<P> In the 1892 U.S. presidential election, the Republican Party platform proclaimed: "We reaffirm our approval of the Monroe doctrine and believe in the achievement of the manifest destiny of the Republic in its broadest sense ." What was meant by "manifest destiny" in this context was not clearly defined, particularly since the Republicans lost the election . </P> <P> In the 1896 election, however, the Republicans recaptured the White House and held on to it for the next 16 years . During that time, manifest destiny was cited to promote overseas expansion . Whether or not this version of manifest destiny was consistent with the continental expansionism of the 1840s was debated at the time, and long afterwards . </P> <P> For example, when President William McKinley advocated annexation of the Republic of Hawaii in 1898, he said that "We need Hawaii as much and a good deal more than we did California . It is manifest destiny ." On the other hand, former President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat who had blocked the annexation of Hawaii during his administration, wrote that McKinley's annexation of the territory was a "perversion of our national destiny". Historians continued that debate; some have interpreted American acquisition of other Pacific island groups in the 1890s as an extension of manifest destiny across the Pacific Ocean . Others have regarded it as the antithesis of manifest destiny and merely imperialism . </P> <P> In 1898, the United States intervened in the Cuban insurrection and launched the Spanish--American War to force Spain out . According to the terms of the Treaty of Paris, Spain relinquished sovereignty over Cuba and ceded the Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States . The terms of cession for the Philippines involved a payment of the sum of $20 million by the United States to Spain . The treaty was highly contentious and denounced by William Jennings Bryan, who tried to make it a central issue in the 1900 election . He was defeated in landslide by McKinley . </P>

Who made the phrase manifest destiny famous and what did that phrase mean