The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-21

AUGUSTA, Me, Dec. 20.-Ex-Minister
Stevens tonight made reply to President
C,eyeland's message and his criticisms Of
Mr.. Stevens official Conduct, in part as
follows:
NO one will deny that the lines of usur-
patton and injustice on which President
Cleveland aud his secretary of state have
acted since the seventh OF March last.
coupled,with the ex parte course OF Com
missioner Blount relative to the accepted
tes timony of Liliuokalani's fallen and cor
rupt ministers, are more sweeping ana
more hostile to Anglo-Saxon liberty than
the acts of Georgr the Third and the Lord
North ministry, which drove the American
colonies to successful revolt. There is
nothing in American history more shame
full in It's scope of injustice and tyranny
than the attempt of President Cleveland
10 crush out liberty and American inter
ests in Hawaii by the threat TO restore the
extinct Hawaiian monarchy by force OF
arms, or by diplomatic cbIcanery and
pressure more infamous. If possible. than
the use of ball and bayonet.
president Cleyelaud's special message,
IN which he so severely criticises the
course Of the recent American minister at
Honolulu, is hut n feeble repetition of Sec
retary Gresham's statements. In my
answer to Commissioner Blounts report,
extensively published in The United
States, / showed conclusively, as Minister
Thurs on and other thoroughly response
bic witnesses have shown, that the alltga
tions in that report against the official
conduct of Captain Wiltse and myself are
grossly untrue and In manifest antagonlsm
TO ali reasonable probabilities and the
logic of the situation IN Honolulu In
January last. President Cleveland's
grossly untrue and shamefully unjust
allegation against myself and the naval
commander rests entirely on the state
ments of four nOtorlously corrupt minis
tiers of the fallen queen; of Wilson, the
Queens favorite, ana other thoroughly dis
credited testimony.
81 repeat here what has been verified
again aud again, that neither by force nor
by any action of mine WAS the fall OF the
monarcy precipitated. From the hour
entered on my duties at the head OF the
United States legation to the termination
of my official responsibility maintained d
determination to call on the naval com
mander for aid only in the event that
American life and property were IN
danger"
Mr.. Stevenson then goes on at great
length, reciting once more the events
which led up TO the iusurrectlon. he
denies emphatically that he was in any
way Instrumental i'll the queens over
throw Tn self possession and forbear-
ance of respectable and responsible men
alone prevented au outbreak at an earlier
day Finally, when the Jones-Wilcox
cabinet was appointed, the comparative
security OF the islands was obtained, at
least until the election of new legisla
ture. In this belief Mr.. Stevens left
Honolulu on the steamer Boston on Jan.
4. for the island OF Hilo, $50 miles from
Honolulu.
On bis return, fifteen days later. he was
dumfounded at what the queen and her
palace associates, including the lottery
gang, had accomplished. He found the
city in great excitement. The surging,
irresistible tide of revolution WAS then
obvious 10 all persons not wllfully blind.
lie tried to obtain access to the queen, and
by friendly advice stop the trouble But
it WAS too late. Mobs were already gath
cred TO aid the queer in carrying out her
plan of oyerturning the constitution.
What took place at the palace on the
afternoon Of Jan. II ended the Hawaiian
monarchy forever.
Mr.. Stevens then quotes Chief jus. ice
Judd. a strong supporter of the monarchy.
denying that the queen WAS driven from
the tbrone by an American force, and
AYERS that the marines aid what had been
aone during Il previous Hawaiian reyolu-
tion on The request of Minister Merrill,
acting under tie Cleveland Bayard order
of August, 1889. He says further that the
representations of the president that the
queen aud Wilson had sufficient force TO
sustain the monarchy are absurd. If they
had this force. why, he asks, had IL not been
employed while the outraged people were
holding greaomass meetings and arrang-
inH To establish a new government. Why
did the queen representatives call at the
legation on Jan. Il, and ask the aid of the
UniI ed States for the support of herselfy
This studiously maintained assumption of
the president that the queen had an am ole
force 10 sustain her is based on the testi-
mony of notoriously corrupt representa-
tives of the ring that surrounded ths
queen.
Mr.. Stevens maintains. in conclusion,
that the claim that the Hawaiian mon
archy was overturned by the United States
forces is put forth for the sole purpose Of
discredlung the preceding administration