The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-06-15
BROWN REPLIES


ARE Co administer the office iu tha
proper manner" There again be- a gen
erality that I could only meet boy dee
nyinE DO. and by showing. as I hope Go
show boy the votes of the electorate that
the public do not share these general
lied detractlons launched against me
by the Governor,
The Governor continues by charging
that ] have mot the strength to resist
flattery." / do not wish to be personal
IN reply. but cannot resist the sugges- ]
ton that when Il comes TO the question
of comparative appetite for nattery and
ability to resist nattery, / am perfect
ly willing to submit myself to COM
parison with the Governor.
] He charges that Il yielded to temp
tation and put myself i'm a position
where / could not enforce the law and
perform the duties which the office Of
Chief OF Police requires Here again
is the same class OF general talk that Is
! wholly out Of place I'm taking upon HIM
self my castigation. If the Governor
means that I knowingly allowed my
/ subordnates to violate their official
duty and so put myself where l was
not able TO reprove or rebuke them, 7
deny the charge most emphaticaly,
and challenge the Governor for proofs
or evidence of any such accusation.
Continuing, he charges that my "fami-
liarity with my subordnates may have
won me political support, but that It
forced me to surrender to these sub
ordinates the control of my office" 7
call upon the Governor to make good
his accusation that 1 was forced to sur
render to my subordinates the control
Of my office I neither surrendered con-
troll of my Office to them nor which per-
haps was the worse for me, to the Gov
ernor, weak, though he says l am. Had
1 surrendered my discretion to him he
might have looked upon me in a differ
ent light. Right there l call for the
proof or any evidence from the Cover
nor that at any time while l was in Of
flee l surrendered to my subordinates
: the control Of my Office 1t is all very
well for the Governor to indulge in un-
bridled accusation and insnuation, but
is it far" to me or to the electors? l
claim there never was a day or an
hour, while in office, that l WASH the
master of every man in my employ in
the sense that ! was free to hold him
90 his duty, or to put him out. To what
subordinate did l surrender the con-
troll of my ofIice?' l concede rgh
here that when a man comes up for Of
flee it is not necessary to prove ds yOu
would i'm a criminal case his unfunes,
or his immortality, but certainly theg,
should be something specific. l car
merely deny that L was in the hands
of my subordinates until the GovernO
sees fit to specify in some way or 9th
= er, with some degree of certaint!
wherein l was under the control of m.
u subordinates or who these subordiu
ates or some of them We're. The GOV
ernor shows how careless he himself i
. in his accusation when immediatel
following his charge that ! "surrend
- cred the control of my office to ny sub
ordinates," he says that either m
judgment of my men was poor, etc, o
that | was under obligation to then
j. e., my subordinate so that
. could not remove them or contrc
y them" In other words, he makes
- point blank charge in one breath that
y actually surrendered the control of m
- office to my subOrdinates and the mex
9 breath says practically that ! either di
that or else my Judgment of the men
: had around me was poor. Which doe
he mean? On the charge that my judg
- meat is poor l am willing to rest upo
the record of the number of criminal!
" many of them desperate criminal!
- brought to justice by these same sub
Ordinates whom he decries. | probabl
= have given confidence to some durin
my official career where it was mis-
placed, and if the Governor has neve
done that and has made no such mis-
takes while in office, then the GovernC
- is a better man than 1 am in that re
spect, but ] submit that the record
showing the apprehension and punish
l. Emaa: o: err IEals incluI"s ni.ny iAI
~ mi' IS durl ~ M term of Of
flee demonstrate that | preserved ia
and order and provided safety and Pre-
III lection o the lives ard properly ST oJ
cit!9 ~Hs in substantial and satridc.
Dry manner. / have heard no complain
- to the contrary except i'm the genera
accusation by the Governor that IN
IL administration would be "lawless" q
well as weak and corrupt" | sugge,
fright here that this accusation of III
u Governor is more than reckless. 1t
itsel" lawless.
The Governor proceeds ID nsinuat
that the police today may NOT he q
well satisfied because they ar. require
~ o. do more l deny that they are re
CURED to do more, and / in turn crit
1azC the judgment of the Governor an
his own moral standards IL aliegin
=, and evidently believing thai esprit d
= corps" can be built up in the polio
"a force or any other body of self-respect
! ing men by overlooking irregularitie
"a and condoning offenses and by sacrhC
:, ing discipline or efficiency / say tina
40 the esprit de corps of any police fore
49, can only be built by up discipline an
~ refusing to overlook Irregularities an
conformation of offenses except wher
kindness to a man, and the giving hin
another chance will bring him up I
proper standards, and / suggest that