the
had written in their plat
orms and talked of in three campaigns l.
'ut which all the time they had been
opposed to. And it was because Mr..
lcCandless was sincere in this princi-
les that they combined to defeat him
n the last campaign and did defeat