The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
SATISFIED WEYLER AND SPaux ann
FOLLOWING OUT A MISTAKEN
POLICY.
AUTONOMY IS THE REMEDY.
FORCE ALONE CAN NEVER RRrNa
THE ISLAND UNDER COMPLETE
SUBJECTION.
HE REFUSES TO BE INTERVIEWED.
nut Does Not Hesitate to Express
His Opinion to His Friends ut
Madrid.

NEW YORK, Dec. pa Madrid dis.
patch to the World says Martinez
Campos. captain general Of Cuba be-
fore Gen. Weyler, thinks the Spanish
! government made a great mistake in
not carrying out the colonial reforms
voted by the cortes last year. He be-
| HeVes that the contemplated conces-
slons might have deferred many auton-
onlsts and disaffected persons in Cuba
! from openly Joining the rebellion. and
would have made foreign interference
impossible.
| lie does not expect much to result
from Gen. Weyler's system of opera
lions, IL Gen. Gomez and the other
CuDan chiefs persevere in their guer-
ma warfare and their policy of holding
out IN order to exhaust the military
ana financial resources Of Spain, and
at the same ttme-to wear OUT the pa-
thence of the United States.
he Is said to persist in the opinion
that the permanent pacification OF
Cupa cannot be obtained by force or
arms alone without concessions Of au-
tonomy He would heartily support
any action by the Spanish government
In repelling foreign Intervention or
mediation. He refuses to be inter-
viewed by newspaper men, because his
position as the predecessor of the pres
ent captain general and his we'll known
opinions being wholly at variance with
the policy now followed by the govern
ment and by Gen. Weyler, oblige him
to refrain from any exposition of his
views. But the gallant marshal is not
so reserved or circumspect in giving his
opinions in private conversation with
political or military trends, or in the
Madrid salons he frequents 1t is no
secret, therefore, that he thinks the
situation in Cuba has decidedly not inn
proved, either in it's military, political
or international aspects, since he re-
signed at the beginning Of the present
year.
Gen. Calleja, who was governor gen
eral OF Cuba when the revolution be-
gan, still pe1Heveres in the views he
expressed in the senate and to the
queen regent on his return to Spain.
namely, that the home rule reforms
voted by the Cortes would have con-
'tributed very materially towards
checking the spread and limiting the
duration Of the actual insurreetion If
they had been put in force in 1895, and
might yet prove of great assistance in
pacif1cation and in detaching from the
the moderate elements of separatism.
Gen. Ochando, who was Gen. Wey-
ler'S chief of staff in Cuba from FeD-
rllary to August, in 1895, says concerns
ing the military situation J. in that
colony: Il think Cen Weyler silk ely
to obtain results in his new plan Of
campaign In Pinar del Rio provinces,
because, first, he advances with such
overwhelming forces that the rebel
bands must break into units and seek
safety in flight and secondly he has
very judiciously Withdrawn the most
of his forces from the Artemisa-M arlel
trocha, thus affording the old bands Of
MaceO means OF egreSS to return to the
central and Eastern provinces by pass
ing across the provinces Of Havana
and Matanzas, which they can only
do in small groups to avoid pursuit by
the Spanish cavalry and columns
guarding said provinces.
Il think the bands in Pinar del Rio
now are mostly dismounted and likely
to fly before Gen. Weyler eastward to
find horses, which are abundant in Ha--
yana and MatanZass provinces. When
Gen. Weyler has cleared Pinar del Rio
Of the majOrit yof the insurgents, he
will leave forces to cope with the small
bands of marauders sure to hold out
in the LOmax mountains, and he will
advance rapidly to clear Havana. and
MatanZaS provinces to save the crops
and to furnish the government with the
desired opportunity for political meas
ures which are indispensable to COM
plete what force of arms alone cannot
achieve.
ION the whole, think that the mill
tary outlook is more hopeful, and that
military operations eliminating in
clearing half the island saving part OF
the tobacco and sugar crops ) may
greatly facilitate political action"