The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-11-25

~ 'suteefs w RESIST int queen. unillel
lately complied with their request and
with the assistance of others within nj
hour or two thereafter, about 80 leading
citizens had signed written statement
agreeing to support the cabinet of the
queen by force.
Had No Confii encc In His Colleague.
Ihird-Late the same afternoon, Mr.
Cothourn in. ormed me they had finally
gone to the palace and held stormy in.
terylew with the queen, lasting over two
hours. He told me he had no confidence
IN his colleague, Mr.. cterson, who he be.
lieved was playing ,iouble with him, and
told me TO beware of telling Peterson
anything further.
Colbourn further told me that at eau.
Gus of their party on tbs previous Fridly
night one of the members of the executive
party, kalanaun by name had said that
II he could establish the new constitution
he would die happy. if he could kill five
white men before dying.
Fourth--The queen was furiously angry
the refusal of the cabinet to join her in
promulgating the constitution and pub
licly denounced them therefor.
Fifth-When the queen made the an
nouucement of her failure to promulgate
the constitution, two of the leading Roy.
alist members of the executive party, one
ON the throne step and one on the steps OF
the building, addressed the assembled
crowd, denounced the cabinet MS traitors
and said they wanted to shed blood One
OF them included the queen in his denun-
Citations.
Cabinet Without Plan of Action.
SiSth-During the entire time between
noon of Saturday, the l4th, and the after
noon of the 10Th, when the provisional
government was proclaimed, the queens
cabinet was without plan OF action and
did practically nothing but rush about the
city consulting various foreign represen.
tatives and citizens of all parties us to
what they had better do, begging the
American minister for the support of the
American troops against the committee OF
safety and securing from the queen a
declaration that she would not again at
tempt to abrogate the constitutions which
they hurried into print and distributed
broadcast, and tried to appease the indig-
nation of citizens and break up the pro-
posed mass meeting.
In support of the fourth proposition,
that the committee and their supporters
We're united, had ample force to carry
out their purpose and proceeded with
deliberation and confidence to do so, Mr..
Thurston shows what the same men
under similar circumstances had done
upon previous occasions. In 1888 they
had wrested from the king his power
and dethroned him. In 1899, while the
same men who now make up the provis.
ional government, We're in control of the
kings government, a conspiracy was or.
gained among the royalsts for the
overthrow of the cabinet and the resto-
ration of the old royal power and consti-
tuition. The couspirators took tho cab
met by surprise and on the night of July
30 took possession of all the artillery and
small arms Of the government. The
cabinet supporters organized, and after
sharp battle the royalists dispersed.
Mr.. Thurston concludes us follows:
Political Liberties Trampled On.
Under these circumstances, submit
that the burden of proof is on those who
claim the leaders of the provisional gov
ernment are not in power or the organ
ization of tie government cannot sue
cessfully carry out a rev luton in Ha-
waii. 1t is unnecessary for me to here
state the details of the bitter constitu.
tional conflict which had leen carried
on between the queen and the legsa-
ture during the seven months prior TO
the January revolt or speak of the in.
digaation among all classes OF citizens
by reason of the open and succ.ssful al
lance of the qneen with opum and
lottery rigs. Tne political liberties of
the people had lean tramplel upon and
their moral sense shocked. 1t simply
needed the adle provoeation of the
arbitrary attempt to abrosa.e the con-
stitution and disfranchiss every VIII g
man in the country to spontaneous :
crystAlizs opposition into force tina.
was irresistaole.
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