The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-22
GRESHAM TELLS FALSE
HOODS.
FALSE
a Statement BY a Member of the
Committee of Safety.

ELLENsBURG, (Wash.), Nov. 10
In view of the widespread interest in
Gresham's letter to the President in
regard to Hawaiian affairs, the Post
Intelligencer correspondent today had
an interview with John a. McCand-
less, at present citizen of Ellens-
burg, but who during the late revolu-
ton on the Hawaiian Islands was liv-
ing in Honolulu. He was not only
residing there, but he took an active
interest in the now celebrated affair,
being member of the Committee of
Safety" numbering thirteen, referred
to by the Secretary of State. 1t is
needless to say that he Is an annexa-
ZIONIST most pronounced and his SYM
pathies are with the Provisional Gov
eminent, and to say that he is dis
pleased with Gresham'S utterances is
putting it mildly. He is remarkably
well posted, and although an en-
cyclopedia of dates and events in
the recent history of the Islands,
he has fortified himself with a vast
amount of data, and to the satisfac-
ton of his neighbors and friends he
proves Mr.. Gresham to be quibbler
and falsifier.
He says the Secretary of state
states matters from the standpoint of
evidence of good men in the Provi-
sional Government is not taken into
consideration, or rather ignored en-
tireIy. For instance, referring to the
assertion that the Committee of Safe
ty was composed of aliens, Mr.. Nc
Candless says every man on that
committee was citizen, generally by
virtue of the revolution of 1887, where
by every foreigner on the islands was
made citizen. Regardless of this,
the laws there allow a man to become
a citizen after three years. residence,
and he does not have to renounce his
own land.
The reason that the Committee of
Safety asked Minister Stevens to have
the Government forces landed from
the Boston was because of the open
threats of the half castles to burn the
city. Within week from the ending
of the revolution three incendiary
fires were eXtinguished by the MEM
bers of the new Government. Mr..
McCandless asserts that the Provi-
sional Government inaugurated and
completed the revolution, and the as
sertiOn of Mr.. Gresham that forces
from the Boston assisted is absolutely
false.
Referring to the Secretary's asser-
cured hall in advance for the use of
the troops McCandless says Charles
Carter, a young attorney of Honolulu,
engaged the hall at 10 o'clock at night,
the troops having landed at P. NJ,
and this interval they put in standing
about the streets of the city.
Gresham says the proclamation was
read in a room, without any listeners.
1t was read in front of the Government
Bnilding. a crowd of 1000 people had
been there TO hear it read, but the
shooting of policeman by John
Good, three blocks away, caused q
stampede to that locality, and conse-
quently very few were present. Mr..
Cleveland's secretary says: "The peO-
pie were ignorant of the contemplated
movement" Regarding this, Mr..
McCandless says a mob of beech
combers and hobos had been at the
Station House by order of the queen
since Saturday (the revolution was on
Tuesday,, and all the people knew
they were being kept there in antici-
patton of the revolution, which was
the talk of the city. From Saturday
until Tuesday the city was in an up
roar, and it is not likely that the
landing of the troops caused surprise
to the queen and her followers.
WI. &hCS1thNiCoo
does not look very far for the causes of
the revolution, and does not seem in
clined to look beyond "My Special
Commissioner" Blount, otherwise he
might have referred to the speech
made by the queen on the Saturday
before the revolution, when she adj
dressed crowd from the upper bal
cony of the palace and said: "On ac-
count of the perfidy of my Ministers L
am unable to give you the constitu-
ton which 1 have promised you, but
/ will take the earliest opportunity of
procuring it for you" This, Mr.. Nc
Candless thinks, was ample cause for
revolution, as she began it.
When asked what he thought about
the recent attempt to re-establish the
queen, Mr.. McCandless thinks there
will surely be bloodshed when it is
done. "If 1 know the people there"
he said, "they will fight, and it will
take plenty of United States bayonets
to keep her on the throne"