The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-27

money. These are large figures and
hard to understand. Let Is see if we
can not reduce them to everyday
terms, Well in round numbers, we
have handled $4,000 every month, or
$4,000 every week, or $1,000 every
day, or $500 every hour, or 50 every
minute.
1.-THE County Act provides that at
least once every three months, and as
much oftener as they may choose. the
chairman of the Board of Supervisors,
the County Auditor and the County
Attorney shall count the cash in the
Treasurer 5 Office and see if IL is all
there. In the first eighteen months of
my service, Mr.. George w. Smith, Mr..
James Bicknell and Mr. +. A. Douthitt
were the gentlemen whose duty it was
to check me up. During the past
eighteen months this duty has devolved
upon Mr.. Charles HuStace, Jr., Mr..
Bicknell and Mr.. John w. Catheart.
You will note that none of these gem
tlemen belong to the same political
party that l do, and | am pleased now
to say that they performed their duties
conseientiously and weh.
"I feel sure it will interest you to
know how they found things from time
TO time. Please bear in mind that
their visits were made at no stated
times, and that no notice was sent
ahead of their coming. Here are their
REPORTS. signed and sworn to in every
case before a notary public. And IN
every ease they found the money IN
the Treasurer S Office correct to cent.
"Now, gentlemen, if there is any
credit due for the manner in which tins
money has been handled, | want the
Treasurer s clerk, Manly Hopkins, TO
have his full share of it. Practically
every dollar of it has passed through
his hands, and not even a single ms
take has been charged up to him.
"And this is the record on which L
ask for your votes for reelection. The
Home Rulers and Republicans are both
anxious to get control Of the treasury.
A vote for them will be vote to re-
pudiate the record that has already
been made and to substitute other
methods. Do you want to make the
change2'
In introducing Frank r. Harvey,
Chairman Ingham said he was repre-
sentative Hawaiian, who, as an official,
Harvey paid his respects to the PAID
runners which the Republicans were
employing in such numbers, notwith-
standing at the beginning of the cam
paign they had announced with much
flourish that they would not employ
any.
Chairman Ingham, in introducing
] William Jarrett, candidate for Sheriff,
said. loosely, that in serving warrants
he had never failed but once, and that
| was when he had been given warrant
| for a Republican who was going TO vote
the straight Republican ticket. He had
! been obliged to return that, not found
/ in Oahu County,
Jarrett said he was a poor speaker,
but that when it came to action he be-
lieved he could say he was there with
the goods.
other speakers were H. t. Moore, E.
| NJ. Watson and Joseph j. Fern.
In opening the meeting Chairman
Ingham said, among other things:
4If Mr.. McCandless were going
about making the rash statements, as
charged by the Republicans, J, for one
would petition TO have guardian app
pointed for him forthwith.
s.But even if it were true that the
nromise Of homestead Of $50 acres OF
the public domain had been held out 70
voters. of what significance would sueh
an offer be as compared with the ae.
final transfer by the Republicans OF
$4,000 acres of the public domain 70
one individual2"