The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-11-01
SAMUEL NOAR TO
VOTERS OF OAHU
HOME RULE CANDIDATE FOR
COUNTY ATTORNEY ADDRESSES
THE ELECTORS OF OAHU.


the voters of oahu
In accepting the nomination Tor
County Attorney, 1 think it my duty
to take the people fully into my conf
dence, both as respects my conception
of the office itself, and the course !
shall follow in the event of my cleo
ton. The County Attorneys office IS
i'm my judgment, the most important of
all the executive offices of the Terri
tory. BY this l mean, that its powers
for good or evil, touch the people more
directly and minutely than any purely
administrative office. This has been
! its history since it's creation.
The administration of criminal JUS
/ tice is the test of the efficiency of the
laws in promoting the peace, security
and general well-being of the people.
| This is true not only in respect to the
/ punishment of crime, but also in the
protection of the innocent from unjust
accusation and prosecution. Tyrants
and corrupt ministers In England have
relied upon superserviceable and con-
scienceless attorneys to carry out
press liberty and to strife free
speech and Independent action.
Our County Attorneys office has in
it all the possibilities of being used for
the same nefarious ends, and the Unit
ed States has presented many exam
pies of such use of the office.
No corrupt administration can long
endure when there is a thoroughly
vigilant and honest County Attorney,
and no corrupt combination of admin
istrative officers can be thoroughly
broken up and dispersed without the
aid of a County Attorney who is fear
less, upright and jealous.
The history of the United States
demonstrates this Individually. The
power of the Tweed ring in New York
was only made possible by controlling
the administration of criminal justice
Tweed could never have attained his
vast power for public plumber unless
he had had an Oakley Hall as County
Attorney to protect him and his con-
fededates in the criminal court.
All the recent Investigations and eX-
pOsures in the United States that have
done so much to stimulate the people
to battle for honest government have
been brought about through the agen-
cy of the County Attorneys office. 1t
was County Attorney Folk, of st.
Louis, and County Attorney Jerome,
of New York, who brought about in
those two commonwealth the down
fall of corrupt power. And it always
will be so. If the County Attorney IS
either the active servant or the ac-
quiescent dependent of corrupt bosses
and machines the people will be pow
erless and almost hopeless victims of
their plunderers.
1t has never yet received a blow
from the County Attorneys office. and
that is why the Machine is not thor
oughly destroyed. That rs why it still
hopes to wind its Shiny, sinuous way
in power.
While other offices may be important,
the honest administration Of the Coun-
ty Attorneys office is indispensable for
the people. When public officials know
that an honest and fearless County At
torney will exhaust the powers of his
office to expose and to punish official
crime, no matter how powerful Or how
respected the offender then the peo-
pie Will have a reasonable guarantee
that such offenses will be reduced to
minimum.
Corrupt officials strengthen them
selves and profit in every way by the
control of this office They not only
insure by such control immunity to
themselves in their lawless lust and
greed of gain, but they also have the
power to Cypress those citizens who
refuse to bow the knee to their will ]
know from personal investigation made
over a series of years that one of the
lnightlest weapons of the machine is
It's power through the County Attor-
ney's office, by harassing and vexatious
to deter and intinotdata
poor and lowly citizens.
Important as it is, therefore, to pros-
ecute and punish the powerful guiItv
1t is not less important to shield from
oppression the weak and lowlv inno-
cent l have repeatedly declared that.
If l We're elected County Attorney. I
would see to it that those who violated
the law, no matter how powerful or
respectable they We're. should be
brought to justice. l wish now to saw
that, if l am elected, not the least of
my endeavors will be to protect all
classes and races-the weak, the poor
and despised-from being harassed
and oppressed in their business and |
lives by prosecutions instituted for the |
purpose of intimidating and coercing
them into obedience to the exactions |
and demands of petty politicians
The thrifty and honest, though low
~, industry of a designed creed or
race shall have at my hands equal pro-
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