Salt Lake Herald | 1893-06-29 | Page 2 | Hawaiian Affairs

agoRA AllAN AFFAIRS All Hope of Becoming Part of the United States Abandoned Leaders ot the Provincial Government Casting About for Something Else Dont Want a Protectorate HONOLULU June 21 American tongues are wagging in a vigorous manner man-ner at Minister Blounts refusal to participate par-ticipate in the coming Fourth of July celebration Although he does not say so it is quite evident Mr Blount looks upon the Fourth of July celebra tion as purely an annexation affair and does not wish to participate in anything that could give aa impression that he favored annexation The barkentine Pilo which arrived from San Francisco yesterday brought news of Minister Thurstons interview with President Cleveland Mr Cleve lands address is regarded here by annexationists annex-ationists as an indication that annexation will not ue considered by his administration administra-tion Now that hope of booming a part of the United States is gone leading men in charge of the government are casting about for something else They have apparently decided that i annexation fails they will not accept a protectorate until overtures have been made to England Eng-land to secure stable government I England will havenone of i and the provisional pro-visional government finds it cannot standalone stand-alone it will come back to the United States for protection