The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-01
YELLOW JOURNAL" VICTIM
SENATOR FAIRBANKS MISREPRE-
sENTED BY A CORRESPONDENT.
Fake Interview in a New York News
paper--COmments of Madrid Press
Advice from Cardinal Gibbons.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-PubIic men in
Washington are taking a more dispassion-
ate view of our Spanish complications, ana
they are disposed to admit that after all
there Is possibility of an adjustment with
out going to war. The board of inquiry in
to the Maine disaster is not likely to con-
clude it's investigation and send in a report
for some time yet, and until the official
finding there can be no change in the status
of affairs. The board has given evidence of
a settled determination to take sufficient
time to give every phase of the matter full
consideration. When a conclusion is
reached there will be no chance for the
world to say that the investigation was SUI
perfcial or that verdict was reached on
insufficient evidence.
(, AS the peace spirit grows stronger in
this country the sentiment of belligerency
appears to increase III Spain, as reflected
in Madrid cables, and the jingoes are seiz-
ing on this condition of things to sneering
insinuations that it is because Of the Span
ish belief that the yankees are a nation of
towards" and that they could not be driven
into a fight. Reliable advices from that
country represent that there is a deep-seat-
ed hostility among the people against the
United States, and that the jingo element
there is infinitely stronger In proportion to
the population than it is here. Very we'll
advised men believe that if hostility be-
tween the United States and Spain should
break out, the Spanish will take the initia-
tive. Sagastas response to the suggestion
supposed to have emanated from Bismarck,
looking to an arbitration over Cuba, indi-
Gates that Spanish sentiment is still intol-
Grant to the idea of the slightest admission
that anybody has a right to discuss with
Spain surrender of her sovereignty over
Cuba.
A New York paper to-day published what
purported to be an interview with Senator
Fairbanks, in which that gentleman was
represented as saying that he did not think
a cash indemnity for the loss of the Maine
would be satisfactory. A decided jngo col
or was impaired to the alleged interview,
and an attempt made to give it special sig
nificance on account of Senator Fairbanks's
well known personal friendly relations
with the President The interview was an
invention, pure and simple. Senator Fair
banks never gave expression to the views
quoted as his. He has maintained steadily
from the outset that judgment should be
suspended until the facts with regard to the
explosion were officially ascertained and
that until such time the public should not
give itself to speculation on hypothetical
conditions. He has held that the President
could be relied on to do what was right in
the matter, and that the executive would
at all times be governed by a proper sense
of what is due the dignity of the republic
and by a calm judgment of the require
ment of the law of nations. When the board
of inquiry makes it's report it will be time
to act; until then, the Senator believes in
keeping COOL