The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-03-09
RESORTS TO FALsEHooo.

When it has no argument to present
the Advertiser resorts to falsehood to
try to bolster up its cause. This it
did yesterday morning when it assert
ed: The centralized police system
is now working in New York and is a
forerunner of more centralized police
methods everywhere" There is no
doubt that the falsity of this assertion
OF the Advertiser was well known TO
| its editor when the above sentence
was written. The facts of the police
situation in New York State are these:
Shortly after the election last fall
Boss" Plat announced that he favor
ed the creation of a State constabu-
larry. taking the control of the police
of all the large cities of the State
away from the cities and placing the
same in the hands of the Governor,
who should appoint commission
whl,a should have control of the
State constabulary. OF course the
''ehief object of the State force as an
nounced by me Republican boss was
10 take the police of New York City
out of the hands of Tammany. In
stantly a cry for home rule went up
from one emu of New York state to the
other. Every paper in New York City,
regardless of politics, denounced the
proposed State constabulary system
Even such stsrnch Republican papers
as the Sun, Mail and Express, Tribune
anu Commercial Advertiser were more
bitter in their denunciation of the
proposed bill than the Democratic pa
pers. The Independent papers like
the Herald and Evening Post denounc-
ed it as an evil that would be worse
than Tammany Papers in Buffalo.
Rochester and Syracuse, the other
cities affected, also denounced the
measure. regardless of politics. Such
papers as the Buffalo Express. SYRIA
Democrat and Chronicle, than which
there are no more loyal Republican
papers in the land. denounced the pro-
posed measure as advocated by Plat.
The otorm gathered such Roadway
that even before his inauguration in
January Governor Odell announced his
opposition TO the proposed State con-
stabulary law and it was never intro
duced in the legislature. Even had it
been introduced it could never have
been put into effect owing to consti-
tutional limitations, as later pointed
out by the Buffalo Express.
In treating the conditions in the city
of Greater New York bin was intro,
duoed providing for the abolition of
the bipartisan police commission OF
four members and the creation of 4
single headed commission who should
be the chief OF police for the entire
city of Greater New York. Plat in
sisted that the bill providing for this
change should give the Governor, as
well as the Mayor of New York. The
power OF removal of this head of the
police. The bin provided for the ap
pointment to be made by the Mayor.
but in order that Plat could make his
State machine effective in the greater
city he proposed to confer the power
of removal upon both the Mayor and
Governor. Even this bill has not yet
become a law. The New York Sun of
recent date in discussing the bin
said:
Suppose the question of the Police
bills Constitutionality TO be eliminat-
ed from the discussion The policy
behind Ii may be not To test. BIZ judi
ciai decision, the decisive clause in It.
empowering the Governor TO remove
the New York Police Commissioners At
his pleasure. but only to hold il US
moral terrorism over Tammany Nay
or. Admit. also. that If brought before
the courts il would be upheld
The bin Is none the less revolution
AIRY.
II asserts the policy of giving the
Governor OF the State absolute donlr-
ation over the States municipal gov
ernments II he can discharge one
municipal officer at his pleasure. he
can discharge all And the Governor
OF New York is not by tradition nom
partisan.
Leaving out Of consideration the
peculiar relations Of the States of the
Union TO the Federal Government.
the principle Of this Police bill. If ap-
piled 70 the nation at large. would em-
power the President 20 change at his
pleasure the Governors and the gov
ernments OF the several States.
Does the New York Republican
party desire to embark upon that pof-