The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-10
VOW ATTACK TIE PRESIDENT.

NOW ATTACK THE PRESIDENT.
The action OF the Bar Association
last Wednesday night shows how
completely q body OF unthinking men
may be led TO make fools Of them
selves. The adoption OF the report Of
the committee vas an Insult not sione
10 the Attorney General but TO the
President who approved the AttoTu y
Generals report When It IL remem-
bered that the Bar Association seat
70 Washington. at great expense. one
OF the ablest attorneys in Honolulu.
and beside this Thurston. Kinney. e
al. employed another attorney in San
Francisco to go to Arizona to look up
Judge Humphreys record" It must
be conceded that the Bar Association
vas pretty well represented at Wash
ington. What with its paid attorney
there to present its case. and its
printed brief of 2ss pages it would
seem TO any fair man that the cause
Of the Bar Association had been most
fully and completely laid before the
Attorney General
Not only that. but following the
presentation OF Judge Humphreys
reply brief Mr.. Hankey. as attorney
for the Bar Association. asked for.
and was granted. FIVE days in which to
file a brief in rebuttal before the At
torney General should report on the
case. No brief in sur-rebuttal OF Han
keys second brief was filed on behalf
OF Judge Humphreys. Notwithstand-
ing all these facts the Attorney Gen
eral with all the charges and briefs
OF the Bar Association before him
completely exonerated Judge Hum
phreys. and, In words that cannot be
misunderstood. condemned the action
Of the Bar Association. And then to
make II more complete the President
approved OF the Attorney Generals
report, the condemnation of the &C
ton Of the Bar Association included
But despite this condemnation by
the President and his Attorney Gen
eral the marplots OF the Bar Associa
ton on Wednesday last adopted a re-
port which in closing says:
Recent dispatches from Washing
ton seem to Indicate that the admin
istration are thinking favorably Of
having the affairs Of the Territory in
vestigated by non-partisan commits
sion. While the scope OF inquiry of
such Commission will probably be
wider than the object for which this
Bar Association is organized. and
therefore not a matter for formal ac-
ton on our part, this Committee most
heartily welcomes such suggestion
and urges that the Association and
each member thereof do all within
their power to secure the appoint
ment Of such a Commission. thereby
opening a way for the legitimate re-
view of the issues covered bv this
report. all OF which is respectfully
submitted"
In other words the malcontents
composing the Bar Association. who
are soured because they cannot con-
troll the court. now propose to try an
appeal beyond the President. What
they viii appeal to or who they will
appeal to perhaps the misguided and
passion-blinded thirty-seven may be
able to tell but surely no one else can.
And as II this report proposing to ap-
peal over the heads of the President
and Attorney General were not
enough. the Star. an organ of the
Dole-Thurston gang. last night said:
The Bar Association has put itself
on record as thoroughly determined
that what charges il made were cor
rect, and ii does not matter one straw
whether there was an exoneration up
on garhled defence OF not. the Ha-
waiian Bar Association stood to its
colors. and was not to be brow beaten
bv either an Office holder here. or q
cabinet minister In Washington. That
Is true Americanism. II is true
pluck"
Possibly the Star may think this is
pure American pluck but sensible
people viii think 1t is pure American
foolishness II not worse than that. 1t
Is simply saying to the Attorney Gen
eral and to the President you are
rogues and rascals because you did
not decide as We wanted you TO-
The action OF the Bar Association will
do its members irreparable harm.