The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-15
UNCOVERs A CALLS NEST.

If anyone wants to know why the
calf was chosen as the emblem of the
Evening Bulletin, he may feel assured
that 1t was the frequent appearance
In the columns of that paper, of ar.
ticles like the one published yesterday
protesting to give the details of q
"Thurstonian" plot against Judge
Humphreys.
According to the story told-or bleated
the Bar Association was stuffed with
new members two weeks before the
outbreak Of Humphreys on the bench,
so as to assure a majority against the
Arizona judge when the outbreak
should come. 1t was all pre-arranged,
even to the exact course of Humphreys
himself, men like General Hartwell be-
ing only too eager to go to Jail for the
sake OF badgering the court, and the
court being primed and scheduled for
the task.
The utter reasonableness of this tale
would have been increased if the Bull
letih had truthfully said that among
the new members who entered the as
ISOLATION before the outbreak, was
Humphreys brother-in-law, Magoon,
who voted to clear him of the charges
brought by the association and Mil
verton, who wanted the judge white
washed. Probably the Bulletin did not
think of this. 1t was too busy bleating
Our four-legged contemporary also
says that, although stuffed for a pur-
pose, the Bar Association needed the
stimulus of the Advertisers editorial
page, and that, on the morning of the
meeting which branded the judge, the
sensibilities of the bar were deliberate
ly wrought up by editorial comment
The Bulletin-or Calfetin-says:
The editors of the Advertiser which ap-
peared Monday morning, May q, were
l.. A. Thurston. W. A Kinney W. o.
Smith, s. NJ. Ballou. good part of the
day this quartet labored and counselled
upon the articles which, appearing in the
morning, would tend most to insure VIC
tory in the Bar Association meeting.
Even Hartwell went up to the Adver-
tiser Office Sunday afternoon and gave
his advice upon what should be printed
and what should be left out. AS re-
suit of the labors of this coterie of Sab
bath observers. the Advertiser came out
next morning surcharged with double
headers against Judge Humphreys. Ev-
erythfng was couched to stir up public
sentiment to point that would endorse
the prearranged plot to be carried to
finish that day in the meeting of the Bar
Association. It worked.
This is quite true, except as regards
some unimportant amendments, name
ly: The editor of the Advertiser on
May q, had his name plainly printed
on the paper, and there were no other
editors; W. o. Smith and S. NJ Ballou
were not near the office during the Sun
day mentioned, nor did they commune
cate with it; General Hartwen did not
call or communicate; the president of
the Gazette Company was here, not in
the afternoon, but in the evening, en-
gagged in getting the stenographic re-
port of Saturdays proceedings in court
In consecutive order for publication
two stenographers having supplied the
notes-and In drawing up the bailih
affidavit. Save for these small mat
tiers of detail and for the general story
of conspiracy, the Bulletin calf was ap-
right.
By the way. what are the market
quotations on veal this morning?