The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-17
). o.McCandless Rally Stlrs
11o Fighting Blood of kuhio's
Local Supporters.
MASS MEETING SATURDAY
Notlsy Urged to Run for Senate
to Allow Home Rulers
to Support Cupid.

Another political mass meeting Will
,,obably be held at Aala Park next p.
r..nrdav night, for the purpose OF
Rav s. L. Desha and some
go who were attacked last Satur-
v ssr chance to reply to the remarks
@sds bv J. NJ. Poepoe and hanlho.
u n'r will be sort of joint Republican
"a Home Rule meeting, not exactly
' s.a hut it will have a Repub-
E.sn flavor Just as last Saturday s
. .sl was plainly Democratic. The
sssmoerafic gathering took the liquor
IA Of the current plebiscite discus
San while the next meeting will prob
,bly take the other side.
II fact, in spite of the intentions
., both the party organizations to
avoid formally any side in the liquor
SECTION the current of events seems
!. land Republican leaders on the tenn
nsranee side and Democratic leaders
!, tbe other or liquor side. The pres
su,p Of McCandless on the platform
saturday while Poepoe and Kaniho
rneated the arguments which are the
man stock Of the runners of the liquor
dealers is regarded as significant, Nc
Csndlew being the man practically
chosen already to head the Democratic
tAst in November.
/ house to house canvass is beng
made by agents of the liquor dealers,
snnr the voters in many precincts.
The gents are paid from 81 to s. per
dr. it is stated, and their rustling
i mostly among Hawaiians. The one
great argument used is that the pro-
posed prohibition bill is bill to dis
eriminate against Hawaiians in favor
Of haoles. This appears to be regard
cd as the most telling argument the
liquor side has, and it is being used
for all its worth.
The details of the Saturday meeting
have not been arranged as yet, but
Desha will probably be the principal
speaker He will devote himself a
good deal to answering. the personal
attacks on Delegate KuhiO, which were
made by Kaniho and others on Satnr-
day and the reply is likely, it is said,
TO be an exceedingly hot one.
Though it is more than two months
before the time to vote, the liquor cam
pign, especially the liquor dealers
side Of it, is in full swing. In addition
70 using runners who are making per
sona house to house canvasses. appeal
ing to voters, the liquor men are pub
hshlng arguments in big display type
IN the Bulletin and are issuing new
weekly paper, with John Wise as edl-
'of -Four thousand copies a week are
oelng circulated among Hawaiians, it
SAID. This strenuous and expensive
campaign so far in advance Of the cleo
non day, does not tally, say the Pro
aos, with the claims of the liquor men
'na' there is no danger of prohibition
carrying
ehaFes Motley is being urged by
nome Rulers to run for the senate, in
aead OF for delegate to congress. This
PROPOSITION is put forward as a rebuke
hanlho, the lone Home Ruler of the
aouse, Tor his support of McCandless
-. npn which it would appear that Ka-
"a. is not going to be able to deliver
-, Inc Home Rulers ask Motley to get
~. ~. o. the delegateship fight, in order
lsa' lhey may vote for Kuhio. If Not.
~, :, runs they say, they do not want to
s. .sn am down, even though It be con.
"qed that he can not be elected But
IN Ie viii run for the senate they can
- etHl vote for him. and with some chance
in aS oeing elected, and at the same
vote for Kuhio for delegate.