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Show AII'IIUMI.MI lilt: l'HIMIII.M-. These parera which attribute lo President Cleveland a illepotitlon to steal hit predncettor's "thunder" by changing the wording ol the latter' Hawaiian treaty In places and attach-Ing attach-Ing liltnwiitlcnaturoln pltco of ilt. Harrison's, oiler an unprovokoj Intuit to thu head of tht nation. This kind of thing hat rtctlved the sanction of custom fur acme tlruo,but It It none the lets objectionable on that account, and Intholustaric named It amounts to a display of either rank loorlshnest or blind prejudice, perhspt both. Huppotlng the l'rctl Jent had the disposition dis-position to stoop so low as turgeitol, which n do not fur a moment believe, he still hat good tense and no little Judgmuut; bo can reason from cause to fllect an i Is not going lo do an act that would asurelly place him In a most uucnvlshlo light before the peoplu not only of thlt nation but of nil nations. It may be received with reasonable assursnoe thst thu I'roitdent It going lu taltu no hsily steps regarding annexation or any. thing vli; that hn It going to see his way char before making a forward tuoTetiu.nl, ami was thus unwilling for thu Urnntu lo conclude n treaty for thu execution of which hu would be re-sioiislble, re-sioiislble, until ho had hnd time to give It thoiough conilderatlon. t Mr, we tako It, was wlss aud proper, an I lu It will be found, nethlnk, the President's Presi-dent's chief If not his only motive lu withdrawing the treaty. It Is worthy of nolu In this conmctloii that wheie-as wheie-as tit ally every inllueullsl paerlu the country was lu favor ol Immediate annexation n month or six weeks ago, almost all nf them now are In lavor of making hai t slowly. |