The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-09-25
! PALMER WOODS TALKS.


the peace and enforce the law. Jap
plause), and keep out OF politics"
PALMER WOODS TALKS.
Senator WOODS Of Hawaii made
brief address. He said the Republicans
were TO put up strong senatorial
tioket-Low and Lewls-put he propos-
ed to make a good fight and win
ring one.
I'VE want to look up this Nuuanu
dam proposition. where they seem TO
be spending money for FUN" he said.
1--WE made an appropriation last ses-
sion, but the Governor refused to give
II to us. 1t seems that he used US as
catspaws." ~ .s-,
THE LABoRING MAN.
w. A. Kinney was the next speaker
He addressed the convention in the
Hawaiian language. County Treasurer
Trent also talked Democracy. He said
he had tried to be good little boy
since he became County Treasurer, SO
that his political fathers need not be
ashamed of him. He told of some Of
his experiences with the Republican Of
ficials of the county, his little dis
nally won out, SO that a man who had
earned 100 cents got a whole dollar
from him as Treasurer. Before, a road
worker had to stand discounts of all
kinds. always losing something out Of
his salary.
IT hope the Democrats will still hold
the office of Treasurer" he added. no
matter who your nominee may be-"
n, fol
Democratic friends had frequently ask
ed him to get in and scrap" in the
Board of Supervisors. He could not
very well SCRAP" one against five, but
he had worked for the best interests
of everyone. He had helped Treasurer
Trent to get the laboring men engaged
by the government to get their just
dues. He pledged himself, IL nominated
again, to work for the best interests
of the Democratic party, first, last and
all the time.
Ioela Kiakaihi, something of an or
ator, talked against time also. Ben
Naukana of Waialua and S. X. Hui Of
Waianae and Sam Koloa followed.
THE PLATFORM.
The Committee on Platform entered
the hall shortly after 3 o'clock with
the redraft of the platform and reso-
lutions. which was read by Mr.. Emme-
luth, as follows:
THE ADOPTED PLATFORM.
Honolulu, r. H., Sept. "a, 1906.
| To the Chairman and Members of the
Democratic Territorial Convention
| for 1906.
! Gentlemen: Your Committee on
Platform herewith beg to submit their
report, as follows:
1 We, the representatives of the Demo-
cratic party of Hawaii, in convention
assembled, do hereby re-affirm our al
| legiance to the National Democratic or
ganization and the principles of the
Democratic party, and we hereby en-
i dorse the application of those prin-
1 ciples by our party leaders in dealing
4 with trusts, combines and other mani
| fold evils brought about by the rapid
encroachments of organized capital up
\ on the rights. freedom of action and
safeguards of the individual.
We congratulate President Roosevelt
for rising above his party and the lead
ers of his party in applying to the
public service and to corporations and
trusts the checks and regulations de-
handed by the Democratic party since
| 1896, then publicly denounced and now
secretly opposed by the leaders of the
lRepublican party, but still more do
| we congratulate ourselves upon the far
reaching faith and steadfast courage
of William j. Bryan, the recognized
1 leader of the Democratic party, who,
/ in the face of countless personal and
political attacks, has these many years
kept the faith, fought in the open and
paved the way for far reaching re-
/ forms of inestimable value to his fell
low citizens and posterity; and in this
connection we express our high APP
prevail of the patriotic record made
by Democrats in both houses of Con-
gress in supporting meritorious meas
ures urged by President Roosevelt
when, without their help, defeat await
ed such measures at the hands of a
Republican Congress upon matters vital
to the public welfare.
We -deplore the conditions brought
about in this Territory through the
Republican system of bossism and
spoils, resulting in the building up OF
a political machine and it's attendant
| combinations, course of action in.
vading individual freedom of action
and leading to the selection of un-
desirable "ring" candidates.
We again declare the policy of the
Republican party in this Territory,
whereby large areas of land and valu-
able water rights are still being ali
enated from the public domain for
the sole use of wealthy corporations
and persons already possessed of large
tracts of land and privileges, a posi-.
tive menace to the upbuilding of an
, untrammeled electorate in these is
lands and we charge that the Repub
/ licans of this Territory have up to
this time evidenced but little dlsposi-
. tion to adopt the public land policy
advocated for this Territory by Presi
dent Roosevelt in his message to thu
Fifty.seventh Congress, wherein hi
= says:
: "In Hawaii our aim must be Il
|, develop the Territory on the traditional
5 American lines. We do not wish
5 region of large estates titled by cheaI
. labor; we wish healthy American
b community of men who themselves til
J, the farms they own. All our legsla
h ton for the islands should be shaped