The San Francisco call., 1898-01-25
Call Office Riggs House,

Call Off1ce RlggS House,
 Washington, Jan. 24.
 It grows more and more evident that President Mckinley regards President Dole as a trump card to be played for annexation AS indicated by The Call, the annexation game right now is for delay and nothing more will be done toward that end until a display of Dole is made Elaborate preparations have been made for his reception. All the troops in Washington have been ordered to meet him at the depot and escort him to the quarters provided for him at the expense of the Government. President Mckinley will exchange visits with him and will give an elab- crate dinner in his honor. Everything is to be done that will have a tendency to increase his importnce and open the way for him to make a good impres- sion upon the Senate.
 President Mckinley intends that nothing he can do to bring about a ratification of the treaty shall be left undone In this matter of the annexa- tion of Hawaii he has gone beyond his party. The national Republican plat form of 1896 favored "control' of Ha- waii by the United States, but made no mention of annexation The liar rison administration endeavored to bring about annexation, but the Re- publican party did not express its ap- proval of Harrisons Hawaiian policy. President Mckinley has adopted the Hawaiian policy of the Harrison ad- ministration, and is, therefore, the leading person in the matter of Ha- waiian annexation.
 rz1- TA.z1A 1 fn f1- huence the Senate to ratify the an- nexation treaty. With the Senators who oppose ratification he does not stand very well. They regard him as the chief figure in the conspiracy which overthrow the rightful Hawaiian Gov ernment and forcibly took the Ha- waiian Islands from the natives His influence as a lobbyist, therefore, is not likely to be great. Indeed, it is probable that he would have served those who are supporting the annexa- tion scheme much better if he had re- mained in Honolulu. It would have been more dignifed, certainly, for him to have done so. By visiting wash ington to lobby in behalf of annexa- ton. he gives color to the charges that he has been and still is only an agent in the hands of others to rob the Ha- waiians of their country and annex It to the United States. There may be some curiosity to see him, but there will be no disposition to honor him eX- cept by those whose purpose he serves.
 It leaks out, from talks of prominent friends of the treaty, that there is great disappointment in annexation circles over the turn affairs have taken in executive session. While they do not dare do anything to drive from them the support of the venerable Senator from Alabama who went out and saw the Hula-Hula girls last summer. it is a fact that they are saying in private many things against Senator Morgan and they are charging that the Sena- tors insiStence upon speaking for days at a time has hurt their cause. Sena- tor Frye voiced the general sentiment when he said before the debate began that if Morgan would speak for half an hour annexation would win, but if he persisted in speaking for several days his speech would be absolutely valueless. At times during his speech there were not five Senators listening to him. As one of those close to him put it: "I don't know what the old man means. I can understand how he IS willing to take up the time Of the Senate in open session when his re- marks get before the country through the Record and when, as he frankly states, he does not speak to the Sen ate, but to the country; but how he can spend day after day of executive session when nobody is listening and none of his speech can get before the