The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-12-02
AN HISTORICAL ESSAY BY Mr..
HUNTSMkN.
EDITOR BULLETIN

EDlTOR BULLETIN
On the Island of Hawaii there
reigns a prince of the royal line of
blue -bellied Yankees who came TO
this country to preach the gospel and
acquire valuables in early times.
Mr.. Hitchcock of Hilo has for sew
eraiy years been conducting a small
but profitable reign of terror within
his jurisdiction. Many of his VIC
tins have protested more or less
loudly according to their ability.
Most of them have been speedily
silenced in the grave or in Jail. When
| went to Hilo district as a Govern
ment teacher | was soon assaulted
by a mob led by a cousin of the
sheriff, and afterward taken into his
court and officially knocked down
and walked over more or less.
Afterward, when | had the temerity
to attempt to practice law ] was as
saulted by hired rullians and subject
ed to a series of prosecutions that
compelled me to seek refuge in Ho-
nolulu. When | arrived in Homo
lulu | laid the matter before the At.
y-General and Marshal, offering
indisputable evidence of the charges
| made. The Attorney-General
thereupon opined that Hitchcock was
the best sheriff they ever had in that
part of the country. But the Mar
shal investigated the facts and find
ing them as represented requested
Mr.. Hitchcock to resign from the
service he had disgraced. The Mar
shal's action was most honest and
laudable, but he reckoned without
the kin. When the kin heard that a
beloved member Of their family cir
Gle was about to be choked off from
the Government teat where all good
missionaries have divine right to
fatten, they rose as a man to save
him. The wires were hot from eX-
cessive pulling. Influence electri-
fed the air. The Marshal was told
from all sides that he mustn't do it !;
but he was firm in his resolution.
To rightly understand the situation
it must be remembered that the Su-
preme Court has the right under the
Constitution to remove the Marshal,
a cunning provision made by the
Reform, as has also the Cabinet.
At last the decree came from on high
that the Marshal might be removed,
but Hitchcock never. The Marshal
seems then to have given up the at
tempt to have an honest administra-
tion, but he did not escape the retri-
button of his folly. He became re-
sponsible for all the corrupt officials
under him without the power of re-
moving or controlling them. They
steal and dissipate with a gay and
festive swagger and defy the Mar
shal who must bear the odium.
Now Mr.. Hitchcock's brothers-in-
law by the name of Castle own and
edit newspaper in Honolulu here,
and they have never forgiven the
Marshal for having had the audacity
to act against one of their kinsmen.
1t looks as if they had sworn big
oath to be his ruin. 1t was the
Advertiser that made the most of the
'Barefooted Bill" conspiracy, and
of every mistake or fault of the
police, down to the latest Douglas
Bloom affair. | have no occasion to
defend Marshal Wilson. The fact is
that if they had been fully identified
and their guilt proven there is no
law or right to arrest or detain them
in this country. The missionaries
would have run them to earth, law
or no law-such is their zeal against
evil.
Now comes Ghis delectable Adver-
tiser and wants to raise mass meet
ing to have the Marshal removed
wants to have the Liberal Party CO.
operate to get a crowd to cry "down
with him." The Liberal Party will
not mass on any such proposition.
Il the government is unpopular 1t is
due TO the fact that all the Reform
boodlers are still running the govern
ment. The Queen herself is under
a cloud with her native subjects be-
cause she is made to appear to
sustain these same barnacleS.
Such are the causes of the Adver-
tiser's demand for the removal of
the Marshal. ID. l.. HuNTsMAN.