The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-30
CHARGES PROVEN BY THE REC
ORDS

by all means modify the resolutions hut
as read the resolutions they are proven
every one of them by the record.
The first charge is that he conducts a
partisan newspaper and at the same
time presides as Judge and exercises the
duties and high prerogatives of Judge.
/ That is clear and matter of record
| Any Bar Association will condemn
man for retaining his Office and at the
same time running partisan newspaper
The two things are inconsistent. What
| man of us thinks that it is right?
| We stand here the only body really in
a position to confront Judge Humphreys
His power Is such and he has exercised
| it in such way as to paralyze the ay-
| erage citizen. There is no power in the
| land that confront this man with
1 that razor of oppression in his hand ex-
| cept as we confront him. The people
| look to this Bar Association to confront
him and when this deed is done, then
/ the Bar Association has done its duty
! done its duty to itself and to every man
| in this country But for our action the
citizen will be left helpless to go before
the Court hereafter. Citizens will have
| TO go before the Court at the next ses-
sion indicted by Grand Jury selected
by hinl--we know how II was selected
and TO be tried by petit jury selected
| by Judge Humphreys, through his bailiff.
] DRIVEN FROM COVER.
/ We have driven them out of cover and
| that man Lewis is out of this building
and the building is cleaner for his ah-
sence. thank God. 1t has been done by
the men who have stood in the front of
the fray, who have taken the steps and
all the consequences that We're involved
that sent that man out of here, and the
same spirit will bring this man to book.
Ion IT.
on a level with everybody If Judge
Humphreys is removed and the razor of
power is out of his hand, any individual
man here can handle him. 1t is the pow
| er which his office gives him that makes
him a menace and a danger to any man.
| He has so adjusted things that ne sex
/ lects his own Grand Juries and draws
| the Petit Juries that appear before him.
What man of us but feels that it is his
duty to the public to set our seal of con-
demnation.. like men, upon such action
| as this?
| We do not need to appoint a commit
| tee to find out these matters; every man
| knows whether he believes these mat
/ tiers to be true or not, without the aid
| of a committee; every man here knows
| for himself whether the conduct of Hum
phreys has destroyed his confidence in
his administration of justice. The ques-
/ ton is not whether the administration of
/ justice is entirely gone in his office the
| question is whether our abiding faith in
4 him as a Judge is destroyed, so that we
do not know what day will bring forth.
A man who deliberately appoints as a
bailiff of his court such man as Lewis
after he has secured the passage of this
| Act has forfeited the confidence of hon
est men.
| 1t may not in the minds of others and
| you cannot tell it better by the appoint
ment of a committee Does it take a
committee of five to tell whether this
man or that man has lost confidence?
/ Each and every man here can say today
whether he has or has not, and let him
register it by vote.
| My learned friend says that this reso-
luton, this, original resolution. charges
Judge Humphreys with downright corr
ruption. If he means venal conduct. [
fail to see it. l think it goes wide of
that mark. In what charge here is
there any charge of corruption against
Judge Humphreys? This charge that
he publishes and controls partisan
newspaper and that he is using this
newspaper while on the Bench to further
his political ends--is that what you
mean?
| Mr. Hatch. Yes.
Mr. Kinney That is the essence of the
!
charge.
OFFICE USED FOR POLITICAL ENDS
| / say is there any man here that is
not prepared to vote on this charge that
Judge Humphreys is using his Office for
political purposes? We are not going
into the antecedents of Judge Hum
phreys. 1t is "a question of public con-
duct on the Bench. The question is. has
1.-THE Honorable A S. Humphreys, Judge
of the First Circuit Court, used his posi-
ton on the Bench for political and per-
sonal purposes? Are we not prepared to
vote on that? By the appointment of
committee would it be made any more or
less clear that he has so used his posi-
| ton?
Mr. Hatch says that Judge Humphreys
has nfringed the right of every lawyer
to practice law fearlessly and independ-
emily in the interests of his clients. We
base this resolution on Judge Hum
phreys' conduct in court
Does any man wish to put himself on
record as saying that he does not know
that Judge Humphreys appointed six
teen members of the Legislature without
examination attorneys to practice in the
District Courts CT these Islands, and
that he did it for personal and political
ends? Why did he do it? 1t is of record:
the matters have been spread on the
newspapers. If every man is not ready
to step forward and register his inner
most conviction as to why he appointed
sixteen members of the Legislature as
attorneys whether or not he did 1T for
personal ends, / say if he Is not ready
to vote on it now he never will be, You
can discuss 1t as you please; you can
turn it over you please. These were
appointments made by Judge Hum
phreys to serve his own personal and po-
litical ends. At the time it was being
done by him he was conducting a news
paper; he was patting those very men
on the shoulders; he was urging them on
to do certain things, and they walk UP
here and he gives them sixteen presents,
sixteen presents to these men that he
has day after day urged to pass certain
bills and to do such and such things If
we do not act upon this matter now we
vote to belittle ourselves. We vote and
say that we don't know why he gave
these sixteen men licenses to practice
law. Did he do it to purify the country
courts? We know what he meant, and
he knows that we know what he meant
by it, and the entire community knows
what he meant by it, and the insolence
of 10 fnar ~.