The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-06-25
WRONG PARTY
ON THE GRILL
Anti-SaIOOnerS Roasted Instead
of Saloons They Were
Going After.
(From saturday,s Advertiger.l }

NN-ASSAOh
its desire to take its medicine in small
doses so that it wouldn u taste so bad
and with this policy in mind the big.
gest protest was left over until the
next meeting. The room at the special
meeting yesterday was packed, not
only with applicants but number
who wanted to see fireworks. They
came as expected, of course, and
burned brightly while they lasted,
but when it was all over it was the
Anti-Saloon League which was
scorched and not the saloons.
Three protests had been presented
by the league, two of which were set
tied against it and the other, while
being taken under consideration, was
done so when charges of "wilful mis-
representation" were made by the at
torney for the applicants.
This protest was signed by a large
number of voters of the fifteenth pre-
cinct of the fifth district. 1t was
worded to protest against issuing
license to any saloons in that district
and particularly for r. Murakami of
the Adzuma tea house, School street.
Accused Dry workers.
Emil c. Peters represented Mu-
rakami and others affected After he
had been talking quietly for a few
minutes his audience suddenly sat up
and realized that it was quite some
talk that he was aiming at the Anti
Saloon bench He had gone out yes
terday morning, he said, with steno-
grapher and n notary public and
looked up as many of the signers of
the protest as he could find. These,
he said, numbered about twenty, and
in some cases were the wives instead
of the men as the latter were at work.
In the latter case, he said, the wives
had overheard the conversation be-
tween their husbands and the men who
carried the protest around.
This conversation he retailed in an
extremely interesting fashion. He had
learned, he said, that when the protest
bearers were in the vicinity of Liliha
street they said the protest was
against n new saloon that was to be
opened at the corner of Liliha and
School street. When they were on the
other side of the precinct, Peters
stated he had learned, they said the
protest was directed against new
saloon to be opened at the corner of
School and Nuuanu.
I "Ani'' Had Defense.
G. w. Patty of the Anti-Saloon
League did not lose much time in get
ting up when Peters sat down. He had
secured seventy names himself, he
said, and was very sure he had made
proper representations. He remarked
that he had also called up the four
men who had carried the protest
around for him and they were quite
sure that they had stuck to the text
of the protest in their explanations.
But meanwhile another stick was
brought forth against the petition. In
tspector Fennell under instructions
from the board, had checked up the
names on the protest and found that
they were 130 shy of a majority of
the voters registered at the last cleo
ton. Lyle Dickey argued that there
was now no such thing as the old reg
lister which had been legislated out of
existence and that the thing to go by
was the Great Register, under which
conditions they would have a majority
of the voters. Chairman Cooke point
ed out that the attorney general had
ruled otherwise but admitted the de-
cision might have been hasty and
while the case goes over awaiting m
other opinion on the point of law. In
spector Fennell will investigate the
charges of "wilful misrepresenta,
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| Kojima License Granted.
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Another scalp the Anti ti-Salooners
were after was that of S. Koiima and
Company. The protest they had se-
cured from the voters of the precinct
was to the effect that this wholesale
house was too near the fishhmarket
Fennell had also made an unfavorable
report on the application, saying that
a corporation had been formed to
evade the regulation of the board re.
garding resident licensees as Koiima
spent most of his time in Japan.
The board voted unanimously
against Fennel's IS stand and split on
the protest of the Anti-Salooners but
! Koiima got his license. Chairman
Cooke agreed with the protest that
the place was too near the fshmarket
but was outvoted by the others.
The third scalp that should have
dangled before the Anti Saloon wig.
wan was that of Jack Roberts OF the
Kentucky saloon, but Jack still wears
II in ITS proper place. The protest was
signed by a majority of the property
owners within ESQ feet of the corner
Of Merchant and King.
Theodore Richards argued for II.
! lie referred TO Roberts statement
that il was the result of personal
fight between Paddy Ryan and his
father In law and denied the truth Of
this The protest, he said, was made
strictly from the commercial point OF
view lie smoke Of impendinp realty
changes, of tho chamber Of commerce =
desire 10 build IN the neiPhhOrhood
and the fact that Il was becoming one
of the highest priced yleinities IN the
| ritv His main point was that saloons
deprceiatod the value " property, The