The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-21
POLITICAL ORGANIZATION,

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the campaign TO obtain that, ought
to be the doings of the whole mass
Of voters for the benefit of the ma
tion, and not be the result of authori-
tativc management of the electoral
body by any clique or cotcrie for
the benefit of some limited party in
the nation. Consequently my IN
ference was that before finding can
didatcs who consent to run. voters
ought to be found who consent to
give them their suffrage. further
said that the only way of assuring
the success of the fight was by Or
ganizing all the disparate elements
which here constitute the opposition
into one compact body, with solid
proclaimed principles, so as to be
worthy of being called the Indc-
pendent-Opposition Party.
The formation and organization of
that party is thus the cornerstone
of the whole political structure, and
the only way of starting these is by
getting together the different ele-
ments, the different nationalities
which constitute the voting force.
That can be done only by meetings,
discussions and deliberations-no
by an accidental, spasmodic one,
but by repeated, even regularly re-
peated meetings; and Honolulu, the
capital, ought to take the lead in
the movement. 1t might begin by
small meetings at the private houses
of such men of influence who, in the
different paths of life and society
and amongst the various constitut-
ing elements, might find themselves
interested in the matter. These
meetings would rapidly grow more
numerous and get to be semi-public,
and as soon as the public mind and
popular sentiment were sufficiently
prepared then general public meet
ings could be summoned, under the
patronage and in the presence of
our influential men, in which the
evils of bad government and the
dangers threatening the country
should be properly ventilated, and
voters be taught their rights and
duties.
At this moment central, or
working committee should be organ
ized, Jy public vote, to lead the
campaign and organize the work of
recruiting ladherents, and as no battle
can be fought without Emoney, also
to attend to the means of procuring
the necessary funds. This commit
tee would have also the important
duty of preparing the suggestions Of
proper candidates--if these did not
come out of themselves-the names
of which to be submitted to the
public meetings, and only those re-
tanned and supported who obtain
the popular appreciation.
Moreover, as all these public
meetings must be conducted so as to
reach the real voters and get them
interested, it might be the business
of the committee to address them
personal invitations for public
meetings i'll this country, as 1 have
seen them, are often composed main
ly of men who, after being very
noisy or violent, turn out not to be
even voters. If this class help by
ideas, money Or otherwise, their
presence may be all right but as l
don't believe they do, the help they
seem to bring to the meeting Or to
the cause is probably only as falla-
cious as it may prove sometimes
dangerous.
1t may, perhaps, be argued at
this juncture that these proceedings
would be too complicated. l an
swer that l have seen them work
beautifully in constituencies of tens
of thousands of electors. They
work equally well from Paris to the
smallest village of france, through
ten millions of voters. / cannot see
why they should be too complicated
here, where the electoral lists hardly
reach couple of thousand, all the
names of which are known and easy
to be seen individually. At all
events, the system might be given q
fair trial, with the understanding
that the key of success consists in
reaching every voter personally, not
in the secrecy of private bribery,
but in the glow of enthusiasm which
results from public discussions and
popular demonstrations.
Once the action fairly started in
Honolulu, and the Central Commit
tee well organized, similar move.
ments are to be started in all the
districts, where possible; and as
unity makes strength, it would be
we'll, without interfering with the
rights and liberty of each district,
that different members of the Cen
tral Committee be delegated over to
whatever districts they might have
| friends or influence in, to organize