Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 194, 22 August 1894 — Hitchcock's Brigade. [ARTICLE]

Hitchcock's Brigade.

Onee upon a time the virtoons < ■ Adverii*er devoted mneh ink, \ mueh spaee and mueh abnses in ( cntizing th* poliee department I! more eapecially when C. B. Wil- j i | aon was maiwhal. Everytbing , j ' was as bad. *s'-b*d ean be. W. i O. Smith tbe present Attorney ( Geoer*l occopied the floor and i tbe time of tbe Legislatnre with j i bis verl>ose tirades on the sarae ( snbject and all bi» songs about the poliee were set to the Adcer- j < t{*er tnne. He derided in the i , «trongest tenns tbe personel of i tbe force. He delivered a regn- j i iar Phillipiea against tbe expen- j >es of the departmeDt and bis con»tant cry was retrenchment retrenchment! In hie most approved sanctimonions style be deplored the necessity of dim- ; inishing the numerical strength of the polieo and he illostrated 'j in eloquent* terms and with a t tear-fil!ed voice the absolote useles>ness of the mounted poliee r and of the Waikiki station—and I he succeeded in his efforts. Ably f snpported by Cecil Brown, by . w. C. Wilder, Jobn Ena and ' . other legislutors he got the ap- j ; propriation for the poliee re<luc • f ed very mnterially and materially , impaml the officiency of the At- : ] torney-Gener»l’s department. t What chnnge bas eome over t j his drearas ! Why is the Adver , . I so silent nnd blind to the j r ( ezploits in tbe station house ( I 9 Wliere is tlie virtuous indigon- j i tion formerly displayed, where , L , the rnergv ol abuseand nubridled | , ire ? Aias ! tbe truly good have fallen. !Smith has got the At- I toruev-Gener»lship and he does j v j n’t propose to emmp the poliee , t . is long as he holds the pnrse- j u striugs, and Custle has filled WiIson’s plaee with his brother- j in law. And brethren, eau a \. member of the compact sin or j s j become donlecl ? 8 But wlmt do we see to day ? * j Althoogb the revenueshave been e diminished tne Attorney-General I '■ |ms increastd the appropriation 6 for the force matorially. Alf thongh His Lxcellency claimed j 0 lhat tuo mouuted poliee was a * f ri »ud we find thut he, uow. is ° steadi!y inereasing tbat branch. Although the golden era is said j a to have dawned we are told tbat j ’ the eiimiuial elemeut has in- ; s creased considerably since the e revolution and we are asted to s pay for n large “detective” force, for spies and informers. While j ' f in 189J W. O. Smith denied the | e necesaity of an appropriation for i ° S |H“cial service he now tbrows money right and left fur secret i ° purposes, and that while the , II ro.ds and water\vorks demand overy ceut whieh eau be saved. A' d how they coraplained over ° the men employed by ilson. It i ° did uot take long for the present regime to employ that bete noir j * of Mr.S mitli, Ūaplain Larsen and • v to plaee him in a most respousi- | ; ble poeiiioo. Andthepresent j>er ; e aonel ! We could hnrdly believe ~ our senees when we lcoked at the i bng«de »hich Hitchcock dares to parade iu open court as his of- , n ficers and on \vhose veiy manly |t bosoms he dares to put tbe badge [V of an offieer. In what hands is the law and order of tbe e >mmuj nity lallen ? If the Attoruey- . Geueral’s motto is to set a thief e to catch a thief he has succeeded , j i wonderfulIy well in Hving up to \ >r it Ex-police-officers cashiered ; j fur bribery. convicted for gimbl j iog and punisbed now sport a commission signed by W. O. j Smith and Hitchcock anddisplay j j with pride the badge whieh tbe dishonored and disgraced. Vag j rants and bums drifted to these , sbores froro onknown parts and ! i- with unknown anteced**nts are t heartily welcomed into the flock j g at tbe statiou house and invested d ; with poliee antborily. A moonte ed poliee force composed of j s ignorant, indiscreet and overe | bearing aliena who ueither nnder- ; 0 stand Uie people or tbe language b of the lani are ailowed to ro*m | i- aboat with snfficient antboritv to i cause trouble and annojance to f every resj>ectable and !aw-abiding j 1 citizen Tbe poliee force under » ; former regimes haa not been j>er- ' i fect Xobody claims that it was, j i bat eveiy intelHgent man wiii . - surely admit that never before . g; has so disgraceful 8 spectaeie , } been witnessed in Hewaii &s that i

preeented by ihe Smītb-Hitcb- j 1 eoek brigade. From the day when poliee officers placed dynamite in tbe •' y«rd cext to tfae Queen, nailed 11 tbe anarchistic plac«rd on Spreekels’ gate, and conspired io a enminal manner to brtng a few onfortonate gir!s to pnnishment, and did all this unpnnished »cd witb tbe >anction of their superior officer from whom tbey | received promotion instead of dismissbl. frora ihen tiil the presect day tbe department has degenerated more and more nntit tbese pets of the Smith-Hitcb-eoek combination bave becone an eyesore to tbe comraauity. a blot on tbe fair name of Mawaii.