The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-08
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WATER TUBE BOILERS.
Won Ham-Young Company,
AGENTS Queen Street
Quee n Street.

columns. the proof must be strong. The
first thing, then, to be looked for is the
utterance by the outraged person OIL
some sentiment which is foreign TO MS
usual speech. knowing how Judge
Humphreys looks at matters in general
it is given to one to compare the aileg-
edly incorrect pronouncement with the
regularly fathered views of the editor
jurist. Anyone reading the article in
the Chronicle will at once see many
points of resemblance between it and
the authorized interview with the Ex-
aminer The same points of argument
are advanced. There is a familiarity
between the points as to the stability
of the courts, the fifty years of prece-
dents and the need of the Islands for
city and county governments. In no
point does there seem to be any state
ment which would not be expected by
one who has followed the editorials of
/ the Republican or the interviews in the
Bulletin. And the prophecy that with
in a few days there would be an active
campaign with two papers in the lead,
how accurate was the prediction, for
even before the words were uttered,
provided they We're not given to a
Chronicle man on board the China,
there was just that same fight on.
OF course there is always the proba-
bility that an interviewer prints too
much of what he hears. 1t may be that
the judge was in a very good humor,
seeing that there was wider range of
publicity possible than when he wrote
out his interviews for his organ here,
and became laxative. and the reporter
was not able to distinguish between the
.s,-;1l i -
might explain the seeming breadth of
the views expressed by the Judge; in
fact, it would seem to be the most like
ly at this time We're it not for the fact
that there were two other ways in
which the interview might have come
out.
Travelling with the interviewed was a
newspaper man, a friend of the talker
one who was known to him as a CORE
spondent of the Chronicle, here for the
purpose of writing matters from the
Islands In the week of the stay of the
reporter he was often seen on the
streets with Humphreys and with his
employees in the newspaper That
would furnish grounds for the belief
that during the six days of the trip,
with smoking-room experiences, there
would be an unburdening of the heart
on the part of the tired and would be
rested jurist What would be more nat
ural than that there would be an inter
! change of condolences and that after
/ the newspaperman was ashore he
should use some of the matter. He
could not be expected to know just
what part of the conspiracy it was ex-
pected TO keep from the public, and
would print only what he thought
would show his friend in the best, the
most favorable light; and when that
had been done, what more likely than
that the expose would cause the repu-
diation of the Interview?
But there seems to be another way in
which the news might have reached the
Chronicle. Perhaps, viewing the friendly
attitude of the Chronicles reporter
sent here to look into things and who
! spent his whole time in the company
! of Humphreys and his associates, the
head of the news bureau. which came
! into evidence by the publication of its
/ letter which went up in the Doric,
might have thought to get to work ear
/ lier than was advised, and himself have
sent the interview to the Chronicle.
| There are so many points of resem-
| blance that one may look further and
always meet with the same perplexities.
: There are many of them. Did Hum
phreys write the interview himself? Did
Humphreys write the letter which went
up in the Doric? Did Humphreys give
the interview in the Examiner or did
the head of the bureau write them all,
as we'll as the editorial in the Republi-
can, which marshals the same facts as
arp11nentS9