The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-22

Straight Ticket and Yellow Dogs,
The Governor then closed with his
reference to the duty of the voter to
vote for the reputable candidates on
the ticket and TO knock out the yellow
dogs if there were such there, using
the words quoted at the head of this
column. He was enthusiastically
applauded at the conclusion of his
speech.
Castro's Able Address.
A. D. Castro, candidate for the House,
preceded Governor Frear in speaking,
opening the meeting with the follow
ing exposition of his and the party s
stand on the questions of the day, con-
GLIDING his remarks with a much de-
served rebuke to those Democratic
speakers who have on and off the plat
form been spreading misleading and
mischievous information concerning the
Kaleiopu bill Mr.. Castro said:
The intelligent voter, who desires
to east an intelligent vote in the cleo
ton in this Territory on November g.,
should any doubt remain in his mind
as to which of the dominant parties he
will support, the Republican or Demo-
cratic, should turn to the platform
utterances of the parties, consider the
platform utterances of those standing
upon those party platforms, and care
fully consider the issues involved, the
solutions offered by the party leaders
in convention and the effect of these
solutions, if crystallized into legisla-
tion, upon the future of the Territory.
The Republican platform contains
much that is found lacking in that of
the Democrats, inasmuch as the Re
pubhcans have accomplishments to
their credit to which we refer as earn
est of the sincerity to be attached to
their promises for the future. The Re-
publican party is the party that does
things, the party from which the Ter
ritory has received all that it has in
the way of self-government. The Dem
ocratic party has shifted ground so
constantly on every question of i'm
portance that it has never received the
confidence of the majority of the cleo
tors That party has no record of
achievements to refer to, while past
promises and past platforms are not
referred to in their latest announce
ments, for obvious reasons. What the
PAL u1o 1OA tuO
Territory is evident to anyone who will
look around. Republican Boards of
Supervisors have built during the past
four years many miles of new roads in
Oahu, have acquired public parks for
the people, have given good city gov
eminent, and guarded the interests of
the taxpayers. On Kauai and Maui
the principles of county government
have been carried into effect with
splendid results. The one exception
to the good that has resulted from
county government has been on the
Island of Hawaii, where the reins of
power have fallen into Democratic
and Home Rule hands and the money
from the public has been squandered.
Hawaii is one lesson in government,
and furnishes an example of what hap
pens when power is placed in irrespon-
sible hands.
School System Improved.
"Under a Republican Legislature
the public schools of the Territory
have been made as efficient as the pub
lie schools of any State or Territory in
the Union, schools of which the peo-
pie of these Islands can with good fea-
SON be proud; institutions that IN their
excellence surprises the visitors to
these shores. As result of the work
of the Republican members in the last
session, the salaries Of all the teach
ers of the Territory were raised, new
schools were kci1t, others enlarged,
and the general state of education i'm
proved
s'The Republican majority in the
last Legislature enabled the business
of the Territory to be accomplished
more economically, with greater wis
dom and with despatch paralleled in
few of the great States, and in man
ner never before equalled in this Ter
ritory.
Millions Are Coming.
"a Republican Delegate to Congress,
working with Republican executive
and a Republican majority in both
House and Senate, succeeded in secur-
ing the appropriation of millions for
public works in the Territory, appro-
priations that are necessarily to be
followed by others for additional mil
lions to complete the works undertaken.
Through the work of the Republican
Delegate the flow of gold from the
Territory to the mainland, which has
been in progress ever since annexation,
has been stopped, and the flow will be
in the future from the mainland to
Hawaii. Through Delegate Kuhio s
efforts millions Of Federal funds will
be put in circulation here, money IN
which every resident of the Territory
will ultimately share.
Looking ahead, the intelligent
voter will see an assurance in what the
Republicans have done for what can
be expected of them. Democracy offers
no such assurances
"The record of the party is not one
to invite confidence. In the periods
of President Cleveland's occupancy OF
the White House the situation through
out the mainland was one of strikes,
bread riots, free soup kitchens for the
unemployed, and falling trade and
government income There is nothing
in this to tempt support for the Demo
Gratis, and beyond question the main
| land majority will show it on Novem-
her 3 by electing William II. Taft as
| President of the United States, while
| in both branches of Congress Repub.
| lican maiorities will be in power. Is
sential, therefore, to Hawaii s interests
and material advancement is the cleo
/ +sou hare Of Prince KuhiO as the Ha.