The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-19
THE HUI PLATFORM.
NEW PARTY DECLARES ITS
PRINCIPLES.
Demand For Equal Rights for All
Turned Down by Boss Wilcox-Le-
gislative Nominees.

statement of the position of its MEM |
bers in the recent Home Rule conven-
ton with a platform of the party. The .
committee which prepared the state
ment made an error as to election day .
referring to the party's readiness to ,
fight for it's principles on the first /
Wednesday of next November" This |
will be the day after election, and the |
only way to fight for principles then |
will be by following the post-election /
customs of South American republics. .
The statement of the Hui is as fol- |
lows:
ITO the Voters in the Territory of Ha-
wall.
with Aloha Nui: We the young Ha-
wiians by and through our commit
tee, those who bolted and left the
Home Rulers now declare and explain
what we were in the aforesaid party
and what we are to be in the new one.
We had in our minds to promote
the good of the people by working to-
gether in harmony with the Home Ru-
lers for preparation for the coming le-
gislatiVe session SO as to uphold the
, motto of the party For the equal
rights of the people
1T seems the motto had been plant
ed within us for we felt it and have
d mind to struggle for it's fullhllment.
| We were ready to fight for it on that
l
Because of the necessity we were
encouraged to do the best we could,
and at a meeting of the board of di-
! reCtors that had been called we adopt
ed a resolution to establish clubs all
over the islands through a committee.
! We did this without the approval of the
/ president of the party. He said: Tt
/ is useless to appoint a committee of
/ this sort because the Home Rule party
! is already known all over the islands,
In spite of his objection the resolution
| passed and Prince Cupid was appointed
chairman. The committee consisted OF
! Prince Cupid chairman, j. Emmeluth
| and d. Kanuha
The committee then went to work
faithfully establishing clubs with in
tention to instruct every club to send
one delegate to the convention, but to
our surprise the president called
mass meeting of which they had not
| the least idea and also with the ignOr-
| ance of the board of directors. So we
! failed. This was the meeting held July
/ Sth.
when the committee went to work
| Cthis was before the mass meeting)
they made up their minds to cherish
| one logical idea and that was to live
up to their motto. Equal rights for
| all
THE committees plan was to esta-
blish clubs and let very club appoint
one delegate for every fifty voters,
! members of the club, with one extra
| beside. The reason for this was to
limit the number of the members of
/ the convention or at least the average
number of delegates of every club.
1T had been found by the commit
tee that an article in the constitution
| forbade them to continue the plan so
they amended and changed the article
and others which they thought benefi-
cial to the public. Finally the changes
were brought before the convention
that was held lately.
| THE consideration of the changes
was not successful because the kick
ers objected by bringing them up for
two reasons. % the constitution said
that when any change was to be con-
sdered the members must be notified
first at a previous meeting. (2) it is
not customary to have anything done
in a rush.
In the consideration of the changes
we approved their objection but re-
CARELESS of them We aimed for the
higher purposes and not to commit
ourselves in useless discussion. The
kickers were also blinded because they
admitted a woman to be a member
while the 4th article said no person
who has no right to vote is allowed
to be delegate.
During the discussion we noticed
the delegates from Laie We're the
worst kickers-men and women asking
to postpone the matter indefinitely.
And then Wilcox stood up and gave
a very hot address which was pub
, lished in the Advertiser. Nothing
, was done that day and the constltu-
ton was postponed to be considered
the next day.
After the meeting was over the
Prince and others saw Wilcox and Ka-
lauokalani about the matter to try to
put away such feeling and they decid-
ed to call a meeting in the evening,
Wilcox called others to confer and In
the meeting all decided to bind them
selves as one to work for the good OF
, all.
THE following day, at 2 p. m, the
delegates met as usual but to the dis
: satisfaction of the young men tha
? leaders who had been with them work
ing hard the previous night up to Il
o'clock with faithfulness, turned upon
I them averted eyes. Therefore the
, Prince left and was followed by Others
I'm the condensation of the story we
found these facts: The aim of the
Home Rule Party is to fulfil the motto:
The plan of the committee is to es-
tablish clubs and to limit the number
of delegates sent to the convention
from each club; that the number OF
the members of the board of directors
be 80 instead of Go, and its members
are to be selected from each of the
clubs; that the president did not like
< to give this right to the people anC
that is the reason why he make q
kick"
The following is the platform of the
party:
Because the committees plan was
entirely rejected, and because the lead
ers were not with us as we had decided
in the meeting we held in the night ur
to II O'Clock, therefore all our aims
were disregarded.
we knew that the leaders did moi
) want to let the public work by them
selves according to our motto but t.
; be under their control. Their words
corresponded not to their actions Il
is the voice of Jacob, but, the hands
are those of Esau.
For the aforesaid reasons we here
! by withstand the Home Rule PARTY