The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-14
COURSE OF CAPTAIN-GENERA All,
WELLER IN CUBA Is ABOUT
RUN.
ONLY FAILURES TO RECORD,
INSURGENTS, EVEN IN PINAR DEL
RIO, STRONGER NOW THAN
EVER.
The Recall of "the Butcher De-
manded by the Most Influential
of Spanish LOyalists.

HAVANA, Jan. 12.-Via Key West,
Jan. 13.-Capt. Gen. Weyler is in a very
bad humor and seemingly with good
reason He was with difficulty dis
suaded a day or SO ago from sending
Senior Pena, correspondent of the Mad
rid Heraldo, to MORO castle, and the
newspaper man in Question is not safe
from the Spanish commander, who was
aroused by the criticisms of the con-
duct of the campaign in Cuba. To
such degree has the captain general
felt his i'll temper that nobody outside
of his military and civil advisers has
been able to see him since his latest
return from the field. That he is in
danger of recall, nobody here for
moment doubts, in spite of the many
official and semi official denials from
Madrid, for it is remembered that the
same course was followed by the gov
eminent in the case of the recall of
Marshal Martinez Campos
Weyler cannot truthfully be said to
have achieved a single success, diplo-
matte, administrative, military or other
wise. There are probably more insurg-
ents, better armed and supplied, in
Pinar del Rio at the present moment
than at any time since the insurrec-
ton broke out. Gen. Weyler once
openly remarked that the western part
of that province alone contained 1000
armed men, and that large additional
bands" of insurgents were lowering
about his trocha. The Spanish COM
mander sent $4,000 men against this
little army, and the latter disappeared,
and the best efforts of the Spanish have
failed to discover their whereabouts.
Gomez is pushing onward from the
east with all the men he can muster
While at the same time protecting his
retreat. The insurgent bands are car
rytng the torch to the very gates Of
Havana. The flames Of burnig prop
erty can be seen from the roof Of the
palace, the sound Of fire arms has fire.
quently been heard of late in the sub
urbs, and, except to hold the cities,
the Spaniards are absolutely powerless,
though they have burned every roof
capable Of sheltering a wounded in
surgent, destroying everything likely to
give them food and in every way try
ing to crush the struggle for freedom,
they taunt the Cubans with employing,
including the burning of the insurgent
hospitals and the slaughtering of the
helpless sufferers, according to all re-
ports.
The civil governor is known to be
using his influence with the commercial
bodies here to bring about Weyler's re-
call, and protests against his conduct
hoy r. i
great numbers and couched in the most
emphatic terms of disgust and disap-
prevail. All efforts to cable such mat
ter from here have been frustrated by
the captain general, but this has not
prevented several urgent messages be-
ing sent from Key West to Madrid
and it is believed the action taken will
not fail to have the desired effect in
the near future.
The movement against Weyler has
its root in the most influential circles
mere, the very quarters where Spain
counts her stanchest supporters, and
therefore it is not believed possible
that the government can much longer
ignore the fact that little or nothing
can be done towards the real solution
of the Cuban question so long as
Weyler is captain general Of the island
His military incapacity is not the only
feature complained of. The air is full
OF war rumors of rotten contracts of
soldiers suffering from lack of food
medicine and ammunition, which on
the other hand issued by some means
or other, have fallen into the hands of
the insurgents or to have entirely fail
ed to materialiZe. Even the army con-
tractors have turned against the cap
tain general, and that, as military men
are aware. means a great deal
The rumor that Maxine Gomez was
contemplating surrendering to the
Spanish authorities has been traced to
Spanish official sources as usual and
is pronounced by friends of the Cuban
question, who are always we'll inform
ed, to be utterly false. They add that
as long as Gen. Weyler is in Cuba, no
proposition looking to a peaceful settle
ment will be accepted by the insurgent
leaders, although it is known that
strong party of the insurgents now
under arms is in favor of accepting
fair home rule proposition as soon as
the details can be determined upon.
The war party" however, prevails
against the peace party" the former
being strengthened, it is said, by as
surances received from the New York
junta that if the Spaniards do not
succeed IN crushing the rebellion or in
bringing about a peaceful settlement
Of the questions at Issue before next
autumn, the United States will inter
fere and bring about the establishment
Of a republic of Cuba
The general whom the Spanish party
here desires in place of Weyler, is Pola-
vieja, now captain general of the Phil
irpine Islands. Polavieia, who knows
Cuba thoroughly is said by the Span
iards to be an honest man and a gen.
eral who can be counted upon to ter
inmate the war in short order.
The advent of Gomez into the West
ern part of Cuba is liable to be the
straw which will turn the tide in favor
Of Weyler's recall, which is only held
back because the Spanish ministry
does not like to be placed in the posi-
ton Of giving way in this matter to the
condemnation which the captain-gen-
eral and his methods have met with
in the American Newspapers. The
statement was given out at the palace
today that Emilio Collazo and Ed
ouardo Garcia, we'll known insurgent
commanders died recently from woulds
received in an engagement with the
Spanish troops In the province Of
Havana.