The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-07


convention and 1 take this means OF
thanking this intelligent audience for
my appointment and I hope you Will
back me up In this work"
The secretary also made speech but
the sergeant-at-arms and other officers
declined the opportunity.
c. w. Ashford, chairman of the com
mittee on platform and resolutions, pre-
sented the report of the committee as
follows:
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
I'VE realize that our political destiny
is indissolubly linked with that of the
United States. We declare that the
Hawaiian people. for more than half
a century prior to annexation had sue
cessfully conducted an independent and
sovereign Government within these ISL
lands-which Government was based
upon representative parliamentary
system: and that the people of this
Territory have long been, and are now.
fitted for seif-government. We there
fore protest against being longer held
in the position of political subservien-
Cy luteltBt Which III q
Territorial form of Government-and
we demand, in behalf of all the people
of this Territory, at the hands of the
Congress of the United States, the
speedy admission of Hawaii to State
hood, upon terms of equality with the
other States OF the Union;-and we
pledge the Democratic Party to I'M
ceasing efforts to achieve this end.
I'VE declare that the Republican pol
icy in the past has created, and 1t now
nurtures system of insolent and
powerful TRUSTS,-which are at once
a great detriment to the individual
welfare of our citizens; a restraint up
on individual Independence: and a me-
mace to the perpetuity of Republican
institutions and government. And We
charge one of those dangerous crea-
tions, namely the Sugar Trust with
the arbitrary and mercenary manipu-
lations and depression of the price of
raw sugar to such extent as to have
contributed in large degree to the pres
ent unsatisfactory condition of our SUI
gar industry,-where many of our
plantations are struggling for con-
tinued existence, and but few sugar
properties are being operated at Il pro-
fit.
I'VE condemn the present Republican
Administration for it's employment of
Asiatics in the Maryland Treasury
Department to the exclusion of citizen
labor in Hawaii and request such leg
islation as will protect citizen labor in
the future.
I'VE place our party on record as in
sisting upon an honest and economical
policy of Territorial Government, and
we pledge our party to the nomination
of none but honest and capable per-
sons for legislative and executive Of
fees. We charge the Republican Terri
torial Administration of the past and
present, with incompetence, and neg
lect of public interests. We charge the
Republican party in this Territory with
wilful deception of the people in re-
spect of the so-called County Act,
passed in 1908, in that said Act was
never intended by them, to become eff
fective,-but was framed with the full
intent. that it was SO honeycombed
with invalid and unconstitutional pro-
visions. as to preclude it's bearing the
test of attack in the Courts.
I'VE charge the Republican Territor-
ial Administration with being corrupt,
beyond all precedent in these Islands,
and that officers high in said Admins
tration have winked at crime, commit
ted in office,-tolerated, and negotiated
with confessed embezzlers of the pub
lie funds-and connived at the escape
of such embezzlers from Justice"
(Signed) c. w. ASHFORD,
PRINCE DAVID,
MIR. HAYSELDEN.
II. b. LYONS.
FRANK HARVEY,
w. A. KINNEY,
c. p. IAUKEA,
JOHN EMMELUTH,
D. EWALIKO.
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