The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-16
W. A. Kinney's Analysis.

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w. A. Kinney's Analysis.
"fThe smoke of battle has cleared
away" said w. A. Kinney. FWe can
,now count up and see what we have
gained and lost. l.. L. McCandless,
our candidate for Congress, was not
elected, but he advanced the Demo
| cratic vote by a tremendous percent
age. But far more important than
the increase in the vote was the fact
that he had made the land question
an issue that would remain an issue
| in Hawaiian elections until the people
| of the Territory were admitted to
their heritage, the land. Prince Ku-
hio himself, who knows the Hawaiian
people, told me that the land question
had taken hold of the Hawaiian peo-
pie and that the Republican party
must take it up and settle it or suffer
defeat two years from now. But if l
Judge the Republican party Alright, it
will in the future as in the past refuse
to settle it on Just lines, because the
controlling element in the Republican
party does not want the land given
to the people 1t is drunk with
power, and during the next two years
viii do as it has done during the past
eight years. -
Speaking to the Home Rulers, Kin
ney told them that they had woefully
wasted their votes. Their votes might
have elected every Democratic candi-
date and thus have given an admins
tration in county and Territorial af
fairs that would be in their interests
He told them that if they would ex
anime closely the ruling factors IN
their party they would find that it
was the Republicans who controlled it
and that their party was an assistant
and an aid to the Republican party.
McCandless on the Campaign.
McCandless spoke in both English
and Hawaiian.
cit gives me great pleasure, " began
Mr.. MeCandless, ''to meet you again
and to thank you for your support to
myself and to the Democratic party
on election day. 1t is very gratifying
that so many of our party were vic
torious.
'eOurs has been campaign of edu
cation, while the Republican party
gave us an anti-annexation campaign
in the fight for Delegate. 1t refused
to discuss present issues. To the ques-
tion which the people were pressing
upon them, What are you going to do
about the public lands?' they had no
answer except the one given on this
Island by their candidate for Con
gress, 'McCandless hauled down the
Hawaiian flag at the time of annexa
ton; and on the Island of Hawaii
their ionly answer was to display re-
productions of an old photograph
showing L. L. McCandless as a mem
DER VI bHt oih DShpOACA
of 1895. They had nothing to say
about present-day issues. Their only
utteranee was an appeal to old preju
diees. In 1895 I took the stand on
the issues of the day that I thought
were for the best interest of the coun-
try. Most of those who differed from
me then, took their stand from the
same motives. But those issues are
gone. They are settled. There are
present day issues TO be settled, and
settled right, and every attempt to
distract attention from the issues of
today by an appeal to the prejudices
of the past is a confession on the
part of those who make the appeal
that they have no honest purpose in
the issues of the present.
Bloody Shirt Issue.
"The Republican party should be
the last to faunt the bloody shirt.
1t was the people who belong to the
! Republican partv that brought about