The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-09
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

The Democratic party has formulated
its platform and it consists as usual of
series of charges" Why is it that
Democratic platforms always consist
OF Charges" and protests" and seldom
of any defined or clear cut policy. They
always remind one of the seedlings of
an old woman, and it is no wonder
that the Democracy is so figured in the
comic journals.
There are some amusing inconsis-
tencies in the platform which even a
democrat could hardly swallow, but
which they have to swallow at the be-
hest of their BOSSES When it says that
the Democratic party has "endeared
itself to the hearts of. the plain people
every where because of it's fealty to
the declaration that all men are created
equal" one cannot help cracking
broad smile, when one remembers that
the negroes in the South are kept from
the polls by Democratic shot guns.
That the democrats fought for slavery,
that the utterances of Governor Till
man are not in accord with the equality
theory. While last, but not least, in
this document the party endorses David
Kawananakoa not because he is the
equal of the proletariat, not be-
cause he is a statesman, not because he
is an Hawaiian, but because he stood
in the line of succession to the Hawai-
ian throne, and then carefully states
that he is a lineal descendant of Kau-
mualii, King of Kauai.
Leading Democrats have prided them
selves that they do not use the title of
Prince when officially speaking of
Prince David. Yet when they come
before the people to ask for votes to
send him as a delegate to congress. the
only reasons they can bring forward
are his royal descent and his chance
of royal succession When one consid-
ers that this appeal is made to the Ha-
waiian voter, who still has royalist pro-
clivities, one sees at once what a dis
honest course has been followed. Ma
dame democracy tricked out in Royal
Robes and & crown on the top of her
sun bonnet, Truly most moving
spectacle.
AS to The various charges" against
the Republican party. they are frivo-
lous. If the Democrats get the control
of affairs we may feel assured that this
Territory will never become state.
Indeed beyond denunciation the Bem9=
cratic party does not 60 it does not
promise statehood or that it will work
FOR 1T. II the Democratic party has
done anything towards furthering the
Nicaragua Canal one fails to see it, and
the party has been in power when it
could be done.
A party which has made a bid for the
Hawaiian vote by appealing to it's roy
alist proclivities is not in a position to
criticize any other party. AS fact
the Republican platform is, in it's eX-
pressions towards the Hawaiians, hon
est and friendly. 1t appeals to no roy
alism, but is honestly republican in SEN
timent. Hidden in the Democratic plat
form is an implied hope of restoration
of the monarchy at least, so, many Ha-
waiians will interpret it. 1t is utterly
dishonest 1t is bidding for votes on
a known impossibility.
The Democrats fall, into the same err
ror as the Republicans did upon the
question of the ex-Queens pension.
hThe Star favQrs the pension, but it
should be granted by Congress, not by
the Territory of Hawaii, There Is q
movement on foot among the senators
fer obtaining this pension, and the
effect of these planks may result in the
overthrow of the senatorial plans.
OF the other planks not much need
be said. Some of them are pertinent,
others arc not. Why the cremation
plank appeared is not clear. Crema-
tion is a matter which does not require
legislation. There are no laws against
cremation, and no one dreams of maxi
ing cremation obligatory. The Board
of Health comes in for a scoring, and
there are the usual things which are
favored" in general
The Democratic platform is a loose
Jointed affair, which does not rebound
to the political acumen ofathe trainers,
and shows thenhfIR as anything but
honest and straight forward in their
methods and policy.