Simplest PoD for US annexation of Hawaii between 1893 and 1897 would be?

raharris1973

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1. Cleveland loses 1892 election to his GOP opponent?
2. A Democrat other than Cleveland wins in 1892, and is receptive to the Hawaiian Republic's request for annexation?
3. McKinley decides to expend a little effort negotiating and passing annexation in his first year or so in office, before the Spanish-American War starts.
4. Something else?
 

CaliGuy

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1. Cleveland loses 1892 election to his GOP opponent?
2. A Democrat other than Cleveland wins in 1892, and is receptive to the Hawaiian Republic's request for annexation?
3. McKinley decides to expend a little effort negotiating and passing annexation in his first year or so in office, before the Spanish-American War starts.
4. Something else?
Cleveland loses in 1892.
 

raharris1973

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Cleveland loses in 1892.

....and what's the simplest way to have Harrison reelected?

I'd presume he would still be hit by the panic, and the Democrat would win in 1896. Would it still be Bryan or would somebody more traditional edge him out be cause 96 looks promising?

would any likely democrat of the time prosecute a Spanish American war?

Even if so, would the annex any territory?
 

CaliGuy

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....and what's the simplest way to have Harrison reelected?

Have Cleveland lose control of himself and engage in an affair which becomes known to the world before the election?

I'd presume he would still be hit by the panic, and the Democrat would win in 1896. Would it still be Bryan or would somebody more traditional edge him out be cause 96 looks promising?

It could be Bryan, but the goldbugs can put more of a fight since their man Cleveland isn't discredited by his second Presidency.

would any likely democrat of the time prosecute a Spanish American war?

After the U.S.S. Maine? Maybe.

Even if so, would the annex any territory?

Probably not.
 

raharris1973

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who would be the leading goldbug contenders in 1896? who ight have been vp? i assue cldeveland would be personally disqualified if scandalized.

the veep might be important because Leon Czolgosz or another anarchist still might have an itch to shoot a President.
 
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