The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-11-27
Anti-AmeriCan Meeting
Leading Annezationists Denounce
the United States Government.
Chief Justice Judd Throws Away His
Mask and Comes Out as Q
Rabld Partisan.

ing rainy afternoon for the meet
ing OF "citizens favorable to annexa-
ton" called for Saturday evening.
Although not at all "immense" the
number that turned out was respect
able. An estimate made by count
Of outer rows both ways would make
it appear that over 1000 were in the
drill shed, but deduction made for
the space occupied by the platform
would reduce the number several
hundreds. This is proved to be the
case by an actual count of heads,
which made the actual attendance
7S5. Of private citizens there were
comparatively few there One could
poke Government servant or
. ? 6. military man with an umbrella
from any standing point. Officers
and men from the naval ships ma
terially helped out the mass, and
boys we're in it in profusion. Port
uguese who didn't always know when
to applaud would have made big
holes in the crowd by staying away.
There were certainly not two hun
dred voters under the Noble fran
chise present.
Ordinarily, it would have been a
big meeting for Honolulu. Regard
ed in the light of the Boosting of
annexationist strength, of which
there has been so much here and
abroad the past ten months, it was
a signal failure. Still, it was an
orderly meeting and the hotheads,
whether out of glum feeling or by
coaching. did not make themselves
conspicuous, except some of those
who occupied the rostrum. There
was just one colored gentleman who
did all the shouting Of DO or diew
whenever the audience applauded.
There was one great element of hui
NOR in the proceedings, which made
them fit rival of the minstrel show
Of that evening. This element con-
sisted in the .denunciation of some
Of the first lawyers of the United
States by members of the Honolulu
bench and bar.
F. M. Hatch, vice. president of the
P. G.. and president of the Annexa-
ton Club, presided and made the
opening speech. His delivery was
excellent, discounting his best for
ensic efforts. As to the matter he
appealed to Congress against the
Executive, and rendered judicial
opinion which made out that Secre-
tary Gresham, lately of the United
\ States Supreme Court bench, does
not know international law. He
claimed that the Provisional Gov
eminent had never submitted its
right to exist to the United States
and was therefore not bound by the
policy of President Cleveland
w. r. Castle, one of the annexa.
ton commissioners to Washington
made an argument to prove the
=. authority: of mass meetings He
J quoted recent American opinion
that the revolution of l776 was the
work of minority, which if correc
is rather hard on the veracity of tn,
Declaration of Independence. Ha
waii, he said, was surely trendins
toward the goal of union with it
mother country across the water
'Can Secretary Gresham stop tn
onward progress of Hawaii" h
shouted Mr.. Castle graciously ad
mitted that President Cleveland ant
Mr.. Gresham we're trying to execut
justice and to do what is right. Blu
he said the enemies of annexation
had stuffed their ears with lies. H
could not have read the Secretary
letter to the President-which b
the way the annexation organs hav
not dared to publish in full-where
in the Secretary quotes not the ev
dence of enemies but official docl
ments and admissions from the p c
and its supporters in support of hi
recommendations. The speake
claimed that the people of the Unite
- States were against the President
Hawaiian policy-an assertion ths
can be readily disproved by stron
expressions of American public opil
ion to the contrary already to ham
He claimed that the President I.
the United States is nowhere autho
lied to begin war, but unfortunate
ly the law of the United States
against him there, as will be show
in due time. Mr.. Castle attacke
Commissioner and Minister Bloul
in a sneering way, charging him wit
twice inviting the supporters of I'll
Queen to revolt against the p.
After making the stale assertion th
the "people" of this country esta
lishedthe P. g., Mr.. Castle conclude
by moving the following resolutio
which OF course passed without di
sent, nobody but friends of ii
"cause" having any voice in Il
meeting according to the terms
the call:
Resolved, that we have read Wi
surprise and regret the recommen
alton of the Secretary of State
the United States to the Presider
TO restore the monarchy lately e
listing in Hawaii;
Resolved, that we condemn t
assumption Of the Secretary that t
right of the Provisional Governme
TO exist was terminated by his
fusal to resubmit to the Senate /
treaty of union pending between t
two countries; and also his assum
ton that the Provisional Cover
ment had at that very time subm
ted the question OF its continu
existence to the arbtrament OF I
prasiIant or M INV al har nnunr,