The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-23

Charles Bartlett, X. Buchly, George
! o 'Neill and Jack Scully-who form, by
the way, the executive committee Of the
! liquor dealers league-in which IL is
stated that j. c. Cohen stated TO the
| FIVE that for twenty five hundred dol
lars Andrews could be bought to deliver
the Republican organization over to
the liquor dealers. That for that sum,
paid to him personally, he would throw
Joe Cooke down and the other Repub.
lican prohibitionists. The other affida.
yit was sworn to by Charley Bartlett,
manager of the Honolulu brewery, in
which il is stated that Andrews him.
self had made the same proposition,
based on the same figures.
Atkinson had asked to be allowed to
bring these affidavits TO the meeting
but this permission had been denied
him. After asking several times he
had been told that he might repeat the
substance of the affidavits, but that
they were not to be made public until
"the right time came. d"
Perjury"
Cohen lost no time in stating that
anyone who would swear to an affidavit
Of the nature outlined by Atkinson, in
which he was mentioned, was a periur.
or. The statement made was a lie.
Cohen then opened up and made q
number Of statements that let in light
on the situation. He stated that in the
very first Of the prohibition agitation
he had attended a meeting of the liquor
dealers in the office Of H. Peters, the
legal adviser of the liquor interests. AT
that meeting the question Of political
affiliations came up and he had advocat-
ed approaching the Republican party
for protection against the prohibition
lists. Peters advice was for the liquor
dealers to tie up with the Democrats,
the party from which they could ex-
pect favOrs. A combination of the
saloon men and the Democrats, said
Peters, would sweep the Territory and
deliver the legislature into the hands of
the liquor men.
Cohen said that he fought such a
plan and refused to have anything
further to do with the outfit that was
planning TO throw down the Repub-
licans.
"That is the reason these liquor deal.
ers are fighting me at every turn" he
declared. "That is the reason they are
fighting Andrews. They know that with
Andrews in charge of the campaign
they can not carry out their plan, but
with him out they can tear the Repub
lican party open and elect their Demo
cratic allies. That is the reason why
refused to join the other liquor deal.
ers in the antiprohibition fight, but car
ried on my own fight. I went to Cali
fornia and got five thousand dollars to
fight prohibition. ] gave the regular
antiprohibitionists three thousand Of it,
and they roared because I wouldn't
give them the rest. am sorry now
that / gave them any, because they
used that three thousand to work for
Democracy.
"They plan to split the Republican
party and to elect n Legislature that
will upset the present liquor law. The
whole thing is n Democratic plot, car
ried on from Democratic headquarters,
and what I am so disgusted about is
the fact that some of our best Repub.
Leans can not see through it and are
allowing these men to pull the wool
over their eyes. The whole thing is
conspiracy, and If this committee al.
lows itself to be made monkeys of by
the Democratic planners, you have less
political sense than ] think you have"
concluded Cohen, who intimated that
he could tell some more If he was goad.
ed to II.
Andrews DeAes Trsacherous Ones.
Andrews stated that he was in an
unfortunate position in one respect
that he was bound by pledge Of con.
fidence in regard to two conversations
he had had last March with representa-
tives OF the liquor men, Messrs Lish.
man and Bartlett. He had met them at
their request, and they had each asked
him to consider the conversations as
confidential. Until the two would re-
lease him from his promise, he could not
give the details Of the talks he had
had, but he could say that any sug-
gestion that he had offered to sell out
either himself or the party to any cause
for any amount was n lie.
He then asked why some of the ones
who accused him dared not face him
and make their charges.
For weeks / have been attacked in
an underhand way" he said, "and
have been unable to find out what am
hNNhpNh W. hu Hhl hnoM now w ny
do they sneak behind doors to show
afiidavitsf Why does their newspaper
print veilsd insinuationsH Why do they
whisper on the cornersi Are they not
men enough TO face mei I had this
meeting called so that I could meet
and face them, Why are they not
heref"
] Resolution Of Confidence.
"If they are not willing to have their
aifidavits shown openly, l do not think
that We ought TO consider them at all, "
said Waterhouse. "I move that we
express our confidence in Mr.. Andrews
by retaining him in his position in the
party"
"I second the motion, - said Commit
teeman King.
Before we take a vote" said Com.
mitteeman Macfarlane, sand in view of
the fact that there are these afidavits
in existence, move that we postpone
the taking Of a vote until we have
given the liquor men a chance 10 show
} us those afidavits. Give them until to,