The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-14
WHAT |AUKEA SAYS
Of 1901 NOTE
Shows 1t Was a Perfectly
innocent Business
Transaction.

The following statement by Sheriff
tC. P. Iaukea regarding his note to
Isoye Cor Isoi) accounts of which have
been in circulation for some time:
81 have been grossly misrepresented
by those responsible for starting the
story of my business with Isoye and
the promissory note for 800, and L
want it known that | have IN no way
stopped to anything in the way OF
graft, nor did / know, as a matter of
| fact, that the man to whom L made
out the note, which ] paid, was the
Isoye who is identified in Iwilei matters.
| "United States District Attorney r.
Nv Breckons has acted in a way that
was not in the least manly in this af-
! fair.
II am informed by Isoye, who has
called to see me to express his regret
that this matter has come out, that
Breckons has been in the habit of MAX
| ing monthly calls at Isoye's house TO
| look over his business papers, and that
on one occasion, when lsoye was alb
| sent. Breckons induced Isoye S wife to
let him take away the promissory note
that he might photograph it.
! "Breckons photographed this note
and showed the photograph to every
| body except to myself, and this for the
reason that it was Breckons' desire
| to discredit me in the eyes of the peo-
| pie who were endeavoring to close
| Iwilei.
| 81 have no personal feeling against
Breckons in this matter, but | have
been misrepresented and wronged and
| / mean to take the most thorough ac-
| ton TO clear my skirts, no matter what
| may have to divulge of what I Know
| in this regard.
Breckons snfreptitiously and delibe-
rately endeavored to do me an injury
and has to some extent succeeded, in,
asmuch as he has shown about this
promissory note and has put a wrong
construction on it's import and signif-
ance, and | feel it my duty to most
emphatically insist that he is in the
wrong and l shall leave no stone I'M
turned to prove that | am blameless.
"The entire note transaction was
very simple one, and while / feel that
the act may have been an indiscreet
one, | can assure you that there was
absolutely nothing dishonest about it.
While | feel that the matter is pri-
waite one, | consider, however, that in
view of the talk the matter has caus
ed, it is due the people who elected
me, and the public in general, that
they know the full facts.
"Toward the end of April | was in
financial difficulties, having some
notes to meet which [ did not see my
way clear to meet / went to B. F.
Dillingham; and asked him if he could
let me have $3.50 for a short time. He
said he was not able to do so, but
would try to raise the money from
his friends, but [ told him that l did
not wish him to go begging for me-
l also went twice to see w. r. Castle,
but / failed to find him in, but d. L.
Wilmington saw me on both these oc-
casiOns. However, / did not speak to
him about my errand.
Late one afternoon as I was sit.
ting here in my office worrying over
the matter, Special Officer Townsend
passed my door, and l asked him if
he knew where / could borrow 800
for a short time. He said that he
might get it, and the next day he
brought the money and / made out "a
note for the amount, which was later
on paid back by me. The very fact
that [ made a note viii show that
there was nothing dishonest and no
graft about the affair. As a matter
of fact. at the time I did not realize
that the Isoye by whom the money was
advanced was the man who has leas,
ed property at Iwilei.
"Later on there began to circulate
rumors about the matter, and l was
approached by several leading Demo
Gratis, to whom [ told the full circum-
stances of the case. Taylor asked
Townsend about the matter, but
Townsend did not tell him the facts,
but told me that Taylor had asked
him. I then called Taylor and told
him about the entire TRANSACTION, and
later on, when Taylor resigned, he
told me, in answer to my question,
that he did SO because he had intend
ed to do so for some time, and that
he was not actuated by any belief
that [ had accepted graft.
Now all I ask for is fair treatment
in this matter. | have been absolute
~ honest, and have fulfilled the prom
ises l made to the people who elected
me. / am willing to accept fair criti-
cism of my acts, bat when people make
charges about graft they should have
the courage to bring open charges in
stead of trying to smirch my reputa-
tion with innuendoes -