Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-27
DEMOCRATS say
RECORD enough
FOR REELECTION
Also, Candidate for Sheriff
Says He's Almost Daily in
Touch With Wilson

About 100 persons, one-third of
when were voters, attended the Dem
ccrat,c meeting at Emma Square last
night and listened to various candi-
dates for legislative and county Office
appeal fer the support Of the elector
ate on September II.
The crowd showed little enthusiasm.
listening attentively but with scant
applause to the various Democrats
who asked the people to put the party
back into power in the county
Eddie Hanapi spoke in Hawaiian at
length, declaring the Democratic par
ty is the only party that has done the
territory any good He is running for
the senate and he told the people that
if he were elected everybody would
be well treated.
John NJ. Bright, who is editor of
Link McCandless' Hawaiian paper.
made a speech on behalf of his own
candidacy for sheriff. Part CT it was
in Hawaiian. In his English speech
he said
ladies and gentlemen | am a
candidate for sheriff. am secretary
OF the Democratic committee and
think you should ell support me. |
am in almost daily communication
with President Wilson, members of
his cabinet and the members of Con-
gress. and for this reascn-I think am
justified in asking you for your support
for sheriff i know | can fulfil the
job If electedfI will take the advice
of nv superiors in office. So don't
forget to vote for me on September
II. Thanking you tone and all for
your kind attention, thank you"
Supervisor NJ. G. Pacheco made
speech in which he, vigorously at
tackled the frontage tax laws These
laws are unjust and ineduitable and
so long as am in office / shall fight
them" he said. ''Thev are unjust be-
cause you in Honolulu have to pay
for your reads, but if you live in an
outside district. like Eva or Waialua,
the government paws for your roads.
believe in district Improvement but
these present laws are unfair"
Pacheco said the present board Of
supervisors has done more g"cd work
liloIt ohf SIhCl anu tIdI II SH1 ulu DO
reelected:
Supervisor Mcclellan said that he
was seeking support for the fourth
time for the. Office of: supervisor and
referred to his record AS. chairman
Of the ways and means committee, He
said that the city has approximately
a million dollars to spend and that
of this it spends s750O0Qscn fixed ex,
penses and has about s250.094 sfor,
ether EXPENSES he fact that his arr
ithmetic was s10O. 900 out did NOT seem
to occur to the chairman of. the, ways;
and means committee for when, he
went into details ON expenditures ha
exranded en- the $3.50, 900 and $3.50, 009
making million in ALL
Other candidates spoke, all of them
who have been in Office pointing to
their records with pride.x1,: - lin. .
In the audience we're two policemen,
apparently supposed to, be. ion dutE.
as they wore their clubs oonspicuously
displayed and we're in uniform. A
resident icf the precinct who was at.
tending the meeting made this re-
mark: Il am glad to see that the
Democrats can get policemen up here.
We have our bread and milk stolen
here and hoodlums all around but
could never get any policemen to look
into the matter. though we complain
ed to the sheriff