Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-09-28
PLAN OF FUSION PARTIES.

One of the unwritten planks of the |
various fusion party platforms opposed |
to the Republican party is a refusal ~
the candidates. II elected to ratify the !
appointments of Governor Dole, and II
the Governor refuses to make such |
appointments to the various depart
ments as the candidates dictate they
will refuse to pass the appropriation
bills. This is perhaps the most disas-
trous features to the business commune
ity of the various political schemes on
the tapis in the present election.
1t amounts to a threat to stop the
business of the Territory in order that
personal spite against the Governor
of the Territory may be gratified.
II means that work on the roads
must be stopped and the hundreds of
voters now earning good wages will
be thrown out of employmemnt.
1t means that the development of the
country districts will be checked, and
the proposed homesteads will have no
means Of access than dangerous trails.
In other words that the proposed home
steads will be made as unattractive rs
possible for settlement by Hawaiian
Americans.
1t means that the development OF
the harbors and the construction of
wharves will be stopped, the commerce
of the Territory hampered and laborers
along the wharves thrown out Of EN-
ployment. Every dollar spent for max
ing Hawaiian ports favorable to the
quick dispatch of vessels and steamers
calling here assures more money in the
pockets of the Hawaiian Americans
who do nearly all the work along the
water front. Failure to furnish money
for this work means that laborers
will go begging, that they will be bali
ly able to secure the necessities of life
and none OF the Injuries.
II means that new school houses
cannot ebuilt and the fore eof teach
ers will have to be reduced, and in con-
sequence the children Of the homes
will suffer a setback in their studies
and be subject in the schoolrooms to all
the discomforts OF overcrowded and
poorly constructed school houses.
1t means in fact that every poor man
in the country will suffer. He will find
no return for his labor, while those
who have money to spare will hoard
their coin until such time as Legisla-
ture is elected that will conduct the
affairs of the Territory on a sound
business basis.
AS part and parcel OF this reaction
AIRY and personal policy of Republican
opponents, they propose to appropriate
all the funds for the payment of the
Chinatown fire claims from the local
treasury. This, of necessity, means in
creased taxation, at. the same time a
policy of transportation Is being
carried out which will place laborefs
in such straitened circumstances that
It will be next to impossible for them
to buy food to say nothing Of paying
additional taxes.
Opposed to tn advocates Of a person
al campaign and personal antagonism
of Territorial officers, is the Republi.
can party whose every candidate is
pledged to policy Of Territorial prog
ress; liberal appropriations for public
works, that the citizens may find ready
employment: liberal appropriations for
the schools, that the children may have
/ the best of teachers and pursue their
: studies in comfortable school rooms
In connection with the fire claims the
Republican party demands that The
) Federal Government allow the claims
to be paid from custom duties collected
/ at Hawaiian ports, thus making full
I payment for all damages done and re-
, lieving the Hawalian-America frOL,
additional burdens of taxation.
The voter has merely to choose
| whether he will cast his ballot fol
T men who seek to bring the business 0i
the Territory to a standstill, or for the
, Republican candidates who will ena
p such laws and make such approprIl
lions as shall furnish plenty Of work Al
good pay.