In its platform, the Hawaiian Liberal Party stated that, "We deem that all Government should be founded on the principles of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity; we hold that all men are born free and equal before the law and are endowed with inalienable rights to life, to liberty, to property, to the pursuit of happiness..."[1] They also expressed revisions to international treaties and aiding Native Hawaiians in acquiring farmland and homesteads.
The Liberal Party were economically progressive, continuing from their platform "…and to self-protection against arbitrary concentration of power, irresponsible wealth, and unfair competition."
Other goals were to provide the public with economic protection and reduce the power of "monopolies, trusts and privileges of special classes".
more level-headed than Bush and Nawahi prompted Liberals to work with the National Reformers to break the impasse in the three-way split of the legislature.
[citation needed] The Liberal Party also had their own gun club, the International Rifle Association, similar to a political militia.