Middletown transcript., 1894-02-03

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To THE EDIroR OF THE SuN-Syr:. ] hay
been familiar with the theatres of New
| York, man and boy, for more than thirty
years, but until last Monday never knew
| of the name of President of the Unites
States being hissed as it was at Proctor
Theatre on the day when q picture o
Cleveland was introduced upon the stage.
| Surely nobody was ever able in ter
months to dissipate so great q personal con
fidence as he had March 4th, 'o3. To con
spire with anegress to chop off the head:
of American citizens; to refuse to allow hi
country to accept of territory for which thl
great powers Of Europe have been irtrigu'
| ing for fifty years; to ignore the Congress
and then to try and make branch OF Il
carry out his personal revenges. ls not the
explanation, as your correspondent sug-
gests that Grover has gone mad?
EsEK K. PEcKHAM.
EprroR TRANscRIPr:-I send you here
with little clipping from the N. Y. Sun Of
February 1st. It is entirely confirmed by
the account given me by an eye witness.
He said the scene was remarkable one;
that the building was packed. from pit to
dome with several thousand people, and as
a stereoptican view of Cleveland, was
thrown upon the screen, the hisses, hoots
and yelIs were terrifcl But the moment
the face of Harrison appeared, cheers re-
sounded through the house, Even the
faces of Mr.. Cleveland's family ELECTED
little or no applause, but an under current
Of subdued Kisses was plainly audible. Mr..
Cleveland's portrait was presented num-
ber of times, always with the same result,
and my informant said it was ludicrous,
the quickness with which the applause
which greeted Mr.. Harrison's face, was
changed into loud jeers and feers when the
Presidents face appeared.
The significance of it all lies in the fact
that these persons were representatives OF
the very class that elected Mr.. Cleveland
Did ever public man fall so quickly and
SO low And no wonder, his whole course
in the Hawaiian matter has been infamous
beyond belief Think of President of
this great Republic actually engaged in q
secret, mendacious and treacherous cabaI
against the very life of a struggling little
republic and that too in behalf of barbaric
tyrany more despotic than that of the
Turk I venture to assert that the spectacle
is unparalleled in American historyl
1t is astounding TO contemplate that an
American president, in wanton disregard of
international law, and in deliberate viola
ton of the time-honored policy of non
interference in foreign affairs, should never
theIess seek BY covert and perfdious plot
ting, aided by emissaries, foreign and DOM
estic, to overturn the newly born civiliza-
ton which the Genius of America had
implant ted in the fertile Isles of the far
Pacific, in order upon its ruins to rect the
throne of an ignorant and bloody
minded savage queenl
Save for the puerile reason of venting his
jealous spleen upon the preceding Admins
istration, it IS an inexcusable act of per-
fidious treachery, doubly odious in the eyes
of Americans since England, our consis-
tent foe, past and present, was to have been
next to this barbarian Lilioukalani and her
crew of dissolute paramours, the chief
beneficiary Of that treacheryl And pre-
dict that when the cold and impartial YER
dict of history shall be pronounced this
shameful deed will cover Its authors name
with the eternal contempt and obloquy
which have overwhelmed the name of an
Arnold Indeed so un-American, SO incred-
ible is the infamy of it all, that not few
Of the Presidents admirers believe him
crazy-in charity claim for him that surely
be has "eaten of the insane root that takes
The reason prisoner!' For the credit of
him his party and the Nation 1t were in
Iced a charity so to believe.
CAUsTIQuE.