The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-03-23
Kakaako kohorts, BY Ruse De
Guerre Battle Fighting
Phalanx 81 Chamber
SWAMP EVERYTHING AT THE
MEETING BY SHEER oRAToRY
AIlthe Great Speakers Of the City
Appear, Headed BY Band,
and Joel Cohen VA ''s'

Fighting Phalanx Of the chamber Of
commerce as it marched to the assault
Of the legislature last Friday sprabg
up and multiplied into panoplied hordes
last snight which invested the legislar
tive halls, occupied them, drove the
brave defenders into the trenches and
then oayed the trenches in on them
with blasts Of high explosive oratory.
But wsgR. Harrington was not there,
Fleeing before marching hordes, the
pitiful remnants Of the heroic commit
tee Of one hundred down to
fifty nine-rushed TO the sanctuary Of
the throne room. But the traditions
of the house Of refuge were not ne
speeted, The dignity Of the chamber
Of commerce and its members was held
in no regard by the marching swarms
from Kakaako, Kalihi and Kewalo.
Preceded by blaring band that
shrieked Of coming victory, there
marched to the Capitol the Kakaako
Kohort, /" the Scrapping Stevedores Of
Kalihi, the Pugnacious Five Hundred
Of Kewalo, and the Punchbowl Pugs.
They. marched seven times around
the walls and blew their own horn
seven times and the walls fell and they
rushed in and had their vociferous say.
Outnnmbered But Undaunted
The chamber Of commerce was out
numbered but undaunted. Ably rep
resented by Charlie Achi, they pre-
scented their views anent the proposed
new charter for the city and county Of
Honolulu. In the unlamented absence
Of Soapbox Barron, Of vociferous mem
ory, no better exponent of their views,
Il is probable, could have been found.
The Chinese DemOsthanes was as logi-
eal as he usually is, and fully as lucid,
His expression possessed the. same
clarity as does the charter for which
the chamber is fighting. 5s
But II was Joel G. Cohen, Republi
can candidate for mayor, who came, i'm
to his glory. For Cohen spoke for
the embattled voters who mske and
unmake mayors. He appeared, he said,
in behalf Of the 'workingmen cham
Der of,tcommerse,' eleven hundred
strong, every member of which, he de-
clared, was present, either within the
legislative chamber or outside trying
to get In. tli. 4.
d, And " anybody doubted Cohen's
word, all that was necessary was to
look out of a window at the seething,
sduirming mass of humanity that pack,
ed the lanais, filled the steps and ever
3 flowed onto the lawn below.
Assembly Room Packed is
The assembly room of the house Of
representatives was a packed sweating
mass of people-among whom there
were not few women. Hawaiians
were greatly in the predominanee-
and. significantly. most of the speeehes
were made in Hawaiian. necessitating
the services of James Hakuole as in.
terpreter. 4. 4 s..,wer
The occasion was a public meetinp
held by the Oahu delegation of the
house for the purpose of imbibing in
formation regarding tho proposed
charter hill. In view of the fact that
the committee has already considered
the bill, adopted its amendments and
decided upon the report il will make to
the house, the public hearing last night
was considered by many, who said they
were in the nlSnow,n merely AZ n sop
thrown to the Hawaiian voters. Repre-
sentative Gerrit Wilder, chairman of
the committee, presided, and got SO bad
" ratified before the meeting had fully
gotten into its stride that he didn i
appear tU know what he was there for,
Incidentally. the meeting must have
been humiHating for the members OF
the chamber Of commerce who were pre-,
sent and who had gone there with the
n ,ns ,nas sney were going 70 presen, !,
possibIy eopyinea q fiat tbey' wepo J X
iirely right and everybody else was en-.
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tirely wrong. Most of them sat there
and grinned foolishiy and looked as u
tney wished they were almost anywhere
else whenever they tried 70 get q
WORD m edgewlse they were drowned
OUT Dy chorus OF husky stevedores,
Pon,lclfans, hshermen ana other norny'
haioed sons o. foii VINO had a iot 70 say
Enh INSISTED upon saying IT, #tHt p 3
Onamper DumI ounueu " Ag"s $685.. ~ T.