Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-30
CALLED THEM UNTRUTHS


will not multiply words. The first named is
n notorious corruptionist, with some amiable
qualities, who aided in briblng the .egls-
lative members to vote out the Johes-W wilcox
ministry and TO pass the lottery OIL, ana ne
demanded ana received as compensation Tor
his infamous services n few hours OF occu-
pancy of the Hawaiian interior department,
and Peterson is the man who aided in the
distribution of the lottery stock Tor the pur-
chase of legislative votes and held the
queens authority to constitute a lottery
cabinet and TO aid the queen TO proclaim q
reactionary constitution.
Testimony of u Proligate.
"As to Samuel Parker, whose testimony is
used TO discredit my action, | would gladly
say little. Good-natured, free-hearted,
ignorant, fond of luxurious living, a
notorious spenduhrift, he has wasted a large
fortune left him by his grandfather and
uncle. He was a ready tool in the hands OF
Peterson and Cornwall in the palace con-
spiracy which precipitated the fall OF the
monarchy.
conspicuously among Blount's afidavits,
whitewashlng the notorious Wilson and
Liliuokalani and abusively rejecting on my
official action, l need only to say that he is
an ad venturous Frenchman whose printed
record in Paris aud moral career in Honolulu
/ will not soil this paper with.
of j. A. Cummins it is correct to remark
that what is herein said of Parker In most
respects a pplies to Cummins.
at is not strange that w. L. Seward
united in testimony with Cummlns, Tor
Seward is a king of house, clerk and steward
of Cummins. Hopkins belonged to the same
gang as Cornwall and Peterson. Cornwall
had been one Of the intimate police asso-
clates of Kalakaua i'll his bestial. lecherous
life and shameful transactions. He was one
of the most active in getting Peterson and
Colbourne TO bride the legislature in forcing
out the Jones Wilcox ministry, whom all
the responsible men of the ISLANDS
wished to continue. He had been
put out of the ministry after a very brief
stay by large maiorltles. Newman is
the man whom the queen sent to wash
ington to get her restored to the throne, to
sell out her claimsito the crown.in hard cash.
He is the man by whom Blount aosurdlY
hints that ! had sent dispatches to Washing
ton, for which errand / had never employed
any one. This testimony or that of hun
dreds of such would not counterbalance the
words of Minister Thurston, President Dole
and Henry Waters among the men who
know the respective parties.
CAS- to Wilson, the queens favorite for
many years, whom Blount attempts to
whitewash, / will not soil these pages by
giving even the notorious facts in his regard.
Recognition OF the Provisional Government.
LAS to NY recognition of the provisional
government, ! reaffirm what | SAID III my re-
cent letter TO Secretary Gresham.
Queen Liliuokalani inaugurated the reyo-
luton by attempting to destroy the conSti-
tuition by revolutionary means. From Sat
urday afternoon, January IA. to January 10
there was no government IN Honolulu eX-
cept in the united and self-possessed attitude
of the citizens, who In n great
mass meeting on January 10 and consum-
mated the efforts of the law and order party
by the establishment of the provisional gov
on the l1th, which was promptly
AGA nowledged by all the foreign representa-
lives, who were familiar with the circum-
stances of it's creations. 1t was nearly fifty
hours after LiliuokalaL.i and her followers
had destroyed her throne before n revolu-
tionary outbreak was threatened and the
men from the Boston landed.
'tJoHN l.. STEVENS, Augusta, Me, Nov. %"