The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-01
DR.. BISHOPS LETTER.

Rev. Dr. S. E. Bishop has given the
Washington Star a clear-cut and aCcur
ate account of the events leading up to
the Reputation of A. S. Humphreys
Judge of the First Circuit Court by the
Hawaiian Bar Association. AS the
Humphreys organs affect to question
the truth OF the story, the Advertiser
will summarize theS charges made by
Dr. Bishop, state some of the facts back
of them. and leave the public to judge
them on their merits The full text of
DR.. Bishops article also appears:
1. Extremes of violence and tyran-
NY" At the banquet of the Bar Asso-
citation about a year ago leading attor-
neys complained that. owing to Hum
phreys the cordial relations hitherto ex-
listing between the Bench and Bar had
been strained This was due to the ar
bitrary and insulting course of the
Judge toward the Bar generally. Dur
ing the subsequent months the Biting
case. the exclusion of reporters and
spectators from the court room-from
which all benches We're removed but
one-the obvious effort of the Judge to
secure a verdict against DIR. Miner, and
finally the vicious attempt to put
Messrs. Hartweu Kinney and Ballou liz
Jail for defending the interests of
their client pointed Enthusiastically to the
unfitness of the Judge on the grounds
specifically stated as above.
II Greedy political ambition and an
interruptions system of intrigue" Ev-
cry politician in this city knows
that Humphreys has been a candidate
for Chief Justice or Governor, according
to the vacancy he might succeed in
making through the aid of the Royalist
legislators and delegates. Affidavits win
be filed at Washington showing his con
stant political intriguing here with the
avowed enemies of the Republican par
ty, the object being personal and po-
litical gain. At one time when it seem
ed likely that a municipal bill could
be passed by the Royalists in the Leg
islature he sought to make a deal for
the position of Mayor of Honolulu hop
ing to use that as a stepping stone to
higher places All this time he was
serving as a judge on the Bench.
III. He helped to defeat Republic
ans in the election to the Legislature
and for Delegate to Congress-" And he
boosted of it in a published interview
afterwards.
". THE Honolulu Republican, which
has been edited with considerable abil-
ity-this paper, while pretending to be
of the Republican party, has from the
beginning worked against the strong
Dole majority of that party, causing the
defeat at the polls of many of their
leading candidates. Since the election
it has not only been virulently bitter
against the executive body, but has
NillgeOflyy or IyOrataI nd
de ay OF the Home Rule Royalists and
oynoesSea every act of the Governor
maio., 20 them Humphreys controls
" directs the II. Company and avowed-
proof of all t bbINey of the paper" The
Republican and IN IS in the files of the
ership signed by an an efidavit of own
liability. me Repnb1;oon -
v During the legisla+
RovaIists warn =, leaders of tbe tbs OF
nrith ~ 9,e,Om, 49, IN constant CONF native
were held at Humphreys boG,o1!Ill1terences
chambers and at an Office 49, at his
The substance of many of then, own
ing Humphreys as a political ia, real
against the Presidents Territorial ae
pointees, have been repeated bv vi.
nesses who were present and were re
ferred to the other day by Royal.
Representative Makekau on the foe
@af the House. Representative Beckle
stated to the press in San Francisc
that Humphreys and the old Royal.
tHome Rule) party were IN political al
filiation.
VI Humphreys first step was toNat
tempt to take out of the hands OF tt
executive officers the investigation the
Tere quietly making to establish con
plete evidence of the facts Of bribery,