The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-02-14
EVEN GRAY GIVES IT UP.
He Can Witty Stevens and Sing the
Presidents Praises,
BUT ADVOCATING THE POLICY OF
INFAMY is DIFFERENT.

Close of the Delaware Senator's Speech
Other Washington News-The Missing
officials on the Probable Necessity of
Another Bond Issue-It Must Come I'm
less Averted by Some Congressional
Action.
Washington, February Ex-senator
Gray resumed his speech on the
Hawaiian resolution today. He quoted
letters signed by Mr.. Dole and other
members of the provisional government
declaring their belief in their inability
to protect life and property and prevent
civil disorder and praying Mr.. Stevens to
raise the fac of the United States for
the protection of the Hawaiian Islands,
SO that, Mr.. Gray said, from first to last
Mr.. Stevens seemed not only to have been
in constant communication With the
committee of safety and the provisional
government. but had been swift on all
occasions to do their bidding and re-
spond to their call Mr.. Gray directed his
attention to the marked contrast be-
tw cen the attitude of Minister Stevens
towards the provisional government and
his attitude toward the government of
the Queen, to which he was the accredited
minister. He referred to Mr. Dole's
statement to Mr.. Blount that at first the
provisional government could not have
got along without the aid of the United
Safes troops and said there was no posi- BILE
escape from the conclusion that-the pro-
visional government could not have ex-
listed a moment without the moral and
physical aid given it by Mr.. Stevens. Il
do not believe" said MIR. Gray, that the
evidence from which I have read extracts
can leave any doubt in the minds of the
Senate that Mr.. Stevens long before this
emeute of January, 1898, had been
actively promoting the annexation senti-
mept. He was in close communion with
those who desired to bring about the
change by overthrowing the established
government and setting up one that
would treat for annexation to the United
States. What duty was devolved on the
President of the United States? / do not
think there ought to be two opinions as
to that question. do not think any
patriotic American ought to doubt, for
n instant, that the executive head of
this great, nation, when he knew the
facts, withdrew or attempted to with
draw the government of this great
country from d;shonorable and dis
graceful attitude in which it was nlaced
BY the unauthorized act of this petty
minister to petty kingdom. He has
done it, and l believe the country will,
when it understands the case, be CRATE
full and continue to be grateful for the
wisdom and courage of the executive
who, regardless of the calumnies of his
partisan opponents, dared to do the right
thing. This executive has appealed to
the conscience and judgment OF his
countrymen, and am willing to abide
by the result of that appeal.
"a good deal has been said about the
hauling down Of the American flag in
Honolulu. When the American flag is
hauled up by orders of a Democratic
President it will be hauled up under
circumstances that will keep it where it
is until the winds of heaven have b.owG
1t into rags. 1t will never be han.ed up
in dishouor. 1t will never be halied up
to put the great people whose symbol of
power and authority it is, to the blush.
1t Wi!issuever,m iarsp present the magnanlmi-
ty, greatness anG courage of the people
of the United States as it did when it
was hauled up at the request of this
revolutionary junta in the Hawaiian
Islands. What are we to say in COM
mendation of the President who unhesi
tatingly, when he found wrong had
been done, ordered the flag hauled down?
The American people will always COM
mend President who does the right
thing and who is not governed, by the
mere clamor and jingoism sought to be
injected into this case"
MIR. Teller asked Mr. Gray, as member
of the committee charged with the mat
ter, what he proposed that they should
do now the President had submitted the
whole question. to Congress.
Mr.. Gray replied that he thought the
interest of all concerned in these islands
as well as the interest of the people of
the United States, would be best con-
served by leaving the Hawaiian people to
pursue their own line of policy. If the
provisional government had established
itself in manner to be able to make
itself in reality the de facto government,
the best interests of the Hawaiian people
and the United States would be pro-
NOTED by it's going on and obtaining the
sanction of the people if it could.
Mr.. Teller said he hoped the Senator
spoke for the administration. 1t would
be good deal better to do that than to
keep the Hawaiian people in an I'M
settled condition by the conduct of our
minister who seemed to convey the idea
that there was something irregular in the
provisional government, d.something to
be righted there by the President or Con-
gress.
Mr.. Gray said he very much regretted
that the President was unable to undo
the outrage and make reparation for
the wrong committed there on the 18th
of January, 1893. but the opportunity to
do it was gone, and he supposed would
never return.
Mr.. Teller remarked that he did not
care what Mr.. Stevens's conduct was. He
was looking at the present condition.
1t seemed to him more than wicked,
more than cruel, that they did not
declare in an emphatic manner that they
did not propose to interfere with the
provisional government.
he resolution was laid aside until TO-
morrow.
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