ministers had swung behind annexation, people susan names we no longer recognize such as senator albert beveridge of indiana who announced we are a conquering race work in opposition, certain congressman tried to remind annexation this that they were in the grips of war fever. a representative from arkansas said annexations i've got more into their blood. they are about to do a foolish thing. he said american might easily annex hawaii and take other islands as well, but like the republic of rome it would destroy the americans republic in the process. in an extraordinary flight of rhetoric for such a quiet man president mckinley said we need hawaii just as much in a good deal more than we did california its manifest destiny. the private conversation with the prominence senator of the vermont-- i didn't make any of this up-- mckinley ran out his life that america had to act quickly to prevent a japanese takeover. we cannot let the islands go to japan, it can lay told him paired japan has her eye on them her people are crowding in their. to this he added an explicit endorsement of the conspiracy the