Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-08-20


company ls..at. Honolulu. City and
County Of Honolulu. Territory afore-
said.
That afriant Is also and during all
the times hereinafter mentioned was
the vice president and member of
the executive committee of the
Wholesale Liquor Dealers Associa-
ton of Hawaii, a corporation organ
lied for the mutual protection of the
wholesale liquor dealers OF the Ter
ritory OF Hawaii;
That during all the times herein.
after mentioned there was pending
in the Congress OF the United States
a bill to provide for a plebiscite in
the Territory Of Hawaii for the vot-
ers to decide whether or not the
manufacture and sale Of Intoxicating
liquors should be prohibited by law
In said Territory. the Senate having
reported favorably upon said bill and
1t then being under consideration by
a committee OF the House of Repre-
sentatives;
That one, Lorrin Andrews. is an
attorney ut law with Offices upon the
date hereof in the Yokohama Specie
Bank building in said Honolulu. and
formerly on the third floor Of the
Judd building in said Honolulu;
That the s1id Lorrin Andrews Ia
and during all the times herein men
toned was the assistant secretary of
the Republi an Territorial Central
Committee. and as afiant Is Inform.
ed by the said Andrews, has for over
one year last past worked and en-
vored diligently and asslduously
10 rehabilitate the Republican party
IN the Territory OF Hawaii by reor
80 nization of the precinct clubs, en-
'"rragement and enlistment of party
workers and the allaying of dlssat-
fraction among the rank and file
| CT voters. to the result and with such
success. as afiiant was informed by
the said Andrews, that he. the said
/ Andrews, personally, could control
the next Republican primaries held
! in the City and County of Homo
lulu. and that he could control the
Republican votes in every precinct
within said city and county with
the exception OF four precincts, and
that he, the said Andrews. by rea-
son thereof would be the leader in
and absolutely control the next Re.
publican county convention of the
City and County Of Honolulu to the
extent of individually. arbitrarily
and absolutely naming in advance
the nominees of such convention;
That the foregoing information
concerning the political success and
power Of the said Andrews was i'm
parted to afiant by the said Andrews
under the following circumstances:
This afiiant, being notified by J..
c. Cohen, Esq, representing himself
to come from the said Andrews and
to have been sent by him. that he,
the said Andrews, desired to gee af
fiant, on or about the Both day OF
March, A. ID. 1910. called upon the
said Andrews In his said Office In
the Judd building, whereupon the
said Andrews discoursed at length
upon his control OF the Republican
party machine as hereinbefore stat
ed and then and there further In
formed afiant that J. p. Cooke, Esq,
whom this afIlant knew to be an act
ing and influential worker In the
Republican party, as well as one
of Its most important avenues OF
financial assistance, was insisting
that the Republican party indorst
prohibition within the Territory OF
Hawaii and that leaders of the party
start a movement for the adoption
by the next Republican Territorial
and county conventions Of a prohi
bitlon, plank in the party platform
and that no, tho said Andrews, fear
, ed that II said Cookies request were
D rejected that the said Cooke woult
. refuse further fnan ial assistance
#, and could prevent financial assist
e ance from Others; that he. the sale
r Andrews. desired to be Independent
( OF tho said J. =. Cooke, and desired
I assistance not Ccup'ed with de
a mand for prohibition; but that HI
q required money for Independent