The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-06-12

the former head of the police depart
ment, ground their teeth i'm impotent
rage and declared they would support
Brown.
After the majority of the foot police,
a majority of whom declared them
selves to be for Henry, had expressed
their sentiments, the mounted police
consisting of IA men including Leslie,
two clerks and three patrol drivers,
three turkeys and the specials were
up. Deputy Sheriff Henry Vida was
not granted admission at the first pro-
ceedings but he was subsequently adj
mitted. Vida had declared himself
in very vigorous language and had de-
nounced the coercion in strong Ian
guage. There was no attempt made to
prevent the men present from express
ing their opinion. This was precisely
what the Henry crowd wanted, for it
was to their interest to ascertain how
many loyal party men there were on
the force. Vida urged the me nto stand
together and support the party. The
Republican Party had put them there
he declared and the Republican party
Henry or Governor George r. Carter
To a man the members of the mounted
police declared they would support A.
NJ. Brown, so did the clerks, so did the
patrol drivers and so did two of the
turnkeys but when the break came in
the turnkeys it caused the utmost as
constituent. Billy Woods who had
always declared himself in the most
ardent way to be a Brown man and
whose loyalty to Brown had not been
implicitly believed in, declared himself
in favor of William Henry. There
were looks of contempt darted at Woods
that seldom fall to the lot of man to
face, but nothing was said at that time
although the treachery of Woods de-
lection 1.-The Brown men called it by a
far worse name,-led to a very drama
tic incident later.
Boys" declared Henry Vida, lets
give three cheers for A. NJ. Brown"
and there was shout that went up
from the men that startled the High
Sheriff in his office in a distant part of
the building.
All the men had not been interview
ed" when the crowd was dismissed, but
several who had not been notified evil
IDENTIFY because it was known they were
staunch Brown men, later came and
declared themselves to Parker for
Brown.
And then something dropped. woods
said Sam Leslie to the turnkey you
ought to be ashamed of yourself
Brown put clothes on your back and
kept you from starving and now you
go and turn against him." Leslie did
not say this to Woods alone. 1t was
said in the receiving station where
there were numbers of people standing
around. Woods bristled up in a threat
ening manner to Leslie and called Les
lie an insulting name. Leslie promptly
smashed Woods in the face causing the
ex-prize fighter to stagger back and
nearly fall to the pavement Bystand-
ers separated the pair before there was
any further meeting.
The net result of the interview with
the men to determine whether they
were to support the regular Republican
nominee or the Civic Federation NOM
inee, showed, according to the claims
OF the party men, two-thirds of the
men to be in favor of supporting the
regular party nominee. while the Henry
people admit that the list shows a slight
majority in favor of Brown. Captain
Parker said it was about half and half
According to the statements made
about the police station some of those
who expressed themselves for Henry
did so with a mental reservation To
vote the straight Republican ticket.
1T was my idea" said High Sheriff
Henry ito have the men called up and
asked regarding their intentions in this
county election. Yes, / gave orders to
have them called up. I told Captain
Parker to do it. l told him to ask them
who they were going to support,
Brown, Poepoe or myself. l told him
that there must be no intimidation
whatever.
What was my idea? Well, you see
/ am in this fight and have to have
canva ssers around to find out how peo-
pie are going to vote, so l thought tn )
would be a good way to do it when the
men were together. There are canvas
sers going around everywhere to find
out the way that people are going to
vote That was done in all of our pre-
vious campaigns"
Then you did not tell Parker to ask
simply about yourself and Brown?
Certainly not, / told him to ask
about all three candidates. No, GER
tainly 7 am not abusing my official po-
sition to get this information. The
county act has made things so that the
police department has got to be in po-