The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-05
A Now Cnmnnign Issnc.

Cuban affairs may become an issue in
the presidential campaign next year. The
request which the Cuban insurgents made
a few weeks ago to be recognized as bel
ligerents is meeting with considerable
response in this country. In the west
petitions to congress asking that body to
take steps to accord to the insurgent Gu
bans belligerent rights are being circu-
lated and generally signed. With very
little effort it would not be difficult to get
such list of signatures to these petit
tions as would make an impression on
congress, because sympathy with the in
surgents is quite strong.
1t is, of course, wholly a matter Of con-
lecture what action on such petitions con-
gress would take. No doubt politics would
have considerable to do with whatever
action was taken Both Of the great politi-
cal parties are fully alive to the import
ance of gaining the good will of the Gu
bans and their sympathizers in this coun-
try. They control great many votes and
the average politician keeps steadily in
view the Importance of adopting any poll
cy that promises to be a vote getter.
At present there are a good many good
reasons why this country should not
grant the rights to the insurgents
for which they ask STILL 1t is not pos
sible to predict with any degree of GER
tainty what congress would do If the mat
ter were presented to it. No doubt there
would be strong minority. if not ma
jority, in favor of granting the insurgents
belligerent rights at once. If the action
of congress should be averse to the re-
quest of the insurgents it is probable that
the question of acknowledging the insur-
gents as belligerents would be carried into
the presidential campaign, and that ques-
ton might be broadened until it included
the question of the purchase or annexa-
ton of Cuba, although Spain does not
want to sell the island nor do the insur-
gents desire annexation to this country.
The insurgents have some grounds for
requesting to be regarded as belligerents
They have met with a great deal of sue
cess in their war with Spain, and they ap-
pear to be able to resist successfully the
efforts of Spain to subdue them. They
have a provisional government. though
as yet it is only a government in name.
1t hasn't an abiding place, but unless
Spain puts forth greater efforts than it
has yet it soon will have.
The friends of the insurgents have
enough friends in this country to make the
question of granting the insurgents the
rights of belligerents an interesting one
if they should endeavor to give it a place
in the presidential campaign next year.
Mr.. E. T. Hargrove, an English theoso-
phist who has lately arrived in this coun-
try, says the theosophists of England re-
gard Mr.. w. W. Aston as inclined toward
their belief. basing their opinion upon some
articles published in his London paper.
Mr.. Hargrove says further that the theo-
sophists look hopefully toward America.
as they expect to see the new. sixth
race" spring up here. He says germs of
the new race are already to be seen in the
west. He has probably got view of
PETER. Simpson and Lease. and, seeing
them so different from other mortals. has
concluded that they are the forerunners
of the sixth race"
Timid people frequently hesitate to get
aboard of an electric car during thun-
der storm. Electricians say no place is
safer. The wires and the trolley pole make
the best kind of lightning protectors The