The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-11
Is the President or Senator Cain
Right:

vi Right:
The resolution which Senator Call in
tended to introduce into the Senate and
make the starting point of long speech
on the Cuban question provided that the
United States should recognize the re-
public of Cuba as free and Independent
government. From this it is to be in
ferred that in Senator Calls opinion the
Cuban insurgents have a government
which they are maintaining, and CAPT
tai which they are defending.
In his message the President said:
1T is reported, indeed, on reliable au-
thorty that a the demand of the COM
mainder-in-chief of the insurgent army
the putative Cuban government has now
given up all attempt to exercise its func-
lions, leaving that government confessed
~ (what there is the best reason for
supposing it always to have been in facD
a government merely on paper.
The Presidents sources of information
must be better than those of Senator Call,
and If what he says is correct the Cuban
insurgents have no government-that, in
fact, there is nothing which the United
States could recognize as a government.
1t may be, however, that Senator Call
has information relative to the existence
of a Cuban government which is not
known to any one else in this country. If
he has he will state what the nforma-
ton is. doubtless, and also the source
from which he obtained it when he is
given an opportunity to address the Sem
ate. A failure to show that the Cubans
are maintaining a government would tend
to place him in a rather bad light before
the country 1t would be said, and with
some show of reason that he is playing
the part Of a politician seeking a re-eiec-
tion to the United States Senate rather
than that of a statesman looking out for
the welfare of the people of the United
States.
Mr.. Olney, Secretary of State, has not
heen able to find any responsible govern
ment by the Cuban insurgents. He says in
his special report that There nowhere
appears the nucleus of statehood" He
also says:
THE machinery for exercising the legiti-
mate rights and powers of sovereignty and
responding to the obligations which de
facto sovereignty entails in the face of
equal rights OI OlueT states Is COnSplcu-
ousy lacking. 1t is not possible to dis
Germ homogeneous political entity, pos
sessing and exercising the functions of adj
ministration and capable if left to itself,
of maintaining orderly government in its
own territory and sustaining normal re-
latons with the external family of gov
ernments."
Can it be possible that Mr.. Olney is
wrong and Senator Call right? Sympathy
with the Cuban patriots is one thing and
the question whether they have any sta
BILE government another. Before the
United States can recognize the indie
pendence of Cuba there must be something
for them to recognize. If there is some
thing an established government,
which compels respect and exercises au>
thority, Senator Call should furnish some
information as to where it is to be found.
If he has no such information he should
confess that he hasn't, and that he is urg-
ing the recognition of Cuban independ-
ence because he sympathizes with the Gu
bans and that it is popular in Florida 10
do so.