The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-09-27
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM IS
MUCH LIKE REPUBLICAN, ONE

of efficiency even If it requires more
money to do so.
Public Utilities.
We favor commission winch shall
supervise and regulate the service OF
public utilities.
Taxation.
We believe that the power of taxa.
ton should be in the municipalities
and that the levy in detail should meet
a budget prepared from year to year
Bonding Municipalities.
We believe that the municipalities
of the Territory should be endowed
with the author ty to issue bonds for
specific purposes.
Ownership of Waterworks.
We urge that ownership and man
agen ent of the Honolulu water works
should be passed over to the City and
county of Honolulu.
City and County Hospital.
We declare for the immediate pro.
vision for hospital patients of all char.
acter in the City and County of Homo.
lulu and all the counties.
Terms of County oficers.
We believe that the terms of coun.
ty or municipal officers should be ex.
tended.
Citizens to Use Schools.
We believe that the fullest freedom
should be given communities in the
use of public school buildings, during
the hours such structures are not in
use for strictly educational purposes.
Despotic Executive Action.
We denounce the action of the
board of health, which had the appro.
val of the Governor, in what is locally
known as "The Mosquito Campaign, -
in which the constitution of the Unit!
ed States was openly, knowingly and
wilfully violated.
The illegal acts of the board of health
in depriving citizens of property with.
out any process of law and without any
compensation is too well known to neec
any specification. We pledge our can.
didates to the Legislature to make an in.
vestigation and to appropriate money to
compensate citizens for property SO un.
lawfully destroyed.
Equal Suffrage.
We favor the amendment of the Or
ganic Act so as to extend the suffrage
to women.
Transportation.
We pledge our candidates for the
legislature, if elected, to vote for a
law by which an elective territorial of.
fee shall be created to be known as
commissioner of transportation who
shall be empowered as far as possible &c
inquire into freight and passenger rates
charged by all territorial common car.
riers, to the end that excessive rates
may be reduced to reasonable basis
Fairchild Bill Opposed.
We are positively opposed to the pas
sage of what is locally known as the
Fairchild bill, now pending in congress
by which it is proposed to authorize ths
lease of cultivated public lands to cor
porations or individuals for a term OF
fifty years or to anyone for any tern
of years where leases will interfer.
with the rapid homesteading of all pun
he lands suitable for homesteading pur
poses.
Audit of Accounts.
We believe that the laws are nov
sufficient to require the audit of al
public accounts monthly and failure t,
secure the same is the fault of the of
fieers charged with such duties, in til
first instance, and after such failure
it is chargeable 10 the county attorney
Panama Exposition.
We favor a liberal appropriation b,
the legislature to make a suitable eX
hibit by the Territory at the Panam.
Exposition to be held in San Francisc
in 1915, and we believe that the Demo
cratic party of Hawaii should be repre-
scented in the fair commission.
Capital and Labor.
We are in favor of enacting an En-
ployers Liability and Workingmep ;
Compensation Law.
Direct Primary.
We again pledge our candidates TO
the legislature to the enactment Of
direct primary law, the initiative an
referendum including the "Reeall
and call attention to the failure of th
| Republican majority of the last legi,
lature, TO "make good their platforI
pledge TO enact the former.
Queen Iiliuokalani.
We pledge our candidates to the I,
gislatnre to continue liberal appropr
alton for Queen Liliuokalani.
Fisheries.
We pledge our candidates 60 the !,
gislature 10 enact such laws or TAX
such steps as may be necessary ~ u
cure the protection and Increase of III
edible fish and sea food of tho TER
tory,