The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-25

vention go into executive session. Kau-
/, kou withdrew his motion and the chair
put Robertsons motion before the house.
This action OF the convention caused dis
sci sion. A protest was entered against
such an action being taken by public
convention and after considerable parley-
lLg, the chair announced that the order
to clear the hall was rescinded. This was
brought about by the statement that the
committee on platform had finished its
labors and was ready to report.
Secretary Hendry then proceeded to
read the platform of the Republican par
ty of Hawaii. From start to finish each
section was more or less the subject of
applause and in some instances the con-
vention arose to its feet and shouted its
approval of certain of the sections which
appealed to local interest and politics.
There was burst of enthusiasm when
the document was finished. Hands and
hats We're waved in the air and more
than one ordinarily serious citizen so far
forgot himself as to think he was a boy
again.
When the names of Mckinley and
Roosevelt We're reached tremendous
shout went up. The third paragraph
caught the popular fancy and was given
its full quota of applause. The entire
document was punctuatedswith approval
by housekeeping or cheers.
SldleIlOOu SOQliutQ To iHtlll like Il Stt-
gan. The cheering on the proposition
was prolonged
The public works labor plank found a
ma jority in favor of it. The eight hour
law for a days labor was greeted With
81 GERS, especially from the newspape''
men. The county and municipal clause
found friends ia certain parts of the as
semblage. The doughty IF not why not
rose to his feet and waved his hands over
his head as if tagging EIilo railroad
train. and almost danced for joy.
he clause asserting the opposition OF
the local Republican party to all trusts
and monopoies and all combinations to
control supplies and prices, was the oc-
cssion for fun-poking at the Hawaiian
beef man, Sam Parker. The entire con-
lvontion turned toward Sam, and when the
vote was taken mighty shout went up
from the delegates in opposition to it
with one exception. When the contrary
vote was taken there was one voice for it.
Sam Parker shouted hearty mo-" The
lccnvention smiled audibly.
! The plank favoring the payment of Just
claims for fire losses oceasioned by the
visitation of bubonic plague was met with
a burst of approval.
! Several amendments were proposed. The
first was the insertion of a clause favor
ing the construction of the Nicaragua ca
nal as presented by Clarence Crabbe OF
the Fourth District. To this was attach
/ ed rider offered by Loebenstein look
ing to the construction of the Pacific ca
BILE
4 Judge Hookano wanted all school taxes
poll taxes and other taxes abolished. His
motion met with ridicule. Judge Kaulu
kou had inserted in the plank ''for tbs
building and improving, etc." sentence
''for educational purposes which was
unanimously carried.
| L. l.. McCandless moved the insertion
s.Nft faIJ ole n
acquisition by the Territory of all harbol
front properties throughout these Isl
ards, and that such be al all times fret
i of access to the public"
He commended that the Territorial Gov
Iernment should own the wharves. believ
ing it would benefit the entire commu
nifty No one seconded the motion, until
after a pause, George F. Renton favored
it ]. D. Paris spoke in opposition. HI
thought the people of the Territory would
be cutting off their noses by so doing. H.
did not believe in putting in that kind o
a plank in the platform. The motion wa
finally lost.
Mr. Dickey was the author of the planl
assuring the residents of the leper settle
ment that they should have their need
looked after by the Republican party.
Judge Hookano spoke again Oh tn
school and poll tax questions. He mad
a long harangue in favor of his motion
When the molten was put by the chair
the only one who seconded it was Dele
gate Hookano himself His action create,
considerable merrment.
A. G.. NJ. Robertson stated that tn
ccmmittee had taken up the taxation
matters referred to by Judge Hookano
but had decided not to go into them il
detail, but in a general way, and thu
call the attention of the Legislature t
the question.
Geo. p. kamauoha of the Second Dis
trict spoke in Hawaiian in favor o
adopting a plank instructing the Dele
gate to Congress to have that body amen,
the organic act so that the Hawaiian
would be privileged to speak in their owl
tongue in the Legislature. To max
them eligible to vote, the law read tina
they should be able to speak and writ
both in the English and Hawaiian Ian
guages. If this Were so he saw no rea
son why the Hawaiian language shoul
not be used by those of Hawaiian brit
in the Legislature. This would brin
about unanimity in the party lines an
strengthen the party.
Mr.. Dickey seconded the motion of Del
egate Kamauoha.
This particular clause in the organic ac
affected nearly every Hawaiian in tn
Islands.
James II. Boyd supported the motio
and made an earnest appeal for it's favor
able consideration. ''Why should tn
HawaiianS be debarred from using thei
own tongue in the LEGISLATURE he ask
ed. Let them use their mother tongue
The United States Congress has bee
literal and given us an organic act which
gives us the privilege of voting. Cap
plause) / say to you, gentlemen, tina
this is a privilege that should be protect
ed for every Hawaiian. Every man il
this house should lend his vote to put thi
plank in our platform. l support TIL
motion of Mr.. Dickey."
Harry T. Mills arose to speak in earn
lest opposition to the clause when he wa
interrupted by Judge Kaulnkor, VIII
raised point of order. The gentleman
he said, had risen to speak on the pre-
vious question, ana. without having
ruling from the chair, had proceeded Z
speak.
Mills sat down.
Robertson moved an amendment to tn
proposed clause to read, $50 as to permi
the use of the Hawaiian language" AM
the plank was adopted as appears in TIN
text of the platform.
Judge Kaulukou moved to adopt tn
platform as whole.
There was one long, mighty shout o
approval and a rising vote and the Re
publican platform for the Territory o
Hawaii went forth as a factor in tn
Campaign issues of the coming election.
i Upon motion of Judge Kaulukou, tn