The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-18

| hcatfon, but failed TO appear IN sat
urday's issue.
Honolulu, April 16. 1904
To the Editor of the Honolulu Even
ing Bulletin, Sir: You have seen 1T to
repubIish blended eulogy and libel
concerning myself, written by THE
Saunterer' in the San Francisco Town
Talk. weekly paper, devoted to per-
sonalities, social and otherwise. On
account Of this republication, I desire
space for brief reply.
The only parts Of the article that
invite any consideration by me are,
first: The falsehoods in relation to my
litigation with z. ]. Baldwin in Cali
fornia. second: The proposition that I
am back number and, third: The
suggestion that my nomination for the
Supreme Bench in California would
have been an occasion for surprise
viii deal with these briefly in a slight
ly inverted order
l. was not considered a back
number" when, in 1900. at the request
of the Republican State Central Com
mittee of California, I addressed an
overlooking audience at Metropolitan
Hall. San Francisco, in favor of the
election of Mckinley and Roosevelt,
nor when. in the same year, I publish
ed articles over my own signature IN
their support
2. was not considered a back
number when two San Francisco
juries, the last in 1900, on the testi-
rnony of fully twelve of the principal
lawyers in San Francisco, in one of
three actions / have had. to bring to
collect fees, awarded me every dollar
I claimed. In this connection, ] may
observe that THE Saunterer'' is either
grossly ignorant or a deliberate falsi-
fer. when he states that what he calls
my "counter-claim," in an action in
which my assignee was the plaintiff,
rested upon a collocation of items of
legal advice" 1t was based, almost
entirely, upon professional services
rendered in the case of Ashley V. Bald
win, in which damages to the amount
of $4,000 were claimed, and upon an
other important case in court. which
involved upon my part months OF hard
labor Tt is also true that. in my
claim, against the advice of my attor-
neys, 1 allowed Mr.. Baldwin fully
three thousand dollars, his recovery of
which was barred by the Statute of
Limitations.
3. was not considered a black
number" when, in Honolulu, in 1902, I
addressed a meeting of business men
on behalf of the present delegate in
Congress from this Territory, nor when
few months ago, 1 was the first
speaker at a meeting called, under the
auspices of the Merchants Association,
in relation to the County Act"
IL
number in other respects, and es-
peciaIly professionally. leave to the
decision of all who have observed my /
course in this Territory since 1 ar
rived, August End, 1902. HI
5. am not considered 'sbackii
number by many of the principal I
lawyers and judges in San Francisco
and elsewhere in California nor by
eading citizens here, within and with
tut the bar. who have endorsed me for
IN appointment to the Supreme Bench
saTne Saunterer'' simply lies when he
asserts that I came to Honolulu for
he purpose of commencing his 6rny)
career anew 1 left San Francisco
lnder compulsion. on account of long
tanding illness in my family, and /
I'M glad that I turned in this direc-
ion, for have been placed under per-
nanent obligations, first, by the hos
itality and the courtesy I have re-
eived. and. second. by the climate.
-hich has restored to me a life far
,ore valuable than my own
Finally. I scarcely think it would
ave been regarded as unusual, if
ad run for the Supreme Bench in
alifornia. but. as this is the first time
, my life that I have even allowed
" name to be mentioned in connec-
on with an office, the occasion never
resented itself. 1 have done my full
hare Of gratuitous public service, but
:. e. CIV no1i.icaJ or nerSonal end