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


Waikiki, Maui, March G.-Maui is
astir with the news from Honolulu
this morning relative to Judge Ke-
poikai's fight to eyonerate himself
from the charges preferred against
him by his accusers The Hawaiians
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. Il. Case before
the Hawaiian Bar Association.
The Judge is gaining friends and
sympathizers as consequence. Even
those who did not admire his tenn
per believe that the charges so far
are insufficient as a cause for remoy-
al from his Office, for they claim that
even Uncle" Joe Cannon is the hap
| ply possessor of such a temper, and
can use IL with beautiful effect when
| needed.
II 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 a fit
man to sit on the bench. or course,
he must run politics in clean man
ner, and that is just the Judges
l trouble-because he did not permit
low, scheming politicians to have the
upper hand. II 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 Hawalians
like him, Home Rulers would run
Maui County.
The charge that both his relatives
were appointed on the Jury Commits
sion is childish because there is just
30 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 nc
one would be willing to stand bond
tor 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 d
kite after less than six months trial
h. II. Bailey was the only man who
made money on the Kahului tsherie,
and he was reported to have made a.
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 o
the harbor, and also at time wher
Central Maui was densely populated
with fish-eating Hawaiians.
| All admit the temper OF Kepoikai
but Il Is the possession OF that TEN
per which has caused his advance
ment in the world, for man with
out o temper of some kind is an un
derling and capable Of being used a
a tool by scoundrels and schemers
An easy-going Hawaiian withou
temper and without any aim In lif'
is to be despised and a fit subject 70
suspicion. But man with n TEN
per which is by no means dangerous
nor violent is a fit companion ut NJ
times.
The writer has had words with thu
Judge on various occasions both II
politics and on social occasions, bu
the writer has met the Judge will
his own weapons, by using hard ex
pressions at times (but not obscene)
and each time the Judge was brough
to realization that he was not thu
only master in sarcasm, ridicule, anC
abuse mot vile eXpressions).
KEOLA.