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

ata!n,t whom his lp,ciu g,ivan @
tLams 10 have been registered. stat
cd ,mJncly ana oNci their own sig
HrtarcT that they considc ed the
vttc IN cLuC;- Mcni q TIC pi1scdt
iiqro. law.
Cohen wanted Il made plain In
the minds OF those present At the
hearing that he was the martyr in
! the a3c. Ito said he represented the
Calr,Trla iluuor interests, and while
iJucd siCuO To assist in the anti
Prohibition campaign; he had come
ba II to Honolulu, given $4,000 OF
thai money 10 the other Fellows and
kept s2cO0 10 be expended hy him
sai. Apparently he thought that
by oasUn Of that $4,000. the Repub
iicar pirtN had been saved through
him. WI lc d,d with that money,
Ne said, wa his own business, but
T. cas safe TO presume from what
he had uaid pIcyicisly that II went
to pay tho runners whom Andrews
sent tn him, and was to have no eff
fcst WI itcvcr on his candidacy for
1.-THE Territorial Senate.
Cohen CLAIMS Many
According to Cnhcn, he Is the
only white hers chicken in the
'whu.e liquor bu3lnefs Of the Islands.
lie said he represented the majority
of the reputable LIQUOR houses OF
the city and Territory. Someone
asked him how no did II and he said
he sold California wine to the ma.
joriiy OF them.
Cohen's answers to questions were
such as TO give the Impression thnt
firms like Schaefer & Co. and Hack
field g. Co. were with him and not
with the alleged conspirators. NO
one stopped to as khim how he, CO.
hen, with his views on immigra-
tion. hypnotized firms like Schaefer
and Hackfcld 4 Co. to believe In
him.
After several different explosions
had occurred in this connection, At
, an affidavit in which Andrews was
/ represented as having offered to
guarantee the protection of the iiq-
Iuor interests by the Republican
party II he were provided with w.
500 SO that he would not be subject
:, 10 the will and finances OF J. =. Cooke
Atkinson said that he had been al
lowed to read the affidavit made by
:. G. q. bartlett to this effect, but was
!, not allowed to keep 1t. lie could
1 not give the whole details Of 1t, but
Il was three pages long and what
he remembered was the gist of 1t.
Wanted to Wait.
: Andrews got up and said that this
was what Interested him. and want
/, ed to know why the affidavit was
, not produced.
|, Andrews denied everything that
Atkinson said was In the affidavit.
!, He admitted that he had had "a con-
: ference with Bartlett and also with
Mr.. Lishman, but he did not want
:, 10 say anything about what he had
: said In that conversation with Bart
lett until he had seen what Bartlett
had sworn to.
> Somehow II did not seem to oc-
cur to Andrews that II there was
no doubt of what he had said. 1t
, didn't make any difference on earth
what Bartlett had said, and the
, truth from Andrews standpoint
would be just as sweet and pretty.
right there before the Territorial
p, committee. as 1t would after he had
read what is in the Bartlett am
dayit,
But the committee did MOI force
this point and no one but Andrews
, raised it,
!, The general sentiment of those
present was that IL would be much
! better TO have the original docu.
ments to work from. Atkinson said
he had been allowed to see the at
| fidavits and had been told that he
could use the information containc |
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