The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-10-27
Kinnsy's Great Speech.
Continued from 7st 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 it to the simplest
of all possible forms, pure despotism'
But separation of departments, SO far
as practicable. and the preservation oil
clear lines of division between them, rs
the fundamental idea in the creation oil
all our constitutions; and doubtless, the
continuance of regulated liberty de-
ponds on maintaining these bound
aries"
1t is charged that if Democrats are
returned to the Legislature this cleo
ton on platform protesting against
executive encroachment, it will lead
merely to a pickering, fault-hndlns
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 func-
ton of representative of the peop,e
is to resist executive encroachment ana
from the very start to foresee and at
once to call halt upon any subversion
of established land marks. This 1s
what he says
I'VE have been taught to regard a
representative of the people as a sen"
tinel on the watch-tower of liberty. Is
he to be blind, though visible danger
approaches? Is he to be deaf though
of h.
rather. to catch the lowest whisper
which breathes intention or purpose OF
encroachment on the public liberties,
and to give his voice breath and ut
terance at the first appearance of dang
err? Is not his eye to traverse the whoie
horizon detecting, through all as
guises every enemy advancing, In any
form, towards the citadel which he
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 its very nature. II de-
prived of them, an active, intelligent,
faithful agent of the people will be con-
yerted into an unresisting and passive
instrument of power A representative
body, which gives up these rights ana
and duties. gives itself up. 1t Is a
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"
SYMPTOMS OF DISORDER.
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
is out of balance when the Attorney
General can openly go into nominat-
ing convention of the people backed by
4, large body of Office holders absolute
az under his control, and defeat the
Elimination of candidate for the Leg
,ature on the sole ground that he Is
q rsona non grata to the executive.
"A. Amething is out of balance when
f i 4 bout protest or check the Governor
las obtained direct control of the ma
ssistrates of the Territory, so that they
4 ran be removed by him at will when
the Legislature provided that they
hould only be removed for cause by
lie Supreme Court of the Territory, and
s.mething is extremely out of balance
the territorial government when the
St;overnor in addition to destroying the
III dependence of the heads of depart
sisrnts and taking direct control Of a
Z rye part of the judiciary feels the
HID of still more power and is allowed
i'a exact pledges from candidates for
ft.ss Legislature before their nomina-
2tf1 whereby his Attorney General can
atnsblicly announce that "llyery Repub-
I, An nominee stands pledged to sup
t'p.rt the bills which will be introduced
l,f his (the Governors) administra-
fsipn." Something is certainly out of
f1saiance when the Attorney General of
itp Territory, with his undated resigna-
It'nii in the Governors hands, therefore
fnating as his spokesman, announces
ff&at as every Republican nominee 10
/, psedged to support the bills which the
otsovernor will introduce in the Leeis-
ftrtrse, therefore 1t doesn't matter how
~ ieolrpetent man may be his vote Is
as GOOD as any other If he has agreed