The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-05-04

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Roads and garbage constitute the text
chosen by Democratic orators during
the, present primary campaign, with
particular emphasis on roads.
This was, evident at the Democratic
rally held last night at the Banyan
Tree, in Palama, whore all the Demo
cratic aspirants for Office took turns in
roasting the present board Of supervisl
ors for what they denounced as that
body 8 niggardly treatment of the fifth
district from the standpoint of roads.
The only planks Of the Democratic
platform referred to were those promis.
ing the electorate that If they Brillfonly
throw out the present Republican ad.
ministration and elect in its place lot
of good Democrats, everybody will get
good roads and free garbage win be
provided for every family that has q
tin can to dispose Of and no place to
put it.
The real meat Of most Of the speeches
made by the twenty odd candidates
who faced a scattering audience in the
flicker Of the torches under the banyaB
tree was that old familiar plea ssVote
for Me-" The only exception was when
Link McCandlcss, angel of the Demo
cratic party of Hawaii, addressed the
crowd. Link is not running for any.
thing AZ the moment, so he confined his
remarks to panning the Republicans,
praising the Democrats and promising
that IL the reins Of government were
turned over to the latter, everything
would be different, oh, 50 differentl
The majority Of the speakers con
lined themselves, to soliciting the votes
of the free and untrammelled for them
selyes--with, in most cases, few re
marks on the side for the benefit of
their co-candidates. They were not re-
Harkably strong along the latter line,
however, which, perhaps, was natural iii
view Of the fact that their fellow Demo.
Gratis are in most instances their rivals
until after the primary election,
Many Making Run
There are fourteen Democrats run.
ming for nomination for supervisors.
They were all on deck, as were two as
pirants for John Lanes job, Pringle
and Fern. Likewise, the candidates for
all the other offices were present and
made themselves heard,
! H. m. Ayres was the first speaker 10
take fall out Of the Republican ad-
ministration He said he was walker
and had walked all over the roads of
the fifth district and knew what they
were like. "They're pretty bad, !" he
said. Ayres told his hearers that when.
they had Democratic board of super
visors, they got good roads but since
the Republicans came into power they
hadn't even kept up the roads the.
Democrats built, let alone building new
ones. Ayres promised that If the vot-
crs would return Democratic board 7,
they would get roads again.
VIII Do His Darndest
2 The speaker also said the Democratic
platform called for free garbage.
ssWe re not all rich men, he said,
land we don I all have yardboy to
bury our empty salmon tins and broken
bottles for us, like the millionaires in
the fourth dirstriet. Bot il you elect
a Democratic board, your garbage. viii
be hauled away for yoy free" Ayres
urged his own eandidacy, declaring that
if elected he would edo his darned
best, to give the voters Il The fifth
district what they wanted.
Lester Petrie reminded the voters
that he was q member Of the previous
Democratic hoard and that as chair
man of the road committee he hail IL
why's worked MS hard for the fifth dis.
trict an he had for the fourth. - You
all know the condition the roads were
in when the Democratic board went ont
OF office he said, "apd you know the
condition they are in now; ii Is shame
full and the reason is that the Republi.
Gan board WON'T spend money to give
YOU. good roads. You people Of the
fifth district are entitled 10 as good
roads IS the people Of MakilSi and Pun.
alou.'
Tho proceedings were enlivened BY
Hawaiian mele chantor who appeared
a. Intervals between speeches. Anasty
Republican, who was looking on re.