New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-29
ANXIETY IN HAWAII.
EAGERLY AWAITING NEWS FROM WASH
INGTON
ROYAIIsTs ELATED BY An ALLEGED LETTER
FROM GENERAL sCHOFIELD - LILIUOkA'
LANIs HOPES FOR RESTOEATION-TIE
EX-QUEEN'S HATRED FOR TIE
YOUNG PEINCESs-FORMATI0N
OF 4 PATRIOTIC LEAGUE.
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| YOUNG PEINCESs-FORMATI0N :
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! Honolulu, via San Francisco, March l6. Hawaii
awaits the next budget Of news from Washington
with much anxiety. The last steamer from the
Coast brought a report that President Cleveland
would make a stand in his inaugural address
against immediate annexation. Since then the
general public has heard nothing, but has
imagined much Obviously the situation is
pleasing 10 the anti-Amercan party, which has
grown active Of late. and which is doing its work
/. through John Cummins's Royalist League,
branches of which are being organized
In all the islands Of the Hawaiian
group. The Executive Council Of the
League meets two or three times week in
| Honolulu TO discuss politics and receive reports
from the outlying districts. On Friday evening
its president recitcd what were alleged to be
| the contents of a letter which had come TO
hand lin the last mail from friends Of General
Schoield According TO Cummins's story. for he
did not produce the letter itself, th" General
had assured him that 80 great an Outrage as
the lorcibc seizure of these ISLANDS
would not he approved by the United
States Government when rhe latter shohld
10 know all the facts pertaining
10 it. The Royalists received this assurance with
enthusiasm. Few Americans here believe that
General Scholcd assuming that he wrote any
letter at all. was correctly quoted, but the -entl-
mcnts credited to him being used all over
| the cXkngdom 10 fire the kanaka heart AMI TO
discouraged natives who are well disposed toward
annexation. To the simple Hawaiian mind an
expression like this from the commander of the
American Army seems to have political weight
and authority scarcely inferior to that of Pr"si-
Dental uttcrance
During the las. week the rcticence which the
cx-Quccn had maintained since the revolution
has bcen broken. On Saturday she sent for her
friend Francis Gay, the Maine shccp-rancher, and
astonishci him with the statement that she cN-
pccted before the end OF the month 10 be restored
/ TO the throne She ntimatcd that assurances OF
that sort had come from President Cleveland
through Panl Neumann. The United States Will
abandon the Provisional Government said shc.
" and scnd Minister here who will be instructed
10 permit the Monarchy TO Resume ito functions.
President Cleveland is not for annexation, ana
public sentiment in the United States il turning
aganst a proposal 10 annex an unwilling Nation.
which could only be a source Of expense and lrri-
tation 70 the American people
IN further conversation. the cN-Queen assured
GAY that she did not expect trouble IN oustIng
! the Provisional Government which, when deprived
Of its American prop, would fall OF IFS own
weakness" IAliuokaani disclaims any purpose
10 use force or TO ncite her adherents to blood
shed. but felt that the American authorities, hav
ing determined TO repair the injustice done to
her. would SEQ that her return to the throne
should be unobstructed.
The confidence expressed by the ex-t2ueen seems
10 b~ shared by her political hangers-on. Sam
Parker is full of Delphic oraccs. the burden Of
which is that the revolution>ts will quickly come
I 70 grief Ey-Niarshal Wilson, who divided with
Parker the favor Of the Queen, says that the
Monarchy is certain to he restored
within thirty days. George Macfarlan",
cx Chamberlain TO Kalakaua, Is not to bc
classcd with the Queens uslmhrIF. but
he is also impressed with the idea th,' she
will BE- restored. Il think this period will go
| into history as n mere intcrrcgnum." he said.
II was the Queens purpose to appeal to Great
Britain through personal letter to Queen
Victoria. but the news she gets from Washington
is Of n sort 10 make move like that unnecessary
She now has full confidence that the American
Government will do her Justice
In spite Of all this, IL is true that sevrn-eighhS
OF the Royalists In Hawaii are opposed to Li'iuo-
kaloni. and want the young Princess to succeed
her Perhaps 20 a recognition OF that fact by the
OK Queen the public owes this unexpected hnrrah
further lusc of power. 1t is easy to see that II
tho poiticans who are intriguing for kainlanl
| can no made 70 believe that she has no chance,
and that the old Queen is certain TO b" restored,
tho Princess will soon be left without n party.
MANY pcoplc think nothing more than political
strategy of this sort underlics the expressions of
RoyaIist confidence, while Others imagine that
porI Ncumann is raising false hopes in the mind
of his employer.
Spcaking of the young Princess it is an open
sccret here that Liliuokalani has always regarded
her with bitter hatred. While II is true that the
Ouccn recognized and proclaimed kainlan IA the
hcir.apparent, II is asserted on the authority ot
an ex-PrIvy Councillor that she made strong
fight in behalf Of her own offspring, whose re-
lationsbip she had always seen fit TO deny during
the lifetime OF her husband, the late Governor
DominIs. This child, Abcy, is now ten years
old. and is maintained by Liliuokalani at the
home II AN intimate friend. Three OF four times
:, week the cx-Quccn visits the lad. and carcsses
him as only mother would Be
tween them there is marked physical
resemblance As the native Hawaiian
standard Of legitimacy takes cOg"zance OF the
mother only, leaving the identity of the father
out OF the question, Liliuolaani hnd no scruplcs
about putting the boy into the line of royal
succession. 1t was only when the Cabinet pro-
rested in 10 body, and pointed odt mat the mis-
sionary Legislature would not ratify such
choice that she gave way TO kal'llani. Though
Welding her desires to political dctation, Liliuo
kalani adhered to her sentiments and would
now prefer 10 have the monarchy expire rather
than see the Crown Princess win its capital prize
While sharing the current disbelief in the claim
NJ American favor which Liliuokalani sets up,
the Provisional authorities plainly do not like
the tenor of their last advicts from the United
States. The Cabinet has agreed that, if annc\n-
ton is refused or indefinitely set aside an appeal
10 Great Britain will he the next resort. The
President said to the writer yesterday, in an off,
hand way: If Uncle Sam won't have u.s.
shall try Johnny Bull" That puts tn, Pro