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...exactly 11 a.m. all four prisoners were ushered down a hall and into the office of Governor Lawrence McCully Judd. To each he handed a paper commuting their sentences to the time already served. By telescoping ten years into one hour the Kahahawai case was thus closed with one final dramatic fillip...
...commutations from Governor Judd, island-born son of an island-born son of a Yankee missionary, did not come spontaneously. Defense counsel had formally petitioned him for executive clemency but more potent was the pressure of mainland sentiment. In Washington Congress had seethed with legislative proposals to set the convictions aside. No less than 104 Congressmen had signed a cabled plea to Governor Judd to pardon the four prisoners. Victor Steuart Kaleoaloha Houston, Hawaiian delegate in Congress, aware of the rising political tide against his territory, likewise begged the Governor...
...Wednesday, Governor Lawrence M. Judd of Hawaii passed through probably the most difficult crisis of his official career. According to legal requirements, any leniency to the Massie defendants must come through him. The court was powerless to carry out the jury's recommendation for clemency, and unless immediate executive commutation intervened, all four prisoners would be forced to pay the penalty for their crime. And while Governor Judd knew well that native sentiment demanded punishment and would react disagreeably to undue leniency, he was influenced even more by expressions of American opinion which reached him. The Governor was not only...
...when he considered the effects of such an act on native opinion was apparently swept aside by the storm of appeal from across the Pacific. The nature of that storm, stirred up by the worst sort of yellow journalism and political demagogy would have repelled a stronger man; to Judd it appeared adequate substantiation of a move which he regarded as his only resort in a muddle which had grown too complex for his powers...
...well for Governor Judd to assert his opinion on the matter, for to have allowed the case to proceed through the indefinite and sympathetic channels of the law would have appeared to the native as partial as his present decision. But it would have been more just and far-sighted to commute the sentences to a real term of imprisonment; for only thus could he have assured the natives of his impartiality and secured a retrial of the offending Hawaiians. At present, law in Hawaii stands riddled with race prejudice and contempt; to reestablish its prestige will prove a task...