The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-21
NIB. STEVENS TO THE FORE.
He "Answersv the Message by Say
ing fit Was Not True.

Augusta, Me-. Dec. 2OJ-Ex-Minister
Stevens is out in a reply to President
Cleveland's severe structures upon him
in his Hawaiian message.
Stevens says the presidents criticism
is but feeble repetition of Gresham's
statement previously published.
President Cleveland's grossly untrue
and shamefuIly unjust allegation
against myself and the naval comman-
der rests entirely on the statements
of four VIGOROUSLY corrupt ministers
of the fallen queen; of Wilson, the
queens favorite, and other thoroughly
discredited testimony. / repeat here
what has been amply verified again
and again, that neither by force or by
threat of force, or by any action of
mine, was the fall of the monarchy
precipitated
For months prior to November, 1892,
there has been a continual struggle
between the legislature and the queen
as to the respective rights and only
the remarkable self-possession of the
respectable and responsible men of the
Islands prevented an outbreak at an
earlier day..
Believing there was no prospect of
difficulty Stevens on January g. took
a trip to Hilo, returning January IA,
in company with Captain Wiltse, and
found the city in great excitement,
anp the tide of revolution already
surging. Stevens tried to gain access
TO the queen and try by friendly adj
vice to arrest the revolution, but it
was too late to prevent the carrying
out of her plan Of overturning the
constitution. What took place after
noon on January IA, ended monarchy
forever.
Stevens quotes Chief Justice Judd,
supporter of monarchy, in denouncing
the falsity of the charge that the
queen was driven from the throne by
the American force, or threat of force
in any form or manner.
AS to the landing of the Boston's ma
rines. Stevens said he only did what
Minister Merrill did, acting under the
order of Cleveland and Bayard, on
August 1. 1889. that is. had the ma
rines landed in anticipation of turbu-
lence on shore and for the preservation
of order.
Stevens characterizes as absurd the
presidents statement that the queen
and Wilson had at the police station a
sufficient force to sustain the mon
archy.
There never was a more preposterous
assumption than the assertion of the
president that the queen, on January
III, had an ample force to sustain her
land to enable her to carry on the gov
|ernment. This studiously maintained
assumption of the president is based
lon the testimony of VIGOROUSLY corrupt
representatives of rings that sur
rounded the queen. That the Hawaiian
monarchy was overturned by the
United States force, was, and is put
forth for the sole purpose of bring
| ing discredit on the preceding adj
ADMINISTRATION at Washington i
remains to be seen If the American
Congress and the American people will
approve the conspiracy to make war
on the provisional government at Ha-
wall and use the military forces of the
United States, or the diplomatic pres
sure of the United States for the res
tOration of semi barbarous queen, in
wanton defiance of the best American
opinions and antecedents, and by the
expensive use of executive power
against an American colony, more pos
| tive and more inexcusable than that
which George III and his ministers
sought to impose on the American col
onies that formed the government OF
the United States.