The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-09
Senator Morgan Expects the Coming
of the Wet Season VIII Wind
Up the Rebellion.
NO POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE
TO THE STATEMENT OF
SENIOR DE LONE AT LENNOX.
Lays the Crime to Revenge of Annrch-
lists for the Execution of the
Barcelona Prisoners.

A
WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-This govern
ment probably has already received the
formal notification of Premier Canovass
assassination, but If so it is locked up
with other dispatches in the State Depart
ment, and will not be known until Secre-
tary Sherman reaches the department to-
morrow. Immediately the State Depart
ment, according to it's usual custom. will
announce the event to the President and
the latter will, in some way, make formal
and public expression regarding the gov
ernment's deep regret. Just in what form
this expression will be couched is not
known, for precedents differ, but it doubt
less will be a dispatch to the Spanish gov
ernment. simple and sympathetic in its
terms.
Secretary of State Sherman received the
first news of the affair through the Asso-
ciated Press bulletin. He expressed deep in
terest in the details. He said: This deplor-
able event will have some effect, of course,
on the political affairs of Spain, but to
what extent l cannot say. The death of
one man is not necessarily going to change
the sentiment of the whole country. Spain
is a very tenacious country. Her money is
gone. Her resources have been exhausted,
but she means, evidently, to hold on to
Cuba Just how she can do it under these
circumstances, l cannot see. Yet she is op-
posed to yielding a point Premier CanOvas
was strong partisan. He was the chief
exponent of the element which was de-
termined to keep the island al all hazards.
Seemingly Spain is almost a unit on this.
Canovas was a strong factor in the gov
ernment of Spain, but it Is not impossible
J., har mill IL. l..
| in that important office. having similar
views and the same pronounced ideas How
it may be in this case l am not able to
say but the effects, politically, of such an
event are not essentially far-reaching and
have not always produced radical develop
ments. AS to the consequences of the con-
fiict in Cuba. / do not care to talk. l have
no official information of the assassination
and must refrain from venturing guesses
as to what it may effect in the future"
Asked as to how long he now thought the
Cuban insurrection might last, he replied
that that was problematical and he did not
care to discuss H. He added that he had
heard various names Of prominent leaders
in Spain mentioned, but he was not well
informed as to them and there was nothing
Canovas's probable successor.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, member
of the foreign affairs committee of the Sem
ate, and the champion of Cuba in that body
predicted in an interview tonight that the
assassination might be the forerunner of a
complete change of government, a republic
replacing the monarchy This, he thought
was the present tendency, and to-day's
event he regarded as an evidence of the
disintegration of the Spanish government
a complete reVulSion throughout the whole
of Spain. That country is now In a very
shaky condition: 1t is true, doubtless, that
to-day's assassin was an Anarchist. but
the act is representative of a feeling that
exists all over the country A republican
party has already attained great strength,
1lrh Of G 10 hp.
largely concealed. Then, the universal tes-
tmony is that the bulk of the Spanish army
IN Cuba is made up 3,,o OF young % , men. en- Thls s
and their dispatch to the island, to be led
by Weyler, has developed powerful SEN
timent in Spain. Why are the veterans
kept at home? Look at this powerful re-
publican element that has grown up-the
effect Of denuding the country of its young
men and the personal antagonism thus en-
gendered, the proximity Of Spain to the
broad, liberal influences of the French re-
public, where there are ties of mutual af-
fection and the government exerts itself
to help it's citizens The act does not mean
a personal prejudice against Canovas, but
against his political stand and views and
the extreme element he represents 1t was
the Well-developed symptom of the most
deep-seated antagonism to the creed of the
CanoVas party. The Barcelona incident
gave evidence of the tremendous anti-ad-
ministration operations and the stricken
premiers Endorsement of Weyler, putting
him in command Of Barcelona after that at
fair greatly added to CanovaS's unpopu-
Iarity The indications point to the assas-
sin as a victim of that Barcelona incident.
The successorship of Canovas is prob
lematical l believe, however, that the ad-
ministration will realize the overwhelming
influence of the opposition, and, having
seen Canovas got out or the way Will
trv some one with Cuban views a degree
removed from those of Canovas in a liberal
direction 1t is not improbable, and 1T is
GI5ite likely that Senior PTaxedes Mateo
Sagasta. the distinguished Liberal states
man may succeed Canovas as premier.
Sagasta is seventy years old, was minister
of fhe interior under the provisional govern
ment of 1868, president OF the Cortes in
1871. and has occupied the post of premier
u believe that the Cuban conflict will be
ended at the close Of the present rainy
season This | have frequently contended
and am now confident Of it. The termina-
ton of the affair would thus be brought
about in October
in Washington when the news or Senor
Canovas's assassination was received was
Iulio Galarza the third secretary. Senior
be LONE the Spanish minister was at
Tepn0v and all the other members of the
Iegation were scattered for the summer.
Until $50 o'clock SenOr Galarza had
heard nothing officially from spain, but at
that hour a telegram was brougnt 10 him,
and after reading 1t hurriedly left the Met
roDoiitar Club where he was stopping, say
~ merely that he was going to New York
II is nrobable that ne Will join Senior DE
Tome either there or in Lennox, 1t is
iilEsIV that this unexpected development
will bring the Spanish minister back TO
Washington
..4 No Vov,,e's OnfuFou