The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-11-23
uUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


WASHINGTON, November l3, 1898.
Americas would be Caesar has taken
a step that cannot fail to give his ad-
minisl ration a very undesirable place
in history. 1t was the outspoken
sympathy and moral support OF the
Government of the United States ex-
tended to those who bolieve in a Re-
publican form of Government, by every
President from Washington to Harrison,
that drove monarchy and its trappings
from this continent. 1t would be
utterly impossible to portray the indig-
nation felt in Washington when it was
officially announced that Mr.. Cleve-
land had ordered that the American
sailors and marines, now in the harbor
of Honolulu, should assist in destroy
ing the Republican form of Govern
ment in Hawaii and restoring that Of
the deposed Queen. AT first it could
scarcely be believed that the admins
tration would dare take such a step,
but it was soon found that it was al
too true, and that the United States
had President willing to abuse the
trust reposed in him by the people so
far as to aid in restoring deposed
monarchy to power.
This is the way one of his apologists
puts it: 1.-THE President has 10 idea
that force of arms will be necessary.
Had he anticipated such a necessity,
instead of two American vessels in the
harbor of Honolulu there would be
half Dozen" In other words, the
President was determined that the
corrupt Hawaiian monarchy should be
restored, if it took the whole strength
of our navy to do it. Before these
lines ara read the infamous course be-
gan by the hauling down of the Ameri-
can flag will probably have been
completed by the wiping out of Re-
publican Government and the seating
of Queen by force and under the
personal orders of President of the
United States.
The indignation felt by Republicans
is fully shared by many Democrats,
and more than once the remark has
been publicly made, "Cleveland ought
to be impearbed for this Not few
people believe that the money of Claus
Spreckels, the Hawaiian sugar king,
has been an important factor in bring
ing about this disgraceful denou-
ment. Spreckels spent week in
Washington short time ago and he
made no secret of his belief that the
administration would restore the Queen,
but everybody thought at that time
that the idea was too preposterous to
be even seriously considered.
Whether this matter is taken up by
Congress will depend somewhat upon
the news from Hawaii. Should the
very unusual position taken by the
administration result in bloodshed, as
naval officers and others familiar with
the situation on the islands predict,
there will be some very plain talk in
Congress and il will not all come from
Republicans, either.
Mr.. Cleveland has long been subject
to fits of the sulbs when things did not
go to suit him, and he is now in the
midst OF one of the worst he has ever
had in Washington. He has been to
the White House only once since the
election and that was to attend cabi-
net meeting. One of the cabinet was
heard to remark after the meeting,
"The old mans as cranky as sick
BEAR" and it is understood that he has
snubbed nearly every man who has
seen him since the great Democratic de-
feats.
This administration is certainly
contrary, if it is nothing else. 1t has
been kept SO busy finding fault with
and trying to undo everything that was
done by The Harrison administration
that it has done nothing itself. One of
the latest cases of fault finding is con-
tanned in the annual report of the first
Assistant Post master General, which
declares that the experiment. of free
mail delivery il small towns and
villages is failure and recommends
that it be suspended at the close of the
current year. The report very
graciously admits that the free delivery
was, when first established in the small
towns and villages, received with salts
faction and delight, but it then makes
the remarkable statement that as soon
as the novelty wore off the residents
found it more convenient to call at the
village post office for their mail than to
have it brought to their houses by the
carriers. / have not the data to dispute
the assertion that the village free mail
delivery is failure, although believe
that the residents of the villages in
which the experimental service now
exists will, through their Congressme en-,
successfully do so.
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