Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-05
Justice 10 Hawaii. The Monarchal Conspiracy
0eiunct. SIS 90.

Facts have triumphed over fiction. Truth
has prevailed over falsehood. Republican
love of justice and fair play has pushed
aside the wicked scheme of restoring semi
barbarous monarchy in the American hemis-
phere. A few months ago Grover Cleve-
land and Walter q. Gresham attempted to
reverse the long established policy of the
United States by assuming an attitude of
bitter hostility to the American colony of
Hawaii. They assumed to use the diplo-
matte and naval powers of the Nation
to prosecute this strange crusade,
which had in it not a single ele-
ment of patriotism or common sense.
Closing their eyes to volumes of reliable
information on file in the state and naval
departments, entirely non partisan, care
fully reported by diplomatic, consular, and
naval officials, they sent Blount, bitter
partisan, to make out a case against the
Harrison admin stration. They enlisted
editors, newspapers, magazines, and Office
seekers, in their strange campaign against
Christian civilization and liberal institutions
in the North Pacific. Holding large official
patronage in their hands, they induced a
ojority of the Washington House of Repre-
sentatives to sustain them in their ubiquitous
course by the passage of shameful resolu-
ton based entirely on worthless and ex-
ploded testimony and in open disregard of
the overwhelming evidence disclosed by the
thorough investigation of the Senate COM
mittee. But the stories of fiction of the
lottery gang reported by Blount, the in
trigue and menace of force used against
the Provisional Government, and the incoher-
ent clamor of the "cuckoos" AMI the Mug
wumps, could make no Roadway against
the impregnable position of the Ameri-
can colony in Hawaii. Cleveland and
Gresham, in effect, if not by inten-
ton, invited the partisans of the fallen
Queen to rise in armed instruction against
the de facto government of Hawaii. But all
III hS tdiiii dtlltuuC Vi Iuc ISeDOuSl-
BILE men of Hawaii an1 the Inherent Justice
of their cause made their position invinci-
Bile.
The absolute collapse of the Cleveland
Gresham, and Blount conspiracy is shown
by the passage Of the following resolution,
by the United States Senate, May 81. una
reported from the committee of
foreign relations:
Resoited. That of right it belongs
wholly to the people Of the Hawaii
an islands to establish and maintain
their own form of government and do
nestle policy; that the United States
ought in no wise interfere herewith, and
that any interference in the political affairs
of these islands by any other government
will be regarded as an act unfriendly to the
United States.
The vote on this resolution was SO yea
and nay 0. Six or eight "cuckoos" at most,
were opposed to this resolution, though they
did not record their votes. Texas Mills,
who has become very much of crank
made few violent and absurd remarks
against the Provisional Government but did
not vote, being paired. Vest, of Missouri,
tried to have the resolution so worded
as to make the Senate declare against an
nexation, but he was beaten in this effort
by vote of 36 to Is.
Thus time and events have rapidly and
completely defeated and repudisted the gro
tesque and revolutionary policy of Cleve-
land and his henchmen in respect to Amer
lean prestige and interests in the North Pa
ciAc, sweeping away the Blount bridge of
lies with all of its bungling devices. The
decisive action of the Senate was hastened
by reliable information from Honolulu, that
the attitude of the President and the state
department continued to do much harm in
the Islands.