The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-31
A CAMPAIGN OF REVENGE.

The action of Judge Humphreys In
again attacking the McBryde bonds
shows the depth OF the animus which
he feels towards Mr. Kinney. Beyond
that It proves nothing. nor does 1t as
sert anything save tie judges biased
and wholly unsupported opinion about
the value OF the 8icBryde estate and the
security of it's bonded debt. When ne
began his campaign OF revenge against
Mr.. Kinney, Judge Humphreys felt Jae
need of evidence 10 support his cTiti-
cism of the property in which Mr..
Kinney is 50 largely interested and so
he required the master TO E;lNc Il re-
port upon the value of the bJnIs as Sc
CURLY for trust funds. Tae report was
made and TO Judge Humphreys disap-
polntTpent IL was wholly favorable To
McBryde. Expert Witnesses we're heard
and they all testified that McBryde's
bonds of S750.00O were secured by prop
erty worth $2.00O,OO0 1t was Shown
that there is row healthy cane growing
on the McBryde plantation which would
sell. at current prices. for S1.25O. 900: thC
first crop to be on in January, one Of
10000 or. more tons. viii bring
enough cash to clear off the
bonded debt; in fact. the Me-
Bryce was shown TO be n fee SIM
pie property. equal in richness to any
cane land in the country, fully devel
oped and growing plantation Of the
first order. Hearing such evidence, a
falr-minded Judge would have let the
matter drop. but not so Humphreys.
DisdaInlng the testimony o. his own
witnesses. intent on nothing out injury
10 the man who had Joined with the
Bar Association in branding him p,o-
fesslonally, and avid for revenge. Judge
Humphreys again turned on McBryde
and ordered a guardian who had in
vested funds OF ward In the pl1nta-
tIOn's bonds TO give better security
Such a judicial act deserves the sever
est rebuke. not only from the small
army of local investors in McBryde. but
from the disinterested public. Indeed. !
such a procedure must accent the opin-
ion OF the Washington authorities. idte-
~ expressed in the Washington S.ar. |
that Judge Humphreys is unfit to hold
n judicial position
The attack on Mr.. Kinney Is In line
with the conduct OF this extraordinary
Judge since his return from Washing
ton He began his campaign Of revenge
by dIschargfng from the service of the
court a stenographer. a member OF the
Bar Association that had found against
him in the Hartwell-Kinney-Bal sf- I
fair: then he sought to keep Judge ,
announcer UlEUlD@I u the Aseit l
Association. from winning a case by ]
refusingttO let him examine native Ha-
waIIan witnesses in the only language
they knew. in the only language save
Spanish Kauiukou's client knew. aid
In the only language the majority Z
the jury knew-althOugh II hal been
his custom heretofore TO permit such
practice. Only the other day he RI
fused to appoint Mr.. Andrade a guar
dian after the latter had been chosen
by the parties at interest and gave the
place 20 a stranger whom he nal i'm
ported from the coast Andrade's Of
Tense was his share in the common leS II
opinion OF Humphreys as a Judge.
These acts show how true was the
arraignment OF Judge Humphreys b.
the Bar Association and how unfOrtu
nate 1t was that the case made out WAS
not fairly presented to the Attor-
ney-General OF the United States Had
Justice then been done. Injustice would
not be so rampant now. II