Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-26
situation I'm Cuba.
Now Orleans Times-DemocratD

(NcW orleans 1lmeS-DenloCfdl)
There appears 10 be very little reason
this time to doubt the truth Of the rumor
that Weyler has resigned. Immediately
on his arrival in Habana on Thursday OF
last week. chased by the insurgents back
TO the capital, he wired his reslghailon W
Madrid when the reply came back tnat
he must keep his position during the time
that the present Spanish Ministry remain
ed in office
OF all his different campaigns. the re.
cent summer campaign was the worst
failure He was not only compelled 70
race back from the eastermost provinces
of the island. which he announced ms
prevent Gomez's threatened demonstra-
lion against the city of Habana; Dut.
when he arrived in the vicinity OF the
insurgents headquarters on lhe DOruetS
OF Matanzas and Habana, he found tnenh
so strongly entrenched that ne TOOK as
erection to be the better part of valor, ana
retraced his steps rapidly i'm the direction
of the capital. with rebels, as a HaDana
dispatch says, firing on MS rear u
all the way from Aguacate TO Habana.
The fine army of 10000 with when
Veyler started in eighteen or twenty
months ago TO crush the life out OF the
Cuban rebellion, has become, II Is known
on the best authority, mere tattereu
remnant, unfit practically In It's present
condition for active service IN couitty
where the very atmosphere is hostile. Inc
Fabian policy OF the Cuban leaders ~
a demonstrated success. They nave kept
the Spanish troops marching thls way
and that way, under the lnruence OF l"lse
alarms and artificial hopes and fears,
with a tropical sun blazing on them ana
a malarial atmosphere laying them OUT n
hundreds every day; ana an tnls liillo
they (the insurgents) have Kept them-
selves out OF harms way, never on any
occasion standing up TO fight save when
they saw a clear advantage 10 themselves
In position and numbers. but generdlly
disappearing az by magic before the
Spaniards when the latter thousht tney
had them at last in trap. -,
The Spanish army Is now as resui'
Of this CALLING and exhausting programme
OF the insurgents and Weyler uliuchlhs
them to and fro and exposing them WIZ
there was no manner OF need tor IL, re-
duced to a state OF almost helpless weak
ness with the exception OF the TOT
tunate ores stationed in and about la
bana." says dispatch from that CITY
tine Spanish soldiers are IN q bad way
They have not received their pay 10
months: they are weak from illness anu
poor feeding; they are badly clotneu, an,
many have no shoes. Their credit IL al
but exhausted. and trades people VIII onl9
furnish supplies under actual totce' ~
short. the Spanish army I'm cuba IS MOI
incIined and not I'm "A position 10 tak'
the offensive. The garrisons OF an III
terror towns are being WithdIaWm an,
sent 10 larger towns on the seacoast Ana
even these latter are not free from reDe
attacks -,
That the struggle is nearing an end
therefore. must be manifest to everybody
From the LIST Of January to July 3lst lZ,uV
sick or disabled soldiers were sent IRON
cuba to Madrid, another 1900 are ready
10 be sent on the same voyage; whue uu'
ring the same seven months ABOUT oVv'
more have, through the rdvages OF yel'
loNy-fever. malaria. fatigue exposure, ane
the machetes of the enemy. founh y ma
resting-pIace i'm Cuban soil. IL Is hardly
surprising that an army. debilitated III y
many ways, without sufficient FOOD an'
clothing or the means 10 obtain tnem
should have got into the condition OF III
efficiency in which the Spanish army no"
nnds itself; nor is ii any more surprlslhs
that Weyler should wish 10 be relieved
a lob which, i'm spite OF all his waste
| energy and fearful destruction of III
and property is not whit nearer .
ACCOMPLISHMENT now than the day whel
| ne took hold OF IT, -
II is evident that we are on the Verg
| Of DEVELOPMENTS In the Cuban lnsurrec
! tion which General Stewart Woodfor
| will have no hand In fashoning unless n
! hastens TO make known his instructions.