The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-13

to deal with a more serious rising and with
more widespread disaffection than ne naa
expected when he landed in Cuba In April.
At that date the Instruction had not gone
beyond the limits OF the province OF san
tiago, where, at the utmost. 400 rebels
were in the field. under the two Maceos
and Marty, the latter white man. ano
the moving spirit OF the revolutionary
juntas in the United States for past years.
Now matters have become so serious that
the insurgents. according TO Spanish reports,
are said to have close upon twenty-six
thousand men under arms, fuliy WE'VE
thousand of whom are mounted Al nrst
the rebel forces were oistIlou, 80 Waceos
in Santiago de Cuba. seven thousand Win
Maxine Gomez in Puerto Principe, ana the
rest in Santa Clara: but Few weeks ago
the separatist leaders agreed TO make an
advance westward. They We're fully aware
that Marshal Martinez Campos had not
enough troops IN the central and western
a and cofree crops agar against their raids IL he
kept so many regiments In Santiago and
Puerto Principe. and they knew the eN-
pected achievements from spain could not
begin to arrive before the end of Novem.
Der. So they resolved TO push TO the front
in the province OF Santa Clara as many
bands as could be prudently collected.
with a view TO create scare and to destroy
the sugar crops. the mills. the defenseless
villages and the plantations In the pro-
vinces of Santa Clara, Matanzas, and even
Havana. They reinforced Rolof. a pole,
who was at the head of their bands In
Santa Clara, with cavalry especially. Max
imo Gomez himself, with four thousand
up their quarters in the Seguinea noun
tains, south OF Marshal Campos's head
quarters in Santa Clara. and when closely
pressed by several Spanish columns he gave
them the slip, and made for the neighbor-
hood of Remedies. Jose Maceo. with three
thousand men, went all the way from san
asG fa as yas be rebel
have already dashed over the frontier OF
the province of Matanzas, piundering and
burning. villages, levying blackmail upon the
plantations of the loyaiists and obliging the
people to fly for safety TO the Spanish lines.
Roloff has issued proclamations threaten
ing with destruction OF property and death
all those who continue to work on the plan
tations. Marshal Campos. on his side. sent
for troops from the provinces OF Santiago
and Puerto Principe. and he seems, up TO
protection Of the three western provinces
against the contemplated raids of Maxine
Gomez, Roloff. Maceo and other insurgent
chiefs, now at the head of nearly fifteen
thousand men i'm Santa Clara.
Both in Madrid and Havana a great impa-
thence and curiosity are shown. since such
considerable bodies Of Spaniards and Gu
bans are known to be so close to each
other. In the mother country everybody
would naturally like to hear of some de-
cisive encounters with the insurgents, which
might be followed up vigorously after the
arrival Of the fresh reinforcements. Unfor-
tunately. all military men and civilians ac-
Quainted with the habits OF Cuban insur-
gents seem convinced that they will avoid
counters, and, IL their raids upon the plan
tations OF the western and central provinces
fail, they will most likely break up Their
large bodies of armed men into 'partidas
to keep up during the fine weather desul-
tory and obstinate guerrilla warfare. This
is why Marshal Campos has had the couragt
to let Spain and her government know that
he thinks that the instruction cannot be
put down by any extremist measures, any
war without quarter, which would require
three years of desperate struggle, resources
that Spain has not at her disposal, and
900 men, half Of whom would have to be
sacrificed to a deadly climate" He Is quite
prepared ito strike hard blows at the rebels
in arms, but he believes the ultimate and
rapid pacihcation OF Cuba can only be re-
ing all who submit, and by the grant or ex-
tensive colonial reforms and self-govern-
ment. which the majority Of the Cubans
would gladly accept at the. hands of the
attitude of the Governor-general of Cuba
make most of the people in Spain suppose
that the present insurrection in Cuba Will
not last long and will terminate like the
last. The general impression is that the
insurgent leaders in the island and their
friends in the American republics will not
wish to prolong a useless struggle when
Marshal CampoS will have saved the sugar
and coffe crops in four out of six prov
inces. and when he can use the fine and
healthy season to act more rapidly with
10000 men on land, and sixteen cruisers
and sloops and twenty-six gunboats and
steam launches on the coasts of Cuba The
suspense and anxiety with which the whole
nation await the results of their costly eff
pended and now $4,000 daily-have cast int
the background all the domestic politics o.
the kingdom.