Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 36, 12 Pepeluali 1894 Edition 02 — Dirty Senatorial Politics. [ARTICLE]

Dirty Senatorial Politics.

Iho partis.-iD attack of Eepnhliians in the Senate on the ; Ftsident for his stand in the Hawaiiau matter is so malicions, i aniist and nntrnthful that it has reo>iled with force against its ; aufcors, Senator Dolph receives a rchly deserved c«stigation at thehands of the Cbicago H erald , ! f.‘riiis venomoiis and grossly in snllng attack upon Mr. CIeve- , lanl, tbe candor of wbose posi- | iioi, say the Herald, and his madfest adbesion to strictly , ' cocnitctional principles in tbe < contntion sbonld have made it , imp*ssible. Mr. Dolph in effect chargestbe President with falsebood in tis message He assnmes , tbat Bloint's report was partisan and was neant to be so. wben Mr. Clevelaul affirms tbat Blonnt’s 1 instnxcti«) were to be impartial. | The recods will eonihm the mts

sage. Mr. P’ lph »s-an»es that_ in addition tc p«rtisan insrnction<* | ; Mr. Blount’s coarse at Honolula was sr.ch as to make hia findir.p e: parte. The report itself shows that the spec>al commissioner songht testiroony in the very beart of the conspirator» and that it is cbiefly on their testi- j mcny that he based his finding Mr. Dolph prefers, he says.! Sterens, Tbnrston and’the leaders f tl. < rrvolntion as witne*«-?s to Mr. B!ount. With ineii ’ieik’. dr l : he forgets. oi w L malioions perversity he ignores tbe fact that BIonnt en'ibled ( Stevens and the leaders o{ the conspiracy to state eaeh his own stoxy, and that eaeh is represented ( in the Blount report in his own wnv. If Mr Dolph will read the Blonnt report he cannot explain away the facts that Stevens and the leaders of the conspiracy present there. It is they who. bv official record and concurrent acknowledgeraent sbow that the revolution was accomplished by the aid of our naval forces. Mr. TLurstcn bas said all he wished to say on every occaslon, bnt he has not sncceeded in overturning any snbstantial element in Blonnt’s report. Mr. Dolph carried his rancor' farther. He insinnated that the President intended lo nse uneonstitutional methods to nndo the. work of Stevens. It is only a rabid partisan. insensible to the j ob!igations of patriotisra, that wonkl asperse the motives of a sworn official of the conntry without jot of evi<lence on whieh to rest his charge. Mr. Cleveland cannot iise the navy oranuy of tho United Statcs f'*r aggression withont consentof Congress, and he explicitly declared in his ' messnge that before tnking auy further step at Hawaii he woukl ' lav before Congress all information necessary to an understanding of tke status there. Tbe President eoukl say no more tban this. The Herald says: He (Senator DoIph) admitted before the clo.se of his unpatriotic speech the truth that cou.stitutes his animns. He wauts tlie leperous islands annexed. He wants a few more ofltces to fill with haek politiciaus. He de sires to add to the enorraons taxeg of the countrv for a tleet and an arroy to hokl tbe leperons istunds Khoukl we complete our un1awful intorference iu the goverument of that conntry. It is true t;..»t evoiy commercial advantage to be had by any nation at Hawaii we eujoy now wītb no respoasibility for its domestic politics,; whieh present the most eonipii ! cated pioblem that ean be eon-, ceivcd. Mr, Dolph cannot point •>ut t<» the intelligenee and right reason of the Anierican pe<.ple, auy further gain for ns at those islands. Yet for the s;»ke of a few rnore offices he would pat the, u:»tion to tbis tronble and expense. To promote this unworthy end he has attacked the President with a virulence discreditable to a Senator and with a recklessness inconsistent with respect for Ame.iican national honor.