The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-11-17
rhe Plnntsr.' Position.

The following article is taken from the Planters.
Monthly for November Of which able magazine L.
A. Thurston. Esq, is the editor. The facts pre-
aenfed are deserving serious thought from all well
visher of the purity of the ballot box and the uis
closure of tho Government policy Is suincient to
cause voters to attempt to countefact ,ne en9st
again TO be made of placing in Office, those who
are subservient to- and place holders by the sweet
will of the present Administration Following Is
stated to be the Position Of the Planters on the
Coming Election ":
s.The near approach Of the election for Repre-
sentatives again brings forward the question OF
what Is and what should be the degree OF interest
and action which planters should take In politics.
II would seem to go without saying that property
owners in any country, should be the ones OF all
others to take part in the making OF the laws,
which concern their property IL Wouid seem 70
be an elementary principle that those who have
property 10 protect have the right TO protect 1t.
Instead however of recognizing this right the pre-
sent Administration, by precept and practlce, con
stantly denies it, and by every means III lts power
ia now striving TO prevent property owners from
| having any voice in the coming Legislature. We
have recently been treated to the spectacle OF the
Government organ, in a paro1ysm OF rage over
the fact that at meeting of planters, especially
held to consider their interests, they mad the
temerity to refer their political as well as their
agricultural intenests and TO suggest tnat com
mission be appointed TO investigate matter of |
vital importance not only TO planters but to the
whole country. The same authority has, until a
recent date, constantly reiterated that all oppo-
sition TO the present administration arose from
small minoritv of Rould-be office holders but now
we are told that the "head and heart and soul"
of the opposition consist of the planters. IL this
latter statement Is true, ana there Is no uouot
that in an unguarded moment of forgetfulness the
Advertiser has told the truth, it indicates most
serious situation. 1t will hardly be claimed, even
by the Advertiser, that the planters themselves
want office, or that they are taking action from
pure love of politics. The Government has under
taken no special legislation against planters, but
on the contrary has continued to encourage and |
assist the immigration of laborers, matter of |
vital importance TO the planters. There must be |
some explanation of the fact that almost without
exception all planters who not connected with
a "Spreckels'" plantation, and many of those |
who are, are aroused to necessity of opposing |
the Administration at the coming election. There
is explanation, and an index of tho cause is the
method of procedure, and the candidates that |
put forward by the administration for election to
the Legislature.
The candidates that are put forward and openly |
supported by the Administration, are as follows:
HAWAII.
Hilo: Kaulukou, Sheriff and Assessor; Pahia, |
Deputy-Sherif and Collector.
Hamakua; Kaunamano, Deputy Sheriff and As |
SCISSOR.
Kobala: T. Kalai District Judge and Assessor |
North Kona: J. X. Nahale, Tax Assessor.
South Kona: d. H. Nahinu, Deputy-Sheriff and |
Assessor.
Kan: W. D. Kaaeamoku CThompson,) Road
Puma: S. Kekoa, Tax Assessor.
MAUI
Wailuku: George Richardson, Tax Collector for
Makawao; Keanu Assessor for 1884.
Makawao: Kamakele, Tax Collector Makawao.
Hama: Kaai, District Judge.
Lahaina AholO, Police Judge of Wailuku, Tax
Assessor; Kia Nahaolelua, Tax Assessor for
Lahaina.
Kaanapali A. Kaukau, Deputy Sheriff and AS
sessor.
Molokai and lanai Kupihea District Judge and
Assessor; Nakaloka, Road Supervisor and Collector.
OAHU.
Eva; j. P. Kama, District Judge and Assessor.
Waialua: Amara, Deputy Sheriff.
Koolauloa: j. Kauahikaua. Tax Assessor.
Koolaupoko; Kaulia, District Judge and Assessor.
Honolulu: F. H. Hayselden, Secretary Board
Health and Assessor; j. Il. Baker, Officer in Kings
Guard; Keau, Government Poi Contractor; Lili-
kalani, no business, supported by the King.
KAUAI.
Waimea: E. l.. Kauai, Tax Assessor and licensed
liquor dealer.
1ihue: Kalaeone, Tax Assessor
Hanalei: Palohao, Road Supervisor and Assessor.
Out of twenty-eight candidates who are being
supported by the whole power of the Government,
twenty-sI are Government Office holders, whose
living and whose retention in Office depends abso-
lutely upon their unqualified support of the Ad-
ministration. One is last years assessor with a
lively of favors TO come, and one is supported
by the King because he has not brains enough to
perform the duties of any office, TO his own
living. Reference to the Legislative history of the
last session shows that there we're fourteen men,
bers who voted straight with the Administration
upon every question of importance without regard
to right or principle. Every of the fourteen
were Office holders. and every of the fourteen
is now candidate for reelection. With twenty
siI Office holders out of twenty-eight announced
Government candidates, and with the record of the
past four years staring them in the face what hope
have property holders of being represented in the
Legislature If the candidates who supported by
the Administration elected? Their rights
would be equally safe, and the country would be as
well served were proxies forwarded 10 the Admin
istration from each district with instructions to
vote as to the holder seemed best, with the advan-
tage of saving the salary and placing the RESPONSE
bility for measures where it belongs. With such
condition of affairs it is matter of surprise that
almost without exception every person of intell-
gence in the community who is not pecuniarily in
erested in sustaining the Administration is in open
and avowed opposition to it? The planters and
the intelligence of the country opposition to
the Administration because it would be stultif-
cation of their honor and of that spirtof indepen
dence which is possessed by every free man to do
otherwise. They are forced into opposition as the
alternative of submitting themselves to a despot-
ism which hesitates at no means TO accomplish its
ends"