Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 61, 29 November 1893 — Ex-Minister Stevens Tells More Lies. [ARTICLE]

Ex-Minister Stevens Tells More Lies.

We hardly consider it a clever idta for thd Advertiser to have published a series of lies whieh have appeared iu the Kennehee Jourual over the signature of | John L. Steveus, because it eanuot fail to further emphazise the corrnptness and maliciousness of i the man who caused the trouble ,in Hawaii nei. No fairminded mau who was in Houolulu at the time of the revolution eau endor.se Mr. Stevens’ stateraents. Even high nieiubers of tho Provisioual Governincnt like Damon and Soper have iu their affidavits to Minister Blount given the direct ; ]je to the preposterous assertions of Steveus. Mr. Damon stated to Blount that he called at the Station House and found it so well guarded and fortitied tlTat he considered it impossible to captnre it withoat the assistance of United States forces. The eniel disappointnient of the old ex-diplomat who finally bas been shelved has evidently deprived him of his memory. He says in regard to the occupation of the Arion Hall by Boston troops, that ‘ the Committeo of Puhlie Safety and the snpporters of the Provisional Government had no more responsibility than Secretarv Gresham hiraself.'’ The facts are that the Hall in question was obtained bv a raember of the Committee — Mr. McChesney: that au attempt was made to get the Opera House, situated next to the Arion Hall, from M>. W. M. Gifiard who refused; that the lessee of the Aiion Hall Mr. Jos. M. Poepoe called on Minister Stevens and protested against the troops occupying the Hall and was answered “m\ good man we are there now aud we are going to stay there.” These faets have slipped the vicious mind of the , d)plomatic fuilure and he farther j more by his ne\t statemeuts eonfirras the accusations aguinst him that lie was a eo conspirator of the revolutionists by stating tbat “from Saturday afternoon Januarv 14, to January lfi there was uo government in Honolulu exeept in the united and se 1 f-p ossessed attitude of citizens.” And yet he communicated officially with Her Majesty s government and received the ministers in their offic : al capacitv up till Januan the 17th at about 5p. ra. Wbat infernal rot to say that there was no Governilient! He further on says, “that when he did recognize the provisionai government eveiy ihiug was in their possession and that tho Station House was surrendered, and at the mercy of the Provisional Governraent.” And yet Mr. Blount has the affidavits of Minister Damon, of Colonel Soper, of Dole. of officers of the < Boston that the Provisional Gov- i ernment s forces never went < near the Station House or tbe

I bamcks —strouglv fortifi. d —or the Palaee. the seat of the governmeut.bef re Minister Stevens had recognized the provisionai government and i it hi* mor>v' arui aid of whieh fact he informed the Qaeen’s cabinet at about 5 o’eloek p. m. and even then the forces of the Qneen did not surrender before 7 o’eloek P. M. —and only under false pre-tens-es and promises never to l>e kej>t. Mr. Stevens ?>tates that 1 whoever denies his lying assertions 1 has no other basis for hīs denials than perjured affidavits. hundreds of whieh are obtainable in the slums of Honoluln at $*2.00 eaeh. GreatScotf so all the affid<ivits in the hands of Mr. Blonnt are obtaiued for ?2 i eaeh. We congratulate Messrs. Waterhouse, Soper, Damon, M uudenberg. Swinburne. Smith. Carter, Macfarlane, and innumer able others for having made sucli a handsome ineomo by coutradicting the ass©rtions of John L. Stevens. How about the lettera and documcnts belonging to the Legation whieh Mr. Blount had to force out of the old sconndrel ; Were they also bought? They form a verv important and very prominent part of the reportofMr. Blount. Mr. Stevens has through his article in the Kennehee Jourual stamped himself as uuworthy of all credence and perfectly deplete of all decenev, honestv and moralitv.