The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-25
DISHONOR In THE PACIFIC.
sEWALL's DENUNCIATIoy OF TIE
CLEVELAND ADMINISTER TION.

| OF nicaragua, Hawaii, nnd Samoa
Biount was Not ths First tIeveIn-e
Aee-t 60 Haul Dow. the A-,srics. Flse
BosToN, Oct. 24.-The Republican Club OF
Massachusetts, celebrated its fourth annual din
ner in Music Hall this evening in great numbers
and with enthusiasm. Seven hundred and fifty
members attended and the galleries were
| crowded with spectators. Francis II. Appleton,
| the President Of the club, occupied the chair,
and among the Republicans at the platform
table were Gov. Frederic r. Greenhalge, Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator Anthony Higgins
| OF Delaware, Congressman Joseph II. Walker of
| Worcester, Lieut.-Gov. Roger Wolcott, Attor-
| ney-General Hosea VI. Knowlton, Hon. George
| q. Croker, Auditor John w. Kimball, George
Won L. Meyer, William NJ. olin. Congressman
| Elijah A. Morse Harold NJ. Sewall Of Maine,
| and Curtis Guild. Jr.
The most impressive speech Of the evening
| was made by Mr.. Sewall, Mr. Clevclands former
| Consul-General to Samoa. His address was re-
ceived with much enthusiasm. He said:
| II come TO you from the State that has set the
signal for the country In the campaign that is
| now upon you. | bring you the greetings of
| your party In Maine, ever loyal. and triumphant
to-day as IL has been but once in its history be-
| fore. And I bring you what should be even
| sweeter than these, the unuttered but heartfelt
| good wishes Of thousands OF others, heretofore
| DtInOCTHLS, VINO III our election Stayeu away
| from the polls, or. like myself. embraced the
| allegiance Of the Republican party.
Certainly lay no claim to have found the
only way out Of the Democratic party; there
never were so many avenues of escape from that
party as there are to-day; there never were so
many invitations issued by distinguished Demo-
Gratis within the party TO other Democrats of
equally good standing 10 leave the party as
there to-day.
III you are Democrat who believes In your
party's platform, who believes that protection
is a crime, who opposes processes to oppose
trusts, you are invited to leave party that has
broken its pledges md has allied itself to that
trust the most obnoxious to our people. II you
are a Jeffersonian Democrat, IL you learned
Democracy from the lips Of Abbott and CASTOR
and our good friend Charles Levi Woodbury.,
IL you believe that that government is the best
government that interferes the least In the pri-
vate concerns OF the individual, IL you believe
with Jefferson that direct taxes ought not to be
resorted to in time OF peace. you are invited to
leave the party by n law that violates that prin-
ciple and puts Federal spy over every house
hold in the land
My friends, have come to YOU from the
State that gave Mr.. Blaine to the service of this
nation. and whatever may be thought OF the
merits OF that extraordinary man. I am sure
that you will agree with me that the grandest
monument that he has left behind Is the enmity
with which his name Is still regarded by the ma
tons Of Europe. whom he made 20 understand
in dealing with them. so that they have never
forgotten II, that first and all the time lie put
the interests OF his OWL country before that of
their own.
IF II be possible for a peace-loving people
like ourselves to have a traditional enemy, as
suredly that enemy is Great Britain. We can
side she threw the weight of her influence In
our last struggle; we cannot shut our eyes to the
Nor can we in New England fail to remember
that II Is oy her efforts IN war and peace that
that to-day, through her colony to the north OF
us and its subservien. and subsidized political
Tin the face Of this record the people OF New
ENGLAND and Of this country are not likely to
served for Democratic statecrsft to % open pen" our
markets e Canada; to yield TO her without
tt6mpe , what she has sought to obtain by
the inevitable and happy day when that line
shall be ohliterated that cuts us of from terri
tory nearly our own. and this city of Boston
shall BECOME the commercial metropolis Of half
OF the North American continent.
fulfilled the prophecy OF Seward when he de-
clared that It's shores. its islands. and the vast
chief theatre of events in the worlds great
hereafter Three points on this ocean demand
the commerce OF the future, and TO the injury OF
our position In all Democratic Administration
has dealt blows that might well have come from
=" There is Nicaragua, the gateway to, the Pa
mttee of Foreign Relations, told you the other
day how the Republican treaty, which would
have insured the building q the canal, was de
the country had gone out TO the measure, Mr..
Cleveland withdrcw Il; how the Republicans
met defeat By the election OF Democratic
House.
Go out from Nicaragua Ia the middle Pacific
and there, guarding like sentincls the route OF
the trafic to which its cours" viii give birth.
are Hawaii and Samoa. British pretensons can
no more defeat the annexation 81 Hawaii than
can Penetrate diplomacy The suggestion
There is left samoa which, with Hawaii. re-
mains the last island group In the Pacific unNh- ]
platform in his state declares against any sur
render there and yet the morning after the |
Cop NoS the HtrdId said j. di4 MOI know TIM
friends, it, ignorance may he exCusablr since !
Mr. Cleveland began his policy Of SURF, der in /
mis- Secretary OF state. But If he has rc>acted /
the rights Of the senate. II he has Ecrd,d the /,
surrender in Samoa.
When Blount hauled down our flag at Hon
Pscac Mr. Cieveands fh rst Ad ini lon
down at Apia, where Il had been raised to avert
the seizure OF the islands by a German squad .
teristic OF Cleveland Administration in the .
execution OF such an order. And MIR. Clevcland |
Chlleu MS conference az washington, which met .
on the agreed basis OF the maintenance of s,a- (
moan INDEPENDENCE, Hu, before the conference
was 1 ,ermina!sd: without notice to 9ur Cavern
islands themselves, the very object of the negO-
tiations.
II charged that, acting under Mr. Bayard's
instructions, had kept the King from putting
down an insurrection against him. under the
promise that the Washington conference wouId
satisfactorily settle samoan affairs aud that lac
would not be allowed to suffer and | showed
how Dy this unsolicited Interference in restrain
ing him from exercising the highest attrihute of
sovereignty, Ec was made a prisoner aud an
exile from his country, which, in the eyes of a
samoan. y punishment worse than death.
Now, the conference at Berlin restored That
man To his own and established in Samoa "a gov I
ernmeHt the best one that could lie devised for
prOteC ting the interests Ut natives aud foreign
eTs alike, and assuring the continued neutrality
of the group. But Mr.. cleveland no sooner
comes haC X 10 power than he attacks that gov !
ernment Tor which We, more than any other
power, are responsible and plunge- the j. land /
into all the horrors of unCiviliXVd warfare; and |
thus having robbed II o; its prestige and aenatcd
from u many OF us supporters. he leaves IL TO /
the other powers 10 do with IL A. they nlpase IN