The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-29
Honolulu. October 26. 1908.

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Dear Sir: On Tuesday. Nov. 3rd, you
twill be expected to exercise your rght
as an elector of this County and to go
to the polls with a desire 10 put the
execution of the laws of the land into
the hands of man who knows you and
who is known by you.
1 have served you as Sheriff for near
" two years. and l feel that l have
performed all of the duties of the ctiee
to the satisfaction of every fair-think-
ling man-every man who fears God
and who lives with a desire TO see this
city free from the vice that has cen
tered here in some periods Of its his
tory. 1 believe that your conscience
viii tell you that it is better to have
in office one who is disposed to see
crime decreased than to elect those who
will permit vice to faunt itself in the
faces Of your sons and daughters, and
who may uneonsciously allow MS office
TO be run by those who lead the Iwilei
element.
1t has been said that I cannot get
votes from Hawaiians because they pre-
fer to have IN office man who win
run things wide open. | believe this
is SANDER on the Hawaiian people.
l was born and raised here; | know the
people better than those who make such
statements, and know them to be of
a character that demands clean gov
eminent and one free from political
strife.
My term of Office has shown me what
manner of man is required to be Sheriff.
1t has proven to me that he must be
one who viii have strength of character
sufficient to enable him to ward off the
bribers, one who can say No to those
who come to him with money with
which to purchase protection IN the
commission of crime. l think you will
believe me when l tell you that | have
been able TO do this in spite of the
fact that I entered upon my duties a
poor man, and if / am not elected L
viii leave the office no better financially
than I was when I went into it. EV-
eryone knows Of the attempt made by
a citizen to blacken my reputation be
cause / accepted loan from man
who afterwards attempted to bride me.
Everyone knows what is happening to
the man who made the attempt to ruin
my reputation in order to prove the
ineficieney of Hawaiians in Office Of
public character and to confirm his FIRE,
quently- expressed opinion that t'You
cannot trust a Hawaiian in Office, don t
try it, The investigation to be made
of his record by the Attorney General
of the United States, Mr. Bonaparte,
has scarcely begun. Wait for the end
I ask you for your votes at this time
because I believe you want an honest
administration in the Office of Sheriff;
that you do not want the laws carried
out so loosely that your homes are IN
danger of being transgressed against
and the character of your wives and
daughters endangered; that you do not
want your sons, and your brothers and
sisters made worse through inefficient
police administration. l believe I have
cleaned the department Of ali that IS
TO the people and retain
ed in Office only such as win carry out
the instructions have given them.
ask you to carefully consider this:
I am working for my election without
the support of any party, without the
aid of anyone, and you are not to allow
the fact that my name is not mention