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
ocrat: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 en- September II. "a, ....
The crowd showed little enthusiasm.
listening attentiyeIy 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. q,
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. 4 am secretary
of the Democratic committee and
think you should all support me. l
am in almost daily communication
with President Wilson, members of
his cabinet and the members of Con-
gress. and fer this reason | think am
justified in asking you for your support
for sheriff know Lean fulfil the
job. If elected will take the advice
Of my superiors in Office. So don't
forget to vote for me on September
II. Thanking you one and all for
your kind attention, thank YOU
Supervisor M. c. Pacheco made a
speech in which he vigorously at
tackled the frontage tax laws These
laws are unjust and ineGuitable and
so long as I am in Office I shall fight
Them" he said "Thev are unjust be-
cause you in Honolulu have to pay
for your roads. but if you live IN an
outside district. like Eva or Waial1a,
the government paws for your roads.
] believe in district Improvement but
these present laws are unfair. v" 80 4"
Pacheco said the present board of
supervisors has done more good work
than anv ether and that 1t should be
reelected ,....ss. .,f-..:... 4
Supervisor McClelIant said that he
was seeking support fer the fourth
time for the Office Of supervisor and,
referred to his recordffas chairman
CT the ways and means .eGmmittee.nBe
said that the city has approximately
a million dcllsrs to spend and that
of this it spends $750DAO ion fixed ex.
penses and has about bS350000yi. for
other exp ensesTf The faot4that his ar
ithmetic was S190.H00seuh ditS;no seem
to occur to the chairman of the ways
and mems committee for when he
went into details On expenditures he
expsnded en- the $750,000 and $3.50, 000
making a. million in all. 1
Other candidates spoke, all of them
who have been in Office pointing to
their records with pride. ar2i {
In the audience were two policemen
apparently supposed 10 he one duty.
as they wore their Extraordinarily
displayed and were in uniform. A
resident Of the precinct who was at.
tending the meeting made this re-
mark: 81 am glad to see that the
Democrats can get policemen up here
We have our bread and milk stolen
here and hcodIums all around but
could never get any policemen to look
into the matter. though we complain.
ed to the sheriff. rss !. j..