The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-11
M'CANDLESS IS
NAMED TO RUN
AGAINST KUHIO
The Most Representative Convention the DEM
ocrats Have Ever Held Adopts Platform
and Nominates Link"

Committee on Permanent Organization
for permanent officers:
Richard HI. Trent, chairman.
L. B. Lyons, vice chairman.
John Emmeluth, secretary.
G. K. Keawehaku, assistant secretary.
John K. Prendergast, interpreter.
David Kalawaia, sergeant alarms.
The report was adopted electing
these officers. Short speeches of ac-
ceptance were made by Chairman
Trent and Vice Chairman Lyons.
National Committeeman Waller made
an address in which he took very
optimistic view of Democratic pros
poets both here and on the mainland.
He urged that the Territorial ticket
be supported as heartily as the local
tickets.
The Committee on Platform and Res
olutions reported the platform. Moses
Palau and half a dozen others were on
their feet at once with objections
and amendments Tactfully Chairman
Trent guided the debate along. Palau
wanted all reference to Orientals
stricken out, as there are six hundred
Chinese voters in the Territory who
might be lost to the party. He after
wards withdrew his amendment.
Another delegate offered an amend
ment declaring that laborers in the
public works should be paid for holi-
DAYS. There was considerable debate
on this, and finally Chairman Trent put
the motion, asking all those Sin favor
of paying laborers for the days they
do not work. to stand up. This
created a laugh and nobody stood up.
One of Mrs. Ateherley's proposals
for physician to be elected in each
county, to make medical examinations
of school children, was voted down.
So were several other propositions, the
only amendment getting through being
one pledging the candidate for Dele
gate. if elected, to work for the repeal
of the measure, said to have been in
troduced by Delegate Kalanianaole,
limiting the use of the Hawaiian Ian
guage in the governmental depart
ments to fifteen years.
With this amendment the platform
was adopted, as reported, by unani-
nous vote.
The chairman announced that the
next business in order was the nomi-
nation of candidate for Delegate. In
stantly there were a dozen members
on their feet to nominate McCand-
less. Several impassioned nominating
speeches were made in Hawaiian, and
then the nomination was made by ae-
clamation and followed by prolonged
cheering led by Frank Harvey.
McCandless was almost carried to
the platform by enthusiastic delegates.
After thanking the convention for the
honor conferred, and pledging himself
to work for the success of the party,
and, if elected to work to redeem its
platform pledges, he touched on the
land question He read the Wailuku
eonN ention utterance of the Republi-
can party on the land question, and
said that while that utterance was still
fresh, they decided to give $4,000 acres
of land in one piece to one man. He
said that while he was on Maui he
lad been at Keanae, where the gov
ernment had divided up some home
steads containing one acre of dry land
on the beach, and eighty-fve one-hun-
dredths of an acre of wet land up the
valley. 1.S5 hundreds of an acre in all,
upon which it was impossible for a
man to support family, while now
the Governor was proposing to give
the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar
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