The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-11-03
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senatorial, city and county, and Fifth
District candidates, and by Candidate
for Congress McCandless.
A good deal of what MeCandless said
was brought out by the publication by
the Republican campaign committee of
the list of his land holdings. "The
Democratic party" he said, "has con.
Quoted this campaign as a campaign Of
education in principles of government
All its literature issued and distrib-
uted throughout the Territory has been
OF this kind. In all my speeches until
| was charged with saying things
which I did not say, and which my
whole record goes to prove i did not
say, / have discussed principles which
are of importance to the Hawaiian
people, as 1 believe.
THE Republicans, unable to meet
the issue of principles, first resorted
to Misrepresentation of the position of
the Democratic party on the land issue
and on other issues, and then to mis-
representation of me and of my posi-
ton and my speeches on the subject.
They were trying to throw dust in your
eyes. They were trying to dodge the
issue. They were trying to hide their
own failure to keep their promises.
They pledged themselves in their plat
form two years ago to secure from
Congress such an amendment of the
Organic Act as would enable the Ha-
waiian Legislature to amend the pub
lie land laws. Did they do it2 No,
they didn even try to do it. Their
Delegate didn't even introduce bill
to do it. But what he did do was to
get Congress to amend the Organic
Act so that the plantations could get
control of large areas of agricultural
land by leases for fifteen years, in
stead of for only five years as it was
before. That is how the Republicans
kept their pledges That is how your
Delegate kept his pledges, for he was
elected on the platform of his party
two years ago.
"But how do they answer this
charge of breach of faith7 Do they
DENY it? No, they can't. What do
they do9 Why, they say Link Me
Candless owns lot of land. The Re-
publican party claims to have all the
political purity and political honesty
there is. 1t claims to be the party Of
high moral ideas. Its posters say there
is no hole in the Republican doughnut,
whatever that may mean. But in an
swer to the charge that it didn't even
try to keep its pledges on the land
question; in reply to all the proofs that
nave peen round that ~ mas aaminls'
tereu the Pupiic lunu Jaws ol 'hls ler,
ri.ory soieiy III .ne nv, ,nterest u Wv
plantations anu tneir like, wnaS uoes
u nave 10 say II Puoi,shes .lst Oh
the iand thas l hoid either IN zee, OF
by mortgage, OF py lease' is tnat any
answer to the proofs L nave Drought
OF the way the party has administered
the public lands OF TINS Terrltoryf is
it any answer to the proofs that have
been brought by men In their own
party, by Mr.. Shingle, for instance? Is
it any answer to the fact that they dis
posed of over AZ 900 acres of land
government land, on Lanai to one man
| who is now crowding off that land ma
| tive Hawaiians who were born there
and have lived there all their lives
When the big land owners of Scotland
began to crowd off the crofters from
the land where thev had been borr
and lived, it affected the whole gov
ernment of Great Britain. But wher
Republican Governor of this Terri
tory puts it in the power of one mar
TO deprive a hundred Hawaiiaps OF
the privilege of living on the land
where tbey were horn and have al
wavs lived nothing is tbought Of If
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