The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-10-25

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pose. M this much 20 the mctrimcnt
Of the assembled crowd
Link 70 tho Frost
barron next mounted the platform
and with one Of his typical rambling
talks introduced Link McCandlcss.
The orchestra struck up n popular air
and while the distinguished orator aud
his distinguished introducer waited,
Barron kept mp running fire of funny
remarks. such as "Aint we like
twins. - ".Fine looking fellows, ehi'
and the like.
when ''Iink' started in to speak
in English he was fairly well greeted.
He was in good voice but his remarks
were rambling, as he shifted from one
! subject to the other and then got back
again, making il difficult to follow bis
telling points as he was frequently ap.
plauded.
al want to thank you for the sup.
port you gave me two and four years
ago. - said McCandless. ''Democ-
racy is the power of the people. is
how Jefferson defined our party.
:" Just to show you how much the Re.
publican party has done for YOU / will
cite that in 1892 the Republican con.
gress wanted to pass property quail
! ficatiun of thousand dollars, or an
income of six hundred dollars year
in order that you could vote. The
Democratic wing objected to this and
| the result was we were all given the
vote on an equal basis.
"The evening paper today in an
editorial said, if you elect McCand-
less it means that Hawaii stands for
free sugar. Now the territorial cen
trail committee of our party went on
record some time ago against the I'm
derwood Sugar Bill. The passage of
that bill has no one to blame more
than the present Delegate to Congress.
Instead of being on his job he was
here doing petty politics.
"Two years ago we had hard fight
in the campaign. We stood for what
we believed was right, but the enemy
won out. What did the Delegate do?
! He went to congress and said the peo-
pie had been bribed to elect him
Now, are you going to stand for this.
All Democrats.
"The next President is going to be
n Democrat; so will the senate and
house of representatives be. Are you
going to send Republican to legs-
late for you before Democratic ma
iorityl Why not send met Hawaii
is getting thirty-two dollars per ton
protection for her sugar. We produce
100000 tons of sugar per year. This
means we get over eighteen million dol
' lars protection a year. 1t is ridlcI-
lous to say that the Democratic can
didate for congress from Hawaii is in
favor of free sugar. The Republican
party says it favors the revision of
the tariff downward, which would place
us all out of business.
"When you send l.. L. McCandless
to congress, he is going among friends,
and not enemies. If you had me for
Delegate in Congress 1 would have been
on the job and not fooling my time
away in Hawaii and the Underwood Bill
would not have been passed.
eve are fit for statehood. The Re-
publican party says we ought to have
statehood, but what has the Delegate
done. He has never introduced a bill
to bring this about. 1t may take ten
or fifteen years, possibly twenty, but
we won't get it unless we start work
ing for it.
elf j am elected to congress I shall
introduce bill asking that plebiscite
be taken on the woman suffrage ques.
ton" Applause from the female sec.
ton of the audience.)
AS to Homesteading.
al believe in establishing the people
on the SOIL l read in some paper lately
that there are sixty-two thousand Por-
tuguese in California. These people
take UP poor land and develop it and
make success of it. They are estab,
lished on the soil and are a fixture
When | came here in 1882, Punchbowl
was barren hill. See it today, the
Portuguese settled on it and there is
a marked difference. They are estab
lished on the soil. The government
owns three hundred thousand acres OF
land of which thirty-seven thousand is
, made up of cane land. / don't believe
, this should be divided among the peo
pie at one time, but gradually and on
the establishment of cooperative plan
OF system of cane planting.
CHOW, the Territory is owing about
seven million dollars and our interest
amounts to nearly eight hundred dollars
per day. Send men to the legislature
who will legislate wisely.
"Now. a word about myself. / have
been called land thief They have
shown a long list of my holdings.
bought piece of the land from the
, Kapiolani Estate for five thousand dol
lars They got my money; got the
land; have the land, but 1 don It know
if they have the money now. (Here
! Link" cited numerous other in
stances.) Does this make me thief
~ have made good; have worked
hard and what have has been honestly
procured. / have made good, it is true
and to make good is no disgrace"
McCandless finished in Hawaiian
Several other speakers took the stand in
turn, all introduced by "Soapbox y
Barron, who, in Sam Hops language
of explanation, "enjoyed the crowd. y
A PHENOMENON.