The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-06-01
Bar Association Farce.
e Evening Bulletin


The Bar Association, including w.
n. Armstrong, the Attorney General,
Deputy Attorney General, Sheriff
Brown and few more satellites who
must perforce follow the political for
tunes of Dole and Thurston, has pct
itself on record condemning A. s.
Humphreys appointed by the Presi-
dent to be Judge of the First Circuit
Court. II now has to look about itself
to find out where it has landed or is
likely to land from its acceptance of
the Thurstonian leadership of spite
that is mot vindictive'
The exhibition of a bunch of law
yers searching for a charge with
accomplish political ends, becomes
highly amusing. even here. after the
heat of battle has somewhat cleared.
1t will become huge joke when the
array of Misrepresentation reaches
Washington and the matter is sifted,
as it will be sifted, to the bottom and
the source of the antagonism reached.
The Bar Association acting under
the hypnotic influence of the executive
department seems as ready to spend
its money foolishly as was the Rapid
Transit Company in sending the Hon.
S. NJ. Ballou to the capital in order TO
secure a reversal of the At
torney Generals ruling on the public
land question. If the treasury were
empty and the Legislature not in ses-
sion we might be favored with another
draft on some diplomatic or sundry
fund to send the honorable the Attor-
ney General, who refuses to assist
Grand Jury, to the Federal Depart
ment of Justice to show his PAGES IN
roaring bull argument and give At
torney General Knox an exhibition OF
how we used to do things under the
Republic. The representative OF the
Bar Association will have good time
at the Bars expense. He will accom-
plish less than Ballou did for the
Rapid Transit. He viii find himself
viewed in the most ridiculous light #
any man who ever went to Washing
ton with an axe to grind.
Having made fools of themselves
once. it is due misguided members OF
the Bar Association to say that they
will not do it again. In this respect
the action of the law firms of Thurs
| ton & Carter, Kinney. Ballou & NC
Clanahan. w. o. Smith and A. s. HIATT
we'll is to be commended. Let the
mistakes be made early in the game.
| let the hayseed of the Republic OF Ha-
vail be quickly threshed out of the
Territorial political atmosphere SO
that when the new American Governor
takes his seat the people even to the
Thurston gang will realize beyond the
possibility Of a doubt that this is an
American Territory and that Ameri-
can courts are not to be controlled by
Bar Associations doing the bidding Of
cantankerous ami vindictiye politi-
clans who in their capacity as attor-
neys are under sentence of the court
| for contempt
The Bulletin wishes Mr.. Thurston
| and his traitors of the Bar Associa-
ton great Joy in their wild endeavors-
This last spasm of their game, stead
| iiy a losing one since the Territory
was established. viii merely more
completely accomplish their undoing.
and they viii return TO their several
duties saGder but much wiser men
When their representative reaches
1 washington he viii end that repre-
sentatives of the Department Of Jus
tice have already placed on record a
careful review OF the methods follow.
ed by Hawaii's executive officers as
web as the courts The representa-
tive of Thurston and the Bar Associa
ton is likely to discover evidence II
not affidavits that viii make him won
der why he ever wandered so far from
home even at the Bars expense.