The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-16
A, NJ, BROWN ATTEMPTS To
MEET CARRIERS CHARGES
Prints Long Statement in Which he Claims
That There is Nothing Specific Alleged
Against Him.

The following signed statement was
given by Arthur NJ. Brown to the two
afternoon papers yesterday and was fol-
lowed by the statement in each that
Brown would have more to say on the
same matter:
Honolulu, T. H., June 10, 1905.
To the Electors of the County of Oahu.
The Governor of the Territory has
seen fit to enter personally and Off
cially into the politics of the county
election now pending, to the extent at
least of seeking my defeat at the
hands of the electors of this county at
the coming election. Whatever his
motive may be, the fact remains that
he has limited or rather concentrated
his entire attack on one individual
candidate, namely myself This must
mean either that 1 am SO bad that ex-
traordinary methods are justified in
! securing my defeat or it must mean
! that the Governor has personal rea-
sons, of no interest to the public, for
securing my undoing. His personal at
titude towards me is a matter between
myself and him. So far as he arraigns
me politically, while protesting against
his taking hand officially in this cleo
| ton, | am perfectly willing to meet
| him on the charges he has made, in so
far a one can meet an arraignment
which is marked by such generalities,
and controlling desire to make po
litical capital against me.
| For instance, he charges that if 1
| am elected my administration will be
weak, corrupt and lawless.' How am
to meet glittering generalities of
| that kind? Such clap-trap may do for
! a stump speech, but when the Cover
nor singles out one man and comes be-
! fore the public in practically an Off
| cial way to arraign him, the man he
attacks has a right to expect that the
arraignment shall be clear and def
mite. so that it can be met in the
same way.
HOPES FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT.
He continues by alleging that he did
not remove me because of any crimi-
nal charge but because of my fail
ure Ito administer the Office in the
proper manner There, again, is
generality that l could only meet by
denying it, and by showing, 1 hope
to show by the votes of the electorate,
that the public do not share these gen
eralized detractions launched against
me by the Governor.
The Governor continues by charging
that 1 have mot the strength to resist
f1attery." I do not wish to be personal
in reply, but cannot resist the sugges
ton that when it comes to the ques-
ton of comparative appetite for fiat
terry and ability to resist flattery, am
perfectly willing to submit myself to
a comparison with the Governor.
Ja har / N
tation and put myself in a position
where 1 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 in taking upon
himself my castigation. If the Cover
nor means that 1 knowingly allowed
my subordinates to violate their official
duty, and so put myself where 1 was
not able to reprove or rebuke them 1
deny the charge most emphatically,
and challenge the Governor for proofs
or evidence of any such accusation.
Continuing he charges that my 'famil-
iarity with my subordinates may have
won me political support, but that it
forced me to surrender to these sub
ordinates the control of my office" I
call upon the Governor to make good
surrender to my subordinates the con-
troll of my office l neither surrender |
ed control of my office to them nor
which, perhaps. was worse for me-to |
the Governor, weak" though he says
1 am. Had L surrendered my discre-
ton to him, he might have looked upon !
me in a different light.
CALL FOR PROOF
Right here I call for the proof or
any evidence from the Governor that
at any time while 1 was in office 1
surrendered to my subordinates the
control of my office" 1t is all very
well for the Governor to indulge in I'M
bridled accusation and insinuation, but |
is it fair to me or to the electors?
1 claim that never was day or an
hour, while in office, that 1 wasn't the
master of every man in my employ in
the sense that 1 was free to hold him
to his duty, or to put him out To
what subordinate did l surrender the |
control of my office? I concede right |
here that when a man comes up for
office it is not necessary to prove as
you would in a criminal case his unfit |
ness or his immortality. but certainly
there should be something specific. I
can merely deny that I was in the
hands of my subordinates until the
Governor sees fit to specify in some
way or other, with some degree of Ger
tainty wherein 1 was under the con-
troll of my subordinates. or who these
subordinates or some of them were. |
The Governor shows how careless he
himself is in his accusation when i'm
mediately following his charge that [
surrendered the control of my office
to my subordinates,' he says that
either my judgment of my men was
roor. etc. that I was under Obliga-
ton to them, etc, i. E., my subordi-
mates. so that I could not remove them
or control them" In other words. he
makes a point blank charge in one
breath that I actually surrendered the
control of my office TO my subordi-
nate-. and the next breath says prac-
ttcaIly that / either did that or else
my judgment of the men I had around
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