The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-07-28
HOME RULERS
OEUOUNCE
ADOPT PLATFORM FOR COUNTY
TICKETS-WHAT THE PARTY
PROMISES IT WILL DO. z

The Home RNle convention this
morning adopted a platform on which
all of the various county tickets will
make their fights. The platform was
presented by President D. Kalauoka-
lani and was adopted without much
discussion.
The platform is as follows:
% The Home Rulers of the Terri
tory of Hawaii in Convention Assem-
bled renew their allegiance to the prin-
Ciples of their party and congratulate
the people of the Territory of Hawaii
that through the efforts of this party
and it's settled, persistent and deter
mined opposition to those who would
establish in this Territory rule of
corporate and class wealth the people
are at last assured a small measure of
Home Rule. The seed is planted: the
wedge has entered and this party and
it's supporters will not rest content un-
til it shall have rendered American in
stitutions just, equal and benefcient-
| the safe guard of liberty and the en-
bodiment of the best thought and high
est purposes of patriotic citizens-a. re-
ality in the Territory of Hawaii.
(2) We denounue the present Terri
tOrial Administration as selfish, biased
corrupt, wasteful, eXtravagant and vici-
Gus, bent upon perpetuating it's own
power and control of public affairs, un-
| mindful of the wishes of the people
whose servants they are, and defiant
of the Constitution and laws which they
have sOlemnly sworn to maintain. We
charge them with appointing to high
official positions ca. rying exorbitant
salaries, pliable inexperienced and in
competent persona: with parcelling out
the public domain in prncely tracts to
fax t.,1
that the same be held in trust for great
corporations, i'm fragrant violation of
the letter and spirit of the Organic Act:
with using the public funds with which
to defray the expenses of it's emissaries
and lobbyists to and at Washington for
the purpose of preserving the statu quo
OF the Oligarchy ConCealing it's frauds
and disappointing the wishes and aspi-
rations Of the grea' mass of the people
of this Territory. And we call attention
to the fact that the acts as well as the
policy of the present Territorial Ad-
ministration was roLndly condemned in
toto by the three Republican United
States Senators who recently visited
Hawaii as a subcommittee of the
United States Senate, and made a de-
tailed and exhaustive Investigation of
all of its conditions, to wit, Hon. John
II. Mitchell of Oregon, Hon Addison q.
Foster of Washington, Hon. JOS r.
Burton Of Kansas.
CD We appeal to the conscience and
manhood of the voters of this Territory
to join us i'm our effort to effectually
restrict the power of an administration
which is dshonored at home, and dis
credited abroad, and which possesses
neither aim nor end other than its own
ACKNOWLEDGMENT And we cordially in
vite all citizens without reference to
race creed or class to unite with us so
that we may have i'm this Territory a
government of laws and not of men, n
government of equal rights, opportuni-
ties and privileges under which the
voice of the humblest citizen may be
heard and respected.
ca We declare ourselves in favor of
the most liberal forms of county and
municipal government and we solemnly
pledge ourselves to omit no endeavor to
secure those forms of government
which are instructive with the Ameri-
cam" and regarded as a part of his
birth right.
90 We declare ourselves I'm favor of
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