Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-12


good will, as the representative OF TINS
government to the provisional govern
ment at Honolulu. At the same time he
carried secret instructions to overthrow
the government to which he was &C
credited, and reinstate upon her tlnsei
throne a dissolute and pagan native
woman whom the Christian civilization
of the country had very properly repu-
dated. Moreover such action on their
part, it must be remembered. was the
result of an attempt of Mrs. Dominls to
overthrow the constitution of the country
and substitute one of her own which
practically the American property owners
of the islands, who paid most Of the taxes,
of any participation in the affairs of the
government. 1t was a constitution prl-
marily in the interests of the corrupt
opium and lottery rings, especially the
latter, which, having been driven from
Louisiana, its last refuge in the United
States, was willing to pay literally for
new foot hold from which it might still
be able to prey upon the people of this
country. 1t was this deposed and dis
credited wench whom President Cleve-
land in his treacherous secret instructions
to Willis. referred to as the Queen" and
proposed to restore to authority, although
such action rendered necessary the over
throw of friendly power which had been
formally recognized by this government.
1t was in effect declaration of war.
There can be no doubt but what, in over
stepping his constitutional powers in this
fragrant manner, the President laid him
self open to impeachment 1t is matter
of general knowledge that at one time,
his friends were much in fear that steps
to that end would be taken. Of course they
would have been futile; but the discussion
that such a resolution would have, I'M
avoidably, engendered would have placed
the President in an even more sorry plight
before the country. In painful contrast
to this policy and the pompous official
literature accompanying it, was the digni
fed and able response of President Dole
to Mr.. Cleveland's insolent demand to
step down and out of the position to
which he had been called by property hold
ers of the islands, chiefly Americans, who
also represented the lions share of their
Christian civilization.
1t was a firm and dignifled refusal to be
bullyragged in any such preposterous and
insolent manner, and left Mr.. Cleveland
in most unenviable position. When
Congress met his acts were repudiated
and the committee of foreign affairs after
full investigation of all the facts bearing
upon the matter, made a report written by
its able and patriotic chairman, Senator
Morgan of Alabama fully generating
Minister Stevens whom the Cleveland ad
ministration had tried so hard to discredit.
The President was thus foiled in his infa-
nous purposes; but, with characteristic
pig headedness he refused to acknowledge
his error and still cling to the hope that
he might still be able to destroy the Ha
waiian republic. 1t was doubtless this de-
sire that caused him to hold official inter
course with deputation from the deposed
Mrs. Dominis Notwithstanding the fact
that Hawaii was then represented at
Washington by resident minister.
There is every reason to believe, in view of
subsequent developments that assurances
were at that time given the emissaries of
Mrs Dominis that all American warships
would he withdrawn from the harbor of
Honolulu and every possible facility
afforded the Royalists to regain their lost
ground. The attempt was made; but it
was dismal failure. The President fore
saw the storm of outraged American senti-
ment approaching, and made precipitate
haste to avoid it by dispatching warship
to Honolulu. The cuckoos were also mott
fed to stifie all debate upon the matter in
Congress, task which they performed
with a fair degree of success. The next
Congress- however, will not be as COM
plant, and it is quite possible that Hawaii
may come into the American Union, as
Texas did, by joint resolution of the
Senate and House.
One of the most important and valu-
able undertakings in the State is the
work of copying old plans Of Maine towns
and townships the originals of which are
in the archives of Massachusetts,. These