New-York tribune., 1894-01-16
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The 'inCdcnt' seems CLOSED fHll - 10 A''H o.
Mr. Cleveland has dumped on the Speakers a. Sk
a documentary rcSiduum which had been lying
I'm the State Department accuInilAtihG dus'
and emitting Il constantly Increasing hnd sh'"'
with thc somewhat curt remark: " Here's IN"
whole budget Take II and do what You please
with II. I've had enough Of IT,. And BOW ih'
House says: We are too busy l"gislaiinG 'h"
Treasury into Il deficit ana the whole country
into Il hole TO bother with II little thing like
that. It's of 10 consequence. anyway More
over. we don't like the smell Of II when II -
stirred Let it drop" So the incident" ~
far as the House is concerned. seems c"N'd
And If the supporters of the Administration IN
that body have their way, ihc Senate VIII take
the same view Of II.
Meantime the newspapers which have been
supnorting the Administration through thick
and thin have been having hard time Of u.
When the intelligence WAS first conveyed 10 th"
country last spring that Mr. Cleveland had
consccratcd himself To redrcsSing great
wrong. which had been pcrpctraicd by the
wicked Harrison Administration upon the nno-
cent and altogether lovely Queen Of Hawaii. all
thc Presidents ardent admirers IN the press
rose up and put MP The palms Of their hands
and rolled their eyes and sucked in their breath
aud said with great JUNCTION: My Nhat II
higl-mlndcd statesman. How magnanimouN
and unSclhsh. What IN example he sets for all
the nations OF the earth, What Il scathng re-
bnkc this is 10 the wicked Harrison and IN"
Infamous Blaine. And what II glorious begin
ming for the new Administrations. All tins
without any knowledge or anything that ap-
preached knowledge Of what the great wrong
was. or how or by whom it had been per
pctratcd. Zeal not Only outran knowledge bnt
got there" before knowledge had tied lis
shoes Never was there such blind. unqucs-
tloning confidence Upon the assumption that
the President had within Il few hours after
entering upon his office mastered the Hawaiian
situation I'm all its details. and the further as
sumption that this specially endowed and
specially consccratcd person could do no wrong
they procccdc To glorify him the one man
among all the rulers Of all the nations of tn"
earth since governments began who had the
sense Of Justice to admit that his country had
done wrong ami the moral courage to correct
it and make restitution.
70 tho people who were amazed and bcwil-
dcrcd by the strangencss Of the transaction tn"
suddcnncSS Of the performance and the appiIr-
cnt lack Of any sufficient prctcXt for II, these
Administration newspapers said Just wait Il
IlttIp, when tIlc ITtSlu'll gclS ItHti w iiH 'h'
matter before Congress and all The facts come
out It will bc seen that he has taken the only
course open 10 IN honorable and high minded
Chief Magistrate" Then as the unsavory de-
tails began to leak out. or were forced ont by
public impatcncc and nothing appeared cX
ccpt what seemed to show that the whole
scheme had no other motive than TO dScrcdit
his predecessors Administrations that It WAS
entered upon ignoranily and blndy, and pur-
sued vlndictiyclv, dishonesty and oDStnatcy,
they said; wait II little longer; the President
and Secretary Gresham know what they are
about. They are not fools. whatcvcr present
appearances Indicate When all the facts come
out they will be fully justified before Il people
who bclicvr In truth and Justice" And so the
people waited. With each reluctant disclosure
the Presidents case WAS made worse. Indeed,
IL was utterly dlsgraccful and incxcuSabc
that many political opponents Of the President.
who could not conceive how anybody Of orli-
nary intelligence with the most limited expert
cncc In public affairs could be guilty Of such
fat'io'is folly. began 10 think that there must
be something behind II all which. when brought
ont. would explain what seemed incXplicablc
ana Justify the Presidents action. II was sur
missed that something was kept back which
when revealed would bring an explosion. 10 the
discontinue Of all who doubted Mr. Clcyclands
wisdom, discretion or honesty
Well there Is no longer anything to wait for.