The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-09-25
WEATHER YESTERDAY.
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The platform adopted by the reDuo-
Iican territorial convention yesterday
Is. with one exception. more notable for
the things it neglected to say than for
what ii did say. Not but there are
many things in the platform to be
commended. but the convention failed
to do something that no other repub-
liean convention held this year in any
one uf the iorty-fye states and three
territories OF the mainland has failed
TO do.
il failed to endorse the wise, pro-
grpssiyo. firm and statesmanlike Ad-
miuistration OF President Mckinley
the only administration that the Unite !
states has ever had that has given the
country a distinctive American foreign
policy The administration under
which HawaiI's petition to be taken
into the union was given heed and her
wish consummated. the administrati N
which gave Hawaii her most liberal
territorial government; the adminis-
iration which has done so much for
every part Of the union and which has
been most enthusiastically endorsed by
every other republican convention held
throughout; the length and breadth Of
the land within the last two years.
Why the administration OF President
Mckinley was not endorsed perhaps
some OF the members OF the committee
on platform may be able TO explain.
On the subject OF the territorial ad-
miuistration of Governor Dole there was
the same absence OF endorsement Was
Governor Dole's administration passed
over because the committee did not feel
that the convention could with gocd
faith endorse ii? In any other terri
tory In the union the failure TO endorse
the territorial administration would be
most serious. 1t would undoubtedly,
as it has on several occasions in the
past, either result in the resignation
or the removal of the territorial gov
ernor. This has been the case in other |
territories on more than one occasion |
when the convention of the party 10 |
which the governor belonged failed to |
endorse his administration.
The plank on municipal and county |
government is not what the friends of !
these reforms had a right TO expect and |
it looks as though those members OF |
the eommimttee who were supposed TO |
favor county and municipal govern
ment allowed themselves to be handed /
a gold brick. To declare for municipal |
and county government AS SOON AS
PRACTICABLE means nothing. AS
soon as practicable" may mean one year
from now or it may mean fifty. the
latter more likely than the former.
Had the plank said it favored munich
pal ana county government AT the
earliest possible date. then every one
would have known it meant what it
said
Il is greatly 10 be regretted tha, the
motion OF Judge Kaulukou to adopt the
platform as 4 whole was not quickly
put and carried before the following 1
amendment Of George p. Kaumaoaa .
was introduced;
We earnestly request the congress
of the United States to amend that
portion OF the territorial act which
provides that only the English Lam
guage shall be used in conducting all
legislative proceedings. so as TO permit
the use OF the Hawaiian language"
There is no calculating the harm this
plank OF the platform may do in the
states. Even SO slight thing may re !,
suit in the defeat OF President Mckiu-
1
mperialists are grasping at every
straw 10 use as an argument agains,
he reelection OF President Mckinley.
They will point TO this as an example
y what annexation brings about. The
American nation is one people. with
me flag and one language. and mus;
be so. This question has 7
,ansed some very bitter political Q
lights in the states and has been se,- n
led for all time. In Wisconsin some
ears ago there were townships and in
few instances whole counties which cl
rere conducting their affairs in Ger q
san and teaching the German Ian VI
uage in the public schools. The sub
sct was made political issue and up
u IL Governor Hoare was elected and u