The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-05
IN NOT A TRUE DEMOCRAT.
Ex MINISTER STEVENS sC0RKS
 PRESIDENT CLEVELAED.
He is Making Himself a Kissing and . shame by Ills OfficIai Egotis,n, Corrup- ton and Usurpation-His Acts Greater Treason Than Benedict Arnoldis.

Ho 10 Making Himself Kissing ana
 shame by Ills OficIai Egotism, Corr up-
 ton and Usurpation-His Acts Greater Treason Than Benedict Arnold's.
 Augusta, Me, Sept. 1.-The largest
 rally ever held in Augusta filled the
 opera house this evening. and was ad-
 dressed by Hon. John L. Stevens. ex-
 minister to Hawaii; Hon. Harold M.
 Sewall, consul general to Samoa under Cleveland's first administration; Cover
 nor Gloves, Senator Lodge, and Hon.
 Thomas B. Reed. The audience remain
 ed in Its seats three hours, and the speakers were greeted with storms of applause. This is the first time that
 Mir. Sewall has publicly declared that his affiliations with the democratic party are at an end.
 Ex-Minister Stevens began his ad- dress by asking how the theory of the continual improvement of mankind could be reconciled with the fact that the democratic party of Richard Croker and Grover Cleveland had taken the place of the democratic party of Thom- as Jefferson and James Madison. Great, he claimed, must have been the offences of the American people to have brought upon 1t such calamity as placing at its head the man who was now making himself hissing and shame through the land by his official egotism, corrup- tion and usurpation-the man who, masquerading as a Jeffersonian demo- crat, had repudiated every principle, every patriotic example for which Jeff ferson stood. Cleveland and his asso- ciates had declared war on the protec- tive policy, and had thus brought ter
 rible disaster and suffering to the American people. Yet these architects of ruin had the shameless audacity to call themselves Jeffersonian demo- crats.
 But there is another important ques. tion, said the speaker, on which Cleve- land and his henchmen have shown their antagonism to what Jefferson, Jackson and Marcy held of the highest value Jefferson rejoieed over the over throw of a monarchy which had for cen- turies corrupted and oppressed brave people. Cleveland hastened to manifest his sympathy for corrupt, worn-out and semi-barbarous monarchy, and ig- unanimously conspired to restoresH to rule over an intelligent and patriotic colony. Jefferson threw his entire off, cial influence to annex a foreign terri tory, whose possession he justly regard ed necessary to American development. Cleveland to the degree of conspiracy, treachery and startling efforts of uslr- patton, sought to prevent the annexa ton of Hawaii, with its valuable re- sources, it's American civilization qnreat- ed by heroic sacrifices of Americansmen and women. To have shown such per- f1dy to national homer, such treason to national interests, in past times has often sent official representatives to in- fanny to exile and sometimes to the scaffold.
 This attempt to blot out the patriotic efforts of a worthy people compelled'to to create better government, this at- tempt to overthrow them by the pres sure of a deceptive diplomacy and the threat of American cannon and bayon- cts, signally failed. It failed because of the American and patriotic convic- tions, the grit and courage, of the Spar tan band in possession of affairs at Honolulu. Behind their brick walls, their breastwork of sand-bags and their 1,SOO rifles, that noble band, nerv- ed by common purpose, were ready to do what their grandfathers did be- hind the stone walls of Lexington and the rail fence at Bunker Hill. Cleve- land dared not give the order to fire upon them. Thus the foul scheme of ignorance and imbecility, of pushing the islands into the arms of our foreign rivals and of sacrificing the invalua- ble possession which had logically and honorably drifted to our hands, signally failed.
 That little republic, like Switzerland amidst her mountains, occupies com- position.It holds the key of the North Pacific, and Is now ready to turn 1t over to us without money and without price. Yea, she will give it to the United States with more than enough of state property to pay her existing indebtedness, which accrued under the monarchy, with her Pearl harbor, pronounced by competent judges one of the finest in the world He who by word or official act repels the offer of this golden key of America'a westward destiny, shows singular ins or makes himself guilty of a treason beside which the crime of Benedict Arnold dwindled into signifi- canoe in it's damage to American prestige and to America's future vel fare. It is gratifying to all Americans who are proud of their country's honor. to know that the indications are strongly hopeful that in the near future the glorious emblem of this na- tion's power will float over that ad- vanced outpost of American civiliza- ton in the great Pacific world. and that thereafter no foreign or traitorous hand will attempt to pull it down.