The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-25
THE GRAND JURY LIBELED.

Enraged because it's charges against /
the Republican administration of Ha-
wall failed to impress either the Grand |
Jury or the people, the yellow journal
accuses the jurymen of being organ
lied to whitewash. This means that
seventeen representative citizens. every
man well known and respected for his
integrity, violated their oaths and per-
petrated an offence against justice and
good government, so that certain off,
cials who deserve indictment might
escape It. The term "whitewash," used
in the connection given it means all
that and more and it constitutes a
libel as gross as any of which the
Grand Jury in it's report pronounced the
yellow journal guilty.
Who are the men whose names and
regulations are slurred by the yellow
scold whose sponsors are already sorry
for its appearance in this community?
We give them as they appear appended
to the report which the morning libel
Ter tries to impeach:
f. I. Spalding, foreman,
W. G.. Ashley,
s. Lowden,
]. s. Walker,
J. l.. Mclean,
w. o. Atwater,
John Effinger.
l. G. Ables,
G.. II. Anterior
r. NJ. Lewis,
Edwin Benner,
II. w. Hebron,
NJ. +. Robinson.
G. Hustace. Jr..
f.. A. McInerny,
A. +. Cooke,
w. III. Hoogs.
III there were no other certificate of
character for the Grand Jury report
these names would be sufficient.
One Of the reasons why the yellow
journal objects to the Jury is that the
latter was not under the control and
responsive to the spites and petty re-
vengefulness of the Sewall machine.
That Is why the paper objected to it's
personnel at the outset and tried to get
High Sheriff Brown into trouble be-
cause he had not consulted the party
leaders" before drawing the names.
What was wanted most of all was a
political jury; one that would accept
malicious gossip as gospel truth and
indict whomsoever the machine might
the High Sheriff would not degrade his
official powers to such a plane of in
decency he was abused without stint;
and now that the Jury has proved itself
incorruptible II Is also abused.
Chagrined. as they are at the fail
ure to wreck the Republican Territorial
administration, the machine politicians
console themselves with the belief that
a way can be found to deprive the
High Sheriff of his jury-drawing pre-
negatives and confer them upon a crea-
ture of the ring. Witness this threat
In the editorial columns of our yellow
contemporary:
II is to be hoped In the interest of good
government for Honolulu. that the next
Grand Jury will be drawn and summoned
by an Elsor especially appointed by the
court, and that II will be bereft of such
liberal supply of whitewash, as seemed
to be in the keeping of the body just
adjourned.
Certainly. turn over the drawing of
the Jury TO a ringster and when drawn
instruct that body to let no innocent
man escape. This Is the whole scheme
I'm nutshell and 1t Is an important
part of the conspiracy to get the polit-
ical control of Hawaii into hands that
would use II to line their pockets at the
expense Of the taxpayers. Thanks to
the indiscretions Of an angry scribe the
people are forewarned and will jealous
Iy scrutinize the methods of the next
Grand Jury drawing.