The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-09
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minded, to work for the commercial
; and Industrial advancement of the
.. country, to elect to the Legislature
only good men who viii strive for the
best future for the country and the
people.
He said that the party should devote
its strength to the pushing of the city
and county bills, as the people should
have all the power for their own gov
eminent This he declared would come
only when they could elect the men
who would have the disposition OF af-
fairs affecting them. and the sooner it
did come they would find their logical
/ place in the government of the Terri
tory.
The moment Makainaf sat down there
were three or four delegates on their
feet for the purpose of making nomi-
nations for the Office of delegate. One
had a resolution ready declaring VIII
cox the choice of the people, and 9TH
/ ers had speeches to be unreeled. but
John Wise cut off all the discussion
by interfering the question of a plat
| form. He wanted this matter disposed
OF before there was any nomination of
a man for the Washington place. and
largued that it would be wisest to have
| the plat form before there was a man
selected to stand upon it. There was
a lively discussion on the question,
| form being given to it when Emmeluth
moved that a committee on platform, to
consist of one member from each pre-
| cinctN represented, be named by the
chair. This he changed so that there
should be one member from each dis
| tr;ct and in that form it went through
after much talk. the last word being
said by Prince Cupid. who insisted that
the proceedings should be entirely reg
ular. according to the best party man
agement. The chairman then named as
the committee on platform the follow
ing: Ewaliko, Kahlbaum, Long, Ma
kaila, Kookoo.
This out of the way, Mahoe thought
the best thing to be done was to adj
journ to give the committee time to
prepare it's report. but there was i'm
mediate objection, the motion finally
being Withdrawn on the request of
Enmeluth, who said that he had a
matter of great interest TO bring be-
fore the convention.
A revision of the bylaws, ne said, |
was the most imperative duty before |
the delegates. He wanted such changes |
in the organic law of the party, he de- !
clared, that there would be no longer a |
preponderance of the members of the |
convention from the City of Honolulu. |
John Wise declared that the revision |
was thing which should have early |
action on the part of the convention. !
insisting that there should be equal |
representation on the part of each vot-
ing precinct of the Islands.
Emmeluth got the floor, and asking |
that he might be translated by Wise,
so that the delegates might get his
own Words said:
There is no day better than this
day. There is no hour better than this |
hour. There is not only one change
needed in the bylaws, but there are
a whole lot of changes in the rules gov
erning the executive committee if we
want to be successful at the next cleo
ton in November. In all the time that
have been in attendance upon the
sessions OF that body, and this includes
the last eight months, I have not heard
of a single communication from a vot-
ing precinct outside of Honolulu The
other Islands might as well be dead as
populated by Home Rulers, so far as
the executive committee is informed
or seems to care Another thing In
all the time that have been attend
ing the meetings sof the committee l
have never seen more than twenty
members out of the sixty-five in the 1
committee present at a meeting, and
not more than thirty in the building at
one time since I began to make the
weekly trip to the hall ,
We preach the principle of equality. /
yet we deny it to our fellow workers !
n the cause of Home Rule / want 70 7
see the direction of the affairs of our
party In the hands of the people them 9
serves L want every precinct to have
committee and each district to have :
Is committee as well as its representa-
i've in the leading body of the party.
II we are working TO get Dole and J
us gang out because of Capitalization ! z
u power and we carry the same spirit q
mo our own party workings, where do u
We come out? l say we will have the =
ame conditions as existed in tba last .
legislature, when not a single measure y
which we were greatly interested =
vas passed. l repeat, then, that we
leed change, and / move that there he 2
committee appointed to revise the n
constitution and by laws of the party." =
EnnneIuth's remarks were literally =
pplauded and there was little more .
ak upon the subject. though some q
MEMBERS expressed the belief that the 4
mango would bring more satisfaction =
'i'hln the party. and the matter was =
'rought to a vote. On the show of :,
ands Chairman Kalauokalani declared .
he motion for a committee lost FIN
ieIuth called for roll call and again =
re noodgates of oratorys were opened D
M several members discussed the q
roposition a length n
halanianaole got the floor and i'm n
asslonately pleaded that the marty =
I've the power to govern their own af-
airs INTO the hands of the people. He
ana there was a time coming when .
mere must be such action if the party B
as to hope to grow or succeed, and q
g thought the preparation should be n
lade now for the growth and the sat -
'faction of the people He shook in
ne face of the convention a draft of 3
ne constitution prepared by the cen .
raj committee of the party. and said 3
nat II there was a single duty before a
ne convention it was to change the -
ules so as to give their rights to the n
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