Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 9, 11 January 1894 — THAT DAMNABLE PLOT. H. A. JUEN VS. E. G. HITCHCOCK. [ARTICLE]

THAT DAMNABLE PLOT. H. A. JUEN VS. E. G. HITCHCOCK.

An Open Letter. - Mr E. G. Hitchcock; Since the pablication of my statement in whieh I diac!osed the schemes whieh resalted in the dvnamite episode on Miller Street, and in the threatening ! placard on the gate of Claus Sprectels’ residence, I have waited patiently to hear that you, the Marshal of the country, whom I publicly have accused of being aware of the plots referred to and of smothering the truth had eome forward and either denied the allegations made or otfered some explanation to the people of Hawaii who now is wonderiug what kind of a man and an official you are.

You bave seen fit to appear in print, and without specification | but on general principles called | me a liar and a man in whom you reposed no confidence. When yon speak about me in that manner, I consider it necessary to refresh your memory as your own veracity seems to be very mueh open to doubts. You deny that you ever otfered me the position of Deputy-Sherift of Mani. Did you not tell one of your prominent officers that you were going lo send me out of town? Did you not tell him the reasons wby y’ou intended to do so? Did you not tell me to prepare mvself to go to Maui at a certain time and at the same time told otbers behind my back that 1 was not goiug to get the job/ And did you not on the day r when my aflidavit was published in the Holomua send one of your promen to me and ask me to drop it? I am ready to substantiate what I am saying, Mr. Maiahal; ean you say the same? Yonr other romarks that you uever reposed coufidonce in me is equally surprising. When the expeditiou to Kalalau was being prepared, I was the first man who volunteered to go. Did you not in the presence of the Deputy-Attorney-General state that you desired me to reraain in town, heeauae you needed someone here that you could depend on? A remarkable way in whieh to show your want of confidence! W hen you promised me the Deputy Sherifl"s office on Maui, did you have no confidence iu me? A remarkable head of a department you most be Mr. Marshal! When you and W. O. Smith, even after my dismissal by you from the force, signed a commission for me as a member of the Citizen’s Guard 3 r ou seem at least to have had sufllcient confidence in me to allow me tohave foughtforyou, or you wonld bardly have furnished me with a commissiou, badge, arms and ammunition. Whatever you may think about mo the leaders of tbe Provisional *Government evidently had sufficient confidence in me when the governi ment was in its infancy and you were snugly lying back in Hilo waiting for dovelopments because you risked your piecious neek in Honolulu, because I was the man whom tbey trusted with ihe PoliA Guards on the first night of the revolation, but as I say that was before yon arrived on the scene and found that 1 was “nnworthy of confidence and a Iiar.” Ihave receive<lthefol!owing letter !rom yon and complied with your dcmand: Marshal's Office. Honolnln, Dec. 15th, 1893. H. A. Jaeu Esq. Sir: —You are hereby requested to at onee deliver to Mr. Geo. ► Green, the bcarer, the rifle an«3 1 40 rounds of ammunilīoe deliverr ed to you as one of ihe “citi*en’f * guard.” You are alao requested to hau«3 ‘ your Puliee Commission givei i you as roember of the cit»zei J guard to Mr. Green &s ihe eam< has been eaneelleU. |4r. Green is autboriaad to§ivi

yoa a receipt h*r tbe ride and ' ammunikiou. Yoars \ t E. G. Hitchcoctl Marskal. Haw. IaJ. I Yes, Sir, I complied witb your demand and I only desire to eall | your attention to the fact that the i i rifle whieh I returned to you was | ihe one with whieh 1 turned | out, the flrst man, on the 17th of Jannary 1-893, irhile you and | ynor diqne toere otU of s»; jht, [ and all to help you to climb into i a position higher than any of yon i . | heretofore have held in this | Icountry or ever will hold again. You say that 1 eame begging i for work of yon. I never begged i in my life Mr. Marshal, but 1 am not ashamed to work when j : work is obtainable and I believe that the men who took their | cbances in supporting those h’.gh j in authority now are entitled to ! some consideration. Yon evident- j ; ly think differently. Yon flnish vour slurs and insiunations 1 against me by the whoIK* j 1 i irrelevant statement that I 1 j abased my sick wife. That lie 1 simply the fruit of the bitter , ; i vindictiveness whieh yon feel 1 towards me, because I did not hesitate in telling the trnth and 1 j proving to the world, what kind 1 | of man it is that our immacalate i government clothes with high 1 authority. Yon know nothing of my dead wife or my relations to 1 her. but you do not hesitate in • 1 speaking from hearsay, and pub5 | lish for facts, anything that might 5 tell against me and soothe your 1 “Christian spirit.” > I shall not occupy more of the valuable space of the Holomua, j but only add a letter from the 1 American League of whieh I was one of • the organ- j 5 izers and of whieh I was an 3 officer, whieh may prove to the ‘ world that truth is not weleome 1 even among men who boast of 3 being free Americans. t Honolulu, Dec. 15,1893. ; H. A. Juen, 1 Sir:—I am authorized by the } Executive Committee to notify * you that your name has been ? dropped from the roll book of tbe t American League for conduct i unbecoming a member of tho League in publishing the statei meut thut yon did through tho 3 eolumna of a Royalist paper. 9 Respt. yoars, y W. D. Hamilton, i Secretary. i Whenever now, Mr. Marshal, - you shall fiud it convenient to a bring forward the proofs of the , accusations, you have seeu fit to e make against me you shall find k me ready to meet you on all and v every point. Until then I ean tx onlv brand your unsubstantiated r statements as malicious falseu hoods. k I am yours etc. t Henrt A. Juex. n Honolulu, Jan. 11, 1894. »r i I

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