The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-10-23
DEMOCRATS HAVE
GOOD RALLIES
(From Wednesday s Advertiser.

| (From Wednesdays Advertiser.)
At the Democratic meeting at Ka-
moiliili last night Edward Ingham, can
didate for Supervisor, challenged the
claims made for Delegate Kuhio that
he is entitled to the credit for the ap-
preparations for Notifications and Pearl
Harbor Mr.. Ingham called attention
to the letter from Senator Perkins to
the Chamber of Commerce in which the
California Senator claims the credit for
these. He said:
"The Republicans claim credit, - said
Ingham, "for everything; even big
crops are paraded by them as evidences
of Republican prosperity. 1t is not sur.
prising therefore to find the local spon-
sors of that blatant party trying to
cover themselves with borrowed glory.
We hear them claiming credit for their
Delegate to Congress for all the furti-
| fications and other Federal works in
Hawaii, for which large appropriations
were made by the last Congress. But
Senator Perkins of California, in a
recent letter to the Honolulu Chamber
of Commerce, published in the Adver.
tiser of Oct. 18th, has .dispeled this
bright illusion. Senator Perkins says:
in this connection I would say that
I am always ready and willing to do
anything in my power to advance the
interest of the city of Honolulu and
the people of the Hawaiian Islands. In
doing so believe am working for the
AS evidence of my good faith in the
matter l have but to cite you the fact
that as chairman of the subcommittee
on Fortifications and Ordnance in the
| United States Senate, my report and
advocacy of the bill for the improve.
ment of Honolulu and Pearl Harbor
secured and made available large ap.
preparations for this purpose at the last
session of Congress AS ranking mem.
| ber of the Committee on Naval Affairs,
/ worked for liberal appropriations for
the improvement of your Naval Station.
AS member of the Committee on Com.
merce, / reported favorably upon and
secured the passage of a bill for an
additional revenue cutter which will
enable the department to permanently
station one in the Hawaiian Islands.
| also favored the appropriation for a
lighthouse tender and additional light
houses for two of the ports in the Is
lands
"You will readily see how needless
it is for the Democrats to challenge
anything that the Republicans say or
do when they are so industrious in
discrediting each otherss statements
and actions. All we need do is to hang
around the fJinges of this Republican
scrimmage and grab an occasional
handful of hair from some hapless vic
tim s head. AS between Senator Per-
kins and Kuhio, it is purely a question
of the credibility of their respective
claims. We pass no sentence, but
merely refer the matter to the Repub-
licans for explanation, their reputation
for adroitness in such matters being a
matter of common knowledge. To
quote our eminent citizen, Mr.. w. C.
Achi, we ask: what did Kuhio
done?'n
! The meeting was very largely at
tended and the speakers were listened
to attentively until a late hour. The
meeting was in charge of II. A. Juen,
who made spirited address.
The first candidate who spoke was
Robert X. Pahau, candidate for Repre-
, sentative, Fourth District, who spoke
on the platform issues affecting the
legislative candidates.
He was followed by Charles Girdler
another candidate for Representative
who said that the Democrats had the
only clean ticket in the field and call
ed on the voters to support it even il
they left him out. lie said the Re
4 publicans were fighting like Kilkenny
: cats. "Every morning. said he
"some new sensational charge j;
: sprung by the Advertiser ON the can
didate for County Attorney"
: The next candidate was Joseph j
: Fern, candidate for Mayor, who me
with rousing reception. Mr.. Ferl
: said that since the Cathcart scandal
the Republicans had been placed in I
very uncomfortable position. Having
driven one Objectionable candidate
from the ticket and now being con
fronted with the prospect of losing an
l. other, they feared lest their ticke
!, might be decimated before election
d day if this state of affairs kept up.
: Mr.. Fern said that some of the Re
= publicans were making desperat
- threats about buying the Hawaiia
y votes, realizing how much influenc
:" the Democratic cause was gainin
among them. He admonished thel
not to sell their birthright for me:
of pottage, but to show that they WEI
men and stand by their principles {
the polls.
= eff the people elect me in Nover
ber,'' said Mr.. Fern, "they will new
be treated to the disgraceful revel
tions of official misconduct that a
now filing the columns of the morniI
as paper, relating to the Republican ca
ne didate for County Attorney"
Of Jesse Uluihi made short talk al
ce was followed by Duke Kahanamok