The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-07
SANGUILLY BOBS UP.
His Attorney Issues a Pamphlet Tell
ing His Story

Washington, Oct. THE celebrated
case Of Julio Sanguilly is presented in a
pamphlet issued today by SanguilIy'S s
counsel here, Jose Rodriguez. It tells
| the story in detail and gives a number
of letters passing between Secretary
Olney, Senator Sherman, Consul Cen
eral Lee and the United States minister
at Madrid, Mr.. HanniS Taylor. As a
whole the document uphOlds the course
of President Cleveland and Secretary
Olney and points out that the agitation
in Sanguilly's behalf in congress served
only to prejudice his case.
After stating that the attention of
congress and the public was not at
tracted to Sanguilly, until the very
moment in which, through skillful dip
lomatic management, the release of
Sanguilly from imprisonment, without
further suffering or humiliation, had
been secured, - the writer says:
But that moment was one of ex-
treme perpleXity, which the friends Of
Sanguilly viii not easily forget.
Through an eXuberant effusion of
patriotic zeal and most cOmmenda bic
humanitarian feelings on the part of
certain members of the United States
senate through a noble though mis-
guided sentiment of generous compass
sion, 1nduStriOuSly worked up in their
minds, and in the minds of the kind
hearted people of this country, a con-
dition of things which might have
proved fatal, was created at once. A
measure of doubtful justice and of
more than questionable efficiency. call
culated perhaps, more to irritate Spain
and embron the United States in a war
with that nation than to save SanguiI-
ly, and grounded upon an imperfect
knowledge of the facts of the case was
attempted to be rushed through the
United States senate. exactly at the
same time the determination already
reached by Spain to comply with the
wishes of the United States and set
Julio Sanguiny at liberty was carried
into execution.
Thanks to Divine Providence through
the righteous attitude of the state de-
partment; through the firm stand of
some honorable senators who were
then called organs of the Governor
General of Cuba or of the Queen of
Spain and against whom the friends of
the measure acknowledged to have
used a little by-word of badinage'
through the cooperation of the Span
ish minister; and perhaps through the
earnest appeal of the prisoners coun-
sci to the honorable chairman of the
the crisis was aVerted, and the most
generous act of her Majesty, the Queen
Regent of Spain, to whom Sanguflly
personally was not absolutely a stran-
ger, could be carried into effect in Ha-
vana, without the slightest difficulty"
The conclusion of the pamphlet says,
in part:
The Sanguil1y case reveals prOr1f-
nently above all it's other features, ana
in the most striking similitude with all
the phases of the present situation in
Guba, ever since 1928, that a feeling of
deep rooted, almost invincible distrl1st
IS the prevailing element in the rela-
tons between Spain and Cuba 1t
bears testimony, exactly the same as
the cuban problem, to the fact wheth-
er willingly or unwillingly accepted.
and each time better established that
in all questions concerning the action
Of Spain in this continent the United
states are a party to the contention
and that in obedience to eternal laws
OF nature, the wishes of the government
OF the United States have aIwavs to
prevail in the end. And it shows in
fine, and in no lesser a degree than the
CUBAN problem that all attempt. no
noise and alleged popular support
to force upon the administration
an undesired attitude or to die
tate to it the manner and the form in
which its duty must be performed-is |
foolish to the extreme, and dangerous. |