The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-28
HE MUST RETRACT.
Crowding Dole Into a
Corner.
NEW ORDERS FOR WILLIS.
1t Is Probable That He Will
Come Home.
THEN Mr.. THURSTON WILL GO.
A Story That Cleveland and Gresham
Are Still Scheming to Bring
About Restoration.
THEN MR.. THURsTON WILL 90.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The report that
President Cleveland feels himself an ag-
e grieyed party. and strongly TesentS Presi-
dent Dole's letter as disrespectful to the
chief magistrate of a great nation, circulated
Yesterday among a few State Department
officials is to-day the subject of general
discussion and is believed to be true, be-
cause the source of the information is
wholly reliable. The party giving it out is
a friend OF Secretary Gresham, and is in a
position 10 get inside news. To-nighps
Star says:
"Mr. Cleveland appears TO be still I'M
willing 10 let go of the Hawaiian tar baby
which be has been embracing since the
opening of his administration. Its given
out through a responsible source that the
failure to invite the Hawaiian Charge
d Atfaires to the diplomatic dinner some
time ago was a deliberate snub, which
Cleveland himself directed should be given
The reason for it was resentment provoked
by Dole's reply to Willis.
1t is further stated that Mr.. Gresham
has sent to Willis instructions to make
peremptory demand upon Dole for the
withdrawal of all correspondence on the
part of the Hawaiian President which on
account of its forcefulnesS is extremely
Objectionable to Mr.. Cleveland. Some
further correspondence with Willis On this
subject is expected today
What will be done in case President
Dole refuses TO withdraw the objectona-
bic correspondence remains to be seen,
but 1t Is very certain that accom- panyiDg
the latest Instructions TO Willis is letter
ordering him 10 shake the dust Of Hawaii
from his feet as an alternative in case the
Provisional President proves obdurate.
That this order should be given in view of
the fact that President Cleveland has
handed the whole matter over to the wide
discretion of Congress is remarks ble-but
President Cleveland does remarka bic
things.
The cessation Of diplomatic intercourse
does not mean, necessarily, state of war
between the United States and hawaii,
but If Willis is called homo Thurston Will
probably be given his passports and there
are men prominent in public life Who do mo-
hesitate TO express the belief that Cleveland
and Gresham are capable of thus bringing
about in roundabout fashion the breach
which public sentiment in Congress for
babe them to attempt, as they had at first
Intended, by an armed effort 10 restore the
ex-Queen.
1t is true that restoration would not be
directly accom- plished by the provocation
of President Dole 10 some overt act which
would be taken as justification for a
declaration OF war and the landing of
American troops, for the troops would not
be landed to restore Lliuokalaai, but such
course would unQuestionably result in
Dole's humiliation and the fall of the Pro-
visional Government, and, in the turmoil
which would naturally follow. the parti-
sans Of the ex-Queen would doubtless find
opportunity to seize the reins of power.
Then President Cleveland could treat with
them as the party in power. the de facto
Government, and of course the objection
to American interference with the estab-
lished order would be as strong under the
newly created conditions as under those
obtaining now.