The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-08

State as a county or counties is non
sense DR.. Jordan having been the
guest of Thurston, the public is READY
to believe that the thought had its Or
igin in the Thurstonian brain and that
the line of attack now followed is mere
ly one of those devious ways of trying 10
cover his own chicanery. Republican
With great labor Thurston's Morning
Iwilei Defender set up a man of straw
yesterday and then proceeded to devote
four columns of its valueless space to
annihilate him.
So much for the history which was
printed There is more, and one of the
most important points of this unwritten
record lies in the presence in the city
al the time of the preparation of the
scheme of a young man, one c. e. Ed
wards who was connected with the
staff of the San Francisco Chronicle,
and who had come here for purposes
then unknown. Edwards was in con-
slant and intimate relations with Hum
phreys and others of the faction headed
by that jurist. and it was said by mu-
tual friends that the object of the visit
was to bring about deal for the
transfer of the ownership of the Re
publican. Edwards returned TO San
Francisco on the same steamer the Chi
ma, with Humphreys, and it is notice
able that in the Chronicle, the paper
(which Edwards represented here ac-
cording to his story. on the morning
| following the arrival of the China at
the Coast, the announcement of the
| Hawaiian jurist's coming and purpose
was accompanied by the statement that
with him was &C E. Edwards, who
manages Judge Humphreys Honolulu
newspaper, the Republican, and who is
Expected to aid Humphreys in the pres
| entation of his side of the case to the
proper authorities in Washington.
| Before leaving Edwards is quoted as
having said that Humphreys upon his
arrival in San Francisco would give out
some strong interviews favoring annex
alton. That the two were often in con-
sultation is true, and this Was known
to the person to whom the remark was
made so that it was within the scope
of any thinking man to judge that it
4 would be we'll to watch the files of the
papers coming from the Coast by the
| China. 1t was known that the fullest
! accounts of the entire troubles which
| had marked the last few weeks of the
| term previous to the departure of the
Judge for the Coast had been printed in
San Francisco and all over the States
in fact. so that with the Wellknown
propensity of that official to get into the
center of the stage it was to be expect
ed hat he would find willing writer's to
listen to his plants and air his grieV-
ances. 1t was not as prophet that the
advice to look into the files was given
but rather as observer of the methods
of the first judge of the Circuit Court.
and a remembrance of what his friend
| Edwards had said.
| What would have added to this i'm
preston was that within three days of
the departure of Humphreys his two
organs, the Republican and the Vol
cano, had begun an active and hard
flight for the recognition of the anneXa-
| ton plan as one worthy of the thought
of the people.
| HUMPHREYS FOR ANNEXATION.
| Judge Humphreys, in his message of
| June 9th to his editor saying that the
| Chronicle interview of June oath was a
flake called attention to his utterances
| in the Examiner of the same date,
which statement of his views he pro-
nounces as correct This is the inter-
view:
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