The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-04-08
WAITING CAMPAIGN.
Is tho Plan Pursued by tho Cubun
Revolutionlsts.
IRE THOUSANDS OF IHEM
And hTlrThey Want is Climatic Con.
dition To Play Havoc With tho
Spanish Troops-Gcneral Martinez
Compos Arrival Anxiously Watched
For by tho o-Cubans-Troops Sont to
Guard tho P1antntions-y0hy-- tho
Rebels Don't PitchIn,
p.ciqr Correspondents. to he Asoctass rrt.,.

Special Correspondence 10 ne AEocigtra Pre4t
HAVANA, April S.-Thcro IL keeu
anticipation now among tho Cubans,
aud will be for some time to come.
General Martinez Campos. with
couple OF million dollars in cash, a,lot Of
troops and largo personal prestige,
is nowon the ocean and bending sal,
hither. Great willbe the day aud largo
the occasion when Campog again sstH
foot on Cuban aoil to put down another.
rebellion. Tho people here are expect-
ing him, and anticipate with anxious
interests his coming. To an on.looker,
however, tho interest among unofficial
people seems to riae moro from antici-
patton OF the pageant, aud OF the clatter
Of bright metal tn an from any con-
tciouaness that Campos is needed here.
Havana, always accustomed to mill
tary. has not been vividly impressed by
the landing Of tho troops from Spain.
Meanwhile, during tho week there
will bo lesser divisions furnished by tho
arrival Of about 1000 more Spanish
troops. The Spanish cruiser Sanchez
Barcaeztegu entered the harbor hero
yesterday and loft to-day. She is how
ering along tho coast. The utmost Wig
ilance is exercised BY the government
to prevent tho landing in Cuba OF the
rebel leaders who arc in other parts.
The government especially and def
nitely desires to intercept Maceo. whom
tho officials profess to believe has not
effected landing on Cuban soil.
The Cuban negro Maceo-ve.eran OF
tho last rebellion-is said to be an able
man, 4 shrcwd tac.ician in tho chap
peral snd undoubtedly brave. He is to
the official house here tho bogy man Of
the insurrection.
All tho movements OF the rebels mako
proof that the plan announced in these
dispatches as the one laid out by their
leaders is being consistently followed.
This is Waiting campaign. They ap.
pear and disappear. They mako sortie
against some village, and If troops ap-
pear they hustle away out OF sight.
They have alarmed tho inhabitants aud
they have harrassed the troops.
1t is fact that there are on this is
land to-day between 5000 and 5000
rebels who have rifles and cartridges
within their reach. The government
may scout this statement, but it holds.
And the plan OF campaign is to wait.
The leaders know better than to openly
oppose their five or six thousand men
against superior forces. when climate
and sickness arc rolled upon as allies q
little later on.
"Why don't the rebels pitch in and
do something before all the Spanish
troops reach here2" is>a question asked
by opponents Of the rebellion here.
"Let Spain get hero all she intends to
send and then We will play hide and
seek with them until, aided by climatic
conditions, we will combine all our
forces and striko decisive blow at the,
sickening and climate worn forces Of
Spain"
Troops arc being sent to guard tho
plantations. The government has re-
moved the duty Of so cents hitherto i'm
posed for the wise OF foreign passports.
The reason is not stated.