The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-10-13

that the Democratic candidates would
have to say in their opening rally Of
the campaign. A thousand others stay
ed until late.
From the standpoint Of the Demo
Gratis the rally was very good one.
The candidates received good attention
| and at times considerable applause,
while two or three of the speakers were
| enthusiastically received by the crowd.
The rally was unique in one respect,
that of the number of languages used
| by the candidates to express their sen.
| timents to the voters and in which to
pledge themselves to the various planks
| of their platform. Hawaiian was used
by all, either at first hand or through
a very clever interpreter; English was
spoken by many Hawaiians as well as
by all the haoles, while, in addition to
these, others spoke in Portuguese, in
Spanish and in Chinese.
The arrangements for the rally were
good, the quintet club music was re.
ceived with thunderous applause, being
more in demand than the speeches, in
fact, while the order was quite up to
that at the usual rally.
Opened with Prayer.
The rally opened in decidedly orig
inal way, Edward Ingham, the chair
man, calling upon Rev. Kuikahi to lead
in prayer, whereupon the candidates on
the platform stood and the big crowd
silenced down while the candidate.
clergyman asked the Divine blessing
upon the meeting.
Mr.. Ingham then made the opening
address, saying in part:
"In announcing this formal opening
of the campaign, do so with sense
of gratitude and feeling of assurance
! for the splendid outlook for our party
in the campaign and election. 1t is
very gratifying to us to know that we
have won the hearts of the people to
/ our cause and l believe that the evil
dence to be shown of the influx Of
supporters to our ranks from the camp
of the enemy will be a rebuke to the
administration of the public affairs by
the Republicans, who have been in
control of the government, executive
and administrative, since annexation,
, and the fact that the people have be.
come disguised augurs well for our
| success in November. We feel that we
have no apologies to make for our
| ticket, and we can confidently ask you
to support that ticket. We believe we
have far the best ticket before you.
I cit is true that we are late, the last
party to begin our campaign, but if
our friends, the enemy, find any en-
couragement in this, let me remind
them of the Scriptural saying: 'The
first shall be last and the last shall be
first
| "The papers have undertaken to
censure our nominee for Delegate to
Congress for having affiliated himself
with our party. I will answer for our
candidate, believing that it would be
something concerning which he would
feel delicacy of speaking for himself.
/ feel that our party has gained much
in convert of a man of distinguished
ability and stability like L. L. Nc
Candless, who has been actively identi-
fed with politics in this country since
before annexation. He has always
taken an interest in politics and now
has found out that the principles advo-
Gated by the Republicans are not salts
factory to him, nor for the best inter-
est of this country. When Mr.. Me-
Candless changed his politics he did
not change his principles, but Joined
| the party which had believed and work
ed for a land policy like his own for
years, principle and policy which the
Republicans had written in their plat.
forms and talked of in three campaigns
but which all the time they had been
opposed to. And it was because Mr..
McCandless was sincere in his princi-
pies that they combined to defeat him
in the last campaign and did defeat
him. We feel that in him we have a
| logical candidate to lead us in this
campaign. He has gone into the fight
unselfshly. In the Lanai fight, for in.
stance, he championed the cause of the
people against the great landholders.
| "When Secretary Garfield was here,
| /, with others, called upon him and ad.
dressed him. On that occasion Mr..
| McCandless said to Mr.. Garfield: 'You
will be told that 1 am large land.
holder myself. / acknowledge that
hold large tract of land, but my hold
ings, compared with some others, is
mere bagatelle have bought lands,
end as long as the public lands are
being put up at auction have as much
right as others to bid them in, and as
Tong as / have the money and the pres
| emit land policy is continued will keep
or buying land, even though do not
regard that way of disposing of the
land as best. In taking the stand do
I know am going against my own
personal advantage. l believe, how
ever, that the time should come when
every man ought to be satisfied. am
satisfied to stop buying land, and / be-
lieve the people are satisfied that the
present land system has lasted long
enough and that the time has come
when the people should be allowed a
share of the public domain.''p
Mr. Ingham then introduced Senator
Charles J. Mccarthy as permanent
chairman of the meeting, who would in
troduce the party candidates and
speakers.
Ashamed OF No Candidate.
Senator Mccarthy, who was applaud
ed when he took the chair, said that
in the course of the meeting he would
present the various speakers, who, he
wished to assure those present, would
discuss issues ard avoid personalities.
"There are none of our candidates
hiding behind the building, either,''
said the Chairman. ''They are all here
facing you.v