The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-10
NJ CANDLES
IS CONFIDENT
After a Vigorous Tour of Maui
and Hawaii He Is
Encouraged.

haina instead of waiting for the Mauna
Kea.
McCandless is confident that the
Island of Hawaii viii 60 Democratic at
this election and is not without expec-
tatiOn that Maui viii also. He is Ger
tain Maui viii make a good showing
for the Democratic ticket.
Everywhere we were well reeeiv-
ed, " he said yesterday, "and we had
good meetings and much enthusiasm.
The people are doing lot of thinking.
The land question is uppermost, and
everywhere we were told of incidents
in connection with the land office meth
DDS which have convinced the people
that there is little desire to enable the
people to get public lands for homes.
81 left here September Is and
reached Hilo the next day, speaking
that evening at Mooheau Park I had
an audience of about six hundred and
there was every evidence that the peo-
pie turned out because they wanted to
hear the vital questions discussed. The
county convention was held the next
day. which | attended. The next four
days I spent in Puma and Olaa speaking
at considerable number of places and
having very good meetings everywhere.
On the 22nd we returned to Hilo, and
together with the county and legislative
candidates we started on a tour of the
island. We went first by way of the
volcano to Kau, speaking that night
at Pahala. The next day meetings were
held at a number of places including
Punaluu, and in the evening a meeting
was held at Waiohinu. At this place
there are a number of people who have
made applications for homes on the
public lands and have never been able
to get any satisfaction from the land
office.
''On September 25 we rode forty
miles into and in the Konas holding
meetings at various places, and the
same the next day On the 28th we
were at Kailua. It was steamer day
there and there was large attendance
at our meetings, and a luau was pro-
vided for us. The next day we went
on to Waimea and had meeting that
night at Kawaihae. On the 30th we
went into Kohala, the party dividing
at Kawaihae and some going by steam
er to Mahukona. We began our meet
ings at Multi and held a number of
them between there and the Kohala
court house.
% We were at Waimea October l, and
held meeting there and the next day
at Waipio and at Honokaa October 3
we went as far as Laupahoehoe, spend
in gthe night there and going on to Hilo
the next day and speaking again in
Hilo
~ left Hilo October ), Monday, by
the Claudine and landed at Kipahulu
son Maui. We found the county candi-
dates of Maui in that part of the
island campaigning. I spoke at sew
eral places near there, and at Hama in
the church October s. On the 7th we
left Hama by the Claudine, speaking at
landings en- route whenever there was
opportunity.
eve landed at Kahului but no
speeches were made there as there was
not opportunity /. however gave my
campaign buttons to everyone there
on the wharf and many of them put
them on That night at the meeting
at Waikiki, one of the men to whom
[ had given a button at Kahului and
who had worn it told me he had been
discharged that afternoon though he
had worked in that one employment for
twenty-one years. He believed he had
been discharged for wearing my but
ton
81 spoke that night at Waikiki to
a good gathering and then went TO La
haina where I took the Mikahala for
the Settlement. l was accompanied by
Ben Lyons, George Lowe, and Kahawa-
HAIKU We were well received at the
Settlement. The band was out to meet
US, and there was a very large attend
anee. We spoke from the corral, the
people being just outside.
Returning to Lahaina | spoke there
last night and catching the Maui,
arrived here this morning.
q Everywhere / went / found will
ingness on the part of the people to
hear matters affecting their own inter
ests discussed and a general desire to
decide political matters on a fair basis.
Rev. Stephen L. Desha seems TO be the
only man on Hawaii who is trying to
stir up race feeling, and he IS meeting
with a good deal of Tebuke from his
own people In his paper he advised
the Hawaiians 10 vote for one of their
own people and not for the fkoIea."
The word "kolea is the Hawaiian
name of a plover that migrates hither
In the winter. and the word IS used by
the Hawaiians to mean foreigners who
come here and get rich and 90 away
Desha s appeal was a direct appeal to
the Hawaiians to vote for kuhio simply
because he is a Hawaiian and 10 vote
against me because / am white. I re-
Piled to him at number of places IN
my speeches. I said that I had been
here twenty-seven years and I thought
that was long enough to make this my
permanent home And I called atten-
ton to the fact that If the foreigner
had not come here the Rev. Stephen L. |
Desha would not be taking part in this
campaign. I think Mr. Desha viii find
that the appeal to the race feeling viii
not prove successful.