The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-22
THURSTON TRIES
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revolutionary intention Of the queen,
at 10 o'clock on the 14th, Colbourn
came to me, greatly excited, and told
me the queens intention to promulgate
a new constitution, and asked my ad-
vice. 1 said Why do you not go to
members of your own party2 He re-
pliedc L have no party Those who
have been our supporters are support
ing the queen The downtown people
(referring to the merchants) have got
no use for me, and unless the members
of your party and the other citizens
will support US we are going to resign
right away
In 1889, while the same men who
constitute the provisional government
we're in control of the kings govern
ment, a conspiracy was organized
among the royalist supporters by the
king and Liliuokalani for the over
throw OF the cabinet and the restoTa-
ton OF the old royal power and con-
stitution. The conspirators took the
cabinet by surprise and on the night
OF July 90. took possession of all the ar
tiIlery, and the fortified palace. The
regular troops, by order of the king
refused to assist the cabinet, who call
ed upon the whole militia and the
white citizens for assistance. The call
was promptly responded to. The fight
ing opened at 8 o'clock in the morning
"
ers in position in front of the palace,
which numbers were later increased to
about 500. The royalist revoluuonistS
opened with a furious fire of both ar
tillery and small arms. Within half
an hour they were driven from their
guns, seventeen killed and twelve
wounded. and before dark all of them
were dispersed or captured, while not
one of the cabinet supporters was
injured. Such is The undisputed record
Of events upon the two occasions when
the royalists and organizers Of the
provisional government have come into
armed conflict when there has been no
suggestion OF support to either side
by any outside power
Under these circumstances, l sub
NIT the burden Of proof is on those
who claim the leaders Of the provis-
ional government cannot successfully
carry on a revolution in Hawaii. 1t
IS unnecessary for me here TO state
the details of the bitter constitutional
strife which had been carried on be-
tween the queen and the legislature
during the seven months prior to jan
uary last, or to speak of the intense
Indignation existing among all classes
of citizens by reason of the open and
successful alliance of the queen with
the opium and the lottery rings.
1.-THE political liberties of the Z Jple
sense shocked. It simply needed the
added provocation of an arbitrary at
tempt to abrcgate the constitution and
disfranchise every white man IN the
country to spontaneously crystalize the
opposition into a force that was ir-
resistable. In reply to the sheer that
persons taking part in the movement
are aliens, 1 would say that every
man by the laws of the country
legal voter, has a right to the
franchise; and by the proposed consti-
tuition this would be abrogated. A
large proportion of them were born in
that country, and almost without ex-
ception those who were not born there
have lived there for years, owned prop
erty there, and made it their home.
They are the men who have built UP
[, country, commercially, agricultur
ally, financially and politically, and
created and made possible a civilized
government therein. They were and
are such men as today are the leading
citizens of the most progressive COM
munity in the United States with in
terests of native and foreign bern
the interests of Hawaii as are the in
terests of native and foreign born
citizens in similar communities in this
country identified with it..