The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-13

~HE entire platform OF the Home
4 Rule party has now been issued,
4 and is herewith printed for the
instruction and warning OF Vot-
ers:
The independent Home Rule Party OF
the Territory OF Hawaii, asserts as our
fundamental principle the self-eVldenl
truth that all men are created equaI III
the eve of the law and are endowed by
their Creator with certain inanenaDIe
rights among which are Life, Liberty
and pursuit of Happiness. That the
American principles of Freedom anu
Liberty have first been established here
in Hawaii by the Great Home Ruler
Kamehameha l., when he declared the
Mainalahoe decree "that the old men,
old women and children could sleep In
the highways without molestauon, 10
be law in his realm.
We hereby reaffirm our mistaken pc
lief in the cardinal tenets or the IN
dependent Home Rule Party as SET
forth in it's Platform of June Z, lSoV'
and pIedging ourselves anew TO con-
tinued advocacy of those grand prlh-
ciples of human liberty. We hold thae
the purpose of government is to secure
every citizen in the enjoyment OF TINS
ri Pht We also nOlO LHdl tiiS Il ~
theory of politics is that the machinery
| of government must be owned ana con-
| trolled by the direct votes of the peo-
ME. and il should be governed for the
people. by the people and OF the peo-
ple. "Vox popuh, vOx Dei-The voice
of the people is the voice OF God
| We denounce the Capitalization OF
power in the hands of few without
popular vote, as un-repubiican and un-
democratic We believe that all he
puhncans and Democrats. the whoie
nation of the United States are nke
home rulers, for they are governing
their own state affairs by the dlrect
vote of the people
| This Party expresses its high appfe-
citation of the good will shown by the
President and all the Officers of the
Executive Department of the United
states. for the people of this Territory
in their cooperation with Hawan
Delegate W. also give our thanks te
the Senators and Representatives or the
4 several States and also the Delegates OF
i thu. Territories of the Union IN Con
gress for the assistance which AaWaii
Delegate received from them In his
legislative duties. With gratitude, we
thank the American people for the
kindness that they expressed for oui
delegate during the time he had beer
confined to bed by sickness. That We
j also endorse our Delegates efforts ano
labors in Congress and do HEREBY
pleSge ourselves to re-elect him as sucI
delegate for the Territory of Hawai-
for the 5sth Congress, beginning II
4 March. 1905 at the coming general cleo
ton in November Qs02) next
i We thank the Congress of the Dnite'
! states for enacting a law for the JUS
/ apportionment of the members OF TN
Senate of the Territory, giving ma
: iority to the Independent Home Rui
Party in that branch of the Legisla
ture. and thereby showing its full con
hdence and recognition of the Inde
, pendent Home Rule Party.
We endorse the suggestions and rec
concentrations relative to this Territor,
/ made by the President of the Unite
! states in his message to Congress an
) pledge our loyal support to the Adnln
: istration at Washington, D. c.
:. We approve and support our Delegat
!, endeavors before Congress to appor
: ton homesteads to all American cit
= zens of the Territory OF Hawaii, fror
: all government lands taken over by IN
United States.
We denounce all efforts TO abridg'
Z cllrtail or disfranchise the Hawaiian
their right to vote based upon educa
tional qualification.
We pledge our candidates for tn
= Legislature to support and pass IN u
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