t home and
abroad.

Americanism everywhere.

The flag never lowered or dishonored.

No surrender in Samoa.

No barbarous Queen beheading men in Hawaii.

No lynching.

No punishment without trial.

Faith kept with the pensioner.

No deserving old soldier in the poorhouse.

The suppression of dram drinking and dram selling.

A school at the public charge open to all the children, and
free from partisan or sectarian control.

No distinction of birth or religious creed in the rights of
American citizenship.

Devotion paramount and supreme to the country and to the flag.

Clean politics.

Pure administration.

No lobby.

Reform of old abuses.

Leadership along loftier paths.

Minds ever open to the sunlight and the morning, ever open
to new truth and new duty as the new years bring their lessons."

I ought to explain one phrase in this platform, which I have
since much regretted. That is the phrase, "No barbarous Queen
beheading men in Hawaii." It was currently reported in the
press that the Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani, was a semi-
barbarous person, and that when Mr. Blount, Mr. Cleveland's
Commissioner, proposed to restore her government and said
that amnesty should be extended to all persons who had taken
part in the revolution, she had said with great indignation,
"What, is no one to be beheaded?" and that upon that answer
Mr. Blount and Mr. Cleveland had abandoned any further purpose
of using the power of the United States to bring the monarchy
back again. That, so far as I knew, had never been contradicted
and had obtained general belief.

I ought not to have accepted the story without investigation.
I learned afterward, from undoubted authority, that the Queen
is an excellent Christian woman; that she has done her best
to reconcile her subjects of her own race to the new order
of things; that she thinks it is better for them to be under
the power of the United States than under that of any other
country, and that they could not have escaped being subjected
to some other country if we had not taken them; and that she
expended her scanty income in educating and caring for the
children of the persons who were about her court who had lost
their own resources by the revolution. I have taken occasion,
more than once, to express, in the Senate, my respect for
her, and my regret for this mistake.

CHAPTER XXV
OFFICIAL SALARIES

When I was in the House the salaries of the Judges of th