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eighth year
smoke a “Bill Arp ’ warters New Brand
HOT SO SHIFT
gadrid Beliefs Peace is a
Certainty
THO SLOW ON TRIGGER
Captain of Ponca Garrison
Courtmartialod and Shot.
Madrid, August s—Though
peace'is regarded an assured. it
mav not lie attained so quickly as
is generally expected.
Senor Sagaeta objects to being
hustled and insists upon ev >rv
thing lieing done in a quiet, or-,
derly and dignified manner. He
considers it necessary to have full
and satisfactory exp'anations as
to all doubtful points in order tc
enable him best to protect the
national interests against the ag
gressive tendencies of the Wash
ington cabinet. He has also to ex
amine very minutely the exigent
cies ol th ' internal situation and
home polities, so as to avoid pop
ular dissatisfaction and political
unrest.
The Spanish people, though s ; i>
cerely desirous of peace, are ds
posed to adm're this hesitancy
and tenacious holding out until
the last, although aware that >t
implies’greater sacrifices.
As an illustration of this feel
ing, while General Total is blamed
for capitulating at Santiago. Cap
tain General Augusti, continuing
a hopele-s resistance, at Manila,
bid? fair to he a popular hero. It
woivd Im prema;ure to suppose
that the political coi.su’rations
now proceeding foreshadow the
res.gnaticn of the liberal cabinet
when peace is concluded. I’he c >n
servatives have so constantly and
loyally supported Sagasta- through
out the war that no factious op
posiiion may be feared from than).
The consultation between*the
premier, the presidents of the
chambers and other prominent
persons are described at being
really a national character with a
view of ascertaining the opinions
of all parties.
The government has not entered
upon any engagement regarding
terms for concluding the war with
the United States. The cabinet
Will follow the advice of the parly
leaders and will leave to the crown
the liberty of choosing new advis
ors.
All the leaders consulted thus
f&r have ob-ei ved the s ricleat ie
•®rve with the exception of S'nor
Roineroy Robledo, the leader of the
Weylerite party, wno declares him-
B "lf in favor of continuing war.
le queen regent has summoned
•eyeral generals for consultation.
The censorship of the papers is
n ow conducted with the utmost
••verity. the military censor has
•Xcised all the leading papers, iu
c tiding the military journals. -
Veryth'ng having the remotest
16 ereilCo to the peace negotiations
!* su Ppre»sed and the censorship
18 especially severe upon criticisms
the American government’s
P re entions- these excised articles
r « repl ace( j l)y p Odm3) tales aij(J
literary matter.
Spanish Officer Shjt.
patchVr'’ —An official dis-
t-Ve'T'V “• Ui
Who Jas ? 1 Co|o,,el San Martin,
ilbearri? °5 inand of the Span
ma?/ V . P ° nce ’ h » 9 '—
<»ng the nl‘ a “ n ' 1 Bhbt for ab: » n -
resistance
•ftcommr n» ° ° no l Pu ’ z tbe sec °nd
m anu, committed suicide.
THE HOME HUSTLER-COMMERCIAL
A STRICKEN fIRJMY.
Hoosevelt and Other Ameri
can Generals
JOIN IN A ROUND ROBIN.
Clamor for the Removal of Fa
ver-ridden Army.
Washington, August 5.—C01.
Theodore Roosevelt, of the
Roti Ji Riders, has succeeded m
hurrying the movement of the
war department in fetching
Sha'\er’s army away from San
ti go, though in his disregard
of the conventionalities he has
drawn upon his head a rathei
sharp rebuke from the secretary
of war, who evidently regards
the Coti - se pun tied by Colonel
Roosevelt as being calculated to
injure discipline, though inspir
ed by the most worthy motives.
It is only fair to state that th
war department for some time
has b en intent upon removing
the troops, and it is now more
than a week ago that Gen. Shaf
ter was instructed by a special
cablegram to cheer up the sol
dier . by publicly informing them
of this determination. It was
rather a question of ways and
means than lack of intention to
redeem this promise that caused
delay.
As far as the question of re
moving to the mountains was
concerned —the question which
s ems to have predicitated the
indignation meeting among the
American commanders at San
tiago —it is learned that the
medical department here made
no such recommendation. All it
had to say on this subject was
that if the troops must remain
near Santiago, an efiort should
he made to remove them at once
to some healthier camping
ground.
Surgeon General Sternberg
agrees thoroughly with the opin
ion expressed by the signers of
the ‘‘round robin” at Santiago,
that the men who have suffered
from the severe malarial fevers
of the south Cuban coast, so far
from being immune from attacks
of yellow fever, as has beenjs
s rted in some quarters, are ac
tually in very much greater dan
ger than those who have escaped
the malaria. <
Malarial fever, it is stated, is
no more a protection against a
subsequent attack of yellow
fever than would be a case of
measles against smallpox, while
the fearful debility resulting
from the malarial fever would
certainly tend to make the victim
an especial mark for yellow
j ack.
Tho department today gave
out a statement of its resources
.n the way of transports at San
tiago, and also as an incident in
that direction that the troops
cannot ba withdrawn as a whole
until the Spanish troops are dis
posed of. Otherwise there is no
certainty that finding themselves
able to do so, the Spaniards
would overpower the captors,
repossess themselves of Santiago
and thus lose to the American
armv the small foothold in Cuba
which it has cost too much blood
, .. .. . . ~ ~ T. _ ———W—
FOME GEORGIA, FRIDAY,* EVENING, AUGUST- 5. |B9B.
IN THE NEGK.
Alger Hits Col. Roosevelt of
tfie Rough Riders.
A DESERVED REBUKE.
Dimes Pouring in to Build a
NeAZ Maine.
Washington, August s.—The
following correspondence has
passed between Col. Roosevelt
and Secretary Alger:
“Santiago, July 23, 1898. My
Dear Mr. Secretary—l am wri
ting with the knowledge and ap
proval of Gen. Shafter. We
earnestly hope that you will
send us—mos of the regulars,
and at any rate, the cavalry di
vision, including the Rough
Riders, who are as good as any
regulars and three times as good
as any state troops—to Porto
Rico. There are 1,800 effective
men in this division. If those
who were left behind were join
ed to them, we could land at
Porto Rico, in this cavalry di
vision, close to 4,000, who would
be worth easily any 10,000 na
tional guards armed with black
powder Springfields or odmr
archaic weapons. Very respect
fully, “Theodore Roosevelt.”
The following was cabled to
Col. Roosevelt today:
“Your letter of the 23rd is re
ceived. The regular army, the
volunteer army and the Rough
Riders have done well, but I
suggest that unless you want to
spoil the effects and gl try of
your victory you make no in
vidious comparisons. The R m Ji
Riders are no better th t i oHi r
volunteers. They had an idv til
lage in their arms, for which
they ought to be very grateful.
“R. A. Alger, Secretary ol War.”
BREAK ENDLESS CHAIN.
Dimes are Pouring in to Build
a Maine.
Washington, August 8
Dimes have been peuring into
the navy department upon Sec
retary Long, contributed by pa
triotic Americans who want to
build a battleship to replace the
Maine.
Somebody, the secretary does
not know whom, started an end
less chain to this end and the
secretary is doing his best to
break the chain.
To such of the contributors as
give their address he is return
ing the money with a note in
forming them that he has no
authority under the law to re
ceive it, and that the object is
to be otherwise provided for as
congress has specifically appro
priated money for the construc
tion of another battleship to be
known as the Maine.
and money to secure.
It Is, however, the expectation
that all of the American troops
will have been removed from
Santiago to the. United States
by the end of this month, and
th at is probably the very beet
that can be done under the cir
cumstances. - .
LANHAM
& SONS,
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