The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-30
JUDGE HUMPHREYS
CONDEMNED
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a Grand Jury has put Smith and
Thurston- and everybody, in prison
believe in giving Judge Humphreys a
fair trial. Let him be tried by the
proper parties. We are only making
charges, and in order to make them we
must pass this resolution.
l support the resolution as introduc-
ed by Mr. Robertson.
MR.. THOMPSON ADDRESS
Mr.. Thompson. Mr.. President, L would
like to speak on tie merits of this case
l belong TO the suspected class, the new
comers-to the minority, and to that
class who do not. as a rule receive much
consideration. At least, | judge so from
the remarks that l have heard here to-
day. However, l do not want to go on
record as belonging TO that detested
class, the silent minority. We are here
to discuss a grave question OF moment
1t not only affects our individual rights
as practitioners, but ii affects the hon
esty, the integrity, and the future well
fare of a fellow-lawyer, though he be Il
Judge. 1t mas been contended that we
shall let this matter go on to Washing
ton, and there let them decide il. We
shall be the aecusers as the last speak
er put it. Some of US may believe in D. e.
destination. Perhaps preordination has
some supporters here, but, in an assem-
blage of lawyers. men to whom justice
should be the first and only battle cry
1 must confess that I am surprised to
see Experimentation advocated. We are
not here as accusers. The matter IS
brought before US and we are to pass
upon it calmly, deliberately, according to
our consciences, fearlessly. The resolu-
lions that have been read are accusa-
tons. If they are supported by this or
ganiZation 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 sdnctum 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 to pass up
on this question after it has been sifted
TO the bottom, and not upon an ex parte
hearing.
The committee of five, advocated BY
Judge Whiting, a court of inquiry, meets
with my hearty approval. The man is
entitled TO a hearing before this body the
same as his tribunal would give Grim
inai hearing before his court. Mr..
Stewart has asked whether we could
point to a single instance in Judge Hum
phreys career, barring this unsubstan-
tiated talk with regard To licenses ot
which l know nothing, and which has
not been supported by law. We al
make errors Mr.. Stewart confesses his
error 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 humanity. Is
that any reason for our not showing oil
vnity? 1t seems to me the entire mat
ter settles down-not TO personal animuS
but whether or not he runs a newspaper
l am proud to say that l am interest
ed in that newspaper. l am proud &c
say L have had some personal direction
in it. and that some of the editorials
which have appeared in the Republican
while l have not fathered them, I have
patted them upon the back as a nephew
/ or a relation of my own. Some of those
articles perhaps have shown personal an
linus, 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 that pa
per necessarily. Mr. ThuFston, who
owns a controlling interest in the Adver-
! tiser has said that articles appearing
there have not appeared at his instance
and / believe him. 1t is a matter of COM
mon knowledge that those articles have
been more vituperous and less just than
any articles appearing in the so-called
partisan paper. 1t is a partisan paper
on the side of the administration. to
which you appeal to set this Judge out
of office Perhaps it is the youth Of in
experience which makes me say that
have had some experience in politics.
and perhaps as much experience IN
American politics as most of the people
who have lived in the Hawaiian Islands
during their natural lives, and I know
who supports. with drawn sword, the
administration in power. receiving not
their condemnation but their approba-
ton. 1t would be foolish, a feat impos-
sible, for the Judge to be removed even
! if he supported it with partisan news
paper.
AS to the sixteen lawyers 1 speak per
sonally. II is not matter of record
Perhaps it is; but some four of those
sixteen men were Magistrates under the
old government-Distriet Magistrates.
have nothing but the deepest of rever-
ence for the past. 1t was a clean govern
ment. SO Mr. Dole says. If men under
that spotless regime were competent to
act as District Magistrates, surely under
the enlightened principles of the present
such men should be qualified to practice
before District Magistrates Whether or
not this was done before or after the
passage of the Bailif bill is very mate
rial If passed before the Bailiff bill. i,
gives color to the remarks uttered here
If it was done after, those remarks fail
like houses of cards.
Without transgressing time would
suggest that to accuse a man without
trial. to condemn him with the 1udg-
ment of his peers is unAmerican. A
word that does not mean very much
out here, according to the newspaper
reports But it is not onl ythat, it Is
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