The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-16
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Democratic Speaker Accuses
Republican Workers of
Trickery.

| deputy sheriff, took as the main subject
matter OF the speech delivered by him
last night at the meeting on Punch
bowl, a meeting at which men, women
and children, especially the latter, at
tended in large numbers, over three
hundred listening to the candidates
What Rose referred to particularly was
report that had come to his ears
through a Republican source that the
Republican workers in Kakaako were
instrueting the voters who were Demo
Gratis 10 vote for the Democratic can
didates if they wanted to, but to
scratch line through the names of any
of the candidates whom they did not
wish to vote for, thus spelling the
ballot.
They are doing this sort of work
because they are getting afraid of the
Democrats, said Rose, who explained
that that sort of scratching would
make the vote for all no good.
1t was windy and dusty on the cor
ner of Lusc street, where the meeting
was held, and large part of the audi
ence slipped away long before the meet
ing was over. The dust gave one of
the candidates, Duke Kahanamoku, a
chance 10 make a point, which he did
by pledging his party to put oil on all
the roads on Punchbowl Just as soon as
they were elected. "What has the Re-
publican party ever done for your
roads?'' he asked. "They have never
done a thing, but it will be different
when the Democrats are in power.
Uluihi, local party worker, was the
chairman, and upon him fell the duty
of talking against time to keep the
people in their seats during the lapse
of time between when the first bunch
of speakers got through and the second
lot arrived from Palama, where another
Democratic meeting was in progress.
Peters, Silva, Moore, Kuhia, Fern,
Ingham and Anderson were in the first
detachment, being called in the order
named. The first five delivered their
regular set addresses, Moore reviewing
the fiscal policy he intended to put in
force when he gained his seat in the
Senate
Ed. Ingham made the longest and
most pointed address of the early even
ing, his reference to Iaukea being the
first reference from the stump the can
didacy of the Sheriff has yet received
from any Democrat. Iaukea is, he said,
an example of man who thought that
he owed nothing to the party which
elected him. s'Now he is down and
out and the party is triumphant, - said
the speaker.
The land question was dealt with at
length, the speaker stating that be-
cause of the Republican policy the
Portuguese of the Territory had prac
tically no foothold in the land. Ku-
HOS bill, paraded on the stump in
1904, which promised to help the
Punchbowl residents, was never heard
of in Congress, and today the Portu-
guese are no better off than they were
then and, would be no better off in
1912, when the lease expired, than they
are now if Republicanism triumphed.
They would be worse off, in fact, be-
cause Kuhio had had put through a
bill in Congress extending the lease
limit to corporations from FIVE to ff-
teen years. When tie Punchbowl
lease expired the property would be
for lease again in one piece
and no Portuguese was in a position to
tate would again get control of the
land.
"What good excuse was there for
the lease limit to fifteen
years?'' asked Ingham, who answered
were always promising
to the people and then Civ
ing it to the large landowners and cor
pOrations.
Celebrating on the land policies of
the two parties as he viewed them,
Ingham stated that the Democrats had
gone farther than the Republicans had
cred dared to do. The speaker him
self. carried along with his own elo-
duence, then went farther than his own
party in the Territory had dared to do,
and announced that the success of the
Democrats would mean the extension
to Hawaii by Congress of the Federal
land laws. as pledged in the party ma
tionai platform.
Still Talking Chinese.
!. J. Anderson, the party nominee
for Auditor, wished to back out from
making his regular Chinese speech, but
the crowd insisted and he waded
it, although there was not a
pake in sight
Duke Kahanamoku then promised to
see that Democratic oil went on the
Punchbowl roads, after which w. A.
Hall made his plea for the straight
ticket.
Rathburn and Wilcox.
W. X. Rathburn delved into ancient
history and reminded his audience, as
a warning against Motley, that Wilcox
found no Home Rulers to work with
at Washington. He also took a fall
out of Kaniho and Kalauokalani for
the interests of Hawaiians
over some bill concerning inter-island
shipping put through the House by the
lobbying Of s. G. Wilder. He warned
the people against the Republican i'm
migration policy, which would fill the
country with voters and disfranchise
the Hawaiians. and further warned
them against voting for Kuhio, who
worked for the rich men and threw
the poor men down.
Watson Pokes Fun.
f. NJ. Watson poked fun at the Re-
publican straight ticket, asking wheth-
er that was the ticket named at the