Show PARAMOUNT ex minister stevens nails him to tho the cross 9 BLOUNTS METHODS EXPOSED stevens 1 flatly donio denies every charge made ainest film and the truo true augusta me ile nov 29 ex edminister minister stevens answer lo 10 to commissioner commas idoner blount the deep sense of obligation to my c country and a minister ministers to defend an oil insult threatened against a struggling american colony planted as righteously and firmly on oil t the he north rth pa pacific cas ili ci bi pilgrim fathers established themselves aeson on plymouth idock demand that I 1 shall hall make answer to the astounding iniste misrepresentations rep and untruths of commissioner blounts report on Ilaw hawaiian alian affairs not wishing to be severe on tha in diplomacy with little knowledge of th the e worlds world s affairs outside ot of his ills own countr country Y vent on a very peculiar cerrat errand d amid currents cur renta and entirely unknown to him I 1 say he lie has been partly the victim of circumstances cum curn stances having been caught in the meshes anda and snares adroitly prepared for him im by the cunning advisors ad visors of the fallen Liliu okalani and arid by the shrewd sharp lone gnp experienced british diplomatic diploma to government ern ment whose alms and anti hopes blount has itis arved t so well end and without tile least suspicion that lie was aiding ultra british interests even more than he was help helping the Ila hawaiian wallan monarchists and arid the tile j just us ade dethronement thron ement of or the queen it Is clear enough from blounts BIo unta manner from the day of his big arrival at honolulu as well as by big letter to the department lofstate of state written shortly after that he designed at whatever cost to repudiate the views and action of the recently terminated administration and that in order to do to so must impugn the action of minister stevens arid the commander of the united stales states steamer boston A total str stranger nger it was impossible for mr blount to know how unfitting it was for him to take up his ills quarters where he fie was certain to be surrounded by bir royalists and where the tile supporters of the provisional government would be reluctant to go As asa a precautionary safeguard against 9 shutting lifting out americans from ready access t to commissioner blount a wealthy and highly respectable widow lady of the anier american T can colony was ready to grant the use of her house to mr and mrs blount tho the commissioner pr to pay the same sanie amount that it would cost him to live at the royalists hotel this polite offer of an american le a n reAde resident tit to an all american commissioner commisa did not originate with the provisional government nor did the provisional have anything whatever to do with the proposed arrangement A committee of three american citizens born and arid educated educate din in the united states men who had taken part in lit the revolutionary proceedings ofal of the le previous I 1 ong weeks went on oil board the tile hush w when prey I 1 jen that tha i vessel came harboe s quest tie bof of the three gentlemen I 1 introduced them to mr blount his ills manner mariner of recel receiving vily their visit repelled them and they asked aske me tile to state the reasons would not be pleasant to him ilia and better bet ter for all concerned not to go to the royalist hotel but take his residence on neutral ground where he fie would be master of his tits own surroundings As delicately as I 1 could I 1 stated the offer of the committee of hie his countrymen po pointing out to him that by accepting their he ir proposal he lie iv would 0 uld be near the arch archives ives of th the e legation which he would conveniently use and which I 1 would be pleased at one 0 to place at his 1113 disposal brusquely ho lie refused the courte courteous 0 a s a and nd honestly intended offer of his tits countrymen and at once placed himself among the royalists royal lets and ultra british surroundings the tile insinuations and implications in n blounts report that I 1 was averse to his access to the legation records is a shameless perversion of facts I 1 took to him the printed dispatches of Minister Merrill to secretary bayard bay ard the printed records of the recently adjourned lef legislature con the recorded rd votes lor c or and against the lottery gang the recorded votes as to the recent changes in ili the n ministers Int the otil cial copy of the lottery charter evidence of a decisive value it bedad he had really come to honolulu for any other purpose than to colly convict iet administration and the tile senate foreign afT affairs airs committee of hasty and ill advised action in january and arid february last his manner while allowing me roe to leave these important documents in his room showed ho he cared not to receive them and the general drift of his reply indicates he did not riot even read them underdale under date af f april 21 he says he disapproved of the request of or the provisional government that hat the A american forces be lalow far lor drill drill I 1 here affirm the government never made such a reque re at the provisional government followed the exact course followed under the tile trion monarchy archy 11 ferring He Ite to blounts Blo uni assertion that he put tit an all end to hawaiian anxiety about japanese anese encroachments encroach ments stevens recites in detail numerous interviews with the japanese minister prior to blounts arrival a and arid sava rays Is pure assumption ip in blounte blounts report as given to theoress the press I 1 find rind the following the tile two leading members of the committees thurston end arid smith growing uneasy as to the lately safety of their persons went to minister ister r stevena to know if he would protect them in ili the event of their arrest by the authorities to which he lie gave his ills assent 1 it Is enough to say there is not a semblance ortruth of truth in this assertion of blount made by him without his ever having hinted ft it to me or having made any inquiry of me on the subject he lie t thus bus gives tho the signature of his endorsement to a charge I 1 never even heard of until I 1 found it in blounts BIo unta printed report he ile says the response to the call of the c committee of safety to land men from front the boston does not appear in tho the flies of thi legation the mean meaning irig of this insinuation is obvious it is enough to say there never was any such document I 1 received the invitation from the corn committee C of fea safety fety for what it was worth as I 1 received 0 other information on oil the samo game subject I 1 should have requested capt ailtee to have landed his ills force even had not the tile committee requested it blount squarely asserts that aliat liat I 1 promised to 0 aid the committee of gaiety safety by force till this is emphatically and categorically un n true in reply to the rival parties at different times whether tho the representatives of the queen u e en or her opponents my answer waa was always ways the same til that at a force should not land until unfit danger dringer should bo be plainly imminent and then only to protect american life tire and property perty and to no one did I 1 ever hint that tha elo I 1 could or would recognize any but the defalto government overn ment whether monarchic or f Ke te publican As I 1 said in my letter to secretary gresham I 1 here reaffirm that the royalists and their opponents had equal access to the legation and to its ofil cial bead head thebert Th ebest answer to the baseless charge that I 1 promised to use force against the tile queen is the tile order of captain to his ills officers and arid men mento to rerun remain passive and arid that no 0 o force v was ri used th though tho the queen through her ministers strongly r re queued I 1 it ho hours n re before the provisional government me was as organized sed by me aud arid other diplomatic lie representatives e presentac presen tat ives in honolulu slovene stevens slates states that he lie bad n no knowledg gf gr meeting tho ho committee of safety af at tn th on janu ary and big first irs t information as to the persons at that meeting was obtained from lH I 1 reports I 1 Ke eg garding arding the expectations and hopes of the queen aad and her representatives on the exciting d days tys of ol january and and the tile views a and d hopes of lier her opponent sop stevens quotes tile queens letter to him the report of captain wiltse to the navy tie department artmont art ment and ad the order of captain muse wiltse to commander to sho show w that the landing of the troops was wag to protect the legation and tho tile it lives es and property of american citizens and arid to preserve order the copy odthe of the call of ahe committee of safety which blount insinuate insinuates I 1 wi wished led to conceal from him had been promptly promptly forwarded to washington in january andary and was in a printed pamphlet emong state department documents ordered 0 by the tire senate senat a copy of which 1 I 1 suppose mount must have brought with him when he came to the islands As soon as this astute commissioner ascertained neumann was in fall fait accord with spreckels and blount for Lili uoka lanis janis restoration to the throne at once blount immediately learned that neu luani iwasa aright down good fellow S bo much for the conclusive evidence that 0 spreckels Bp neumann and blount were then as now rowing in the tile same boat ind arid closely linked in a conspiracy racy to damage the action of administration a n d t I 1 ie senate committee oil foreign affairs on the question of annexation stevens devotes considerable spacer space to showing the disreputable character of the persons furnishing affidavits to mount blount he being I 1 ng es especially elal severe e on oil john V f colebourne I 1 0 uri e P peterson ete seger 0 1 C charles harles L hop klas a and n d dr brosseau Fros seau 11 II lie 0 says the tile testimony of hundreds of such would not riot counterbalance the words of minister thurston president dole and henry waterhouse among the honest tire men n who know the respective parties As to wilson the queens favorite favori tp for many years whom blount attempts to whitewash I 1 I 1 will not soil these pages by riving giving even the notorious facts in ills its record As to my ruy recognition of the provisional government ern ment I 1 reaffirm what I 1 said sald in my recent letter to secretary gresham Ores liam queen inaugurated a revolution 01 ution attempting to destroy the constitution by revolutionary means from saturday afternoon jan jail 11 14 to jan 1 ac there was no government in Ilono honolulu lulu except in lit the united and self possessed attitude of the citizens who assembled in the great mass meeting of ja january bolh and consummated efforts ro for r balry law aw and order by the of the provisional I 1 nat government on the w which goi tell was nas promptly acknowledged by all the foreign representatives abo were familiar with the circumstances of its creation it was nearly fifty hours after liliuo dalania and her favorite had destroyed her throne by a revolutionary outbreak when the men of the boston were landed jons JOHN L ys ng augusta sie me nov |