The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-15
FERN TALKS
OF SCRATCHING
Tells Hawaiians This Would
Kill Their Whole
Ballot.

The official Democratic interpreter i.
said to make a better speech when in
terpreting from English into Hawaiian
than the haole speakers He certainly
rounds off the periods in fine style and
Eadds comparisons of his own, and this
was particularly true at the big Demo.
cratic meeting last night at the corner
of School and Liliha streets during the
speech made by Judge Ed1ngs, candt-
date for County Attorney The Judge
in former speeches had made reference
to the donkey as the emblem of the
Democratic party. Bryan, he said,
would ride to the White House on the
donkey. To show that Bryan was not
the first man to ride in triumph on such
beast he referred to the ride of the
Savior into Jerusalem 1t was decided
by the leaders of the Democratic party
that the reference to Christ might bet
ter be cut out of the speech, and last
evening the Judge complied The in
terpreter, however, mechanically added
the comparison as he had done at pre-
yious meetings, and the crowd laughed
while the Judge spoke on in ignorance
of the liberties being taken with his
utteranees.
The meeting was held under big
tree at the corner, with benches and
chairs provided for the audience which
filed the street space. A portable plat
form provided the rostrum and one by
one the speakers mounted it and kept
the crowd together until late hour.
Joe Fern, candidate for the office of
Mayor, spoke in English, Hawaiian and
Portuguese, and J. C. Anderson, run.
ming for County Auditor, spoke in Eng
hsh, Hawaiian and Chinese, making as
great a hit with his pake talk as Fern
does with his use of Portuguese.
Fern laid stress on the allegation
that he and Harvey, Democratic mem
bers of the Board of Supervisors, were
responsible for the increase of wages
for day laborers of the county from
$1.25 to 81 80. Fern amused the crowd
when he held up three fingers and
named them Fern, Lane and Achi, and
then counting them saying that he
would count them off to the number
of ten, and if that number struck his
name-fnger then that augured in favor
of his election. He counted the fingers
off and sure enough the tenth was him
self. Of course. the crowd laughed.
Fern also said that as there were many
women in the audience it might be welt
to admonish them that if two or three
days before the election they heard
their husbands say they might vote for
Lane or Achi, they should be made to
live and sleep on the lanai, but if they
said they intended to vote for Fern,
then the whole house should be theirs.
Fern also said that since the Repub-
licaps found the Democratic meetings
were being 50 well attended they have
become afraid of results for their own
ticket and have sent men out among
the Hawaiians telling them to scratch
Democrats from the ticket. As the
Hawaiians. might think that scratch
ing a name meant to erase it off
the ballot. Fern said they must bear
in mind that this would ruin the bal
lot and it would not be counted.
IF anybody comes to you and tells
You to erase a name from The ballot, -
said Mr.. Fern, citizen you take him by
the collar and escort him to the police
station
Speaking in English, Fern said that
some people had referred to him as a
man with a hollow head. He referred
to his seventeen years employment
with the Wilder and Inter-Island
steamship companies, and he must be
considered capable-oT he would not be
on their payroll. However, on the
other hand. there are times when GER
tain candidates get the big head and
forget to know the people. He did
not forget them, and therefore he be-
ieved he was the right man for Mayor.
When Joa Kuhia was announced as
the next speaker, the audience found
he was only doing a thinking part on
the platform, for the chairman read
Kuhia IS speech. Kuhia s throat is not
strong and he writes out his speeches
and has the chairman of the meetings
read them for the benefit of the audi
ence, while he bows and smiles.
Undertaken Silva said that if the
Republicans did not hurry up and do
something, all the Democrats would get
in He said that was entirely true.
''They say that the Democrats are
going to scratch the haole names On
the tickets and vote for Hawailans, -
he said "That is not the situation
at all. The Hawaiians will vote for
the best men and they are all one the
ticket
Edward Ingham said that the Re
puhlicans had only made promises
which they had never kept. t'It is a
party of wine promises and water per
formances. he said. He then went
into a long discussion of the land
planks in the platforms, accusing the
of failure ever to do any
thing about the land laws
Judge Edings said that people who