Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 93, 21 April 1894 Edition 02 — Still Silent. [ARTICLE]

Still Silent.

His Honor the Chief Justice has not even y.i condescended to answer the qoestions propounded by the Holo3CTa, and whieh so Tit*lly a?Tects the administration iof justice in an important suit now pending in Court The hona ndt» of the entire attitude of His Honor seem to be involved in his silence. He has accepted (possib- , ly connived at or suggested) an appointment as guardian ad liUm ;of tbe Brown minors in a suit where, if onr information pre- . viously pnblished be accurate his own children are interested in direct and insuperable hostility to the interests of the Brown minors, whom he is appointed to i represent and defend. There is ce ,- tainly a demand for eiplanations here, if the conidence of i the puhlie in our judiciaiy system and the personnel of the Bench is to be maintained. Wby does not Mr. Judd epeak and thus set at rest any existing doubt as to the facts and the propriety involved? How ean he suppose that silence, under such eon- ! ditions ean subserve any useful purpose? Does he not know that the most innocent of intentions on his part (if his intentions be in fact innocent) are in danger jof misconstruction while his silence continues and that such misconstruction cannot but jeoparadize the fame of the Bench? The Holomua opened up this question with the purest of motives and in order to obtain ex1 planations of conditions whieh unexplained reflect most seriousIy upon our judiciary. We do ! not intend to drop the matter un- 1 til thoso explanations aae forthcoming. In the words of Hamlet, j directed against his father’smurderer. “Upon this theme will I fight him, until these eye lids i will no longer wag.” Come, Mr. Judd, spoak upl