The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-08-06


Another Hawaiian Conspiracy
The singular attitude Of President
Cleveland toward the band of dis.
credited Hawaiian mouarchists which
is now in Washington upon mission
Of treachery is becoming each day more
marked. When the other day Mr.
Boutelle, Of Maine, offered in the house
resolution congratulating the Ha,
waiian patriots upon their successful
establishment Of q republican govern.
ment, and voiclng our federal recogni-
tion of that government, it was sup.
posed that this proper and seemly &c.
tion, expressing as 1t did the real feel
Ing of nineteen-twentieths Of the
American people, would be IGtified
cordially and without delay. This
resolution, it Is interesting to note
was an exact copy, except as to the
changed names, Of the resolution
offered by Mr. McCreary, the Demo
cratic chairman Of the house committee
on foreign affairs, when Brazil became
u republic during General Harrison'l
administration. 1t is sOid that or
Wednesday Of last week, Mr.. McCreary
expressed his hearty approval of the
Boutelle resolution and promised thai
it should be promptly and favorably
reported. On Thursday, however, hC
was, it is alleged, summoned by th(
autocrat of the white house, who had
been advised of the approach Of the ex
Queen LII coterie Of royalist consplra
tors. The outcome Of this executive
command was that McCreary and his
associate cuckoos are now going to try
TO smother the Boutene resolution II
their committee.
The significance of this action al
Washington becomes clearer when we
We read in the Pittsburg Times exactly
what these Hawaiian satellites of de.
Ihroned barbarian royalty expect to
accomplish during their negotiations
with Cleveland and his man Friday,
the mugwump secretary Of state. They
Will not, according to the Times,
Ask for the restoration OF the Queen
The substance Of 5LOir request will be for
Non-.ltsrteFeRc on tAa part of the
Cnistd States and no recognition officially
OF the present government until Hawai-.
hns have had an opportunity to settle .hs
dispute Themselves The Uultod State
will be asked to keep its marines of the
Island, and if thls ia done civil war will
follow II torty-eisbt hours aftor the news
reaches Honolulu thst the United States
VIII be neutral. Mr. Parker says the sup
poTtsrs Of the queen outnumbsr the Re-
pubhcana 10 to /, and il the hght starts
tAere VIII oe no doubt OF the result. Tue
queens party will win in very short
be established. The Dole government,
he says, Is nol republic; it /.
government by dictator, the
provisional government under new name
The Royalists do not desire monarchy
and that VIII not be asked In Washington
Nhst Is wanted lsa real republic, not q
close corporation such as now exists or
the ialspds. But should the Royalists b,
successful, there is no doubt that the queer
will be elected president OF the new gov
ernmsnt and that she will ruls by suffrage
as other heads OF republics do. The com.
mission will lay before the president copy
OF the constitution Of the Dole government
and try to convince him that 1t is not {
republic 1t was only accepted by 500,
elcetors while the total vote has run a,
Nigh as 1900, and should be higher uude,
the new order. OF those b accepted th,
constitution, 1000 are Portuguese who ca,
neither read nor write. II is proposed
under the government the queens support
efs desire To form that all voters shall b.
able to read and write. The educated ma
tivea are all Of the queens party.
This, it should be understood, is tn,
statement given out for publication b,
the man Parker, who was Queen Lip
secretary of foreign affairs and who /
understood now to be working in th
interest Of the Claus Spreckels suga
monopoly, the Hawaiian lotter,
swindle and another job for him
self. Parker's statement is undoubt
edly false, since it has been repeated,
contradioted by witnesses whose vera
city is not in dispute; but whethe
false or true, what has Grover Cleve
land to do with the case? Congress
and the American people have tol,
him and his obedient servant, Gres
ham, to keep their meddling hands OF
Hawaii, aud this command was not &C
companied by any qualifying clauses o
arbitrary time limit. The Hawaiian
republicans, having established an in
dependent government by the grace 0
God and the strength Of their owl
stout hearts, must be left to work ou
their own destiny as best they may
We have had enough Confederate In
termeddling and stabbing in the bacl
in this section Of the Pacific ocean.
the sudden somersault of Representa