The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-05-29
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lie expected than that the Provision.
al Government, should not desire to
have the coming constitution sub
united tu the people. When til.
convention that is going To- make
the constitution has never been sub.
mitted to the people, the Govern
ment doubtless supposes II would
he a ridiculous concession To sub
nit the conventions work to th"
people. As IL is not Intended tn sub.
init the constitution to the people.
the organ. grinders mus, try to make
the people believe that the thug
will bp their constitution after all.
The Advertiser states the stroug
argument IN favor of submitting TIA.
constitution to the voter" which
"is found in the fact that the con
vention il only partially u popular
body, ouly half of it, members hav
my been chosen 10y the electorate.
This il false to bcgiu with, fnr not
half wer. submitted even 10 the pre-
tence Of popular election which wa
made. and more than three -fourths
Of the electorate were designed.
prevented from having any part ia
the bogus election. Not only these
things, but the choice Of a majority
of the small minority that voted was
-trectually smothercd through tn"
employment Of an anomalous device
called cumulative voting. which vio
lates the very first principle Of gov
-rnment by the people. Having
stated this false ground the Adv.r.
tiser goes on TO state an absolu'.
ab.urdity in the other direction
from its own point OF view. Having
mentioned that only half'' TIA. con.
,eution had been chosen by the
electorate" il says: The result Is.
If the constitution IL both formulat-
ed aud adopted by the convention
as such, it will only be IN partial
seus. the work of the people. Our
contemporary ought to get u wig
giug from its masters for making
such AL admission Of unpopularily
ou behalf of the Provisional Govern.
ment. The truth is that by trick
that would have done credit To an
eighteenth century master OF poiiri-
cal expedients the Provisional
Government, while submitting the
choice Of less than half the cou,
,entioD TO restricted vote,
compelled the entire electorate"
as it is called by the Adver
User, 10 elect its own mem.
bers unanimously, not only To DOM
nate over the constitutional conveu-
ton, but to prevent the assembling
of the convention at all IL they
deemed it -xpedient, This trick
consisted in the prescription II II
test for voters, in the form of an
oath Of allegiance To the Provisional
Government. II anybody represents
the so-called electorate, therefore, in
the convention il is the members Of
the Executive aud Advisory Coun-
ellis, for while few il any Of the elect
ed minority received the individual
votes Of majority OF the voters,
every single mothers son Of the
voters not merely voted but swore
their confidence ia and devotion to
President Dole and the four sub
dictators, toget her with their duti
ful counsellors Of state, When they
thus swore their allegiance and paid
worship To the oligarchs, the voters
knew that il was fixed that the big
nineteen had elected themselves as
d majority Of the convention. There
fore they ratified their election ~
such by a unanimous vote This
fact does not, however, make them
any more representative Of tn" pc"
pie than the delegates elected by, in
many cases, bogus majorities Of a
small minority Of the electorate,
Since he Advertiser has evinced lis
belief in government by the major
rty Of tho minority, it's way out "f
The diiliculty-it admits there is a
"diticulty"-oi sSsdiug submission