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

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Gambling hIs l0np ou u Ws town
ever s.uy. DO was o.
town. Hesrul That hp accusation OFT
gambling was to boz made against my- b
SELF have made Inquiries recently
and now suggest that there are at this
very hour three che fa gambling games
running Boo this city Gambling In bill
Hard parlors and that class of cstab-
lishments is now common. and more or
less open. 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 be-
lieve that gambling Is not going on to-
day in that class of establishments in |
this city? To Illustrate how easy IL is /
to accuse in these matters and TO create |
an unflvorablo impression against AL
official, i'm such matters as gambling |
and Illicit sales Of liquor and which /
are always going on, let me call the I
attention of the Governor TO his own |
case.
so-called where natives have forme u
clubs, buy liquor and sell, or are sup
posed to sell exclusively to- members
of the club. The Governor was himself
chairman of the House Committee oil
the Pacific club and it was under his
regime and his direction that the sys-
TEN whereby each man kept his liquors
i'm his own locker was changed and the
club system was naugurated, being
precisely the system which these ma.
tives adopted when organizing the
clubs that he claims ! should offhand
have ralded and destroyed totally i'm
my administration. 1t is therefore seen
that the Governor himself presided over
what he calls an Illicit club. ana was
the organizer of it himself and under
his present claim | should have
arrested and convicted him of ILL
cit selling. 1t may be said,
What Of it? Two wrongs don't make
a right, and | recognize that this is So
/ but it shows that at the time these
clubs were inaugurated, and for a long
period thereafter they We're looked up
on as not being in violation of the
Liquor Law. Governor Dole expressed
as well. Concedng as I do that Gov
ernor Carter i'm establishing the club
system of handling liquor was not sub
ject to criticism, I merely ask that the
same reasonableness and fairness of
judgment be exercised by him i'm CON
sidering my position while sheriff in
reference to these clubs which now by
decision of the Supreme Court have
been declared to have exceeded the linn
itatious of the statutes against liquor
selling. If the Governor must leave his
seat and abandon the dignity of his of
flee to get after me, certainly his cause
and his accusations should be abov.
question. 1t is also misleading to charg,
: that gambling was open-that auyon.
Z could see it. I'm a certain sense the ac.
p cusation is true and it is also true TO-
o. day. In considering that point 20,
S have to draw a distinction betweel
y regular organized concerns like a CHI
- IA bank operating on a large scale an.
q involving many people, and the desul
tory gambling that is going on of tn
= kind that is covered by shaking dice 70
, drinks, or where a man in a presuma
l bly, friendly game Of cards plays for
l going on openly today i'm this city. Ha
l Governor Carter never seen a game o
cards being played i'm his own club 70
| stakes since Sheriff Henry took office
j Surely he has, unless indeed the mem
/ beers of his club feel that he has aban
: doned his position as Governor and ha
: taken the job of policing" his asso
D ciates. Isn't shaking for drinks gon
:" on in the city at present? Are not me
. now playing games of cards practical
ly in the open for stakes. 1t should b
noted that often games of cards go o
: in billiard parlors and in saloons whic
= beginning only in a social way late
X develop into fleeing games and game
+ where large amounts are won and lost
u claim that my record for all sue
- cases will show l have secured as man
: convictions in any given space of tim
+ as my successor has secured during
= like period. That gambling has gon
re- on in spite of the police and presum
" ably in minor instances with lnowledg
70 on their part was true Of my admins
tration, and is true also Of this admin
. istrauon, and will be true of any ad
ministration as long as human uatuI
y time a policeman while ] was in oftit
> saw men shaking for drinks he arreste
u them, or that l told him to do so.
don't claim that every time police
10 man saw men playing a game of card
i'm saloon or billiard parlor for
e stake that he arrested them, or that
. told him to do so, no more than l clair
d that they had orders to raid the ladie
= of the city who might be playing pedr
i for "A prize l claim and exercised
Il certain amount Of discretion i'm thes
g matters, as | did in the enforcement .
e the Sunday law, and if that is to defea
e me and have got to go in pledged f
= jump every man or woman who hap
S pened however technically to com
e within the laws governing gambling
[ should be defeated, for ! propose,
e elected, to exercise my common sens
d l deny, however, that l ever refused O
. 10, NJ In Ina