The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-05-30

With regard TO the resolution Nr.
1e must do something IN this natter
Aeai referred 10 the contempt cases
s1EE1g something ought 20 De done 70
Judge humphreys Mr.. Achi made
the silly remark that he didn't see
y AZ McCianahzn- who vas r~o thou
sand niles away was not found guilty
Of contempt because he vas q partner
OF kinney and Ballou- With regard TO
the sixteen licenses TO practice Law.
Aeni claimed thar II anybody wants
20 practice laE in this country. tn Law
says that man must be examined He i
said he knew many Of these people i
who were granted licenses TO practice /
law couldn't draw common complaint /
before the district court. He could |
bet any man on that point Before |
Judge Humphreys was appointed the
speaker signed his name 10 his appli- |
cation 70 be appointed Judge Of the
Supreme Court Since then until late
day he was Judge and also trying 10
run the legislature One morning he
sa wan editorial in The Republican.
Il see a member Of the Home Rule
party stand up and he move some
thing exactly as see in an article in
Frank (. Thompson said: Mr.. Pres
ident would like to speak on the
| merits of this case. | belong 10 the
suspected class To the minority. and
| TO that class who do not. as a rule.
receive much consideration At least
/ Judge so from the remarks that
| have heard here today However,
| do not want to go on record as be
/ longing 10 that detested class, the 81
| lent minority. We are here 10 dis
cuss a grave question of momert. II
| not only affects our individual rights
1 as practitioners. but il affects the
| honesty. the integrity. and the future
| welfare of fellow lawyer. though he
be a Judge II has been conteadei
that we shall let this matter go On 70
| Washington. and there let them decide
| IT, We shall be the accusers. as the
| last speaker put it. Some OF Us may
believe in predestination Perhaps
| preordination has some supporters
| here. but. in an assemblage of lawyers
| men to whom justice should be the
| first and only battle cry, | must con-
fess that | am surprised to see pre-
| condemnation advocated. We are not
| here as accusers. The matter Is
brought before us and We are to pass
upon it calmly, deliberately in accord
| with our consciences, fearlessly. The
resolutions that have been read are ac-
cusations. IL they are supported by
this organization or association they
go TO Washington. Then we are The
accusers. but we should not be such
until these charges have been sifted
to the bottom. Not on the remarks
of one member OF the Bar who gets up
and tells us what he has heard in a
legislative body; not what another
member says he has heard in the
sanctum of an editor; not upon the
remarks of another who gets up and
throws walls of wrath over the body
of the accused, but we are here 20
pass upon this question after it has
been sifted to the bottom, and not
upon an exparte hearing.
| The committee of five, advocated by
Judge Whiting, a court of inquiry.
meets with my hearty approval. The
man is entitled to hearing before
this body the same as his tribunal
would give a criminal hearing before
his court Mr. Stewart has asked
whether we could point to single
instance in Judge Humphreys career,
barring this unsubstantiated talk
with regard to licenses. of which |
know nothing which has not been
supported by law. We all make err
rors Mr. Stewart confesses his err
ror in having an error before the Su-
preme Court Judges make them. 1t
is human to err. to forgive is divine.
Let us consider he has shown human
ity Is that anv reason for our not
showing divinity? 1t seems to me the
entire matter settles down-not 20
personal animus. but whether or not
he runs a newspaper.
I am proud to say that | am inter-
ested in that newspaper. | am proud
to say | have had some personal d.
rection in it. and that some of the
editorials which have appeared in the
Republican. while | have not fathered
them, | have patted them upon the
back as a nephew or a relation of my
own. Some of those articles perhaps
have shown personal animus. just as
some OF the articles in the Advertiser
have done likewise. Some say
have shown personal animus. but
they cannot be laid at the door of the
man who controls the stock of thai
paper necessarily Mr.. Thurston. who
owns controlling interest in the Al
vertiser. has said that articles ap-
pearing there have not appeared at
his instance. and / believe him. II is
a matter of common knowledge that
those articles have been more vitu-
perative and less just than any arti-
cles appearing in the so-called paTti-
san paper. 1t is a partisan paper. on
the side of the administration, to
which you appeal TO get this Judge our
of Office Perhaps it is the youth of
inexperience which makes me say
that I have had some experience in
politics. and perhaps as much expert
| ence in American politics as most Of
the people who have lived in the Ha-
waiian Islands during their natural
lives. and | know who supports, with
drawn sword. the administration in
power. receives not their condemna-
ton but their appreciation. It would
be foolish. a feat impossible. for the
Judge to be removed even il he sup
ported Il with a partisan newspaper.
As to the sixteen lawyers I speak
| personally II is not matter of rec
| ord. Perhaps il is. but some four OF
those sixteen men were magistrates
under the old government-district
magistrates. I have nothing but the