The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-10-29
Kinnsy's Great Speech.
Continued from 1st page.)

dam tnat the le6iSidtoi ShaiA hASAA
be that Judge; and If We will place the
executive power in the same hands,
we may readily simplify government.
We may easily bring it to the simplest
of all possible forms, pure despot1sm'
But separation of departments, 80 lar
as practicable and the preservation Oh
clear lines of division between them, is
the fundamental idea in the creation Oh
all our constitutions; and doubtless, the
continuance of regulated liberty de-
ponds on maintaining these bound
aries"
1t is charged that IL Democrats are
returned to the Legislature this cleo
ton on a platform protesting against
executive encroachment, 1t Will leau
merely to a pickering, fault-hnulns
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
factional 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 fune-
ton of a representative Of the peop,s
is to resist executive encroachment ana
from the very start to foresee ana a.
once to call a 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 sem
4 tinel on the watch-tower of liberty. A.
he to be blind, though visible danger
approaches? Is he to be deaf though
sounds of peril fill the air? Is he not
rather, to catch the lowest whisper
which breathes intention or purpose OIL
encroachment on the public liberties
and to give his voice breath and Ut
terance at the first appearance OF dang
er? Is not his eye to traverse the whoie
horizon detecting, through all dis
guises every enemy advancing, in any
FORM towards the citadel which ne
guards? Sir, this duty of foreseeing
: 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 it's very nature. II de-
& prived of them, an active, intelligent
faithful agent of the people will be con-
y yerted into an unresisting and passive
instrument of power. A representative
body, which gives up these rights and
and duties. gives itself up. 1t Is
K Representative body no longer. 1t mas
broken the tie between itself and its
constituents, and henceforth is tit only
to he regarded as an inert self-sacri-
feed mass, from which all appropriate
principle of vitality has departed for
ever +.
*. SYMPTOMS OF DISORDER.
While we have had something less
Ethan year of one man power, there
q are not lacking in this Territory Sc
rious symptoms of disorder, and man.
b fest evidence of lack of balance of
power in the body polite. Something
Is out of balance when the Attorney
< General can openly go into nominat-
ing convention of the people backed by
d large body of office holders absolute
lv under his control, and defeat the
of candidate for the Leg
islature on the sole ground that ne Is
H persona non grata to the executive
Something is out of balance when
Ewithout protest or check the Governor
has obtained direct control of the ma
a aIstrates of the Territory, so that they
Il <can be removed by him at will when
4Sthe Legislature provided that they
\ should only be removed for cause by
|the Supreme Court of the Territory, ano
something is extremely out of balance
I'm the territorial government when the
I Goyernor in addition to destroying the
independence of the heads of depart
ments and taking direct control OF
l5|large part of the judiciary feels the
need of still more power and is allowed
to exact pledges from candidates fol
the Legislature before their nominal
f. ton whereby his Attorney General car
publicly announce that every RepuD
lican nominee stands pledged TO sup
u port the bills which will be introduced
by his 1.-THE Governor's) administra
tion." Something is certainly out o
balance when the Attorney General o.
1 the Territory, with his undated resigna
btfon in the Governors hands. therefore
H acfiig as his spokesman, announces
that as every Republican nominee II
pledged to support the bills which thu
N Governor will introduce in the Legis
N lature, therefore it doesn't matter nov
VI incompetent a man may be his vote II