The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-02-04
MIR. THURST0N'S SIDE.
THE EN-MINISTFR TELLS or DEAF.
ING wITu MIR. GRESHAM
Circumstances which Led IN TO the RE-
call-A Hostile Disposition
Was shown.

: HeF"ld prints statement from
A. Thurston, Minister of tn
Hawaiian Republic at Washing
ton. The matter comes from Kat
Field, the special correspondent @
the IImeS-HerdM at Honolulu.
Mr.. Thurston says i'll part
After Commissioner Blounts re
turn from Honolulu, some month.
later, | vainly inquired of Mr.
Gresham what the result was. II,
would not even admit that any
report had been made, stating tina
such a report, il made, was a con
fidential one, and that it was
unfair for me to ask any ques
tons concerning it. | verbally re
iterated to him that, owing to the
long delay and uncertainty, affairs
were unsettled and in a critical
condition at the islands, and il
would be i'll the interest of order
and peace to first communicate his
intentions, when decided upon, to
the Hawaiian Government before
making them public. This, he
said, would be done.
"On the evening of November 7,
1898, being temporarily in Chicago,
| saw i'll all evening paper a state
ment that Mr.. Gresham had recon-
mended to the President to restore
the Queen ard overthrow the Dole
Government. Immediately wired
to Mr.. Hastings, Hawaiian Charge
d'Aliaires, TO see Mr.. Gresham and
ask if it was true. Mr.. Hastings
did SO, and Mr.. Gresham said to
him: i assure you there is no foun-
dation for the statement. Do you
think | would take so important a
step without informing your
Mr.. Hastings telegraphed me
the substance Of the reply. That
same night, at about midnight, he
was informed by a newspaper man
that Mr.. Gresham's letter to the
President recommending restora-
ton had been given out to the
press associations, and was then
going over the wires. The letter
was dated October $, 1893, nearly a
month prior to Mr.. Gresham's as
surance that there was no such let.
ter.
mo copy was sent to the Ha-
waiian Legation, although | finally
succeeded i'll getting mutilated
copy, from which clippings had
been made, from a representative
of the Associated Press. i'm
mediately called OH Mr.. Gresham
and stated | had seen the letter and
asked if it was authentic. He re-
piled: 'Of course; you know it is
authentic. | reminded him of his
agreement to let me know the sub
stance of the Blount report before
it was published. He replied; I
did not think it necessary. | knew
you would see it in the papers,
81 then asked if it was the in
tention of the United States Gov
eminent to restore the Queen by
force. He replied, 4 decline to
answer that question.
'On January IS, 1894, ! made a
statement 10 Mr.. Gresham concern
ing the friction that existed in Ha-
vail by reason Of the continued
demand by Japan that the franchise
be granted to japanese. He said,
What do you mean by coming TO
me with complaints about Japan!
Do you expect us to protect you
from Japan | should think that
the last country in the world YOU
should go to for assistance would be
the United States. 1t is most ex-
traordinary that you should make
this statement to me. What do YOU
want me to do"
"He demanded what Dole meant
by sending an insulting reply to
Mr.. Willis, replying to Mr.. Willis
demand that the Queen be restor-
ed. | denied that the answer was
or was intended to be insulting.
Mr.. Gresham said: 4 say it was
insulting, and Mr.. Dole's object
was to say something sharp to the
American Minister when he had an
opportunity He continued to
talk in this strain until it became
manifest he was simply trying to
provoke quarrel, and / left the
ROOM"
Mr.. Thurston then gives the de-
tails of a conversation with Secre-
tary Gresham, in which the latter
accused Mr.. Hatch, the Hawaiian
Minister Of Foreign Affairs, of be-
ing "scarey fellow because he
said that arms for the royalists had
been sent from California. Mr..
Gresham declared the story to be
utterly untrue. This was the day
after the instruction had actu-
ally occurred in the Islands
and Charles Carter had been
killed. Mr.. .Thurston gives
i'll detail the manner in which he
was betrayed by representative o.
the United Press in relation to Ger,
tain letters read by Mr.. Thurstor
to the United Press correspondent
He closes as follows: I'm his lette,
requesting my recall, Mr.. Gresham
garbled and suppressed my expla
nation, stating only that | claimed
that the references in question were
news which had right to give
out.
81 had committed no breach o.
diplomatic etiquette, but rendered
an apology that the matter haC
come through the Legation, ever
inadvertently, and even though i
had not been published. Mt
Gresham Immediately requested al
apology i'll writing, stating as
reason that this was personal mat
ter between myself and the Presi
dent, and that he ought to know
exactly what | said"