The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-16

calls the subject of corruption" He
saws that 1T is admitted by Browns
Lest friends that there was considera-
bic corruption y the department. 1
sIppose there was some corruption at
times in my department, in fact have
known Of cases OF that kind occurring
from time TO time. and have had them
corrected. and Where are there depart
menUs where corruption and irregulari-
ties do not crop up from time 20 time.
Are The Governors own immediate of
ifcers free from them? Has he not at
times discovered Irregularities among
employees of his own selection? The
charge that corruption existed means
nothing unless it went to the degree
that brought home to me the charge
OF either carelessness or disregard on
my part or worse, and if he means that
by the generalization above referred TO.
I deny il.
The burden of his plant seems to
center on gambling.
Gambling has gone on in this town
uninterruptedly ever since it was a
town. Hearing that the accusation OF
gambling was to be made against my
ssIf. 1 have made enquiries recently
and now suggest that there are at this
very hour three che IA gambling games
running in this city. Gambling in bill
lizard parlors and that class OF estab-
Iishments is now common. and more
or less open.
GAMBLING STILL GOING ON.
1 raided certain of these houses, and
secured convictions from time to time
my successor is doing the same
thing, but does he or any other man
experienced in the business believe that
gambling Is not going on today in
that class of establishments in this
city? To Illustrate how easy it is TO
accuse in these above questions? 1t is
al misleading TO charge that gamb-
ling was open-that anyone could see
it. In a certain sense the accusa-
ton is true and it is also true today.
In considering that point you have to
draw a distinction between regular
organized concerns like che ia bank
operating on a large scale and involv-
ing many people and the desultory
gambling that is going on of the kind
that is covered by shaking dice for
drinks, or where a man in presum-
ably friendly game of cards plays for
a stake. Gambling in the latter form
is going on openly today in this city.
game of cards being played in his
own club for stakes since Sheriff Hen
~ took office? Surely he has unless
indeed the members of his club feel
that he has abandoned his position as
Governor and has taken the job of
policing his associates. Isn't shaking
for drinks going on in this city at
present? Are not men now playing
games of cards practically in the open
for stakes? 1t should be noted that
often games of cards are allowed to-
go on in billiard parlors and in saloons
which beginning merely in social
way, later develop into fleeing games
and games where large amounts are
won and lost.
REFERS To HIS RECORD.
claim that my record for all such
cases will show 1 have secured as
many convictions in any given space
of time as my successor has secured
during a like period. That gambling
has gone on in spite of the police and
in minor instances with
knowledge on their part, was true OF
my administration and is true also of
this administra ton. and Will be true of
any administration so long as human
nature is the same. l don't claim that
every time a policeman while l was
in office, saw a man shaking for drinks
he arrested them, or that I told him
to do so. 1 don't claim that every time i
a policeman saw men playing a game
of cards in the saloon or billiard par !
iors for a stake that he arrested them, :
or that | told him to do so; no more
than l claim that they had orders to
raid the ladies of the city who might +
be playing pedro for a prize l claimed
and exercised d certain amount of dis I
erection in these matters as I did in +
the enforcement of the Sunday law,
and if that is to defeat me. and I have
got to go in pledged to jump every
man or woman who happens, however
technically, to come within the laws
governing gambling, 1 should be de-
'eated: for l propose, if elected, to ex-
ercise my common sense. deny, how
ever. that I ever refused or will refuse
to prosecute upon complaint, even for
he matter of shaking for drinks, or
hat I have not hunted down and sup
pressed any gambling that was max
ng itself a nuisance or an injury to
he people. 1 further deny that I
nave licensed or affirmatively allowed
my form of gambling even of the
nildest type 1 simply say that iii
certain minor matters of that kind,
where there was no complaint
where it was not nuisance. 1 ignored
it unless complaint was made