Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 88, 16 April 1894 Edition 02 — COŔESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

COŔESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold onrselves responsible for tbe opinions or the ntten»uces of our f»rrespondents.J Editor Holomua: TLe Lonāon Timesiucoramenti ing on President Cleveland s ap- ! purent change of front, incidenti ully if not ir»nically, refers to j tfce recent electorul successes of the Republican party as havi ing produced in the Presideut’s mind an “apprehension,” and a debilitating eftect on tbe “Presi- [ deuts nerves.” Nothing of tho j kind. The Times kuew nothing i of the gre.it p. g. warrior Capfc«in Good, who, with his array whieh | “goes on the run,” stood ready to “fight a foo either iceternal or external,” and stunp tbe crew of an English man-of-war into the earth. How fortunate it was that someone here was posted, so ]as to warn the Uuited Stutes authorities against coraing usbore to get wiped out by Gock1 and his invincibles. Thus it is that : the Tivms should go slow in cast- ; ing around for the motives of 1 President Clevelnnds inaction, j who now eao donbt that Lieulenant Lueien Young. who is : stationed at Washington, has whispered in the ear of the War Departraeut wonl of cantiou Iest the naval forces of the United j Sfcites in Haw.iii should be cb literated by the Good Napoieon of the Pacific getting “in th« run.”

Good is a vety modest general. j In “writing of possibiiities,’ he is j silent nbout tbe Kauai caua{iaigns in whieh about half his army) 1 went “on the ron” to enjoy the pienie of capturing one kanaka, and he a half paralyzed leper. How the brave contingeni left Honolulo marcbing down Fort street with the great Good at tbeir head; how the army carried Krupp goos and grape and sbell j to capture one cripple; how the i heroes were brave in shelling the hannt of tl»e leper from a safe distance; were not all these exp!oits written in heroics, by a at«tf of p. g. newspaper reporter» * and officūi miliUry despatcb wailaea. How the axa/ got*ia

tbe ran" back trith three of their Dnmber anJ the leper st« 1 -it large. tis soi>etUiaj that , i Good :s never likely to tell “ia | , gath” or pablish in the by ways > ! of Colf.ix. Good need not trsat to possibties ili of glory in the fatare. The lanrels of Eaaai are histoiy | and should be emblazoned on banners whieh Good will hang i em the onter walls of his *'fine position,” to scare roy«lists. Good may yet have the opportan:ty whieh he evidently desires I of sitisfving the royalists, that he and his f >rce whieh, aided by the po'iee. and a proclimation of martial law on Kanai was not; i eqnal to tLe captare o( one kana ka —conld now trample five or ten tboasand, “into tbe earth.’ Good who was abont twelve months in commission as a military captain before he eonla drill a sqnad witboat looking at his field br.ok on parade, sbonld prav tbat he raay never eneoanter royalists, or Eoglish man-of-war’s-raen in real earnest. Gcd help the men that wonkl be victims, in action, of such military incompetents as Good. In the iueantime the p. g. ; shou!d be proud of the military genius who kaows the political wickedaess of foreign ministers, and as tbe p. g. are apparently strong enongh t > defy tlie great powers bv, permitting their militaiy rapscallions to write their opinionsabout fmeign Repre-ent-atives; it is sraall matterafter a 11, j that, as the Times states, tliere shonld be in the raind of the President “au apprehension lest Good should get, “on the run.” Bcll Rcx. - Editor Holomua: Althoogh I have always had a very pronounced antipathy to ; anythiug savoring of ne\vspaper 1 notoriety. yet occusion will »rise, Hr. Editor, when tlie force of circnrastances leave a man uo optiou buttoseek to bedelivered frora a wrong by having recourse to the powerful agency of the public press. And it is precisely for this reason tliat I crave your indulgence for encroaching upon vour eolumna aneut a matter, whieh, thongh possibly of rainor ! interest to sorae of your readers, is neverthe!ess of last iraport to your correspondent, iuvolving as it does, an honest man’s richest i legacy, i. e., a fair name and an unsullied reputution. Oh Jan. 9 of this year 1 was i ioade the snbject of tlie following paragraph in the “Daily Bulletin;” “Alexander D. McEvoy, late ; Deputy Sherift" of Fresno County. Cal.. is on a visit to Honoluln. As a patrolmau in San Francisco in 1889, he esposed a Cliinese gambling ring in whieh others! i were iraplicited. His reward was to be disniĪ3sed the service, \ i as tbe Examiner stated iu tbe ! acconnt of the death of the head ; Chinese gambler in 1892. Mr. i j McEvoy had been appointed to ( the force throogh tbe inAnenee > of General O. O. Howard. Uuited ; States Army.” i i The would be-fnnny man of the | [ Siar —an nnvarnished exposo of i t | wohse own antecedauts wonld per- | : haps fail t<» roveal him in tlie [ light of sach au imraaculate par„gon of perfection as that in - whieh he now poses bef.»re an 5 i adrairing Hawaiian poblic—re3 ! printed the above on the followiug r I Jay. That he eoaU not refr.tin t fr*>ra appending some slnrring 1 | remark about my roy«listic proclivities of whieh he knows nothn ing, seeing that I have nerer

ubtruded my private views of the Hawaiian imbroglio upon anyone in Honolulu, nor becorae ident iaed with any loeal poli:ical or2anisation—is not surprising to tbose who know the natnro of the beast This brulum fulmtn, bowever. is too trivial for any serions remonstrance on my part. What d»ies eoneem me, neverthe- j !ess. and concerns me deeply is, | that in the face of the statement thns published certain persons : iu this city, from motives whieh j are beyond the ken of apprehen- ' sion, have seen fit to circulate : reports refiecting in the most I grievous manner npon my' character and honesty. even going so far as to give ont that I was dismissed the service <>f the S.m Inaeuoe PoluM loiw» kw tiie

iniqnity that I was instriira€ntjl in expos:ng in others. 1 forbear to express my opiuion of men who valne their neighbor s good name so lightlv as to make snch baseless and daraaging attacks bebiud his baek, without dne investigation, lest the bitterness of my feelings betrav me into exceeding the boands of disoretion. But I will not brook such eowardlv t ictics frora anyone withont entering a vigorous protest, and daring thera to eome ont in the light of day and repeat theirsland* erous assertious in black and white. And in rofntation of these dastardly aspersions permit me to subjoin the following extracts from San Francisco papers: “To Alexander McEvoy, wliom Gano had removed from tbe squad on the ground that he was a crank who w,is destroying the efficiency of the uien. belongs the credit oi being the primary canse of the investigation whieh resnlted in the landing of Gano, Cryslal, Robinson and McCarthy in prison McEvoy is a young raan of excellent char icter. who has mado a good record during tbe short tirae he has been on the poliee force, He is bright and intelligent, and his superiors speak of him with terms of i praise. He was formerly in the navy. McEvoy deserves promotion for tlie detective skill he 1 displayed in working up the case ! against Guno.”— Chronicle, Feb. , 1S69.

* > ‘ - To prevent raisunderstanding ; the “Roport’* was in error in stating on Mar. 30th that Alex- j ander D. McEvoy when a poliee- ; inan, was concerned in the Gano bribery case. The statement i fall and an internpted sway. 1 | MeE vov was on the watch that I night. but he stated afterwards that he suspected Gano, «nd for | onee played the part of detective. | ' He said ho saw Gano receive the money and heard the promise ! given that no harm would eome to j the g\mblers. Gano was dismiss- ; od from the force etc.” In eoneluaion Mr. Editor, I bet» leavo to ndd that 1 did not O leive the force uutil Mar. lst i 1391, fully two years after the I d .raaging disclosures were made. | ray services being dispen?ed w.th , upon the gronnd of ptiysical dis- ; ability conseqnent npon the m- | jnries whieh I had received in S the act of stopping a run iway 1 horse. Furtber, that I have in mv pcssession a certificate sig od by all the merabers of the Board of San Francisco Poliee Cjmission- j i ers as well as by Chief CrowIey, ; whieh folly substantiates the fact | of mv honorab!e discharge, and , that I challenge eaeh aud all of tuy calnmnbitors to disprove a i smgle ioU of th s my truthfnl i i versioa of the aff.dr with my j sincere thants for your courtesy in allowing sjnce for my lengtby ; ; eommuniealion. I subscnbe myself. Yours etc, Alexaxdeb D. Mcevoe. Honolulu, Apnl 14tb, 1893. • ‘ ~