The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-10-27
L. L. Mccandless.

Republicans in the Senate.
L. L. McCandless.
L. L. McCandless said that the
Democrats had conducted clean cam
paign along issues that were important.
The Republicans on the other hand bad
carried on campaign of mlsrepresen-
tation. Delegate Kuhio was repeating
the assertion that in the country dis
tricts McCandless had made speeches
of different tenor than those he made
in the towns. This was as much as
saying that Kuhio believed that the peo-
pie of the country districts were not
as intelligent as those in the towns.
This was as much as saying that IN.
hio believed that the people of the
country districts were not as intelli-
gent as those in the towns. For his
part, McCandless said, he believed the
people in the country were intelligent
and that they knew what they wanted
The Democratic party had circulated
| twenty thousand copies of the Amer
lean Homestead Act throughout the
Territory. This showed the conditions
on which 100 acres could be secured by
American citizens from the public
lands there. But he had specifically
told them that he did not believe that
100 acres of cane land, or of rice land
or of taro land should be given to any
one individual. On the other side OF
this island seventy people had applit d
for public land and had asked for about
nineteen acres apiece. This showed
what sentiment was in regard to this
matter.
McCandless said that Kuhio in some
of his speeches had said that the maps
of the islands which McCandless had
displayed in his public speeches show.
| ing the public lands of the Territory
showed a little grass land but moth.
ing that amounted to anything. Nc.
Candless said that there were a good
many hundred acres of the public lands
that were at this very moment in cane
cultivation. There were thousands of
acres more that were good agricultural
land, and there were other thousands
of acres that were suitable for graz
ing.
eff anything were needed said
McCandless, "to prove that the Re
publicans are against doing anything
to get the lands into the hands of the
people, it is shown in the fact that
sugar plantation agencies have refused
to contribute anything to the campaign
expenses of the Democratic party Civ
ing as reason Link McCandless
speeches and the party platform on the
land question. This shows they didn'i
want ANYTHING done that would inter
| fere with their CONTROL
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Treasurer Trent.
R. II. Trent said: "My worthy OPP
| ponent on the Republican ticket, ir
addition to charging me with being 4
malihini, is pleasing himself great,
and amusing his audiences by telling
them in eloquent Hawaiian that am {
bird. could but laugh when the re
ports came to me that he had borrow
ed the Rev. Desha IS story and applied
it to me. One of my good friends ex
| planned ii to me this way: 'He Away
says you are plover. That is birt
that eats bugs and worms, and whei
it gets its belly full it flies away t,
another country. That is amusing
| indeed. And you may be sure, my fel
low citizens, hat when | get full o,
bugs and worms that /, too, will seel
another country. But do not expec
to move very soon.
But tonight / want to make re
port, and ] believe that will interes
You more than mere joking or tn
handing out of empty promises hav
now been Treasurer of the County o
Oahu for little more than three wears
and in that time have handled tn
sum of ST .S39. 45O.37 of the neonlei
money. These are large figures an,
hard to understand. Let's see if W
can not reduce them to every-da,
terms, Well, in round numbers. W
have handled $4s,000 every month 0
$4,000 every week, or $4,000 ever
day, or 5000 every hour, or SO ever
minute.
1.-The County Act provides that .
least once every three months. and a
much oftener as they may choose, tn