The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-09-25
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

fItiiOiln lulllUiiltt OF inc D'lUN'lHll' /
Territorial convention as finally amend !
ed and adopted yesterday afternoon;
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:
We. the representatives Of the Demo-
cratic party of Hawaii, i'm convention
assembled, do hereby re-afiirm our al
legiance to the National Democratic or
gRnization and the principles of the
Democratic party, and we hereby en-
dorse the application of those prin-
ciplcs by our party leaders in dealing
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 Roose-
welt for rising above his party and the
leaders Of his party i'm applying to the
public service and to corporations and
trusts the checks and regulations de-
manded by the Democratic party since
1896, then publicly denounced and now
secretly opposed by the leaders of the
Republican party. but still more do we
congratulate ourselves upon the far
reaching faith and steadfast courage
of William J. Bryan, the recognized
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 fae reaching reforms
Of inestimable value to his fellow citi-
zens and posterity; and in this connec-
ton we express our high approval Of
the patriotic record made by Democrats
in both houses of Congress in support
ing meritorious measures urged by
President Roosevelt when, without
their help defeat awaited such mea-
sures at the hands of a Republican
Congress upon matters vital to the pub
lie welfare.
We deplore the conditions brought
about in this Territory through the Re-
publican system of bossism and .spoils,
resulting in the building up of poll
teal machine and it's attendant COM
a
individual freedom of action and lead
ing to the selection of undesirable
ring" candidates.
We again declare the policy of the
Republican party in this Territory
whereby large areas of land ano
valuable water rights are still being
alienated from the public domain fol-
the sole use of corporations or persons
already possessed of large tracts oil
land and privileges. a positive menace
} to the upbuilding of an untrammelee
D electorate in these islands, and we
D charge that the Republicans of this
Territory have up to this time EVIL
denced but little disposition to adop
the public land policy advocated fol
this Territory by President Roosevelt
in his message to the Fifty-seventl
|. Congress, wherein he says:
. "In Hawaii our aim must be to de
velop the Territory ON the traditiona
American lines. We do. not wish
region of large estates titled by cheal
. labor: we wish a healthy American
= community of men, who themselves til
the farms they own. All our legisla
ton for the islands should be shape'
with this end in view; the well-belnl
of the average home maker must al
ford the true test of the healthy de
velopment of the islands. The IAN
policy should as nearly as possible
modelled on our homesteads system
We favor a new land law for tn
Territory of Hawaii on the lines an
embodying the spirit of the nationa
land laws to be enforced and carrie
ont by the Federal Government, a
e recommended by the last senator's
Conmission in it's report to the Cor
gress of the United Staes, (page
thereby, believing that the abuse
S heretofore and now existing in the ao
ministration of the present law VIII
that way best be remedied.
We denounce the platform utterance
of the Territorial Republican organize
ton relative to capital and labor, trust
~ monopolies and combinations of capita
1t and amendment of the Organic Act
1t relation to public lands as mere plat
Il tudes opposed to the policy of the part
u leaders and calculated to deceive TT
q electors The constant reiteration
u these so-called principles by said part
;. in it's platforms, both National an
p local, considered in connection wit
1. their constant and repeated failure
H. "make good" when the opportunit
presents itself, can only subject II
Republican party and its represents
J. tives to the scorn and disbelief of a
honest electors.
We again call attention to the failu
g of the Republican Legislature to mai
a re-apportionment Of Territorial sci
ators and representatives, as require
7. by Chapter q Section SO of the Organ
Act.
The application of the County Ac
passed by the Legislature of 1905, d
monstrates that there is still much
be desired, both as to local self-go
} eminent and economy of administr
ton. We pledge our candidates f.
the Legislature to a careful revisi'
of the Act and to such additions