Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-02

The Stalsasnts In Me Hawaiian nsssaes
Flatfy coaisadietsd.

SeosO~O0eO
Flatfy ceaisadietsd.
A complete and credible contradiction of
the specious representations With hich the
President of the United States colored his
Hawaiian message is contained in this open
letter which Rev. Thomas L. Gulick. pas
tor of the Foreign Protestant church. of
Makawao. island Of Maui, Hawaii, and nov
. visitor in Washington, has addressed to
the President:
'sSir: For many months true Hawaiians
who have the greatest good of their coun-
try deeply at heart have been anxiously
hoping that you. YOUR government and peo-
pie, BY the Investigations which We believed
You were making, would become fully con-
WINGED that closer political union between
the two countries would be for the benefit
both of Hawaii and America. Judge of
our bitter disappointment when We find that
the executive Investigations and aims had
NO reference to this question, but were
finally and SECRETLY directed to the over
throw of the only decent governmt mt which
the islands have been able to establish for
themselves during the last twenty years!
"Why do you, IN defiance of facts, per-
slstently attempt to blacken the good name
of most worthy representative of your
government to Hawaii, and to cover up the
~ickedness of the .x-Queen. whose own acts
destroy ed the foundation of her throne?
Professions of lofty morality will not de-
ceive, either the Hawaii ans or the people of
America. History will judge you by thu
facts and by your conduct.
"Why do you call her the CONSTITUTIONAL
sovereign, and her vanished power the con
stitutionaP government, when it was owing
to her bold attempt to destroy the Cons iru-
ton and to establish revolutionary despo-
tism That she lost h r throne?
your message says that Saturday, JAN
uary IA, the Queen renowned the PROF ct
(of committing treason and perjuring her
8. If by annulling the Constitution, for the
present at least
How the Revolution Was Accomplished.
"Now what are the facts? Her subs 'rvi-
ent ministry the willing tools of her revo-
lutionary plot up to this point, learning the
v hit.-hot Indignation of the citizens, be-
came alarmed. and going to the palace
begg her to desist. This UNI KIP cted OPP
po. ition threw ter into rage and they fled
from the palace for their lives. The chief
Justice was there and begg her TO give
up her iniquitous and sucid Il pur
pose She fatty refused, defiantly
from YOU She proceeded to the balcony
# the palace and announced to her hangers
on that, though she had been prevented
from proclaiming her new constitution tina:
day, she would neverth. less give it to them
soon. This is what you speak of as her
having renowned her project for the pres
ent at least IN Difference to the wishes Of
her cabinet.
You claim that citizens of Honolulu,
taking this relinquished purpose as basis
of action began to plan for her formal de-
thronement The truth is, Mr.. Cleveland,
as you had every opportunity to know IT
you had chosen to look where light was t.
be had, the .irfstua tied despot new, relin-
quish.d her purpose to destroy the con -titu
lion till the third day after this, when
she discovered that Der power " as gone and
that she was soon to be commanded to step
down and out. When the Tahitan half
white adventurer and ex. blscksmi b, Oh .rles
Wilson. the commander If the Queens $50
to 200 soldiers, tried on Munday to con-
vince the te mined citiz Ms that Liliuoka-
lani would not NEEDLE with the CODsti utiun
her public assertion thai
he would soon abolish it, he was asked
what guarantee he could give. He said h
would lock the Queen up in a room if nee
pss .ry and Ike, p her th-re This Wilson,
the brsz favorite of the sh 4melpes Q leen,
was paramount in the palace. Though de
.pised and denounced by every party, n"
Cabinet and no lie. islature was able to
drive him from the palace or d'prive him
of office. He continued paramount in the
regard of the Queen and ruled in the court,
the power behind the throne. I
Her Power Entirely Gone.
From the hour, Mr.. President, that it
became known on Saturday that the Queen
had determined to d. stroy the constitution.
her government and her power we're dead
The plain proof of this assertion is that
from the hour the best citizens b,gan to
meet in various places for the avowed pur-
pose Of dethroning The despot, and no ont
offered or dared 10 intefere with them.
"You say, Mr. Pre- ident, that there was
no rioting on Monday. You are right. The
lawyers, doctors, mechanics and
other respectable citizens, who are de-
to establ sh decent government
in place of smuggling gambling IL
centicus, opium and lottery ri g
that had for twenty years infested the
palace. are not in the habit of rjOting, but
they openly m in the largest most intlu-
entail and determined mass meeting that
the Hawaiian Islands had ever known and
deer ed that the perjured woman, Mrs.
Domins, who had tranpled upon her oath
and committed high tr. ason, should no
long-r be Queen. 1t is this righteous and
wise resolve of the b-st men of the land, in
Guiding The judges of the supreme court,
clergy men and others representing three
fourths of the private property of the
islands, that you Mr. President, GRACEFUL.
desc ibe as the guilty Intentions of a few
in igni6cant copspiratOrs ~g4inst their con
government. These are the men
to whom you Were prepared to say through
Messrs Gresham ami Willis. you are tx
pected to promptly relinquish to h con.t
tuii NAL auth ,rit, WIS it to destroy The
dec, mt government which thes, men had
established that tver since last April 8. cr.t
m ssrpgers AID cipher patch have b en-
hyi acro-s continents AID oceans; that
stes mbosts hide th-ir lights and start on
their mystr rious errsnds in the desd of
night; and that wsrships are assembled at
Hon luln?