Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-06

the measure upon which the prosperity
/ of all except small clique depends.
The financial hacker of the scheme is
said to be Claus Spreckcls and it's
| main feature is to be big mass meet
ing of natives here in September dur
| ing the visit of Senators Morgan and
| Quay 1t is proposed to assemble in
this city from the various islands from
| $1,000 to 10000 natives. and to have
| them publicly protest against the an
/ nexation of the islands to the United
| States, and to sign a monster petition
| to Congress.
| 1t is expected that Senators White
| and Thurston, leaders of the anti-an.
nexation party in Washington, will ar.
| rive on the same steamer with Sena-
| tors Morgan and Quay. to engineer the
! mass meeting scheme, although ii will
| be made to appear that the meeting
| comes from the local loyalist party
and that the assembling of the natives
at this time is spontaneous. 1t is also
in the plan to have the ex-Queen here
| The whole affair is to be as dramatic
| as possible with the idea of working
upon the feelings of Senators Morgan
| and Quay and send them back to
/
tves are still numerous on the islands
and feel that they have been oppressed
by d small number of whites who have
| secured power through treachery. The
| Hawaiian Star prints the story under
| the caption: "Spreckels' Last Throw"
| 1t says:
''Hawaiians from the island of Hawaii
| to the island of Kauai have been mott
fled to center in Honolulu about the
middle of September, when the Aus
tralia is due to arrive from San Fran
cisco carrying at least two distin-
guished United States senators. The
Hawaians are to be persuaded to
make a grand open meeting demon
stration against annexation. They are
to be paid to convince the senators that
they do not want the country absorbed
by the greater republic. The scheme is
the latest move of Claus Spreckeis.
who is a bitter opponent of the present
republic and is championing the oppo-
sition to annexation for spite.
THE details of the deep-laid plans of
the Sugar King arrived in private adj
vices to high government official
Spreckels has his agents in the islands,
whose chief duty will be to judicously
distribute money to the natives. There
VIII be no saving in funds, as it *
understood that it is Spreckes' last
and only fight in the hope of blocking
annexation. Spreckels' actions go to
prove the truth of the statement re-
Gently accredited to him. L don't mind
If l do spend million or two to defeat
annexation EX-Queen Liliuokalani
and her court, including Capt. julius
Palmer, will arrive in San Francisco
from Washington within a week or ten
days. She will confer with Spreckels
in regard to the scheme. The work Of
notifying Hawaiians has been going on
for the past three weeks. The islands
of Hawaii and Maui have already been
canvassed. Oahu, Kauai and smaller
islands will be worked Systematically
within the next few days
Senator Morgan of Alabama and
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania are the
gentlemen who will arrive on the Aus
tralia. Both are members of the For
eign Relations Committee. to whose
hands the annexation treaty is in
trusted. 1t is to influence the opinions
of these gentlemen that this scheme
has been started. Good as the scheme
is. the money portion of it will kill It
dead"
Senators Pettigrew of South Dakota,
Lee Mantle of Montana, and Frank c.
Cannon of Utah, who are now in Japan
studying the silver question, before
leaving the United States secured
berths for their return passage by the
Pacific Mail steamer, and it is under
stood they will arrive in this city some
time in November and remain here a
week or ten days. When they arrive
the Observation-Disclosures will play their
second card. Senator Pettigrew, it is
| understood, has declared himself an
unaterable opponent of annexation,
while Senators Mantle and Cannon
slightly favor passage of the treaty,
but are open to argument on the sub
ject Arriving here, as they will i'm
mediately after the mass meeting OF
natives and the departure of their
departure of their brother senator's it
is believed that Senator Pettigrew will
be able to convince his companions
| that annexation would be unjust and
| unfair to the natives. If Senators
| Mantle and Cannon could be brough:
to this view, and with Senator Petit
grew, return to Washington just after
the opening of the session of Congress
| they would represent q powerful fac
| ton in Congress, and might be able to
| do a great deal to defeat the annexa-
| ton treaty. = s4fs ~,
| Francis NJ. Hatch. Hawaiian minister
| at Washington, who has conducted the
| fight for annexation in Washington
| during the past year, arrived home on.l
| the last steamer on a three months 4
| vacation. He is very reticent in regarll
| to the plans of the anncXatiohists for1
| the future He merely expresses the.
| opinion that much work stiIl remains
| to be done upon the floor of Congress-
| in convincing senators by intelligence
| argument that the United States has
something to gain by the annexation
| of Hawaii.
| When Admiral Miller arrived a fort
| night ago to relieve Admiral Beardsee
| of his command of the Pacific squadron
| he seemed to be impressed with the
| idea that he had an enormous amount
of work to do here. He reflected public
| feeling in the East. The islands We're
| represented as being in a turmoil of
excitement, so that white men here,