Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-02
BOURBON PLANK
RAPSMILITARY
TRAINING Plan
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on first reading 10 additional planks,
seven of which are published in full
in the Star-Bulletin today.
Another meeting of the central COM
mittee will be held al 1880 O'clock
this evening in the office of National
Committee John Fl. Wilson, Pauahi
street, at which time a rough draft
of the platform viii be presented and
the various planks opened to amend
ment. 1t is expected that all of the
planks will pass second reading.
Aside from the pianks published
herewith, planks on fisheries, the ter
ritorial marketing division, immigra-
tion, water supply. primary law.
prison reform and insurance will be
considered. The public is invited 20
tonight's meeting. Prof. w. A. Bryan,
newly elected chairman, will preside.
The planks passed on last night
were as follows:
HOME RULE FOR HAWAII
The policy of appointing .non-resi:
dents to office, inaugurated and con-
tinued under the Republican rule of
the Islands, has unfortunately been
followed by the present national DEM
ocratic administration to the detri-
ment and dissatisfaction of both par
ties. AS citizens of the United States
the entire Democratic party joins
with all parties and factions in Ha-
wall to resent the unjust and unwar-
ranted implication that, the electorate
IIo, h IL
public servants able to discharge sat
isfactorily the duties deyolying upon
them as citizens and men Of public
affairs. The Democratic party as an
Organization will in the future, as In
the past, exert every 'endeayor to
bring about the correction of this in
justice, urging that our right to home
rule is a right that should not be de-
MED. 49,:
CONGRESSIONAL REPREsEn.
TATloN .l...
We again call attention to the re-
peated and long continued absence
Of the Republican delegate to Con-
gress from his duties in Washington
as the official representative OF the
people. We deprecate the system
whereby the affairs of the territory,
so far as they depend on the acts Of
Congress, are and long have been in
the hands Of = paid servant Of the
invisible government that continues
to rule these islands We cite the
failure of the territory to participate
in the benefits of Important national
legislation through the inefficiency
TNf dnln Ia nd off m.
the voters of Hawaii the services of
a delegate to Congress who, by this
platform, is pledged to the faithful
and continuous fulfilment of his dii-
ties as delegate during the period
when Congress IS In session.
MILITARY TRAINING IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS
The Democratic party Is opposed to
the effort made by the legislature at
its last session to institute compul-
sorry military training Of mere child
rem in the public schools of the terri
tory. While recognizing the duty and
privilege OF every adult citizen to be
prepared to do his part in unfolding
the principles and ideals OF our coun-
try in, times of stress, We do not be-
lieye that the wholesale compulsion
OF minors, obliging them to take part
in occasional drills, will materially adj
vance Ahe object sought by many
stanch advocates OF excessive mill
tarism.
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
We reiterate our belief In the prin-
ciple of the government ownership Of
public utilities and cite the Honolulu
Rapid Transit & Land Company as a
corporation enjoying the free use of
the public streets, that has so con-
sistently manipulated its charter So
as to deprive the people Of their just
share of the benefits accruing from
the operation. OF a generous franchise. i
We recommend as settled policy
that ON the expiration of the franchise
the street railway system in Honolulu
be taken over by the city and county
and administered in the interests of
the people.
FREE PORT FOR HAWAII
With the commercial bodies of
such cities as New York, Baltimore
and Oakland alive to their 'opportu-
nifty and urging the advantages of the
free port for these important CONNER
cal centers on the mainland, we con-
ftdently reaffirm the plank in our 1914
platform calling for the establishment
of free port in Hawaii
We contend That the next legisla-
ture should lead the way. for CONNER.
cial expansion by reducing the abnor-