The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-10-31
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their sympathies with the Provisional
Government, which, under the calm
guidance of Dole and Uncle Tom;
carefully refrained from any act of vio-
lence toward the queen OF her party.
Business remained practically sus.
pended.
The peculiar attitdue of the Ameri-
can minister kept us wondering
whether we would be blown out OF
existence by the warships in our har.
Dor or whether he would, after all his
bluff and bluster, finally leave us alone
TO work out our own salvation, which
would be an easy matter, once We
could rid ourselves of his menacinG
ront.
One day he would seem to be on
friendly terms with Dole's government
and Americans would take heart.
Then again would come a merace
that the queen would be restored by
force if necessary. Then our peopla
would look askance at the frownind
gun-boats under his command, ans
their fears would be redoub!ed.
The true condition of things seemed
to be that Willis came to Honolrlu
with a false impression OF The situa>
ton and with instructions to perform
services that could not be performed.
If his instructions fell short of having
authority to use force against his OWE
cohntrymen in the interest of rotten
throne, he sought to make the omis-
sion impalpable to us and tried to give
us the impression that it needed but
word from him to bring the iron from
the mouths of the big guns on his
warships into CUR very houses. But
his policy of intimidation did not
work. That is, it did not deter Dole
and the gallant men about him from
marching on in the strict perform
ance of their duty, true to themselves
true to their own manhood, their
consciences and their fellow-men.
And Willis remained o stumbling
block in the way of progress, and
his policy a reproach to the United
States.
Gradually the circle of the malcon-
tents became smaller. Disorder did
not entirely cease, for the disorderly
element was against the Provisional
Government and sought to worry the
Liberals by unlawful acts. But evil.!
doors were brought to pQnish=snt
and, out of the deptpsS.cnaos prou8n'
oy Willis, DaIl~Nnd his cabinet began
% sa4-e-Ffe approaching era of order.
I Gordon and I plunged again int
The search for Winnie. With sold
iers at our back We went over to the
Island of Oahu, seeking for other
camps of fanatics or some clue to the
mystery.
But we found nothing.
There was an evident hatred toward
IS among the natives, and if they held
my information about my missing
sister, they carefully concealed the
TACT.
The government took a hand and
instituted search, but had no bette,
success than we haze
Never had an abduction been SC
skillfully managed. 1t seemed as il
Winnie had been taken up into the
air and dissolved. No one could un'
lerstand it. Everybody gave up the
idea of ever finding her, except Cor
don and myself.
Almost without hope, and certainly
without any foundation for hope, we
kept up the search.
Jollroy Seacamp's new American
Hotel became the rendezvous for the
Liberals. He kept his word, and q
picture OF the ex-President, his secre-
tary of state and Minister Stevens
could be seen in the windows.
But Jollroy was not talking so much
about being an American, these days.
He seemed to think that being an
American under the present condition
of affairs was not so much tc the glory
of an individual as it had been be.
fore.
And not only Seacamp, but other
pronounced ,Annexationists began to
waver.
Politically, things we're going from
bad to worse.
The nerves OF the people were at
concert pitch. They were tuned up
| for anything. They expected the
worst.
President Dole remained calm, pick
ing his way among the rocks cautious
ly and sagaciously. And in the dawn
| of the anti-annexation feeling among