Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-30

after a very brief stay by very large ma
jorities, all the honest members voting
against him.
Prior to Cornwelrs two explosions Neu-
mann had been voted out August ~, 1892,
by vote of 80 to ~. Reappointed by the
queen September II, he was voted out Oc-
tederate with Peterson and Cornwell. He
was known to be of the contract labor ring
who was bleeding the planters. With good
reasons he was believed to be the author of
the queens revolutionary and despotic new
constitution. Losing caste in California as
political corruptionist, he had years be-
fore gone to Honolulu under the fattering
auspices of Claus Spreckles. He had played
poker with kalakaua to the depletion of the
weak Kings purse. He is the man whom
the queen sent to Washington to get her
restored to the throne or sell her claim to
the crown In cash. He is the man by whom
Blount absurdly hints / had sent dis
patches to Washington, on an errand for
which on no occasion had 1 ever employed
anyone. Blount asserts he received this
information from Spreckles. What a re-
markable trio-Spreckles, Neumann and
Blount-two honest Germans and the astute,
impartial, unprejudiced, newborn diploma
fist, who had represented that he was the
democratic leader who had led his party to
support Harrison in the threatened Chilean
war, while he severely denounced Admiral
Brown and Minister Egan. Spreckles. Neu-
mann and Blount-who will decipher the
enigma. explain the philosophy and state
the substantial considerations which bind
this trio togetheri
The testimony Of hundreds of such would
not counterbalance the words of Minister
Thurston. President Dole and Henry Wat
erhOuse among honest men who know the
respective parties. As to Wilson, the
queens immoral favorite for manv years.
and whom Blount ATTEMPTS to whitewash,
will not soil these pages bv giving even
the notorious facts in his regard.
Former Statements Reafirmed.
As to NV recognition Of tho nrox,is;ono al
government, 1 reaffirm what I said in my
recent letter to Secretary Gresham
Queen Liliuokalani inaugurated the revo-
luton by attempting to destroy the con-
stitution by revolutionary means. From
Saturday afternoon, January IA, to jan
uary 16 there was no government in Hon.
olulu except in the united and self-pos-
sessed attitude of the citizens, who assem-
bled in a great mass meeting on January
10 and consummated their efforts for law
and order by the establishment Of the pro-
visional government on the nth, which was
promptly acknowledged by all the foreign
representatives who were familiar with the
circumstances of its creation. 1t was nearly
fifty hours after Liliuokalani and her IA
Vorites had destroyed her throne by rev.
oiutionary outbreak when the men of the
Boston landed. In the exciting hours pre-
ceding and following her fall her represen-
tatlveS, as well as those who formed the
provisional government, had equal access
to the legation.
To all proper inquiries my answer was
that the United States marines could not
take sides, but whatever de facto govern
ment might exist would have to be recog-
nized. When l did recognize it, late in the
afternoon of the 18th, the provisional gov
ernmcnt was complete master of the situa-
ton; had full control of the city and of the
government archives, the police station be-
ing surrounded and at the mercy of the pro-
visional government. 1t was a small build
ing, IN which the dlSorganized and DOW erleSS
followers of the queens paramount Marshal
Wilson. took refuge, and they must sur
render in few hours by mere force of hun
ger The provisional government knew it's
power to possess the station at once, but
wished not to take single life of it's oc-
cupants. 1t deemed II wiser to await their
surrender. Had the queens supporters
dared to resist the organization of the new
government their only possible chance to do
so was during Saturday and Monday of the
10th and nth, while the citizens were at
tending their mass meeting, selecting their
committees of public safety and preparing
TO organize government as openly as pub
lie meetings are held in any American city
They did not dare to attempt to arrest or
interfere with the aroused white citizens.
1t was a united and Irresistible movement
OF the same men, with now increased num-
bers, that took away the despotic powers of
King kalakaua in 1887 and crushed the Will
cox revolt In 1889 They gathered at the
increased by other arms, openly carried in
carriage from gun store, with only three
men in charge. The only government that
existed or could exist under these circum-
stances was the provisional government
L am fully aware that l have made this
paper too lengthy. / regret to tax the pub
lie patience with words of mine Against
all just expectations / have been forced to
expose the anomalous, the un-American and
most unfair course of Blount and associates
against my official conduct, my honor and
all that a public man holds dear. This ex-
traordinary assault on the American colony
In Hawaii antagonizing the American
Christian civilization established at the cost
of lives and labors of noble American men
and women there; the strange turning back
of an American policy of more than half
century; this wanton disregard of the op-
portunity to assume jurisdiction and owner
ship of territorial and maritime prize
with a clean title and without the cost of
a single life, is justly causing profound in
dignation among the American people
These strange and unpatriotic proceedings
in the presence of our national rivals is
making most shameful page of American
history, which our future. If not our pres
emit. statesmen and generation will repudiate
and blot out by wise and effective measures
(SignedD JOHN L. STEVENS
Augusta. Me, November %. 1893.