The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-09
Believes the Event Is a Most Deplor-
able One.

Believes the Event Is a Most Deplor-
able One.
Washington. Aug. S.-Thisy govern
ment has probably already received the
formal notification of Premier Cano-
vas assassination, but If so, it is4oeked
UP with other dispatches in the state
department and viii not be known I'M
til Secretary Sherman reaches the de-
partment tomorrow Secretary Sher-
man received the first news of the af-
fair through the Associated Press bull
letin. He expressed deep interest in
the details. He said:
This deplorable event will have some
effect, of course, on the political af-
fairs 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 onto Cuba. Just how she can
do ii, under these circumstances, l can
not see. Yet she is opposed TO yielding
a point. Premier Canovas was a strong
partisan He was the chief exponent
Of the element which was determined
to keep the island at all hazards.
Seemingly, Spain is a unit on this.
Canovas was a strong factor in the
movement of Spain, but it is not i'm
possible that another will be found to
replace him in that important office,
having similar views and the same pro-
nounced ends. How it may be in this
case ] am not able to say, but the eff
fects, politically. of such an event are
not essentially far reaching and have
not always produced radical develop
ments. AS to the consequences of the
conflict in Cuba, / do not care to talk
l have no official information of the
assassination and must refrain from
venturing guesseS as to what II 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 it. He
added that he had heard various names
of prominent leaders in Spain men
toned, but he was not well informed
as to them, and there was nothing on
which he could base a prediction as TO
Canovas probable successor.
MORGAN OF ALABAMA
Senator Morgan of Alabama, a mem
Der of the foreign affairs committee
Of the senate and the champion of
Cuba in that body. predicted in an in
terview tonight that the assassination
might be the forerunner of a complete
change of government, a republic re-
placing the monarchy This, he thought,
was the present tendency, and today'5
event he regarded as an evidence of
the disintegration of the Spanish gov
eminent. He added:
This affair is going to create COM
plete revulsion throughout the whole of
Spain. That country is now in a very
shaky condition. 1t is true, doubtless,
that today's assassin was an anarch
ist, but the act is representative Of
feeling that exists all over the coun
try A republican party has already
attained great strength, although, Of
course, its operations have to be largely
concealed. Then the universal teSti-
mony is that the bulk of the Spanish
army in Cuba is made up of young men.
This has broken up families all over the
land, and their dispatch TO the island
TO be led by Weyler has developed a
powerful sentiment in Spain. Why are
the veterans kept at home? Look at
this powerful republican element that
has grown up, the effect of denuding
the country of its young men and the
personal antagonism thus engendered,
the proximity of Spain to the broad,
liberal influences of the French re-
public, where there are ties of mutual
affection and the government exerts it
self TO help its citizens. The act does
not mean a personal prejudice against
Canovas, but against his political
stand and views, and the extreme ele-
ment he represented. 1t was the we'll
developed system Of the most deep
seated antagOniSm to the creed of the
Canovas party. The Barcelona Incl
dent gave evidence of the tremendous
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. operations and
the stricken premier's endorsement of
Weyler, putting him in command of
Barcelona greatly z 1ded to Cancvas'
unpopularity. The indications point to
the assassin as a victim of that Bar
celOna incident.
The successorship of Canovas is
pToblematical. l believe, however, that
the administration will realize the over
whelming influence of the opposition,
and having seen Canoyas gotten out of
the way, will try someone with Cuban
views a degree removed from those of
Canovas in a liberal direction. It is
not improbable, and il is quite likely,
that Senior Praxedes Sagasta, the dis
tinguished Liberal statesman, may sue
coed Canovas as premier. Sagasta is
20 years old, was minister of the in
terror under the provisional government
of 1868, president of the cortes in ISL
and has occupied the post of premier
of the Spanish government a number
of times.
Il believe that the Cuban conflict
viii be ended at the end of the present
rainy season. This I have frequently
commended, and now am confident of it,
The termination of the affair will thus
be brought about in October"
DE LONE WAS AWAY.
The only member of the Spanish le-
cation in Washington when the news
of Canovas' assassination was received
was Julio Calariza, the third secretary
Senior De LONE, the Spanish minister
was at LennoX, and all the other
members of the legation were away for
the summer. Until $50 Senior Calariza
had heard nothing officially from Spain,
but at that hour telegram was
brought him, and after reading it he
hurriedly left the Metropolitan club.
where he was stopping. saying merely
that he was going to New York. It is
probable that he viii join Senior De
Lone, either there or in Lennon. 1t is
likely that this unexpected develop
ment will bring the Spanish minister
back to Washington.