The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-23
HUMPHREYS IN VAUDEVILLE.

We concur In the main with the views
OF the Star. recently expressed, that
much that Ia happening around US
! amounts only to q tempest in a tea
pot. or to be more pointed, that the
vaudeville element largely predomi-
mates In Humphreys.
For while we confess that Humph-
reys Is not wanting in venom or lack
of scruples, and therefore in these re-
spects would make good leader for
= 1.-THE gang" yet he has shown himself
SO eccentric and skyrockety. that even
the most reckless among them-those
ready to tie UP to any old thing that
will lead to a pie counter-must shake
their heads when committing them
selves to his zigzag leadership.
Humphreys has been in Office less
than year, yet he has already alienat-
ing every stable element in the country
IL he was seeking office today, as he
was a year ago. what part of the sup
port he had then could he muster now?
Practically none of 1t. Then numbers
of men like Mr.. Cecil Brown were led
to support him. Would any of them
do so now?
And why this change? Simply be-
cause the man has shown himself so
frantically foolish inconsistent and de-
void of principle that no self-respecting
supporter could stay by him
He started into practical politics in
Hawaii by trying to get the Republican
party to subscribe point blank to the
proposition that the nominees of the
party duly chosen should be voted for,
even If confessedly corrupt. Of course
the Republican party was not willing
IN ,,,,tt - "a tSk,4- 49,
selves UP to any such proposition, and
they turned Don Qufxote down. A few
months pass and the straight voter
himself scratches the ticket of his party
right and left, because some of his
friends have been opposed, and then
with his customary prudence, rushes
into print to announce what he has
done, SO as to have it on record for use
against him when the time comes
He begins his career as judge by
bulldozing and insulting Albert Nc
Gurn. his bailiff, and Henry Smith, the |
clerk of court, and other employees of
Hawaiian extraction. until it needed no
argument of his opponents to prove |
that mo natives need apply" SO far
as he was concerned. Having thus put |
himself safely on record, he discovers |
later on what was supposed to be ap- |
parent at the time to anyone out Of |
Bedlam, that the native was to be a |
big factor In politics, and ever since |
then he has been busy trying to erase |
his self-made record. He now has q |
standing sign out, none but natives
need apply" but just why he did not |
have sense enough to steer a middle |
course on this point from the start,
needs at least look at one of Yard
ley's photos of the Judge to determine.
Then in his consuming desire to be
the whole thing, Humphreys went
Governor Dole one better on the brib-
cry question. and with his little Grand
Jury well In leash and thirsting for an
nexation blood. occupies the stage him
self and relegates the Governor to
Waianae. In little while we have the
Grand Jury going over the annexation
lists with q fine tooth comb searching i
for. evidence and incidentally gathering
in few for old acquaintance sake, as
the good work goes on.
But his jury does not know Humph-
reys. Out of sheer good will and with
that political sagacity and judgment
that never fails him, Humphreys him
self has provided them with proofs, as
usual. of record and leaving tracks as
wide as baby elephants, Of himself
corruptly influencing legislators with !