Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-24
The Conspiracy Proved,

The Blouut report and its accompanying
document. are conclusive upon one point,
They prove that the paramount commits
sioner We mt out to Hawaii, not TO hesr both
siles and weigh the evidence and arrive al
an independent judicial conclusion but TO
make up Il LAWYERS case AMI an eg pirtf
Argument sufficiently plausible to afford i
working basis for the execution of the pre-
determined policy arranged and planned by
Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Gresham and their
administration.
That IL to say. the Blount report is the
result of the policy of infsmy not the policy
of infsmy the result Of the paramount gen
tlenan's Investigations.
The incontrovertihIe evidence of this is
furnished hy Mr. Blount himself. and to
that extent he is entitled TO the gratitude OF
patriotic Americans With naivete as as
founding ~ it was unconscious, the para
mount commissioner put himself upon
record ~ having reached his deciSion before
he had heafi any part of he testimony.
On April &, Mr. Blount wrote to the de
partment of st ste, announcing his arrival al
Honolulu on March 20. Two days later
on April s. he wrote a letter to tn depart
ment which. according to the synopsis now
furnished to the press by favor of Secre-
tsry Gresham, "drpiores the perverted in
fBeAee If Minister Stereas and Consul
G. uerul Sereraase. "a trhich h. dScrfbes tht
erfsfeace Of t.f provisional government
Therein is the whole story of Mr.
Blaunt's mi.sion On April 8. at the very
thre shold of his investigation of the facts,
almost before he has had time to recover
from tn. motion of the ship that took
him out to Honolulu. the paramount COM
mi, sioner of Mes.rs. Cley land and Greshs nj
writes back to his principals. announcing
practically the whole conclusion embodied
in hi. fnai report of July II. The
weeks and months which he meantime
,ievotst, to the pretended lsbors of i'm
ptrtisilty and cons 'ieu,ious investigation
were supeifiuous, except in so far as thew
enabled him to fad props for prejudice and
Notifications for a foregone CONCLUSION A..
an Examination preliminary to an impartial
Judgment. Mr. James II. Blount's proceed
ings in the Saudwich islands between April
md J liy II were pure humbuk. He was
there - q detective agent, retsined aiyo-
cate, the mase-up Of given case sccorj
iog to or,iers. not as commissioner en-
,ieaYorlnr to ascertain the whole truth
weight 80 til hnsi report If an investigator
wha reported at rae very he2icniug of his
inqai.y that his conclusions were already
resehgd;
Il shz Significance of Mr.. Bloun,'s letter
of April had been p rceive1 by he pro-
y1osess 81 TIE poticy Of infsmy. they ~oak
reser have permitted the -StrSor'ijnsry
docQust uG Is emeree from III archives.
Tie paramount commissioner hss gwen
81 ~ gEre Ciev~idna snt CIR sham c, nsIir-
ats 10 ressoF, ths rotten monarchy. There
a. ali b. sem thiag rtvsisnb'y humorous
r. ire III nusr If tile unexpected nd unin-
te5 isnai disclosure of the original snimus
auj u pase OF Mr.. Blount's mission, IL the
eonfe.,,en did not impeseh the good faith
II an American administrator sn5 bring
al ine To those who have believed in the
sin elit. Of its professions.