Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-05-31
Thurston Interviewed.


ment- he is perfectly well awars
that even the white population o.
Honolulu would not elect him to
any position where be might have
voice IN their affairs When he
last sought election to the Legs
lature in go. he took care to
avoid the busy haunts of the
Metropolis where intelligence
and independence are concentrat-
ed, and sought the sequesterec
shade of a small sugar planting
district on the island OF Maui.
There at the tail of sugarcane
cart, the plantation contract
laborers and small clerks anc
storekeepers who are depending
on the local plantations were
ordered to roll up for the planters
nominee Thurston. a few even
ings ago Thurston was the I'M
animous choice for Councilman
of a few select plutocrats who
claimed to run the American
Union Party but larger meet
ing raised such howl in oppo-
sition to the Hula Snowman
Thurston that his name was in a
twiDkl,ng Withdrawn in favor of
a more sensible man, j. A.
McCandless. But as Thurston
cannot talk in public to the
masses on the islands, he is
resolved apparently to get even
by lying about them to the
American public. AS an inter
viewer of himself, Thurston can
speak for the universe. This is
how be introduces himself:
1.-The situation" replied Mr..
Thurston, as a whole. is ex-
tremeIy satisfactory. The Royalist
has lost the little
a ggressiveness that it once had
and degenerated into a sullen,
hopeless waiting for the United
States to restore the ex-Queen.
The internal differences between
the supporters of the government
are upon matters of detail only;
they are such differences as must
inevitably arise in any large body
of men who,are intensely interest
ed and taking an active part in
vital to them all. There
are, however, but few purely
factional differences-they are
mostly as to ways and means,
and not as to ends. The ultimate
objects for which the revolution
was initiated, the abrogation of
the monarchy, the creation of an
independent government, repub
lican in character. and final union
in some form with the United
States. are as earnestly and
unanimously sought as in the
first instance.
The situation here is so uusatis-
factory to Thurstons revolutionary
colleagues that they want him
near them to lean against, and it
is also unsatisfactory for them to
know that unless the provisional
government can satisfy the gov
of the United States
that the people are with them on
this Constitutional drama, Mr..
Thnrston need not trouble him
self further as an Envoy Extraor-
binary and Minister plenipoten-
tiary at Washington. Like
Othello, his occupation will be
gone. Mr.. Thurston is candid
enough however to contradict
the theory constantly paraded by
the p. G. press, that the President
has confessed to a "change of
heart in the matter of restoring
the Queen and Hawaiian govern
ment to the state where conspir-
ing Ex-Minister Stevens found it.
absurd as it may seem in the
United States to those acquainted
with conditions there. the most
vital factor in Hawaiian politics
today is the question of whether
the United States Government
will forcibly restore the ex-Queen.
The Royalists say; The President
has solemnly declared in a
message to Congress that the
Queen was wrongfully dethroned
by United States forces. and tina.
she should be restored BY the
United States government. he
has referred the question tc
Congress Congress has not yet
taken action. The President has
not indicated that be has changed
his mind. Why should we assume
that the action of a Democratic
Congress will be adverse to the
recommendation of Democratic
PRESIDENT To be sure, the Turpie
resolution and the Morgan repor
are adverse to restoration, out
they have not been adopted. This
indicates that a majority of the