The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-05

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time before this Mr.. Harris had lost
the confidence of the community be-
4 cause Of the aid and encourag cement he
> had given Kamehameha in the pro-
| mitigation of the obnoxious new consti-
! tuition. and he was heartily disliked.
There was intense friction caused
throue hout the whole small community
of whites by the coming and establish
| ing of the Anglican church here. This
| friction was caused greatly by the want
| of tact. and all brotherly kindness and
! consideration on the part of the Angl1-
/ can Bishop for the American mission
/ aries who had sacrificed so much. and
! accomplished so much toward the civil
! lization and Christianization of Ha-
| waiians Mr.. Harris had always been
| an E,piscopalian and quite naturally
| left the old Bethel church TO attend his
/ own after it was established here. The
| fever of the Civil war was still burn
! ing in the blood of the Americans here.
| Such detection on the part of an
! American as leaving the American
| church TO attend one so pronouncedly
English. was considered decidedly I'M
American. for the line of cleavage be
| tween the old established Congrega-
| tional church and the newly come An
glican was almost as much national as
doctrinal Mr. Harris, but not for his
church preference so much as aiding
and abetting the King in his tyran-
nical acts, became distrusted He re-
ceived this feeling with smiling face
and head high in the air. but he was
man of too much pride, not to say
vanity not to feel it keenly. He was
never anything but good Episcopali-
an, but later circumstances brought the
community into closer union. and in
the end, he lived down all distrust, and
after years showed him to be an up
right man, as he was a softer. sweet
err one worthy of the confidence of his
King, his adopted country, and his fell
low countrymen. On the resignation
of Judge Allen, he became the accept
able Chief Justice, and when the news
of his almost instant death, at Waikiki /
that July afternoon, was telephoned
around town, it was received with sin
man of great personal courage and was
fearless in his decisions.
The turning of the tide of royal |
favor, by the death of Kamehameha |
V, which, during the whole of his ,
reign, had been made strongly against
the missionaries, landed Mr.. A. F.
Al
the office of Attorney General. He |
held this office during the thirteen
reign of that King, and when,
upon the elected accession of Kala-
kaua, cabinet and bench We're read
justed, Mr.. Judd became Second Asso-
ciate Judge of the Supreme Court, and
by subsequent changes Chief Justice,
M office he held until his resignation,
because of failing health, a few months [
before his death. 1t was perhaps a {
token of the esteem in which he was
held that the vacant office was not
flled while he lived.
There was a very strong reSem-
olance between Judge Judd and Judge
McCully, one often mistaken for the
Dther. Judge Judd. presiding at the
Waimea circuit, had had horse placed
at his disposal by native Hawaiian,
who otherwise showed the Judge evil
iences of his goodwill and Astounding
The next term at Waimea
was held by Judge McCully, who
quite naturally paid no attention to
the native who had loaned the horse
TO Judge Judd. He did not know of
he kindness to his brother judge until
later The native was intensely dis
appointed and chagrined by Judge Nc
Cully's Indifference, and expressed his
opinion of such base ingratitude and
lis hearty disapproval of such a man.
When he was, with difficulty, made to
see that he had mistaken the Justice,
lis wounded feelings We're healed and
Judge Judd was restored to his favor
A more conscientious judge than Mr.
Judd never sat on the Hawaiian or any
other bench. He was patient. kindly
i1:o 4o6 Inxvt
raining for his position. He under
,tood and loved Hawaiians.
Mr.. Lawrence McCully was appoint
I'd Second Associate Justice upon the
of Judge Allen, ana when
he other judges had been promoted.
He was scholarly man and read his
Greek and Latin classics to the end of
lis life Mr.. McCullys value as "a
Judge came not so much from his
of law as from his excep-
ionally logical mind. He received
acts slowly. An idea knocking at the
:oor of his mind must stand arrayed
n proper expression until the door
'wung on it's noiseless hinges, when It
night enter with decorous footsteps,
md abide in the orderly room forever.
Nothing could be pitched in, and Judge
dcCully could never guess. He was an
absolutely truthful man.
Judge McCully's appointment came .
rom Kalakaua, and under this King,
md by his earnest desire, the judges
irst put on robes of office. If these J
gowns were not made after the exact 3:
,attern of those worn by the justices t
# the u S. Supreme Court, they were
made IN Geneva, Switzerland. under t
he personal supervision of Mrs. Mill I
s.; wife of one of the justices of the S
supreme Court at Washington. and, as I
believe, the pattern was chosen by
1er The robes were first worn by h
Judges Judd, McCully and Preston, t
they did not themselves greatly favor /
he innovation. and when they first d
ppeared in them they We're subjected I
o mild ridicule r
At the time of Judge Harris death, J
<aGakaua was absent on his tour t
round the world, and the vacancy on
he bench was not filled until the +
Kings return in November. when there Y