Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-01-05
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The Cleveland Gresham Throne
Restoration Compound didn't do what
Its ads. said 1t would. The adminis-
traticn's Hawaiian policy has proved'a q
miserable failure. All the corresp0n-.
dence and other documents bearing on,
the Hawaiian muddle have been sub.
mitted to Congress, together with q
lengthy message in which Mr.. Cleve-
land makes his address to public opin-
ion. But he does this only when he .,
has come to the end Of his tether;
when all his plans have experienced
defeat; when he Is compelled to acs
knowledge that his schemes have mis-
carried and that he is no longer master
of the situation. Having cut himself
of by his own act from further nego-
tiations with what is now the only OK
listing government In Hawaii, and hav-
ing found that his whole theory Of the
case was based on such misin-
the 6ardsn Of the aS fas Slsnden eer0Un on
Congress. That he has blundered is
the inevitable conclusion to be drawn
from his own argument, on his own
presentation of it. His instructions to
Minister Willis were to the effect that
the Queen should be offered his assist
ance in securing restoration to her
throne on condition that she would
grant a general amnesty to the revolu-
tionists and assume the obligations
created by the provisional Government
in due course of administration. He
admits that he expected in this way to
reimpose monarchlcal rule upon Hawaii
without consulting or asking the CO.
operation of Congress, and that the
scheme failed because the Queen would
not accept the conditions, which prob,
ably means that he would not agree to
furnish troops for her defcnse, and that
she was afraid to take the risk of re-
;suming her functions in the absence of
such protection.
Itsuits Mr.. Cleveland, says the Globe
Democrat, to still contend that our
Government is in justice and honor
bound to put the, Queen back on her
throne; but he is much mistaken If he
supposes that public sentiment can be
brought to favor a proceeding SO OBJ
noxious to the spirit of our institutions
and 80 inconsistent with the lessons
and precedents of our history. He has
committed blunder that strangely
damages his reputation for level-head-
edness, and it will take him a long
time to recover from it. There can be
no doubt as to the fact that he in
tended to bring about the restoration
OF the monarcy by what he calls "ex-
ecutive mediation" with arrogant in
difference to the. authority of Congress,
and without letting the country know
what he was doing until his object was
accomplished. Tho undertaking has
turneI out to be q miserable failure, for
reasons which he did not anticipate,
but the measure of his offense is
none the less on that account. II he
could have had his way, Queen Liliuo-
kalani would to-day be ruling over Ha-
waii; and when he says he is ready to
cooperate with Congress in the solu-
tion of the problcm, he means only that
he will aid in q plan for subverting the
existing republic, and reviving the
monarchy "as if its continuity had net
been interrupted" 1t is safe to pre-
dict that Congress will not solicit his
cooperation in any movement of that
kind. His refusal to send the Harrison
treaty back to the Senate puts annex
ati cut of the question during his
term; but that is as far as his oppor-
tunity of mischief extends in the mat
ter. He has made bold play in diplo-
macy, and he has lost. That is the
simple, practical, mortifying truth.
He is not the sort of man who
acknowledges a mistake, but the mis-
take stands against him all the same,
and his Hawaiian policy is destined to
live in the worlds wide mouth scam
dalized."