Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
Ex-MlNlsTER TAYLOR.

Our Former Representative at Madrid ID
Talking Now Onlcial Seal Removed
From His Lips-The Whole Pretense or
Autonomy or Reforms for Cuba Nothing
More than Shodowy PRetense-He Aavo-
Gates Intervention
New YORK. Nov. e.-The Herald pre-.
sents remarkable letter from Hannis
Taylor. former United States minister
to Spain, in which, after telling of his
strenuous efforts to prevent a rupture
of diplomatic relations between the
countries during the dark days of the
Competitor case, he asserts that the
ruling class of Spain are determined to
refuse any concessions which would be
accepted by the Cubans.
o. Mr.. Taylor, the seal of secrecy hav-
ing been removed, tells how he and
Senior CASTELAR, tried to persuade the
late Premier Canovas to offer genuine
reform to the Cubans, as that other
wise intervention by the United States
must follow inevitably.
This was Mr.. Taylor's attitude as u
diplomatic representative, anxious to
prevent war. For time he believed.
he saws, that the iron premier had
yielded. But when the proposed re-
forms were made public he says, II
saw that the great man trified with
us as if we were children"
Mr.. Taylor denounces the Hollow
ness and emptiness of the whole shad-
owy pretense embodied in the royal
decree of February, 1897" and after
discussing what he believes to be the
attitude of SPANS ruling classes, says
he sees no solution of the Cuban prob
lem which viii end the inhuman strife
except intervention by this country.
There are many dramatic passages
in Mr.. Taylor's letter, and 1T makes
plain much that was dark.
Mr.. Taylor's letter concludes as fol-
lows:
I'm my former article deliberately ventured
to assert that am satisfied, after careful in
vestigation, that the ruling classes of Spain,
civil clerical and military, are resolved, re-
gardless OF party, to refuse to make any conces-
sions to their rebellious colonists as would
meet with their acceptance. / can not doubt
that any minister who dares to undertake such
perilous enterprise win be at once discredited
and driven from ofice, and it viii be great
weakness upon our part to be misled by any
false hopes and promises in that regard.
Events in the future will demonstrate that
am right on that point OF course IL Gen.
Blanco had brought with him anything like
autonomy he would have proclaimed it at once.
His effort, on the contrary, was TO conceal the
fact that he was powerless to give any such as
surance
In the light of these facts believe that all
fair-minded men, will see how utterly unreason-
able IL is to call me a lingo am just the re-
verse. My dear friend, the duke of Tetuan, late
minister of state, who escorted me to the train
upon my departure, gave me his portrait with
q tender inscription, in memory of my contlnu-
GUS efforts during stormy times to keep the peace
For that reason many trembled to see me go
away
And now that this personal transaction has
been brought to light by Senator Salvani, who
has the right to speak for Senator CASTELAR, as
well as himself, it appears that, in season and
out of season, personally, as well as officially,
was always working to find way to end this
cruel Cuban war, and to render unnecessary the
Intervention of the United States.
II am now the advocate of such Intervention,
because am satisfied that it is the only re-
naming means by which peace in Cuba can
possibly be secured"