The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-09-20
NO. $50.
MR.. CLEVELAND'S HEALTH.
Notwithstanding Denials, the Chief Ex-
ecutive is Far From Being
We'll Man.

misrepresentation Of President Cleve-
lands physical condition. There is no
campaign pending which could be in
the least affected by reports regarding
his good or i'll health. The stock mar
kets are at their lowest ebb, and no
bear movement could be preciptated
by any reports as to Mr.. Cleve.
lands health. There is no dis
appointed office seeker or other person
with a pique who could have an
ulterior design of annoying the Chief
Executive by reports as to bis i'll
health.
As soon as it was ANNOUNCED in these
dispatches the other day that there
was good authority for stating that Mr..
Cleveland's most intimate friends and
physician believed he was suffering
from kidney trouble, supposed to be
Brght's disease, Secretary Lamont and
the Presidents private secretary and
other official spokesmen OF the admin
istration volunteered statements to the
effect that Mr. Cleveland's health was
never better. The official statements
denying the reports OF the Presidents
serious physical condition described the
Presidents official mouthpieces as
Laughing down the ridiculous state
ments," ''smiling broadly at the re-
peated absurdities," &c In short, the
three or four friends of the President
who do everything which they suppose
will be to his personal interest are
described as having attempted to laugh
the press statements out of countenance.
Just why these gentlemen should have
volunteered to 60 SO far in their denials
cannot be imagined, for there was
neither falsity nor malice in the original
statements.
Unless Grover Cleveland is suffering
from either Bright's disease of the
kidneys, dropsy, constitutional rheu-
matism, which affects his entire con-
stltutlon to the extent that it paralyzes
all of the external indications which
lead physicians to make anything like
an accurate diagnosis, or some other
organic trouble which cannot be either
relieved or cured by medicines, the
President himself states falsely Your
correspondent, for the purpose of get.
ting more definitely at the truth, will
wipe away the statements of two distin-
guished Democratic United States
Senators who have been much with the
President during the past three weeks,
the positive assurance of a Washington
physician of reputation, and the per-
sonal opinions of three or four other
gentlemen who have recently talked to
the President, and will depend upon
the words Of the President himself.
One of the officials who was so swift
to denounce the published reports con-
cerning the Presidents i'll health the
other day, had before him at the time
he made his denials two or three letters
written in the Presidents own hand
and dated since the chief executive
departed from Washington The prin-
cipal topic Of those letters was the ad-
visibility of the President remaining
away from Washington longer than the
Ist of September, and his present con
dition of health. These letters were
read by another high official of the
Administration, whose veracity cannot
be questioned The President stated
in these letters, in the most positive
language, that his health continued TO
be the uppermost subject in his mind,
and to cause him serious concern. He
did not state what his trouble was, as
he knew the person to whom he wrote
was familiar with the character of his
illness. The President did say that
his condition was no better than when
he left Washington, and he feared he
could not overcome the serious char.
acter Of his indisposition. In the most
concise and emphatic language the
President left the impression upon the
mind Of the second official who read
those letters that his trouble was
organic, probably permanent, and so
serious as to cause him alarm.
When President Cleveland prepared
the statement which gave the reason
for his departure, few days ago, for
Buzzards Bay, he not only said in plain
language to the country that he was in
ill health, and was going away on that
account, but he stated to another per-
son that he was so seriously sick that
he intended to devote himself to his
health rather than pending questions
before Congress and office giving,
These statements your correspond
ent makes under circumstances which
warrant him in being positive, as the,
come so straight as to sd nit of no per
version. They may be denied, but il
is not likely that the President himself
will deny them. 1t is the chronic Gus
tom OF denying all sorts of reports, true
and untrue, respecting the health D
public men that is to blame for SC
many false reports, The absurdly mis-
leading statements which were made by
physicians and friends of Mr.. Blaine
the last few weeks OF that distinguished
gentleman's life disguised all honest
and frank spoken persons. ltwas con