The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-30
KANALUA ABOUT
VOTESF0R WOMEN
OFFICERS OF PIONEER sUFFRA
aETTE MEETING TELL OF
AMBITIONS.
(From Saturdays Advertiser.)

lcIUm OdLIIudy AuNOibhoCAJ
"I'm not bit interested in poll
tics,'' said Mrs. Julia Kalakiela, yes
terday, apropos the suffrage meeting,
Thursday, at which she presided. 81
am interested in my work and 1 told
them before 1 went over there that 1
didn't care about politics-and then
they made me chairman and l just had
to sit through it."
Now, Mrs. Kalakiela has some claim
upon a place in local history as chair
man of the first suffragist meeting held
in Hawaii, but she cast her chance of
immortality to the winds yesterday as
she threaded yellow tissue paper on a
strand of cotton and stolidly insisted
that she did not know very much about
suffrage and did not consider it half
SO vital as her work.
A Real Sufragette.
'tI believe in it," said Mrs. Hugo
Kanae, temporary secretary of the
pioneer suffrage league, "and III tell
you if l had vote I'd lead my husband
up to that ballot box and I'd say
Here you, you vote for this man and
this man and this man, for they're the
people I'm going to vote for and you Il
vote as 1 do.'
"I was working here yesterday,
said Mrs. KaIakiela, explaining how
she came to head the first plea fol
women's rights, "and I had no inten
ton of going to the Hirano gardens tt
that meeting. But my friends KEEP
coming in and telling me that
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put ON my hat and went. And thei
they made me chairman. The womel
who read about suffrage in the Frisc'
papers and started it here because the.
thought they might as well vote toe
did not come. / am not sure who the.
were, but they were not there anywa
and then they made me chairman.
"Am I interested in suffragei IT
interested in my work and haven
much time for anything else.
"Would / votef I'm not sure tha
/ should take interest enough to vote.
No Straight Tickets
''I am going to vote" asserted Mr.
Keaae. with decision, "and TN te
, you if we women voted we'd stick I
the man we thought was right and NJ
body could buy our votes. This ism
all for the Democrats either, we're g
ing to pick our man and we're goin
to vote for him and our husbands wi
7 vote the same way"
This might have been diseoneertir
to Candidate McCandless who is boos
u ing the suffrage scheme as blossom Q
his own plum tree and who was stan
ing in d doorway almost within hea
ing, but he was spared the shock.
The temporary chairman and the ter
porary secretary both seemed to thiI
> that they would adopt the Americ,
the English, but when the cru
inquisitor drew word pictures
the business of throwing brio
:, through the windows of political clul
II bombarding unsympathetic legislatO
IS and politicians with dessicated thin
d and the like, even Mrs. Kalakie
frightened up and Mrs. Kanae's c
;, preston betokened happy inspiratiC
y There may yet be doings in Honolu
g to electrify the tropical peace and ba
q and those politicians who have Sc
~ the Hawaiian damsel stone a man
NJ tree will dress la Richard Coeur
Lion if the omens ever presage the
PRODUCTION of Pankhurst methods
Hawaii.
:. "We don't know yet just what we
oi going to do" the temporary offic
st agreed, "but wen probably find
IF after we have attended few mestir
us and let the men tell us about thin
st At present we're sure we haven't
Is. least idea what we're doing or wi
ng we'r going to do"