The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-24
THE POLITICAL JUDGE.

The fact Is becoming plain to- every
fair-minded man that the objects Mr..
Humphreys has on the bench are solely
and Extensively political. He was moth
ing II not politician before he became
judge, and he has been nothing but
politician since. Without now trav-
ersipG the crookedatrail of his political
and public life before he came here, 1T
viii be enough to state facts of purely
local derivation, as best showing the
character and intent OF the man and
the Interior objects he has sought and
Is now seeking.
Humphreys began his political work
with Harold M. Sewail, whose purpose
wasito' pull1dowf the Dole party for the
advantage OF himself and friends. When
Sewall was defeated in his, aspirations
for the Governorship. Humphreys un-
dertoek to organize,qlthe Republican
party against the Dole influence, and
did it by colonizing the Republican pri-
fnaries with Hawaiian Royalists. many
of them living far outside the pre-
cincts where. they We're voted-Royal-
lists who had no more use for the Re-
publican party then than they had in
the subsequent election About this
timesthe Arizona refugee did two other
things which were as base as anything
that the cunning of an INSCRIPTIONS
politician could devise, to-wit: he de-
feated by means of d deliberate false
hood about his flawspartner, a plan to
make none but Republicans eligible to
vote, at Republican primaries: and as
a means of binding the party to vote
for his bosom friends at the polls In
case any of them should be nominated
for office, he laid down this rule of po-
htfcal conduct, which the Republican
committee promptly rejected: EVEN
IF A REPUBLICAN IS CORRUPT HE
SHOULD BE VOTED FOR IF HE IS
REGULARLY NOMINATED"
Finding in the election returns that
he could not yet control the native ma
jority. Humphreys undertook to win
their favor by making himself judi
cially and journalistically obnox-
ious to the people whom the
native majority most disliked. This
brought him into enmity with the Re-
publican party, and in affiliation with
the worst elements among the old
Royalists
The campaign paper which he start
ed, and which had supported at least
half the Republican nominees in the
canvass turned around and made
amends to the Home Rulers and be-
came the vituperative organ of the
Wilcox idea. Nothing was too far
fetched or too base to be alleged against
the Republican Territorial administra-
ton; nothing was too complimentary to
say for the antf-American party
which had carried the Legislature It
was painful to see the eagerness Of the
First Circuit Judge to sufficiently abase
himself before the Home Rule politi-
clans, that thrift might follow fawn-
ing. They used him and sneered, but
his knees still crooked and his lips still
curved with humility whenever Will
cox man came In sight. In due time the
Legislature met, and Humphreys be-
came its superserviceable lackey. He
was only too pleased to give advice, to
draw up bills and anti-Dole resolu-
lions, to promote delays that might
prove embarrassing to the Republican
Territorial officials, to abuse Republican
Senators in his paper, to defend the
Home Rulers from attack. and to make
it worth while for any Of them that
wanted licenses to practice law to pass
certain measures in which he was polit-
ically interested. The Royalists took