The Portland daily press., 1894-03-28
THURSTON ON DAVIES.
The Ambassador Of Hawaiian Royal
ty a Mischief Maker.
BEHRING SEA MODUS VIVENDI
STILL HANGS FIRE.

Other Washington News-The Democrats
Have Not Yet Mustered a Quorum in
the House-Yesterday Was Spent in the
Usual Filibustering Tactics Until the
Democratic Leader Gave 1t Up-Funer-
al Services of the Late Senator Colquitt.
Washington, March 27.-Mr. Thurston,
Hawaiian minister, was interviewed to-
day regarding the published remarks OF
Theopohilus II. Davies, In which he says
the provisional government is composed
of ''adventurers' who are maintaining
''reign of terror in Honolulu, and as
serts that the community is at the mer-
cy of lot of spies and broken down
Germans and Portuguese. Mr.. Thurs
ton said: "After the report by Mr.. Will
lis to the President that the members OF
the provisional government are without
exception men of integrity and public
spirit, and the royalists, of whom Mr.
Davies is the leader, are bad lot, it
does not seem necessary to make re-
ply to every man who can get himself in
teryiewed. This person is profession
al mischief maker. He has for years
been the head and front of the unreason-
ing anti-American British faction in
Honolulu, and is always ready to go out
of his way to oppose and injure the ad-
vance of American interests in Hawaii.
Only a couple of months prior to the rev.
olution in Honolulu, he wrote series of
letters to the papers opposing the estab-
lishment of an United States naval sta
ton at Pearl Harbor for the reason,
among others, that it would become
nest Of criminals, burglars, defaulters
and smugglers,' who would prey upon
the surrounding country. He had these
letters printed in pamphlet and scat
tered broadcast. He has been spending
three or four months in Hawaii making
the most frantic efforts to stir up strife
and overthrow the provisional govern
ment. He has utterly failed and is now
renewing his efforts here. 1t became so
warm for him in Honolulu that he
thought it best to move on. Naturally
he does not like the laws of the govern
ment. A reign of terror exists only
among the royalists of the Davies
stripe who are gradually realizing the
terrible fact that monarchy and it's per-
quisites are gone forever. Davies phroph-
estes no republican government will be
formed. The provisional government
has most exasperating habit OF falling
to fulfil royalist prophesies. They have
consigned us to bankruptcy times with
out number. The government has gone
quietly about its business, paid it's debts,
accumulated larger treasury surplus
than has been for years, kept the peace,
created well-drilled and layal body of
troops and is now proceeding with de
liberation and dignity to establish re
public by the election of delegates for a
convention in the selection of which all
voters, foreign and native, will be al
lowed an equal voice, the one condition
being the renunciation of allegiance
to monarchy and an oath to support the
republic. Davies and the other royalists
CLAN that the choice as between re-
public and monarchy should be put
to vote. We do not propose to do any
thing of the kind, however. That
question has been settled by arms and
we do not propose to reopen it for dis
Gu ussion."