The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-06-10

tHl nDJ kHdNt, VI hN lDCll Lc, OF ibl'I
enough TO denounce rcvolntionist,
when we are here by vi tue oi n
revolution. (Applause.) 1t is we'll
known that during the session OF
1887 matters became very acute
here. There were large crowds here
and members feared personal at
tacks. Some of them carried wcap-
Gns to protect themselves. On the
l1th OF December, when the House
assembled to consider vetoed meas
ures, we anticipated trouble. V. V.
Ashford was prepared then, not
withstandilg the charge that he was
n traitor, TO assist in putting down
any riotous movement. Such n good
friend OF these gentlemen as Mr.. a
$. liartNell, expressed his contempt
for their conduct, that they should
be holding V. V. Ashford in their
arms one day and the next pouring
abuse on him.
With regard to the first election
for the Coouelcy, | propose to prove
that the Minister of Interior did not
assume an impartial attitude. The
Minister'S candidate, Major Heb
bard, was ia the Interior Depart
ment. n place was given to Capt.
Langley, another TO Capt. Fcrreira,
in the same Department, TO get their
votes. They didn't get their votes.
The Minister did everything he
could 10 prevent V. Y. Ashford
from being elected. When he says
he did not he mistake. his magma
ton for his memory.
As To the instruction Of July 80,
1889, the Minister of Interior
charges that V. Y. Ashford seut
messages to the insurreGtionists
When the sun rose that morning the
Ministers were in the boneyard and
the reason they were rcsurrectcd
was because V. V. Ashtord's heart
was in his work. 1t has been said
that he was in active conspiracy
with Wilcox, when he never knew
Wilcox until that night when he met
Lin III wv aiticC ' dlN 'iiN tSihtut-
ed his sword. The real facts are
that the blame of that insurrection
rests On the Cabinet rs Il whole.
The police are mainly responsible
but the Cabinet are also responsible.
We depended on y rotten reed in
the Station, John II. Sopcr, Mar
shall. V. V. Ashford recommended
that the Rifles take their arms home
so that they would not be exposed
to seizure behind that thin board
fence. The Minister OF Foreign AZ
fairs refused to grant that order
because it might precipitate the
trouble which it was intended to
avoid. When the sun rose that
morning there were 93 first-class
Springfield rifles there, and if Will
cox had any forethought he would
have secured them. The natives
were focking to him with their sym
pathy, and a corporal's guard could
have secured those arms, and the
revolution would have been a sue.
cess, and the Ministry would never
have been resurrected. If, as
charged by the Minister of Interior,
V. V. Ashford was in sympathy
with that movement, his first look
out would have been to let those ri
fles go, when the Cabinet would
have been U p. The charge of thu
Minister of Interior is bare fabrl
cation. Until / heard the Min
lister of Interior make those state
ments, knowing the facts, / die
not believe any man having the leas
pretension 10 decency or truthful
ness could be so base, but sine,
hearing him am prepared to believe
anything. If V. V. Ashfor,
was with the conspirators VIII,
did the Government organ, in it
"steamer edition" of instruction
news, give him first credit for put
ting it down? The speaker quote,
the passage from the Advertiser t.
that effect, also the advertisement
Of thanks from the Cabinet to V. V
Ashford and others, published SD,
authority in the BULLETIN.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Minister Ashford, resuming, chara
ed the Government with neglcctin
the warning of the instruction O
July given by V. V. Ashford. TIL
little ammunition available consis,
ed mainly Of reloaded cartridges
! The Minister of Foreign Affair
secuted the idea that the native
would take action. Had it not bee
for the ammunition supplied by tn
L. $. 5. Adams the Government
forces would have been in n ba
way. V. V. Ashford rcproache
, the Minister of the Interior for til
inaction of the Government, an
, that was one cause Of the Minister
feeling against him.
: Referring to tho charge that /
: had ignored the Ministry during h
. trip abroad, Minister Ashford sal
. that on his arrival in Chicago he r.
! ceived a message that friend WI
3 at the point of death in Michigan
| He also received there an invitatic
5 from Sir John Macdonald, Premi,
4 of Canada, to call on him in Ottaw
: He did not see what his visit TO {;