The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-14

that, you know If pressed to be ex-
plicit and give the two sides, he will
say: ''Well, you see this prosecution
by Spreckels and Heney and that crowd
has hurt business, and this town has
lost millions of capital by it. 1t ought
to be stopped. J"
If the questioner will repeat his in
quiry for the two sides of the case for
hours he will never hear anything more
explicit. He will hear that the Spreck-
els family is very wicked. He will
hear that Heney is an outsider. He
will hear that Burns peeped through
holes to get proof of the guilt of some
grating officials Ee will hear at
tacks upon the prosecution for hours,
he will hear apologies for the grafters
and for grating as long as he can lis
ten, but he will never, hear that
guilty official who takes a bride, or
corrupt business man who gives one,
ought to be punished in accordance with
the statutes in such cases made and
provided.
This campaign is not without sys-
TEN. A series of dinners was given in
the homes of some of the social leaders
of the city, at which the whole CONVEX
sation was devoted to the campaign of
sitting the voice of the civic con-
science. Every weekly paper in the
city, religious and all, with one excep-
ton, is either attacking the prosecu-
ton or remaining silent.
This campaign in the sacred name of
business, which seeks to make the
people forget, is entirely independent
from another campaign conducted by
other defenders of the grafters. Threat
ening letters are their weapons. The
chief witness for the prosecution,
former Supervisor Gallagher, was the
intended victim of an assassin, who en-
dangered the lives of seven other per-
sons by dynamiting the house where
Gallagher lived. Whether this plot was
laid by persons interested in the de-
Tense or not has not been proved, but
the prosecution says it will prove it
eventually.
The grafters who turned States evil
dence and were granted immunity in
order to get proof of the crimes COM
mitted by those 'higher up" are con-
demned in the roundest terms by the
men who apologize for all the other
grafters. Boss Ruef confessed, it will
be remembered, and was promised i'm
munity if he would tell all he knew.
He refused to testify in court to facts
which he swore in the grand jury room.
He broke the immunity contract him
self. Now that he is no longer a
prosecuting witness he has the SYM
patty of the very business men who
were lately denouneing him as the au-
thor of all the evil. Furthermore, the
breaking of the immunity contract is
charged against the prosecution.
Mayor Schmitz walks the streets a
free man. He was sent to the peniten-
tiary, but. after waiting until the
statute of limitations prevented an
other indictment, the Supreme Court
of California liberated him because of
technical flaw in the Indictment. In
defending this decision, a judge of the
Supreme Court, in signed newspaper
article, cited the precedent of a case
in which a Chinese who had murdered
another Chinese was permitted to go
free because the indictment failed to
set forth the fact that the murdered
Chinese was a human being! In the
same article he admitted that it was
common knowledge that Schmitz was
elected mayor, but that the indictment
didn I say so. The testimony, of
course. showed that Schmitz was mayor,
hut the Supreme Court walked through
this microscopic flaw in the Indictment.
Patrick Calhoun, the president OF the
United Railroads, is the storm center
of the affair at the present time. He
is descendent of Patrick Henry and
John c. Calhoun, and he uses the elo-
quence of both in asserting his con-
rights. He declined to be
sworn when called before the grand
jury. He declined to answer questions
o sked in the trial of another officer of
his company. but he carefully abstain
ed from refusing to answer on the
ground that his answers might in
criminate him. He has been demand
ing trial for some time, but the pros
ecution is not going to get to his case
until the underiings are disposed of.
Whether or not the prosecution has
acted wisely in delaying his trial. there
can be no question Of the fact that the