The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-10-26
Kinnsy's Great Speech.
Continued from 1st page.)

be that judge; and If we will place the
executive power in the same hands,
we may readily simplify government.
We may easily bring 1t to the simplest
of all possible forms, a pure despotism.
But q separation of departments so Tar
as practicable. and the preservation OF
clear lines of division between them, As
the fundamental idea in the creation OF
all our constitutions; and doubtless, the
continuance of regulated liberty de-
ponds on maintaining these bound
aries' naz -ls
1t is charged that If Democrats are
returned to the Legislature this cleo
ton on a platform protesting against
executive encroachment, it will lead
merely to pickering, fault-fndinE
and unbusinesslike session of the Leg
islature wherein the practical wants
and needs of the people will be disre-
garded, and the time given over to
fractional and useless quarrels with the
Executive.
Webster has something to say on this
point in the same speech, pointing out
that the highest and most useful func-
ton of representative of the peop.e
is to resist executive encroachment and
from the very start to foresee and at
once to call halt upon any subversion
of established land marks. This is
What he says:
1--WE have been taught to regard
representative of the people as a sem
tinel on the watch-tower of liberty. Is
he to be blind, though visible danger
approaches? Is he to be deaf, though
sounds of peril fill the air? Is he not,
tp1 f1a low ST WI
which breathes intention or purpose OF
encroachment on the public liberties,
4 and to give his voice breath and ut
terance at the first appearance of dang
err? Is not his eye to traverse the whole
horizon detecting, through all dis
guises. every enemy advancing, in any
form, towards the citadel which he
guards? Sir, this duty of foreseeins
danger and proclaiming it; this defer
ence of established landmarks; this fear
less resistance of whatever would trans
cend or remove them,-all belong to
the representative character, are in
& terwoven with its very nature. If de-
prived of them, an active, intelligent,
faithful agent of the people will be con-
verified into an unresisting and passive
instrument of power. A representative
body, which gives up these rights and
and duties, gives itself up. 1t is
representative body no longer. 1t has
broken the tie between itself and its
constituents, and henceforth is fit only
\ to be regarded as an inert self-sacri-
feed mass, from which all appropriate
principle of vitality has departed for
ever"
csyy 1r,n
While we have had something less
than a year of one man power, there
are not lacking in this Territory Sc
rious symptoms of disorder, and man.
fest evidence of lack of balance of
power in the body polite. Something
q is out of balance when the Attorney
General can openly go into nominal
Y ing convention of the people backed by
large body of office holders absolute
~ under his control, and defeat the
3tomination of candidate for the Leg
Y i-slature on the sole ground that he is
"a et,orsona non grata to the executive
olnething is out of balance when
protest or check the Governor
has obtained direct control of the ma
Il sistrates of the Territory, so that they
Il can be removed by him at will when
abe Legislature provided that they
y sihould only be removed for cause by
he Supreme Court of the Territory, and
s5mething is extremely out of balance
D ~ the territorial government when the
Ex-Governor in addition to destroying the
dependence of the heads OF depart
ants and taking direct control of a
1s.rge part of the judiciary feels the
Ienred of still more power and is allowed
NJ exact pledges from candidates for
\ 1ic Legislature before their nomina-
4lfon whereby his Attorney General can
n blDlicly announce that every Repub-
'tisran nominee stands pledged to sup
Y st,lt the bills which will be introduced
n, ses' his (the Governor's) administra-
tipl." Something is certainly out of
n iance when the Attorney General of
q I'D Territory, with his undated resigna-
IA it.til in the Governors hands, therefore
u Ewing as his spokesman, announces
N bit as every Republican nominee is
M plsGged to support the bills which the
RI liovernor will introduce in the Legis-
tohnlse, therefore it doesn't matter how
Ntncrp petent man may be his vote is
"a rs good as any other if he has agreed
l 70 Nnte right. Something is WRONG