The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-17
was Harrison Privv to the Plot ?

Friends of the President intimated
to the newspaper correspondents at
Washington the other day that when the
whole story of the Hawaiian affair be-
came known there would be such a re-
vulsion of public sentimentin favor of the
stand taken by the administration that
opposition to that stand would be viz
tually wiped out. That whole story may
be given to the public shortly, when, it is
believed, one of the most shameful
schemes ever Matched and carried out by
foreign tilibusters against an Independent
government will be laid bare
The New York Evening Posts CORES
pondent at Washington has conclusive in
formation, he says, to the effect that the
whole plan of the overthrow of the gov
eminent of Hawaii was planned in the
city Of Washington last winter. and that
the cOnspirators approached members of
congress with the scheme long before it's
contamination was attempted. Mr..
Blount was chairman of the committee on
foreign affairs at the time, and in his Off
cial capacity learned something of what
was going on. With this knowledge of
the Matching of conspiracy against
Hawaii months ago, Mr.. Blount was en-
abled, when he went to Hawaii, to trace
the plot through all its tortuous ways and
lay the whole story before the President
The astounding part of the story. how
ever, is not that there was a conspiracy
against Hawaii involving congressman,
but that the then administration of the
United States was privy to the plot and
gave it approval. Whether this ap-
proval amounted to a positive expression,
or only such encouragement as comes
from tacit permission, is not definitely
known, but that the plot was understood
at the white house to be under way. and
that no word or sign of dissent was given,
can be stated without fear of successful
contradiction" The Baltimore Suns
correspondent goes further than this,
and says; 1T is known here
that several months before certain men
who afterward took part in the revolu-
tion and held places under the provis-
ional government visited Washington and
talked with President Harrison. Secre-
tary Blaine and members of the commit
tees on foreign affairs in both houses of
congress as to what would be the course
of the United States in the event of a
successful. revolution taking place and
the islands being offered TO the United
States,"
So obvious was the favora BILE sentiment
| of the Harrison administration towards
the plot that, according to the Post. 1.-THE
local agents Of the conspiracy went to
work at congress without waiting for the
| news of the revolution to reach this
country. They realized that they must
make haste, or new administration,
which had not been fixed would be in
stalled before the preparations were fully
ripe"
And this is the kind of American
policy that the lingo papers and alleged
statesmen wish to have upheld,
Ex-Lieut. Stayton, of the navy. who is
spoken Of in the republican newspapers
as one of the best admiralty lawyers in
the country, has devised plan whereby
he thinks the Hawaiian provisional gov
eminent could prevent Minister Willis
from carrying out the instructions of
this government. All President Dole
would have to do, according to the ex-
lieutenant, would be to hand Minister
Willis his passport and refuse to have any
dealings with him, when he would become
private citizen. 1t takes two govern
ments TO make minister, truly, and one