Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
JUST THE MAN WANTED.
Endorsement of Abraham Humphrics for Associate Justice of Hawaii.

The Honolulu Commercial Advcr- | tiscr of recent date contains the fol- i lowing endorsement of AhralIam l Humphries for inc position of associate 1 justice of theHfawaiian islands:
 Brother Humphreys adds d pleas | ing variety lo the judicial politics of
 these iSlandS-by entering a contest for ! the supreme bench with an Arizona record This record. which k not be- l lipvcd to he SD black aS it K painted.
 nevcri helcSS includes some interesting and scientific street fights. in one of which q knife was used and in another q pistol So far as We can @Ithc''.
 Brother Humphreys was accustomed io go armed in Arizona and when prop rrly gaadad by loathSome rivals at th;' | idr hn made them either strike for
 rhe high ground pursued hy hot lead
 rr iuip down wells to escape vivi- Srctory investigation.
 | Hawaii has long been waiting for q | judge of these capabilities. Anything
 more humdfum and prOSaic than our | 'Sland bench fl would be difficult to
 ind outside the conSiStory of a Quaker
 congregation. Litigants who deserve
 shooting from the wOOlsack and jury
 men who should be judicaIly carved
 are permitted to exist among Us in de iiance of all reason. For years and years this state of things has been tol-
 erated and until Abe Humphreys ar
 rived on the bench and turned his
 sighting eye in the direction of the | courts. there was no hope of relief. It ! looked as if we should never get any
 one better than the spectacled sages, | dry as heir own tones, who could not tell the difference between 22-caliber insect gun and 3S-caliber Smith X | WeSsSOn revolver without adjOurning court tO inquire into it. As for bowie knives. our customary judges are as l innocent as babes unborn. and the one of longest experience could not reach | ihe liver of a cOntumaciOuS lawyer at 1 the first dive any more than he could put q pigs tail in the proper place while trying blindfOlded to make q drawing of the quadruped. But when
 q man k needed he generally appears: and just as the community has almost lost hope that the supreme court would ever get any bounce in it and show any
 craftsmanship. along came q snapshot
 lawyer fOm the land of the Apache
 Kid and pledged himself. if given a chance tO relieve the situation.
 "The joy We feel over Mir. Humph-
 rey's advent in judicial politics here is
 shared by most of his surviving Ari-
 zOna friends. Three-fingered Ike Will
 Hams has nOt been heard from. ii is true. but Frank Heney. whom we think
 has bern mentioned as the Gila Terror.
 prOciam:; niS satisfaction at the } thought that Abe k here to American-
 iZe our alienated bench. Barclay Hen ley feels the same way. In his halcyOn and vocifer0uS youth Henley was also , q legal tire-cater. and being of south
 ern birth he made things hot for the
 UnionistS in San Francisco during the civil war This annoyed the depart ment commander General Mcdowell and he was just about to arrest Mir
 Henley when the latter fled ta Mexico and took the oath of allegiance tC MaXimilian. Then he came back tC 7 San Francisco with q SiX-ShOOter il
 one pocket and his Mexican naturaliZa
 tion papers in the other. held his ! ground against a1l corners. and fol s years was looked upon as the best shoi p at the har.Judge David Terry alone eX p ccpted. What. then could be more nat
 ural for Henley than to back up ou n own and only Abe: It iS but a matter I of time before We shall be able to re n cord the testimonials of One-eyed Bil
 Dukes Wyatt Earp. SawtiSh Johnson
 Wild Jake HickenlOOper. Tom Fitcl
 and such other devoted American law ! years and juriSts of Arizona as ma! n still he above ground.
 $ In the name of true AmericaniSn II we summon every patiot to NIT n Humphreys side He must be a iudg $ if if wastes all the ammunition in tn Q islands to make him one. Tine court $ must not be allowed 10 stay forever il
 the dull rut of responsibility. wher
 even Humphreys friend Magoon ma.
 practice outside of a bullet-prOof yes
 and the editor of the extinct NOlcan
 may be tried without danger of phys D. ical violence to his nose. It is time t
 have q change and for the sake of :
 lively self-cOcking and razor-edged ju l. dietary we demand it now"