The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1895-10-18
The Cuban Revolution Will Help
Hawaii Toward Annexation.
sEc,Y. olNEY's COURSE WATCHED.
Plenty Of Capital in America Waiting
for Inyestment-Hawaii All Right
When Affairs are settled-cuba to
be Recognized January l, 1895.

CHICAGO, Sept. 2s.-Hawaii wants
to come in also. The little Pacific
Ocean Republic is keeping its eyes on
the policy of the United States as re-
lated to the Cuban struggle for liber-
ty. In the event that the government
at Washington recognizes tie belig-
erency of Cuba, Hawaii will make a
direct demand on the United States to
be annexed.
The Dole Administration, which
has all along been in favor of annexa-
ton, will make the demand. Advices
to this effect were received in Chicago
today from Washington. Although
Fred w. Job, representing the Hawai-
ian Republic here, claimed he had
not received it as official information,
he admitted it was among the strong
probabilities.
There are commercial interests in
Chicago representing several million
dollars of capital which have for six
menths past been considering perma-
nent investments in the Hawaiian
Islands. These investments would
have been made last summer if the
permanency of the Dole Government
could have been assured. This assur-
ance could not be given, owing to the
fact announced by President Dole and
his friends that, although their re-
quest for annexation had once been
refused by the United States, they in
tended to renew it as soon as a new
administration came into power.
The Dole faction gave it out clearly
until within the last month that it
would not again demand of President
Cleveland that he should take Hawaii
under the wings of the eagle. But
the recent agitation of the Cuban
question, the quasi official statement
OF Secretary Olney that he intended
to recognize Cuba not later than jan
uary 1st, and the radical position TAX
en- by the government toward Eng
land in regard to the Venezuela
boundary dispute, have filled the
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Chicago and the Government of Ho-
nolulu as well, with hope.
They have watched every diplo-
matte move between Spain and the
United States, and their counsellors
in Washington today were SO conf
dent that Cuba would be recognized
that they made the statement that if
the United States could afford to sep
arate Cuba from Spain forever, then
the Hawaiian Provisional Govern
ment had a new basis for demanding
From semi-official sources it was
learned that the cours of Secretary o.
ney in regard to Cuba has been closely
watched by Hawaiian commercial
agents in Chicago, Washington and
New York, and that regular reports
have been forwarded to Honolulu.
That which Secretary Olney in
tends to say to the Spanish Min
lister, as it appeared in the press dis
patches to the Chronicle yesterday,
was known to these Hawaiian repre-
sentatives on Monday. They for
warded their information to Chicago
and sent long mail dispatches to Hon
olulu.
They also gave out the Information
that the instant Cuba was recognized,
an Observation-Disclosures party would
spring up in this country which
would make it impossible for the Ad-
to ignore further the
claims of the distant islands.