The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-06

Among the passengers, on the Man
churia, bound for Washington, d. c.,
where he viii bring impeachment pro-
ceedings against Judge Wiley of the
Federal Court of Shanghai, is Lorrin
Andrews, former Attorney General of
this Territory. When asked for an in
terview on the subject of the trouble
with Judge Whitley last night he said:
''The situation in Shanghai has be-
come simply intolerable to the mem-
bers of the American colony. Instead
of doing good Judge Whitley has done
everything in his power to disgrace
the members of the American COM
munity in that city. He poses as a
reformer for the sake of the notoriety
which ne can obtain, and through his
press agents in the papers of the
United States has declared that Shang-
hal and the American colony in par
ticular is a modern Sodom and Gomor-
rah and is unfit for habitation by de-
cent people.
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papers. which have been inspired by
Judge Wilfey's imagination, have not
one iota of truth in them. The city
is and, has been for the past fifty years
governed by municipal council
WHICH has full charge of all affairs.
TIE English predominate in this coun-
Gil and the city has been so well gov7
erned that it has been considered a
model on which other cities in the Far
East should be controlled. Judge Will
fey has not and never has had any
power which would enable him to regen-
crate the city or to interfere with its
government.
SIN spite of the stories which have
been spread by him that he was driv-
ing away American criminals by the
shipload, the city is exactly the same
as it was twelve months ago. He has
boasted that he was the direct repre-
sentative of President Roosevelt and /
was sent there to clean out the Amer |
lean colony and has through his utter /
ances succeeded in disgraeing the
Americans of Shanghai in the eyes of
all the other nationalities.
ssJudge Wilfey's appearance in
Shanghai has been most unfortunate |
for the protection of the interests of
American interests in the Far East.
He has shown himself to be mixture
of blatant demagogism and egotism
and to know nothing OF law or of his
duties as a judge.
I'm Manila understand from the best
of authority he was despised by all
classes and from what can learn he
had no standing in his home in Mis-
souri,. In Shanghai he is socially
ostracized on account of his actions and
his falsifcations of the real situation.
He has done more to ruin the American
interests in China than anything which
has happened in the past twenty years.
81 am now on my way to Wash
ington to file charges of impeachment
against him with President Roosevelt
and, if necessary, with Congress on
the grounds of malfeasanee In office
and utter disregard for the rights OF
Americans in the Far East. The
charges are seven in number and are
all backed by affidavits. I feel that
I bear the good will not only of the
entire American colony of Shanghai,
but also of the entire foreign popula- .
tion. Only few days before leaving c
was guest at a banquet at which I
there were seventy-five merchants OF a
The city, all of whom expressed their =
good viii and also their best wishes b
sor the success of my mission. r
CT know that the entire foreign q
population feels an intense resentment =,
md indignation against Judge Whitley is
or the malicious attacks which he has cl
made on the good name and fair fame u
# the city of Shanghai in his attempts -"
o prove it disreputable place, which
e alone can regenerate. OF
"The absurdity of his claims is ap-f OF
aren't ON its face when confronted pi
nth the facts. In one year he -
as had only FIVE criminal eases m