The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-22
'IAUkEA BREAKS
INTO THE FIGHT
Asks NonpOIitiCal Police Force
but Supports Democratic
Principles.

Sheriff Iaukea appeared upon the
stump for the first time in the cam
paign yesterday in his own interests as
an independent candidate for reelection,
breaking into the fight from the soap
box at the corner of King and Bethel.
! Iaukea s appearance was the signal for
| the crowd to get in closer to the speak
ers stand and close attention was paid
to what he had to say, both in English
and Hawaiian.
Iaukea took a stand that the police
department should be kept out of pol
itics and the laws enforced without a
possibility of offenders escaping through
political pulls In all other respects he
stated his position as one of support
for the Democratic party and ticket and
asked the voters to place the Democrats
in power in order that they might prove
themselves.
While close attention was paid to
Iaukea s address there was little com
ment to be heard and no applause dur
ing the time he spoke in English. The
only interrupter was a Withholding Ha-
waiian youth, who declared himself a
Republican and who later went on the
soap box himself, to the great delight
of the crowd, his speech and appearance
raising many roars of laughter.
Iaukea s speech in English was:
Gentlemen, I come before you not
asking you to support any ticket or
party, but to request your votes for me
as an Independent candidate, alone and
without any party back of me, for the
office, the one office which should have
nothing to do with politics. IF you
wish to see the police department con-
tinued on the lines upon which it has
been conducted during my term of Of
fee, absolutely without political infiu-
ence or political favor, 1 believe that
you should place your votes for the
man who has already shown you that
there has been no politics in his Office
during his administration.
''Would you rather be sure of the
protection to which the community IS
entitled from the police department, or
do you want to have a police admins
tration where guilty men are allowed to
escape because those in authority are
anxious to get votes for reelection or
the election of their friends7
Now I want you to give the Demo.
Gratis a chance in this election. Give
the Democrats chancei''
sfNo!'' shouted a voice from the
back of the crowd ''No! I'm here,
and I say nol'' He was not identified.
Iaukea continued: ''The men who
were elected to office on the Democratic
ticket have made good Look at Trent
Can any one say anything against
Trent9
'ETake me for instance. Have I done
anything that l should get the ill-will
of any of the people of this community
81 may have been indiscreet. but any
indIseretion on my part has not in any
way interfered with the honest and
effective administration of my depart
ment.
81 do not want to say anything
against the candidates on the Repub-
lean ticket I believe that many of
them are good men. Many of them
are honest men. I viii say nothing
against them.
"Now the Home Rulers have had
their day; have said I will say moth
ing against the Republican candidates;
but I do say, give the Democrats
chance.
Gas for myself, ask your votes to
elect me TO continue the police depart
ment in the manner in which [ have
conducted it, and that is without the
control of any machine, without pol
ities, honestly and to the best of my
endeavor. Don't let any machine get
hold of the affairs of your police de-
partment.''