The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-13
THE CASE or cUBh.
TIE ~strasreiy Contradictory Statements or the
Spanish Terrorist.


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WeyIer ~. % s''e"sthehNi
oy the many ACCOMPLISHMENTS nc mas recently
mace lnat Spanish supremacy mas o'"a
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enueu' lhc opye'' " 'uVSo u0'N"fa''o"s CA
harhIS DC any other MANI" prepare inc way Tor
MS depar'uro llon 'ho enc y h's ,ip'"r'oH'
campaign. niS ~ ~ ne can 70
Dack 10 Spain "S 'o"fueiV' anu Pa'''tF OF
the muuhouA coiOn' a"u ree'iNe ~ re""fio OF
ms achie'emcntS. "oHtn ~ nc informed MS
Government tnAt NO hAd oeslro!ed inc enemy
IN the western pr, a i''a"" S"O" "it'r-
waru nc deciareu nat nc M" "th success'ui IN
three provinces ana more recently ne mas aided
n tourth province 10 tne Hstoi IL successes,
leaving only a small scction OF inc west 20 Tho
rebels VINO nave out le" guorIlIia oahds THAT
can DC eHtcEminhteo NJ con'ehiehce' lie mas
got things ready ior tne Application OF 'hrse re-
forms which spain Is anxious 10 provide Tor
Cuba; he has given satisfaction 70 ms own Gov.
eminent and TO the Government OF Inc United
states; he has disposed OF tne more dangerous
reoel leaders; nc mas enforced financial He.rs
favorable TO Spain' ana the time mas come when
he can BOAST that there IL hothinS more Tor MIN
to do In cuba. HIS services there are No; re-
quired during the rainy season lhere - \
credible report IN circulation AT havana mat
WeyIer Will return 10 spain within the hcXs
fsW Te~1a
During the rainy season OF the past TWO years
the insurgents nave given the spaniarcs a
respite from war, ana the armies OF ooth paF'ies
nave stayed In their camps TOT the reason 'hao
military operations were impracticah!e. This
year again the insurgents Will probably keep
quiet during most OF that season. Thus. for \
half year after Weylers return to Madrid hs
may be able to sustain the assertion that Cuba
has been conquered and pacfned-
There are Few things more curious than Wey.
ler's official assurances OF the pacihcation Of
Cuba during the months in which the Havana
papers have every day printed official bulletins
OF battles since the early part OF the year.
when the Spanish commander informed his Gov.
eminent that the three western provinces had
been pactned. there have been, according 20
Spanish reports, hundreds OF sanguinary fights
In these same provinces, with the result that
thousands OF rebels have been killed. and THAI
victory had always and everywhere perched
upon the banners or spain. The con-
Trajectory sent out by authority
from Havana have constantly followed each
other. and have often been printed stimuli
taneously. To an impartial observer 1t seems
impossible that the Spanish Government can
give any heed to them. or can sustain a General
who is responsible for them. Troops are con-
graduated for winning victories that are incon-
patible with the prevalence OF peace; officers are
promoted or decorated for the performance OF
deeds that could be performed only while war is
raging. What meaning can any one attach TO
two statements that are dead against each
other when both OF them come from the same
source and are sustained by the same kind OF
testimony In the war between Greece and
Turkey the Turks have won battles. but no
Turk has been such a fool as to say the battles
were won in a time Of peace. No sensible Turk
would say that there were only q few hundred
men in the ranks OF the enemy, all of them
skulkers, while admitting that his own army
consisted Of hundreds OF thousands Of troops.
Not the vainest of Turkish commanders would
ever send out such bundles of Incompatible TO
ports as Weyler has published to the world.
The talk OF another time about sending Gen.
Martinez Campos to Cuba in place of weyler has
also been revived. 1t is said that he is q moro
suitable man than Weyler to carry out the Span
fish reforms. In case he should again be made
CaptainGeneral and Cuba should remain i'm
placable. and the instruction should become 81
active as ever at the end Of the rainy season, is
would then be in the power Of Weyler to indulge
In ehJusuncation and to point to the failure
or his old enemy, whose former failure, In
the hrst year OF the war. has 30 often
been pointed out by Weyler, and has
afforded him SO much satisfaction. 1t would
then be In Weyler's power TO say: Il went to
our colony when Campos had brought 1t to the
verge OF ruin; 1 conquered and pactfed 1t in q
year; left 1t when Spanish authority was tn
umphant. and yet within a few months moro
troops are needed by this incompetent Campos!'
1t must DO remembered that the military
Jealousy among the higher officers of the Span
ish army is OF the most truculent kind, and thai
there are hardly any two Generals more ran
corous IN thelr hatreo OF each other than Vale
riano "eyler and Martinez Campos.
H' NNe "e4" WIN again