The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-11-22

The democratic party cannot be per-
mitted now, any more than in 1861,
to evade the alternative which it's
chosen leader has raised by his atti-
tuds Of defiance to the supreme law
of the land, to the sacred traditions
Of the American Republic, and to
the principles Of the Declaration of
Independence. The democracy can
not be permitted to throw upon Mr..
Cleveland and his Secretary of State
alone the odium Of a great crime
against the American Constitution
and the Hawaiian nation unless that
crime is distinctly repudiated and
disavowed by summoning the male
factors to answer at the bar Of ina
psachment.
Mr.. Cleveland's course appears
all the more Aagitious when consid-
cred in the light of the statements
made by ex-Minister Stevens and
Hawaiian Minister Thurston. Mr..
Stevens justly designates the act
proposed to be committed in the
name and under the authority of the
American government as "a public
crime of less proportions, but in its
moral type similar to the sitting of
national life and the reform aspira-
tions of Poland and Hungary few
years ago by the imperial despots,
and to the crushing out Of the newly
formed republic of Rome by the
usurped powers Of Louis Napoleon. :"
Mrsestevens shows the cruelty as
we'll as the falsity Of Gresham's
| manifesto, so far as it purports to
relate the circumstances connected
with the overthrow of the degraded
monarchy. He shows, as the world
already knows, that the Queen her
self inaugurated the revolution by
attempting to destroy the Hawaiian
Constitution by revolutionary
means, that the Provisional Govern
ment was Immediately formed and
became complete master Of the stu
alton, without any assistance what
ever from the United States forces,
that the Uniteds States forces landed
fifty hours..after the ,Lilioukani and
her favorites had themselves had de-
stroyed the throne by u revolution
airy outbreak. and that the Ameri.
can marines took no part whatever
on either side, MinisterEStevens an
swering to all inquiries that any de
facto government which might exist
would be recognized. When the
American Minister did recognize
the Provisional Government the lat
ter was in compile control OF the sit
uation.
The statement of the Hawaiian
Minister, Mr.. Lorrin A. Thurston,
fully sustains the indignant and pa
triotic rejoinder of Mr.. Stevens to
the Benedict Arnold of the State
Department. 81 do not hesitate to
reiterate," declares Mr.. Thurston,
"that American troops took no par,
in the movement, and that the revo.
luton was initiated by the late
Queen, and forced on the people Of
Hawaii, who in self-defense took &C.
: ton, terminating a condition Of at.
fairs menacing to life and property,
and which was no longer tolerable.
Mr.. Thurston adds that if an at
tempt is made to restore the Queer
the results, he fears, will be of the
gravest character, and bloodshe(
will be inevitable, in which even
Americans, American interests an(
, American property will be thu
greatest sufferers. Such is tn,
crime in all its gravity and in all it
r injustice which Cleveland his Score
, tary of State propose to perpetrat'
f against the people of Hawaii an,
, the children of Americans in thos
islands. 1t has taken three quarter
| of century to build up this Edel
) of the Pacific, an American civiliza
, ton in which every American shout,
| have pride. The worthy sons o
worthy American sires have, wit
. the consent and aid Of the enlight
9 ened population of Hawaii, estab
lished there an independent govern
: ment which is recognized by all tn
, world, a government based on tn
fundamental principles of the Amer
. lean Republic, and extending free