The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-10-21
WHERE THE REPUBLICAN
FATHERS STOOD.


II Is coucesei BY all rsassers sEd
STUDENTS that tie republican ss,nventien
which rsosafn4sed Liuoeln IN issss uas the
sr.stsss political .zSzemblsse ever coz.
yease,i in the Tasts-i State>- IL was an
ey-sch marking coHE.ntien ogntainSng IN
its personnel the foremost Ieadrrz 0f ths
dr.. That able writer znd political Ieasi-
er. Coloael 4 X Mcclure IN his bosk
Our PresiJen;s and How We Make
Them SAYS OF tie eoaseniioa whi.h
r0miuzied Lincoln:
The Chicago convention thai Bo1inzl-
81 Lincoln for President Eas not oaly To-
abIest national political body thar ever
net in the country up TO thar time bat
il exhibited the highest type Of political
strategy. Ii has never since then been
equaIed in ebility and leadership. wi.H
the sinzIs exception Of the republican
convention Of 1880. in which the friends
Of Grant made their last stand to give
their chieftain a third term"
~~Gueai questions were at Issue and the
I
its platform. met all these questions boll-
Is and fearlessiy, eyading none. In light
Of recent discussion over constitutional
questions and the quoting Of people hold
ing pessimistic views Of the destiny OF the
United States It is N.lI to quote from the
republican platform adopted by the con
yenfion of 1880. Section > OF the plat
form says:
That the maintenance of the princi
pies promulgated in the Declaration OF In
dependence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution-'that all men are created
equal: that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights:
that among these are life. liberty. and the
these rights. governments are instituted
among men. deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governe1-is es-
sential TO the preservation of our repuO-
lican institutions"
Section reads: That the normal
condition of all the territory of the
United States is that of freedom that
as our republican fathers when they had
-abolished slavery in all our national terri
tory. ordained that no person should De
deprived of life. liberty. or property with
out due process of law, it becomes our
duty, by legislation. whenever such legis.
lation is necessary, TO maintain this pro-
vision of the Constitution against all at
tempts to violate it,
should not be deprived of life, liber-
ty. or property without due process of
law" And what is due process of law?
IL means and includes the unanimous YER
dict of jury of twelve men in criminal
cases to convict. Note, too, that this
great republican convention declared
that as our republican fathers. when
they had abolished slavery in all our
national territory ordained that no
person should be deprived of life, lberty
or property without due process of law,
it becomes our duty TO maintain
this provision of The Constitution against
all attempts to violate it
There was no question in the minds Of
those sturdy fathers of the republican
party about the Constitution not extend
ing over any and all the territory of the
United States. When the Newlands res
olu,ion had been passed by Congress and
approved by the President, Hawaii passed
into the territory of the United States
and such men as William H. Seward.
Abraham Lincoln, John Fl. Morgan.
Thurlow Weed, Samuel Medill. George
William Curtis, Andrew G.. Curtin,
Henry :. Lane. Archbishop Hughes, A.
h. Mcclure. Simon Cameron. Salmon p
Chase. William NJ Evarts, Horace Gree
ley. and hundreds of others who might
be named. would have secuted the idea
that the Constitution did not extend its
protecting arms over oil the territory of
the United States guaranteeing that no
person should be deprived of life. liberty,
or property without due process of law"