The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-13
KAL|HI RALLY
WELL ATTENDED
Crowd at Pumping Plant Hear
Republican Candidates
Last Night.

A very satisfactory rally was held
by the Republicans in the Fifth last
night, the speakers addressing crowd
of a couple of hundred voters and
Others on the little green in front of
the PaIama pumping station. The big
pumps in the station thumped away as
a chorus for the orators, making speak
ing rather difficult, but the crowd stay
ed until after eleven o clock, neverthe-
less, and gave encouragement to the
candidates as one after another they
spoke their message and asked for
support.
At this meeting, as at every meet
ing the Republicans have held since
the convention. no one would take it
upon himself to speak the name of
John Cathcart from the platform or
ask the 1oters to support him. Cath
cart has never appeared for himself,
either, and unless he is doing some
hard work privately he is very much
out of the running. Kaea was present
in all his glory of a reform halo, get
ting very good reception from por-
ton of the assemblage He stood in
splendid isolation in the early part of
the meeting, being stunned by the
other candidates, and he disappeared
Immediately after he had spoken.
Hon. Joseph Kalana presided as
chairman, Introducing Kama as the
first speaker. Kama spoke along
straight-ticket lines, making particular
reference to the Representative ticket
from the Fifth. He appeared to be a
favorite
Jim Quinn announced himself as a
good roads man, man in favor of an
economical and businesslike running of
the county's affairs and one who would
see that the business of the county
was conducted in way fair to every
taxpayer. Quinn was well known to
the audience and made a good impress
sion, Judging from the applause that
greeted his short talk.
George Kaea came next, the chair
man announcing him as a man who
would do his best, without explaining
what that might be. Kaea referred to
the fact that the papers had been NAM
ing him as one unfit for office. He
acknowledged that in his youth Tin
1907 he had appeared rather frequent
ly in the prisoners dock, but wanted
to tell the people that now he was re-
formed. The George Kaea the people
saw was not the same George Kaea
who had paid the fines, but a new,
reincarnated and purified Kaea, one
who was helping the police to run down
breakers instead of being a law
breaker himself. He asked support for
the straight ticket
John Nauha, precinct worker, ask
ed for the votes of all for John G.
Lane to elect him king of the county,
after which John Hughes made an
earnest appeal to the voters present to
support the Republican candidate. He
reviewed briefly the work of the last
Legislature and asked the people to
judge the party by the work they had
done. In touching upon the Demo
cratic land policy, he asked what pol
icy the Democrats intended to carry
one in the national platform,
the one outlined in the memorial to
Garfield, or the one in the Territorial
platform. All were different, the Dem
Oerats presenting the spectacle of
party with three policies on the same
subject at the same time.
Can Not Satisfy Everyone.
Following Kane and Kaka, Candidate
Ed. Quinn made a good address. Mr..
Quinn is improving greatly in his plat.
form manner and promises to be one of
the best party speakers in time. He
made general appeal for support for
the party, referring to the ticket as
good representative one, as good as
could be expected. He acknowledged
that there were spots in it that some
people didn t like, but excused this by
stating that it was impossible to sat
isfy everyone. The ticket was as good
all the way through as any that had
ever been presented to the voters, at
any rate.
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