| Show untruthful AND how stevens describes Clev elands message SOME OF THE falsehoods the ex defends himself from the tha shameful attack of the th president Freil dant he ha hid bad whatever to do with tho the overthrow ot of too the monarchy excessive use ta of the lh executive power against an american colony augusta Augus tsi me dm dee 20 ex minister stevens li Is out in reply to president Clev elands severn severe strictures upon him in the hawaiian message stevens says fays the presidents dents criticism la Is but IL atee fee ba bh repetition of grasham statement previously published president cleve lands grossly untrue and shamefully unjust allegations against myself and the naval commander rest entirely on the statements of four corrupt ministers 0 tha fallen queen of 0 wilson the queens favorite and other thoroughly discredited testimony 1 I repeat here what has been amply ve verified rifled again and again that neither by force or by threat of force or by any action ot of mine was tho the tall fall of 0 the monarchy precipitated for months prior to november 1802 1801 2 there had been a continual struggle between the legislature and tho the queen as ao to their respective spec tive Lve rights and only the remarkable self possession of 0 the respectable and responsible men of 0 the iho islands prevented an outbreak at an earlier day believing there was no prospect of 0 a difficulty stevens on january ath went on a trip to hilo returning january lith in company with captain wiltse and it found lite hie city in great excitement and the tide of revolution already burg ing stevens attempted to gain access to the queen and try by til fil endly advice vice to arrest the hie revolution but was too late to prevent tho the carrying out ot of tier her plan of overturning the tha cong constitution titu what took place on oil the afternoon of january ended coded the alie monarchy forever stevens quotes chief justice judd a cup of the monarchy in denouncing tho the falsity of the charge that the queen was driven front from tho the throne by american force or by threat of 0 force in ili any form or manner As to the landing of JS roston oston marines marinca stevens says bays he only did what At minister inister merrill did allinor tile lie order of cleveland and bayard augdol 1 that la ill he had landed in ail anticipation of turbulence on the shore and tor for the pie vallon of order ste alevena v ens characterizes na as absurd the fresl dents that the queen and wilson had ht at tile poll police tation a to sustain the manarchy monarchy chy theis novel never ekls was a more preposterous than ihan this desertion of 0 the president that the queen on january had ample force to sustain her and to cairy on oil the government this studiously maintained assumption of tile hie president Is aimed on the testimony ot of notoriously corrupt cal on the ring alnas s that surrounded the queen that the hawaiian Ila wallan monarchy was waa overturned by united states corves was and Is in put forth for or til tb sole purpose of bri bringier brliK nginr lir discie discredit dit upon the preceding fit at washington find and on the action mathe iC llo foreign Forel irn committee of the e united states senate in favor of it to be seen IT ir ill alie american Con contress aress and the american people will approve a a enns conspiracy piracy to make war on tho the fonal government at hawaii and unc the military forces of the untied united states or the diplomatic prep aure of the united states for n n iba I ba barbarous queen in wanton den ded anfe ane of the he best american opinions and of and by the elcee lve use of executive loewer an amort ran can colony wore more poAl tive and more in thlin that which bleh george georae III and hla his M aisters sought to impose on lite iho american in col co lonley that hat formed the Covelli government ment or nf th tb united states |
