The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-04
The Governors and Cuba.

The Governors and Cuba.
The Chicago Tribune is polling almost
everybody Of prominence upon the ques-
ton Of the recognition by this government
of the Cuban insurgents. 1t has learned
from congressman enough to warrant the
assertion that when congress assemblies
some action in the way OF the recognition
OF the belligerent rights Of the revolution
lists viii be taken 1t has also asked the
governors Of the various states what they
think about it. and if the governors cor
rectly reflect public sentiment in their
respective sections, any favorable action
taken by congress will have the support
of the masses.
Some of the governors, by the way, seem
TO have a rather clouded understanding Of
what the Cubans are fighting for. They
seem to think that Cuba. like Hawaii,
wants to get into the American union;
that she wants statehood, and, like the
little child in the soap advertisement, she
won't be happy till she gets it. The
governor of Georgia says he would like
to see Cuba free from Spain and become
a state of the union" the inference from
the expression being that he considers
freedom from Spain and American state
hood as correlative terms. As a matter
of fact, the Cubans do not desire annexa-
tion by the United States. They want their
entire independence. 1t is probable that
they would kick as vigorously against
being tied to the United States as against
being longer tied to Spain.
The governors of Illinois and South Caro-
lima. like the governor of Georgia, wish
to annex the lever faithful isle" without
any waste of time. The South Carolina
executive, however. goes a little further
than his contemporaries and tells why
he wishes the island annexed. He wishes
to dsinfect it. He thinks it needs soap
and water, and some chloride of lime and
carbolic acid. Political considerations
seem little thought of by the Carolinian.
He is, like Lydia Pinkham, yours for
health" and thinks Cuba should be an
nexed and thoroughly disinfected before
the opening of the next yellow fever
season.
The governors of New York and Ohio
Morton and McKinley-decline to go on
record as expressing an opinion with re-
gard to Cuba. There is a possibility that
the Cuban question will cut some figure
in the next presidential campaign, and
as both of the governors referred to are
candidates for the republican presidential
nomination, they wish to remain in
position to take which ever side shall
appear to be the stronger a year or SO
hence. AS between the timidity of Cows.
Morton and Mckinley and the temerity
of Cows. Atkinson and John Gary Evans,
the latter is preferable.
The governor of Texas is a little impa-
tient that he should be asked to consider
the case of Cuba, when he has on his
hands something bigger than the Cuban
rebellion. Cuba is a foreign country and
she is fighting a foreign country; the
whole subject is foreign. The Corbett-
Fitzsimmons prize fight is a domestic
affair. II menaces Texas: therefore Gov.
Culberson does not thank anybody to come
Fostering him about what the United
States ought to do with regard to Cuba,
as long as the prize fight is unsettled.
Cleaves, of Maine, harbors a grudge
against Spain because she recognized the
southern confederacy. He would, there
fore, be glad to see this government re-
taliate by recognizing the Cuban repub-
lie, just as soon as itfshall have establish
ed a government de facto, or de jure, or de
anything else.
Taken as a whole the expressions of
the governors are favorable to the cause
of the revolutionists; at the same time.
they support the attitude of the admin
stration in the matter.