The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13
ATTORNEY GENERAL CALLED.

Judge G ar referred to the satisfac-
ton of both sides with the jury, but
said the matter was now in a position
where 1t could not go on. He had no
idea the Jurors were going to speak
about the article, though he could not
blame them for doing it. Therefore
he called on the Attorney General to
take the matter in hand. saying:
THE Court, of its own initiative, has
had to do dLsagreeable things. because
1t has been more maligned than any
court has been in any land, but it does
not at all affect me: l consider the
source; but If courts of Justice are GO
ing to exist in this community, they
should be made to exist without such
attacks as that, or we cannot have
Justice"
Mr. Montana said he had spoken to
the Attorney General. who said it
didn't amount to anything and was
only newspaper talk. Mr.. Montana,
however, thought it was very imper-
tinent to the Hawaiian and Spanish
nations.
Judge Gear again spoke in justifca-
ton of the attitude of the jurors, con-
Guiding with the remark:
These Jurors are here sworn on their
oaths to do their duty as citizens and
unless the community at large or the
community representing this paper are
prepared now to insist that Hawalians
should be disfranchised and not allow
ed to be Jurors, it is time to put a
stop to these proceedings
! ATTORNEY GENERAL APPEARS.
| Attorney General Lorrin Andrews
appeared at this stage and Judge Gear
forthwith related to him the gist of the
mornings proceedings, connecting the
cause thereof with the Sunday article. |
He ended with this monition:
You, as the Territorial officer repre-
senting the Attorney Generals Depart
ment, the burden comes on you to take |
such steps as you may deem neces- |
sary"
What portion of the article did you
find affects the jury" the Attorney |
General asked.
Il referred to no portion of the ar
ticle' the judge. answered.
ITO the whole thing from the head ,
ing down to the bottom of 1.-THE whole |
statement" Prince David explained.
Judge Gear again upheld the position
the jurors took He supposed the pa
per had not attacked him because he
had not drawn the jury
NIX. ANDREWS WILLING.
Mr.. Andrews said 1.-THE Attorney
General wants to do what he can. Mr..
Long has called my attention to the
headline, which seemed to him to be an
Objectionable one. In the body of the
article l see nothing that was in that
important, but in the matter of the
headline. / will see what can be done"
FROM PERSONAL STANDPOINT.
Judge Gear replied to the Attorney
General in the following strain:
| II do not wish you to do anything
except of your own responsibility.
called 1t to your attention as an officer
If the Government whose duty it Is to
prosecute such cases, and see that
here is no intimidati or insinuation
~ newspapers. But 1t seems to me it
, about time, Mr.. Attorney General
from a personal standpoint If you
want to take it that way), it is about
time as far as the right of justice Is
concerned, unless this paper and the
peope behind it are ready and willing
to cone out now and insist that the
FRANCHISE be taken away from the ma
tives. to refrain from any such state
ments as these. This is a case we
We're IN all day yesterday, and now we ,
have brown away all this time; the
jurors are not satisfied to sit on the
case, AID the administration of justice
has bee1 interfered with, and the Court
VIII cal your attention as an officer
In that Department, whose duty it is
to see tlat the administration of Justice
is not inerfered with, and to take such
steps asiyou may deem proper"
Responding to the opening remark {
of Mr.. Wise, in a considerable address,
to the eject that the article hurt him |
most whre it implied that the rest of
the jury, not being white men, should '
not sit onthe case and that white men
We're the only capable people to try
cases, judge Gear remarked:
I believe that Is the belief of that 7
paper"
SPEECH BY WISE. Z
John II. Wise said: I'VE all know U
that the Advertiser has been running
the country since 1893, running the
courts befor your honor came to the i
bench. and naturally they We're losing
a little powi after you came to the
bench and oher men of your stamp, |,
and Hereford wish to have the same
Did regime cone back; and that Is the =
state of affairs that the officials of the n
country wish to have, why / would
81 " jan dSiln Tor ten years, nave Il
1een there one year to try to put these =
men out. ] think 1t is a reflection not u
only on the character of the natives n
out on the people at large. for one
won't stand IT, whether or not it comes p
rom Thurs,on or any of that clique. \
am an American citizen now, and am
going to ENJOY the privileges, and for
people of that character to come up
md say | ant not fit to Judge anybody, e.
md but white men should sit in the n
'ourts, and d, justice, and If the kind -
If white men that the Advertiser II
wishes to dIs,ranchse the Hawaiians
believe we should leav. the country ~
lere to them and go somewhere else: II,
md l feel that justice should be done
o his Honor. u
Attorney General Andrews said: If p,
he Court please, l don't know whether S
here is any insinuation that the At III
orney Generals office has anything to II,
(COntinied on maya ~ M