Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-25
ARRAlGNED BY SEWALL
Mr.. Oleveland's Policy in the Pacific De-
nOunced.
The Former Consul General Was
Greeted With Enthusiasm by BOs-
ton Republicans.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
BOSTON, Mass, October 23.-In Massa-
chusetts the star event of every campaign
is the dinner of the Republican Club. It
was given last night with great success in
Music Hall. Eight hundred people sat at
the tables and hundreds more filled the gal
leries. Among the guests were Senator
Higgins Of Delaware Senator Hawley Of
Connecticut, Harold M. Sewall, Maine. ex-
consul to Samoa under Cleveland's first al
ministration, Mahlon CbauEce Of New York,
Senator Lodge. Congressman Walker and
Morse of this state, and most of the leading
Massachusetts, republicans.
President Appleton occupied the head Of
the table. ami welded the gavel. His speech
and that Of Senator Higgins and Senator
Hawley received an enthusiastic indorse-
ment that they well deserved, but the hero
of the occasion was Harold Nj. Sewall. 1t is
rot often that man gets such a reception
in Boston as he received last evening. IN
dorsement is, however, a better word to
use than reception, for it was at the close
of his speech that the greatest demonstra-
ton of the evening was evoked. The au-
dience knew, in a general way, that Mr..
Sewall had been the consul general to
Samoa in the first Cleveland administration,
and that 1t was his part in the proceed
ings to condemn the foreign policy Of a
democratic administration; but it had no
premontion of the great hit which Mr.. Sc
wall was to make.
In the course of his address he said:
british pretensicns can no more defeat
the annexation Of Hawaii than can demo-
cratic diplomacy; the suggestion would be
absurd. But it is Great Britain, and Great
Britain alone, that rejoices today at the
delay In annexation, and at the tardy and
ungracious recognition we have given the
new republic of the west.
There is left Samoa, which, with Hawaii,
remains the last island group in the Pacific
unabsorbed by any European power The
republican platform In this state declares
against any surrender there, and the morn
Ing after the convention the Herald said 1t
did not know that we had anything to sur
render there. Well, my friends, its ignor-
ance may be excusable, since Mr. Cleveland
began his policy Of surrender in the Pa
cific, poisoned by the personal pique Of MS
Secretary OF state But 1t no has respected
the rights of the Senate; If he has needed
the warnings of the country, We have
everything to surrender in Samoa.
I'VE have, first and above ALL our ma
tional self-respect to surrender, If We prove
false to our obligations there. We have all
that twenty years of republican diplomacy
have won for us there. We have the for
NAL acknowledgment of the neutrality of
the islands, and the right to insist that this
neutrality shall not be violated, and a gov
eminent instituted whose existence is Sc
curity against this violation. We have the
right to the most magnificent harbor In the
L dClhC OCCdU, unsurpassed III the WOTlu.
We have the right to have our citizens there
not abandoned to the discriminating laws
of our commercial rivals. We have all
these to surrender sanctiied by the loss Of
the lives Of our gallant officers and men
which went out in death upon the reefs Of
Apia as heroically as any ever offered up
in battle
when Blount hauled down our flag at
Honolulu 1t was not the first time II had
been lowered to inaugurate a policy of in
fanny in the Pacific. Mr.. Clevelands first
administration was not a year old when
our flag was ordered down at Apia where
1T had been raised Ito avert the seizure Of
the islands by German squadron, and
1t came down with that celebrity character
istic of a Cleveland administration in the
execution of such an order"
Mr.. Sewall went on to claim that the
democratic policy had resulted In betraying
the native rulers of the islands into chains
and exile.
Mr.. Sewalrs welcome when he rose to
speak was warm enough to suit the vanity
of any orator, but 1t was when the au-
dience had heard him through, had listened
to the tremendously dramatic story he told
of the failure of democratic administra-
ton to redeem the promises he had made
in its behalf in faraway island in the
Pacific ocean, that the enthusiasm swept
over the hall in mighty wave, bringing
every man to his feet and swelling every
throat with cheers for the man from Maine.