Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-08-05
DEFENDERS OF THE TOWN.
WELCOME TuE COMING, SPEED
TuE PARTING CHIEF.
CItIzcns' Guard Takes Leave oTths OK
MsrshaI-The Old Man Terrible
Wakes a striking speech.

Court room, Saturday evening, for
She purpose Of taking leave of the
retiring Marshal, L. G.. Hitch
cock, who resigned to take his
former position as Sheriff of Ha-
waii. At the same time the Guard
gave a hearty welcome to their
new chief, A. NJ. Brown, and the
latter's successor as Deputy Mar
shal, Il. G.. Hitchcock, Jr. Below
is a full account of the proceed
ings, including a stenographic re-
port of the speeches by the Bull
LETIN representative.
Captain McStocker, commander
Of the corps, called the meeting to
order and said: We are going to
bid goodbye to our old chief.
Any remarks from me are entirely
unnecessary - you all know him
as we'll as 1 do. /, however, in
sroduce the new Deputy Marshal.
E. G. Hitchcock, Jr., was re-
seived with applause as he rose
and said: l am pleased to meet
you, gentlemen.
Captain McStocker-I will now
turn the meeting over to the old
man.
Ex Marshal Hitchcock - No,
you don't, old man. Just have
your smoke. Each one if you
want to say anything, just get up
and spit it out.
Here there were cries for
Brown" but the new Marshal
said, "Mr. Hitchcock first"
Ex-Marshal Hitchcock stopped
pulling at fragrant weed and
spoke as follows: This is not fair.
We have been here together for
two years and half, and l am
going back to Hilo. 1t has been
said, "See Hilo and die" We
have been here and we have
shaken each others hands and
felt each others hearts. This
thing of the formation of the
Citizens Guards has been the sal
yation of these islands. L do not
believe in soldiers. The republic
an idea is for every man to fight
for himself. All joking aside, 1
do not believe any country is safe
with too many soldiers. Those
men up in the barracks are not
the men L depended on when
came here. l thought that any
morning l got up l might find
the Royalists had possession of
the government. As soon as the
Citizens Guard was formed, even
with that small organization at
first, l was convinced that the
safety of the republican form
Of government rested with them.
We have not been satisf-
ed with the body here, but
hav5 formed Citizens' Guards
on the other islands. They are
Just as good as we are, and if we
are ever called up we can count
on three hundred strong at least
to come here and fight till the
hast armed foe expires. You must
not think, because 1 have
thought best to 90 back to Ha-
Waii, that l am abandoning any
shing. 1 am like bull dog,
that, when L get my teeth into
anything l hang on to it till l am
dead. We will hang on to this
thing till we get annexation, and
we will get it as sure as L am
alive. There have been 80 many
things going on, giving me 30
much to attend to, such as going
through the evidence of the claims
against US made by Muller, Gran
stoun and Johnston, and latterly
tho claim of Dureel, that have
not seen much of you. would
have liked to have met with mem
bers OF the Citizens Guard more
than i have. But think you all
know me we'll enough to know and
TO believe and to trust me that IL
sVer | thought that there vas any
serious danger that could be
AYnidad hv INV ramaininR here 1