The sun., 1893-11-22
GRESHAM And THE INFANT.
His Part In the Hawaiian AFFAIR Has Prob
ably Killed Him Politically.

ably Killed Him Politically.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 21.-The next chapter II
| the Hawaiian story will probably be the repll
| of ex- Minister Stevens to the Administration :
statement OF the case as set forth in tn,
| Rlount report. The Hawaiian Minister. Mr.
| Thurston. to- day prepared an answer to Mr.
! Blounts indictment OF the Harrison Admins
| tration for the part il Is alleged to have taken
In dethroning Queen LilIuokala in which he
emphatically refutes nearly all the IMPORTANT
statements made by Mr.. Blount In his report
When Mr.. Stevens is heard from lie will nc
| doubt endorse what Minister Thurston says
and add his testimony as to the unfarness
| and one sidedness OF Mr.. Blounts report.
There will probably be no further news from
Honolulu until the steamer which sailed from
San Francisco to-day shall have returned,
That will be more than a fortnight hence. One
steamer arrives In the meantime. but il Is a
slow-gong vessel that sailed shortly after the
Australia left port, and will not be likely to
bring any mportant information OF events oc-
curing subsequent to Nov. IL. II anything
i'm portant has taken place at Honolulu. there
fore as the result OF Minister Willis's mission
the public will be made aware OF 1t about tho
time that Congress m Gets on Dec. {, when. OF
course. all correspondence and documents
will be Immediately called for and laid before
the two Houses.
some very lively proceedings will undoubt-
edly follow and the President and Secretary
OF State will have opportunity to defend their
Hawaiian policy before the Senate and the
House. both OF which bodies are controlled by
the Democrats. There is reason to believe.
however. that the Administration will find as
much difficulty in drumming up support as II
the majority in tho two Houses was against
them. 1t is very well known. for instance.
that Senator Morgan. the Chairman OF tho
Committee on Foreign Affairs is bitter and
uncompromising opponent OF the monarchy
rrstoIlng policy He denounced il when it
was lrst made public by Secretary Gresham.
nnd he denounces II still more vigorously now
that the Administration has published IT'S ,!e-
fence in the case In tho shape Df tho BlOuut
report. Tho opposition to the course of the
Administration is not c0niined 10 Republicans
In congress by any means. and some Ot its
most severe critics are fuund in the ranks ol
The Democratic l1adeTs in both the senate and
House.
II is stating the case very mildly TO say that
the President and Secretary Gresham are very
much surprised that the publication Of tho
lilount report does not seem To- have lrsssned
policy in the slightest degree. When that
report wa, surTeptitipusly sent 10 certain
thlck'and- thin Administration newspapers
cation. the Administration fred its last gun
9tPd th expected s to ,G bring down big game: game
however, aud dii not succeed
in bringing out endorsements even from
the lew party organs that were depended
uPon To break tho loTrs OF the blow al public
criticism, lhs BlOunt report was so com plets-
~ discounted by the iaet that Secretary
GTesham had quoted everything in il worth
quoting in his letter to the President dated
Oct IL. tnat some Of the most devoted Admin
lstTati"n organs did not even publish II, and
ot hers tucked il away out Of sight or used very
brief extracts from II, According To the gen
sral opinion here the publication Of the report
,ny goes to show how entirely onesidsd Mr.
Iiluunt made his Investigation into the clTcum-
stances OF the revolution and into the anneNu-
lion feeling In Hawaii,
Ihn assurances given by officials OF the State |
that they have absolutely NO |
luUwledge us tO how the Bount report cAms !
10 te published on Monday morning go absO- 4
utelY for nHught in view OF tue Tact that one |
Ir two Ot the more subseTYieut Adml lnlstratiuu J
cuckoo newspapers published THIS morning (
he full text oi the report. which has not yet |
Zraphsd from Washington. and must. there !
ore have been mAtlen several DAYS ago. But /
he public generally has not much interest in d
he details OF tEC petty iittls trick played by ]
.ahinet omecr 10 punish neHspapers which |
have criticised his policy.
What is important is the fact that the secrs- I
iRTy OF state has, most unfortunately for him /
SELF and his paTty. ignored a line opportunity /
10 make q hril!iant reputation IN diplomacy I
and pupulATizv himself and the Admlul -tTlItun 7
" which he Il pHTt in tho minds ~ the ,
mcIIcan people Having made such "a serious I
under AT tho outset % L.s career. as a Demo- .
cratic statesman Judge Gresham can hardly 4
eApvet 70 retrieve hlnSalt In time tu save MS I
political lutUrr- This 10 the chief reason why ha
y So greatly disappointed and humiiiatrd at I
the peoples condemnation Of his HawAiiap I
policy lie knows that he has hlundeEsd. bat /
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