The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-03-26
RICHARDS REPLIES
TO THE TREASURER
SAYS NO CRITICISM OF ACTIONS
OF TREASURY DEPARTMENT
WAS INTENDED.

OF TREASURY DEPARTMENT
WAS INTENDED.
Theodore Richards has written the
following reply, to the Advertiser to
the letters of Treasurer Campbell, pub
lsihed in The star on Saturday
Editor Advertiser: The issue raised
by Treasurer Campbell in The Star of
Saturday deserves an answer. What
the public has a right to know is
whether there was fraud in the secur-
ing Of the licenses at Kona. The Treas
urer Seems to want to disprove the
fact, and If he fails (having honestly
made the effort at Kona, not in the
Honolulu newspapers any candid per
son will say that he has only one course
open to him, viz, to take the course
the law prescribes to revoke licenses
and punish offenders. The ignorance
of reformers in general or the Anti-Sa-
loon League in particular will not avail
him We deem ourselves fortunate
that we have a Treasurer who by MS
own admission knows the law All we
ask of the Treasurer is to administer
the law.
We stated some facts i'm the recent
daily papers concerning fraud in ko-
ma. We repeat that they were facts
Following is a letter to Treasurer
Campbell, which was sent to his once
before / o'clock Saturday:
March "a.
Treasurer A. ]. Campbell, Honolulu:
Dear Sir:-I have your letter OF
March 23d in answer to mine of the
10Th inst. note that the names or
those who deny acknowledging sigma
fures on the petition of Sing Sing. Kai-
naliu Kona. the two mentioned are
charles r.. Simerson and w. F. Roy
NV informant tells me that these were
the only two he approached. Your sus-
qestion about our getting the sworn
oA5davits is not a bad one and l woulu
be clad ia do so did not think that II
Idevolves upon your department TO %
so. ,-,,,
Tn REGARD to the license of Shibaya-
no ,,ou take exception to my remark
that representation was made TO you
that all the property owners had sign
cd Int one. My informant, DR.. a. .
| Baker states as follows:
Mr. Campbell was Informed that
there was but one owner not down.
namely. Miss Anna Paris. There are
Iothers,-John Smith, George Smith,
John Todd. w j. Yates, John Atkins
| 7 have the fact stated likewise in
greement with your statement that
there was a longer petition of OCTOBER
DIST of Japanese names thrown out
I am making no charge against your
/ n
license but am merely restating my
claim made in the paper that there was
fraud in the obtaining of it which as
far as / know at present, does not m
volve your office.
AS to your final statement in the let
ter that we are not informed as to the
law. I would state that no great claim
on orr part is made in this particu-
liar and we are fortunate in having Of
ficials that do know the law. I enclose,
however, a copy of our digest which
may interest you.
I am in receipt of yours Second let
teri of March 23d as the result of our
communication through the papers. l
should like to believe, Mr.. Campbell
that you intended to answer my letter
of March 18th, and I will assume that
your previous letter of March 23d did
not come as the result of our publca'
ton or the Governors conversation
with myself.
Now i'm the matter of your complaint
as to my statement of facts
1st. did not state in my communi-
cation that any protest or petition had
come concerning the two licenses
framed. I refer you to published inter-
views i'm the paper and petitions sent
to the Governor to corroborate my
statement that there has been consid-
cradle interest aroused among the peo-
pie there by oposing petitions for sa-
looms"
I'd I have already dealt with the
Shibayama petition but my statement
i'm the paper of the eight names were
those which you finally sifted down in
your office. The matter is irrelevant
anyhow since l am not impugning
yourself or your office for the issuance
of that license. This thing l would like
to ask, since you had so many illegal
names attached to that petition, would
not it have been wiser for you as a
public official to look with suspicion on
the rest of the names?
Sd. There is an error probably in the
third complaint, namely, mo such APP
Iplication nor any record of such appli-
cation can be found in this Office" al
though one X. Shibayama has made an
application for a license to manufac-
ture wine at Holualoa, ~ Kona In
the published statement issued in the
papers about licenses the fact of the
manufacture of wine was not included.
From the Bulletin we simply copied
that this Shibayama was an applicant
for a second-class license (Which refers
TO manufacturing. This, too, l con-
slider trivial, as / claim still that he has
no right to any license If proved fraud
uent in his methods of obtaining the
other license.