San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-09
THURsToN RECALLED.
His Mortal Sin Was Befriending
Reporters and Exposing Gresh-
am and Grover.

Reporters and Exposing Gresh-
am and Grover.
SAN Francisco, May 9.-Ha-
waiian advices received today from
Honolulu, dated May 2, per steamer
MariCopa, are as follows:
The letter demanding the recall
Of Minister Thurston is here and
was read to an executive session OF
the councils yesterday afternoon.
This letter has been to Hong Kong.
1t went past Honolulu in a bag
with a couple hundred OF others.
The fault lies with the postotfice at
San Francisco.
The ground of the objection
to Thurston is confined to
single transaction, the sole Of
Tense alleged being that Thurston
at the legation showed a reporter
private letters to himself from
Honolulu. A particular letter that
gave such offense to the secretary
OF state, intimated in strong terms
that Cleveland and Gresham were
largely responsible for the January
uprising here.
Gresham spoke to the Hawaiian
minister about the matter. Thurs
ton said he regretted it very much;
that in the hurry Of handling big
mail he had shown this letter,
with others, without any special
intent. In short he apologized.
Secretary Gresham thereupon ask
ed that the apology be submitted
in writing. ThurstOn declined to
do this.
Gresham's letter is dated Febru-
airy Dist last and in strong lam
guage stated that Thurston was no
longer personally acceptable to the
administration at Washington as
Hawaiian minister.
1t is definitely settled that
Thurston will not return to Wash
ington. Heresigned his office, his
resignation to take effect when his
successor has been appointed.
Extremists here urge that he be
sent back at once in order to face
Gresham again. They regard his
/ ISlUI Ii as a DdCh w" lie
Conservative feeling is that
there should be no playing to the
galleries and the relations OF this
government to that at Washington
will be left to adjust themselves in
a natural way.
Frank Hastings, who is at pres
ent in charge Of the Hawaiian le-
CATION, will probably be promoted
| to the position OF minister. No re-
| taliatory measure will be taken
by the government, so cabinet Of
ffcers state, and Minister Willis
will remain in Hawaii, so far as
any official on this side may do or
say to him.
Cabinet officers state that
Gresham's letter may never be
published in full, for the reason
that it names certain charges
against Thurston, charges that
would have to be answered by the
Hawaiian minister. This govern
ment does not care to widen the
breach with the Cleveland admin
istration any more than it can be
helped and for that reason Thurs
ton will not have an opportunity
to defend himself.
Friends Of Thurston are indig-
nant because they say he has been
betrayed by an agent of the United
Press in Washington. He permit
ted that agent to read private cor
respondence from Honolulu for the
purpose OF making himself famil-
lar with the situation here, and in
structed him to publish nothing
which reflected on the government,
as it might reflect on his official
position.
Thurston's friends say the agent
Of the United Press did not publish
anything taken from the cores
pondence or the reflection on Cleve-
land, but he went directly to Gresh-
am and informed him he had read
at the Hawaiian legation letters
sent to Thurston and furnished
Gresham with the substance OF
them.
The proof Of this is Gresham's
statement to ThurstOn in his last
interview with him, that "you have
been betrayed by your newspaper
friends" and also the fact that
Gresham had the substance and in
some cases, copies Of the letters re-
fleeing on Cleveland"
Notables Unwell.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-Secretary
Gresham's improvement continues