The Daily Bulletin

WAILUKU NOTES.
Early Saturday evening rain began to fall heavily. Soon the roads were in a condition fearful to contemplate. Wailuku mud sticketh closer than a mortgage, and the pedestrian carries off a cross section of Reform roadway at every step. A pitchy dark night fell on the scene, and it was decided to postpone the National Reform Party's meeting till February 1st.
As, however, over a hundred people had gathered in the skating rink, after postponement was announced the candidate from Honolulu, who was going home on Monday night, seized the opportunity to address those present. Mr. W. White of Lahaina kindly consented to interpret his remarks into Hawaiian, doing that service so ably that the natives cheered every point to the echo. The meeting was very orderly. A few Government officials kept moving about between the benches and the door, but the rest of the meeting being seated compactly in front of the platform were not disturbed by these tactics.
The speaker dealt with the non-resident canvass started against Mr. Berger and himself, and in the points made on this question was enthusiastically endorsed by the audience.
He also sketched the remarkably rapid growth of the Workingmen's Party, and showed how its union with the native organization was calculated to restore race harmony without the sacrifice of any principles of progress or prosperity. The genesis of the platform and the sincerity with which it was promulgated were demonstrated. Mr. Baldwin's successful interference with the election law in its last stages, by which the secrecy of the ballot was considerably neutralized so as to retain a degree of control by employers of their workingmen's votes, was a surprising revelation to most of those present. The speaker received close attention and hearty applause from beginning to end, speaking about an hour when the meeting broke up under the previous notice of postponement.