The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-03

i Chairman W. A. Kinney's remarkable
Iattack on the administration of Gov
sernor Carter and the Republican party
presented as campaign document at
| the Democratic mass meeting at the
/ Orpheum on Saturday evening, refer
lence to which was made in yesterdays 8
Advertiser, is complete as follows:
! CHAIRMAN KINNEY'S ADDRESS.
/ Fellow Citizens: AS chairman of the
Territorial Central Committee of the
Democratic party of Hawaii, [ take
! pleasure in presiding at this meeting
Icalled to ratifsr the Legislative ticket
tof the Democratic party atNthe coming
election, and in presenting to you the
different candidates selected to run up
on that ticket
| Entering for the first time publicly
upon my duties as chairman this even
ing, desire to refer briefly to a per-
sonal matter. 1t is being said, l un-
derstand. that I am taking an active
part in Democratic politics having IN
i mind the securing of some important
office should the Democratic party be
successful in the national elections and
I the Territory pass into Democratic
control Ordinarily l would pay no att
tention to this statement, but as it
may impair my usefulness in the dis
tcharge of my duties as chairman of the
Territorial Central Committee, and as
| it is not true, wish to put a quietus
1 to such talk and to deny in toto, as
| now do. any such intention, and to
Estate without mental reservation that
Under no consideration whatever am
seeking or will L accept office. of any
kind. The fact that I have never held
office heretofore, though having had
opportunities that way, should be con-
ielusive that in the present Instance
mean what I say and say what mean
/ The truth is any intelligent man who
believes that party politics must ana
viii prevail in this Territory and that
the citizen party or ticket is imprac-
/ ticable and also unwise, can see the
imperative necessity for every citizen
taking an active part to the extent or
| his ability in the discharge of civic
and political duties. If there are to be
two parties here it is imperative that
| both these parties shall be responsible
parties. well organized and able to COPE
tintelligently with any issues that mas
from time to time confront the people
,
so as to promote the welfare of the
citizen, and the business and material
interests of this Territory.
A citizens party such as is often
suggested nowadays simply means an
alliance of the white race against the
native race with all the evil results
ard bad blood of a race struggle. The
Hawaiian people, after so years of
friendly and fraternaI relations with
the white race, deserve no such fate,
and whatever may happen, however
slow the Hawaiians or some of them
may be to fully appreciate their priv
ileges as American citizens, and to use
these privileges understandingly ana
well, the white race, particularly those |
OF that race born and bred in HAWAII, |
cannot and viii not subscribe to any |
program involving the setting aside Of |
the Hawaiian. He must so hand in |
hand with US until in complete fusion |
of blood the posterity of both races /
shall forget, for all practical purposes, /
that any such dividing line once ex- /
listed.
TIME FOR THE DEMOCRACY.
We claim that the present conditions
in this Territory show that it is high +
time the Democratic party took a leao-
ing part in local politics. Heretofore
it has occupied a waiting position, +
marking time while the Home Rule 4
party has insisted on occupying the 1
stage in an endeavor to show what 1t
could do outside of idle talk and the
making of still more idle promises. 1t K
is almost literally true that that party
has accomplished nothing. But the |
Home Rule party has done worse than {
accomplish nothing; it has been losing
ground steadily for its constituents iri
many vital ways; it has allowed the
Executive undisturbed, and
practically without protest, to create
and develop a system of coercion, in
tinaidatior and eorrupting manipuia-
ton of public patronage that has gone :.
to such an extent that the people in
Hawaii today have no assurance either
of a free vote or of a fair count in
elections, both of which were being :
enjoyed by the people at the time the
Some Rule party came ito existence.
This has been brought about by the !.
and Indifference of the
Home Rule leaders, who have beer
more concerned in getting into office
snd staying there than in safeguard
ng the rights Of their constituents.
The Home Rule party today is helpless
gainst the wholesale intimidation. CO.
.rcion and corruption of voters, now
,eing practiced by the Executive Of |
his Territory. That party evidently