| Show A old IRCJKCT Thp scheme for the annexation of il I a Wdii in whKh osclfinstpr Stevens b cimf > ntcjr = teil and wlich Ud to the roiplications that have made so much Ill in this country wac an old project a nrrni Republicans and the uprising 111 H aiolulu was its culmination At ain a-in < ting of the Annexation club in that < t > AT X matrons a member JJjj some pertinent remMks While he was with Kalakaua inV in-V I1na in 1SS1 the report of his h say he met his old friend Ulnm Walter Phelps then American i wler tri Austria and they discussed M question < > f the future of Hawaii 1 l Jhelp15 aiU ocated annexation and r i tii Hi his Mr Armstrongs see Oi J 1 Bla i Ie on his return to Wash i gtn and took the trouble to write c Mi 1 f Blaiiu on thesubject He Mr xmi 1 tiong did see Mr Blaine and I II ii 1 that he took a warm interest in tn ndttpi but President Garfield died u tlirt t tliiu and Mr Blaine left office Th rev olt against the legitimate j I inment in 1893 was in pursuance thi idei that had been fostered for i ng un < among the American resi iknt and the action of the Queen in ii J qa > a to the Constitution was made t iK > jictet for the Insurrection It u LI Quid have bee made elCeciua hut I fr the aid or Stevens and the mud States forces This has been 111 < i < i so certain by the investigations that have been had that very few per nns now have the hardihood to deny it They confine their defense of it tot to-t Asonil why it was justifiable under the circumstances |
