The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-18
A GlLLFLIRTED ASPECT.
To the Editor of the Eagle.

TO the Editor OF the Eagle
The recent astounding relations anent
the Hawaiian inbroglio, which have
been cropping to the surface, link by
link, with deadly concatenation, at last
reveal what cannot be called less than a
state of affairs.
Every body knows, i they know any
thing, that Grover Cleveland will be the
most retired mortal that ever emerged
from the portals of public affairs at the
close of his present term. Strange to
relate, the president, by preternatural
exercise of his well known sagacity, ar
rived at the same conclusion early last
fall. it being the one lone point, sole
tenet, or postulate wherein the
president took ground, the falsity
of which could not be established,
| am almost persuaded by comfortable
demonstration alone. Nevertheless
thereby hangs tale. l may not be an
ticipating by more than one week what
will be conveyed to congress by the pro-
next steamer. Suffice it to say in a breath
that Cleveland, Grover c., he, intended
to pnt Lii back on the throne, and at the
expiration of his present term, marry
the queen. adopt the child, annex the
United States and go on ruling IN the
order named. Not all the diplomats,
high officials and even the press itself
were 30 be- instrumental in uncovering
this monstrous and unparalleled coup de
etat, and it remained for a
woman, one lone woman and her
female inlintion, the deadly quality
of which has long been recognized
to drag it from the recesses
cf the presidential bosom and stand it
bare headed before the people, without
an apology.
francis Folsom Cleveland, in her ma
tronly capacity attendant upon the
president, early last fall noticed no
growing GOODNESS on her husbands part,
but her deadly intuition was aworking
unbeknownst to her. She had often
heard him in his sumbers murmur
Liliokinnanny, Liiiokinnanny! but she
suspected nothing, knowing the strained
relations between the two sovereignties
that hourly threatened an entente. Ole
fatal day, when she had moved the
previous question and insinuated.
with all woman's tact. the previous
question anent the new fall bonnet, with
such diplomacy that the question was
Immediately broughht to division.
Grover said abstractedly: ''Be patient,
Lii: you must wait; can't you awhile,
Liz" He did not notice what he had
said, and, indeed. was SO preoccupied
that he failed to construe that Can it
be:' that burst from Frances.
| would not further bore myself nor
the public with an elucidation OF all the
painful details following the curtain lec-
ture, tears and confession that night. 1t
is results we are after, and does not the
world know ,he result? Could all hell
move the provisional government of
Hawaii: Have not The innumerable army
of wits, old subscribers, veritases, editors
and preachers moved upon and assaulted
the works? Indeed it seems as if their
countless shafts of irony. satire. wit,
logic, telling rebuffs, concise pathos and
depthful translucent subiimities, deliver
ed suppiicatory, deprecatory and expos
tulatory OF Growers scheme, had con-
centrated themselves into one violent
and deadly hyperboiical thrust. with
diabolical purpose terrible TO behold: SO
that it is impossible not to observe that
tie question, viewed as a whole las Jedse
Waxem naively puts in, is beginning to
wear a sad and hopelessly gilltiir;ed
aspect. Z d. GILBERT.