St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-21
SARCASTIC STEVENS.
He Rushes Into Print to An
sWer Cleveland.
IS INNOCENT As A CHILD.
Diplomatic Chieanery More
Infamous Than Bayonets.
QUEENS IMMORAL FAY0RiTE.
Wilson Comes In for a Share
of the Billingsgate.
QUEER'S IMMORAL FAY0RiTE.
K0THIKG EEW IN HIS STORY

AUGUSTA, Me-, Dec. 2O.-Ex-Mnister
Stevens tonight made the following
reply to President Cleveland's message
and his criticisms of MIR. Stevens Off
cial conduct:
"OnIy once in our political history
has a majority of the congress of the
United States solemnly resolved i'll
favor of impeaching the occupant
OF the executive chair. Probably 1t
was well that the effort to re-
move Andrew johnson from his
Office was arrested just on the brink
OF success. The great reluctance of
the conservative men of the country to
remove the chief executive for abuse Of
power seems to have encouraged Presl-
dent Cleveland to resort to the eXtraor
dinaIy measure of overtufning the
provisional government of Hawaii,
while as much as possible conceaImg
his arbitrary design from the American
congress and the American people.
Look at the historical facts dis
paSSiOnateIy, and no one will deny
that the lines of usurpation and i'll
justice on which President Cleveland
and the secretary of state have acted
since the 18th OF March last, coupled with
the eX-parte star-chamber course of
Commissioner Blount relative to the ac-
cepted testimony OF LiliuOkalanTS
fallen and corrupt ministers, are
more sweeping and more hostile to
AnglO-SaXon liberty than the acts
OF George III. and the Lord North
ministry, which drove the American
colonies TO successful revolt. There is
nothing in American history more
shameful in its scope of injustice and
tyranny than the attempt OF President
Cleveland and Secretary Gresham to
crush out liberty and American inter
estS III Hawaii by the threat to restore
the extinct Hawaiian monarchy by force
OF arms or by
DIPLOMATIC CHICANERY
and pressure, more infamous, if posi-
bic, than the use of ball ana bayonet.
President Cieveland's recent special
message, in which he so severely criti-
ciseS lhe course Of the American minis
ter at Honolulu, is but a feeble repe-
tition Of the statement of Secretary
Gresham, previously published. In my
answer to Blounps report, extensively
published in the United States, l
showed conclusiyely, as did Min
lister Thurston, and other thor
Oughly responsible witnesses have
shown, that the allegations in that
report against the official conduct of
Capt Wiltse and myself are grossly un-
true, are III manifest antagousm to all
reasonable probabilities and logic of
the situation IN Honolulu il January
last. President Cleveland's grossly un-
true and shamefullY unjust allegation
against myself and the naval com
mauder rests entirely on the statements
of the four notoriously corrupt
ministers of the fallen queen,
OF Wilson, the queens favorite,
and other thoroughly discredited testl-
mOHy. l repent here what has been
amply verified again and again, that
neither by force OF by threat of force, or
by any action of mine, was the fall Of
the monarchy precipitated. From the
hour on which l entered on my duties
as the head of the United States
legation, to the termination of
ny official responsibility L main
-ained the determination TO call
On the naval commander for
aid only in the event that American lie
and property were III danger. Cau-
tiousy but irmly. perhaps some times
too silently, made this my fixed rule
OF action, not only TO the representa-
tives of the queen, bat to the leaders OF
the parties who saw no safe alternative
for the welfare of the islands but III the
total aboliShment of the monarchy. If
President Cleveland sees fit to make a
point against
MY OFFICIAL CONDUCT
that months before the events of last
January l had advocated annexation,
he deliberately and puIposely conceals
that what l said in my dispatch in
November, 1892, was a confidential
statement to the department of state of
- the true condition of affairs IN Hawaii,
areport Of facts which by the established
rules and practice of diplomacy l was
in duty bound to make known TO my gov
ernment. At that date my opinions
were so privately held that both in
Honolulu and California ii was believed
that the American minister was averse
TO annexation. For months prior to the
date of this dispatch there had been a
continual struggle between the legisla-
ture and the queen as to their respective
rights regarding the constitu-
tion and the responsibility of
cabinet ministry after the ministry
had been appointed in defiance of
the votes of the legislature and respon-
sible public opinion. The queen, her
immoral fayorite, Wilson, and the lot
terry ring openly defed the legislature
and the property holders of the islands.
Only the remarkable self-possession of
the respectable and responsible men of
the islands prevented an outbreak and
the overthrow of the monarchy
at an earlier day. The self
possession and forbearance of the
men thus defed by the monarchy
and its parasites, were remarkable, con.
sidering that they were enduring abuses
and scandals which no American city or
state would tolerate these days. But
when the queen and her favorite, VIII
SOD, yielded by the appointment of
the Jones-Wilcox cabinet, men of
the highest respectability and re-
sponsibility, thirty-three of them
men of wealth, Wishing not
for Office, confdentially reached