Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 2, 3 January 1894 — L. A. THURSTON. [ARTICLE]

L. A. THURSTON.

The P. G. Ageat will leare for his post in Washington and his Show in San Francisco. Mr. L. A. Thurstou will leave ' our shores aud iiepart henee on i the City of Pekiug. ' It is understood that he has devoted his liiiie in Honolulu to obtain Htateineuts aud aftidavits to be used iu M ashiugton —that is wh«u he w«sn't engage<l catehiug sharks and making other arraugeiuents for his exhibition at the Midwiuter Fair. Mr. Thurston is of course weleome to paek one or twelve trunks with stateiuents or nianufactured history. aml he is at liberty to unload them all before the eommittees of foreign reIation.s iu Cougress if those bodies wouUl cire to look at the rubbish. Mr. 8teveus has alated iu one of his latest denunciations of Mr. Blount and Mi. Cleveland, that «ffidavits ean easily be procured in Honolulu for $2.00 a pieee, and as Mr. Thurstou. thauks to the kindness of the P. G. has got his travels between Washington, Chicago, San Fraucisco, Honolulu and back agaiu paid out of the publie funds. we have no doubt that he ean aftbnd to buy a goodly lot. However the next questiou will be how mueh credeuce will be giveu to Thurstou when he appears against Mr. Blount. The iatter eaiue to Hawaii as au impartial man. He listened patieutly to everyboiiy who had anvthiug to tell him and whouever he found anvthiug whieh could be held good as evidence before any body of iutelligent nien be reduced it to «riting. Mr. Thurston on the eontrary is the most iuterestod person in the whole Hawaiian uftair. He is like au attoruey who has taken a «ase on a eontingeucy fee. If Mr. Thurstou ean carry his point and win the case of the P. G., he will be on top, if he ou the other hand gets defoated. he will be somewbat in the satue position as tho lamcuted McOiuty. He has already appearod iu priut iu the United 8tates and ferociously denounced Mr. Blount. but uufortunateIy for his case, he is contradictiug J. L. Steveus as mueh as he is J. H. Blouut. Mr. Thurston has stated that the revolutiou was virtually an n«*coiuplished fact before the marines were laude<l aiul th«t the Queen was ready to surreuder at the fti«t sign of Molenee. Aud yet in spite of his allege<l arm<xl support<-rs and of ihe 3000 euthusiastic foreigu ers at his back Mr. Thurston aud hU eolleagues on the Committee of 8afety did not storm the paiaee or do auything e\cept couferring with 8tevens aud erou asking him for turther tnne as they were uot qoite ready to go on with the revolntion — whieh nevortheless wasau «ocomp)islied fact Mr. 8teveus gol impatieut and as he w«s safer tbau his co con«pirators, he iold them to go «head ami he lauded. A poiui «orthy of uuiiee Is that OapUin Willee reeeived his orders to land on Mouday morning sereral bours

before the 3000 (!) enthoaiastic i foreignere raet at tfae armory. j 1 Accordtog to Thureton his 1 1 revolntiou wonld have been l accompll>hed without anv support i of (hfe Amenean troops because it I was headed 1A the ahUM meu in ] Hawaii (he is mtxlest if nothing i 1 el*e) while tbe negrve* on i tbe other side were lead by men i in a state of |>«nic. ln fact the j whole thiug was a walk-over, if 1 we ean be!ieve Thnreton —who 1 bv tbe way was prevented by 1 illness to l>e arouud among tbe i “ablest ’ rnen when the hoar ( eame. But Mr. Damon wheae ] repntation for veracitv aud pnneiple far surpasses that of Thnretou said to Blonnt: i ‘ \NTiile we we"re in the government building and dnring tbe . reading of the proclamation and while we were all j extremelv uervous as to onr personal safety, I asked one of the men with me there. WiU not the Amenean troops snpport us' From that it seems evideut that the revolution iu the mind of Mr. Damon was not qnite a walk-over as Mr. Thurston wants the L nited States to believe. ( But statements of that uature eau onlv beuefit our cause and injuro the P. G. and Mr. Thurston, and we therefore hope that he will furnish any amount of statemeuts and affidavits and iu that way open the eyes of the Ameriean people to his untrustworthi- j ness and the unscrupulous manner iu whieh he condncts his case. The gall exhibited by Thurston i in presentiug his manufactured and unsubstantiated assertions against tbe well proveu eouelusions of Bionut is verily stupeu- “ dous. Who is Mr. Thnrstou iu the United States? Who knows? Who is Mr. Blount? What iutelligent man does not know! Mr Blount was before the pnhlie in a most conspicuous capacity for a quarter of a centurv. In tbat time not one | spot w:is ever found ou his record. Wheu he vo!untarily gave up his high positiou and retired from Congress, the raembers of the foreigu relations committee, ou ! u hieh he had so long served, without regard to party, gave him a partiug ovation such as no mau in Cougress ever before or ever siuce received. Is he unworthy of credence? Theu who is worthy? Let Mr. Thurston theu depart from hore and let us hope for the sako of tbe name he owns wkioh I ouee was honored among Hawaiians that if ever he returns here it will be as a wiser, a better ami : a truer mau. ■ ■ ■■■ ■ ■■ —