Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-03-09
Stand For
Kepoikai
FRIENDS CLAIM ATTACK HAS
MADE HIM NEW FRIENDS.
HIS TEMPER

Wailuku, Maui, March G.-Maui is
astir with the news from Honolulu
this morning relative to Judge Ke-
poikai's fight to exonerate himself
from the charges preferred against
him by his accusers. The Hawailans
OF all political factions are with
Judge Kepoikai In this matter, and
will remain so until more damaging
charges are preferred against him
than those already presented by
County Attorney d. II. Case before
the Hawaiian Bar Association.
The Judge is gaining friends and
sympathizers as consequence. Even
those who did not admire his tenn
are insufficient as cause for remov-
al from his office. for they claim that
even Uncle" Joe Cannon is the hap
by possessor of such a temper, and
can use II with beautiful effect when
needed.
It Is true that the Judge has taken
an active part in politics in the past,
and all sensible and reasonable beings
should admire him for that, for the
man who does not care continental
how or who runs politics Is not fit
man to sit on the bench. OF course,
he must run politics In clean man
ner, and that is Just the Judges
trouble-because he did not permit
low, scheming politicians to have the
upper hand. 1t is true, too, that his
enemies would be mighty glad to see
him quit politics, for then they would
nave a chance to pull the wires on
behalf of themselves and their sup
porters. With the Judge out of poll
tics and a few more able Hawaiians
] like him, Home Rulers would run
Maui County.
The charge that both his relatives
we're appointed on the Jury Commits
| sion Is childish because there is just
| 90 much material to be selected from
in this County and any other Com
missioners would not make any i'm
provement In the selection. Jury
| Commissioners elsewhere are finding
the same trouble, and the trouble is
not with the Commissioners, but with
the limit and qualifications exacted
in the personnel of both juries by
the Organic Act. There has never
been any challenge to the writer's
knowledge made by any of the accu-
sers on the grounds averred and 1t
is only brought up at this time he
cause of lack Of proper grounds to
fight the Judge on.
| With regard to the fisheries charge
the writer knows very little about
that matter, but he knows that no
one would be willing to stand bond
for the accusers If they were to take
| charge of the fisheries at an annual
rental of $4,000. They would all fly
up into nothingness higher than a
kite after less than six months trial.
l.. II. Bailey was the only man who
made money on the Kahului fisheries
and he was reported to have made as
high as $500 In one month, but
that was over twenty years ago,
when there were no big All. steam
ers in port to scare the fishes out OF
the harbor, and also at time when
Central Maui was densely populated
| with fish-eating Hawaiians.
All admit the temper of Kepoikai,
but It is the possession of that tenn
per which has caused his advance
ment in the world, for a man with
out temper of some kind is an I'M
derling and capable Of being used as
a tool by scoundrels and schemers.
An easy-going Hawaiian without
temper and without any aim In life
is to be despised and fit subject for
suspicion. But a man with a tenn
per which is by no means dangerous
nor violent is a fit companion at all
| times.
The writer has had words with the
Judge on various occasions both in
politics and on social occasions, but
the writer has met the Judge with
his own weapons, by using hard ex-
pressions at times (but not obscene)
and each time the Judge was brought
to a realization that he was not the
only master in sarcasm, ridicule, and
abuse mot vile eXpressions).
| .H" KEOLA,