Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-07-18
WASHINGTON Letter

FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON. D. c., July 18th, 1895.
Will the United States recognize the
Cuban insurgents as helligerents? Stran
ger things haye happened. The Span
ish minister to the United States is 80
much afraid of that very thing that he
has, doubtless under orders from his
government, gone to spend the summer
in the same neighborhood in which
Secretary Olney is spending his vaca-
ton. Before leaving Washington the
minister frankly said that he was going
so as to be where he could Weep in
touch with the Secretary Of State"
A gentleman who, although not himself
Cuban, is in hearty sympathy with
the Cubans in their efforts to throw off
the CALLING Spanish yoke, assured me
that the revolutionists would in the near
future formally ask this government
for that recognition land will insist upon
getting it or point blank refusal. The
same gentleman says the insurgents are
only waiting until they are in a posi-
ton to claim recognition on the grounds
laid down by Woolsey and since &C
cepted by nearly every civilized nation
j. e., has an organized government, pre-
pared by law for war on either element
or on both. He says the organized
Cuban Government will quickly follow
the recent election for president held by
the Cubans temporarily in the United
States, and that then it will only need
vessel or two to comply with all the
requirements. The Monroe doctrine
may also be appealed to by the Cubans
to aid them in their fight for recogni-
ton. President Monroe wrote in that
famous message, which, by the way,
dealt with the revolt of SPANS South
American Colonies VAS soon as the
movement assumed such steady and
consistent form as to make the success
of the provinces possible, the rights to
which they were entitled by the laws
of natious as equat parties to civil war
have been accorded them" Should this
Government accept President Monroe's
view Of similar affair there would be
little doubt of early recognition. No
one need be surprised when the demand
for recognition is made to see it strongly
backed by influential Americans.
To hear the talk Of Pennsylvanians
who come to Washington, one might
suppose that the Presidential campaign
was raging in the keystone state. in
stead Of a fight for the head of the
Republican State Committee. the result
of which will merely give to Senator
Quay or his opponents an opportunity
to control the state delegation to the
National Convention of that party. A
Pennsylvania business man said of this
fight: VI heard, on the best authority,
in Philadelphia that the anti Quay
forces had raised $3.50 900 with which
to down their enemy. On the other
hand, l heard that one of the big Pitts.
burg iron manufacturers had notified
Senator Quay that he might draw on
him for 100000 whenever he needed
the money" Considerable interest has
been aroused among the silver men by
the report that the anti-Quay men were
trying to create feeling against Quay
because of bis friendliness towards Sen.
ator Cameron, who is an avowed silver
candidate for the republican presiden-
tial nomination. Quay is not silver
man, and 1t is we'll known in Washing
ton that his first choice for presidnet is
Ex-Speaker Reed.
There is much curiosity to know what
the opinion OF President Cleveland and