Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-07-21
sPsAcE FsBLINa ~ MADhiD.
Uncertsintyt Reisns, Through Lack Of
,ir s.f Iuformattons i4i'

Iutormutiuus 4
London, Eng, July IS. The Madrid
correspondent of the Times says:
4 The public here is in q painful state
of uncertainty regarding Santiago.
The American dispatches, are contra
.dicsory and there ia almost no ipforma
tion from Spanish sources. 1t IL sug-
uesteu that tbs delay Is due to the fact
that the cabinet Communicates with
Sen. Torai only through Captain
General Blauco, who has large discre-
tionary powers, but this explanation is
unsatisfactory. s5ssY
One thing il tolerably certain, andhit
augurs i'll for the SPEEDY conclusion of,
peace. The cabinet at Washington
seems more exacting about uonditiGo,s
than Gen. Shutter; and this is regnrae.i
as indicating anything but'a concilia,
tory disposition on the part OF Presis
dent Mckinley at a critical moment
when little generosity might turn thu
scale in favor OF d peaceful solution,,
and when the local negotiations be-
tween the two generate at Santiago
might develop into larger Negotiations
between the two govarnmsnts. u, q
/ 1t is impossible, owing TO their re-
serve, to ray what the ministers hero
regard 'As1 reasonable conditions; bur
l observe among their private friends
an idea worth mentioning. In any
pence negotiations, say THESE, the
point of departure ought to be tho pub
liely ayowed object Of the war on tho
part of the United Ststes, namely. the
emancipation OF Cubh from .Spaniah
ruls. II President Mckinley restricts
himself to that object, there will lie no
serious difficulty 10 coming to an agree
meht: BECAUSE Spanish public opinion,
official and unofficial, has come to
recognize thar Spanish rule in Cuba
cannot be fe-estahlished. II, on, tbs
other hand, "a war undertaken for the
specific purpose Of liberating Cuba. de.
velops into g war Of ruthless conquest
and annexation, the Spanish govern
ment and the people will defend them
selves to the utmost. This seems to mo
at the present moment the dom inant
note of public opinion, +
b. TRYING TO RESTRAIN wEyLER.
Tho Daily Chronicle this morning
says il. believes that the conferences
between the Queen Regent aud Geo.
weyIcr means that Her, Majesty is
trying by her personal influsncs TO dis
buade the. 'sbyena,'9 from violently
adopting the Carlist cause and taking
his military adherents With bin.
The Chroniclc says: Spain's anxiety
as to Gibraltar isquite groundless; but
il she insists on batteries to threaten
our harbor aud coaling station, weshall
be obliged TO stop it."
BLA.co roR PRESIDENT OF cUBA.
The Gibraltar correspondent of the
Daily News auys:
A private letter from Havana, re-
csived here, aaserts that compact has
been concluded between Gen. Maxine
Gomez and Captain General Blanco.
The writer OF the letter says that
Blanco. after peace has been arranged,
will he elsctsd President of Cuba, just
as Don Pedro was elected viceroy OF
Brazil.
A popular English yachtsmsn tells
me that while he was. visiting hcre the
| Spanish consul, on behalf of tbs Spat (
ish goysrnment, offered him tho com-
maud Of a cruiser.
GERMANY WANTS no TEouniE, i,
The Berlin correspondent OF the Daily
News. suggeHting the possibility; that
| friction between the Foreign Office and
the Admiralty led to the. .Ireue incl
dent says: Nothing, know posi-.
| lively, would BIS moro inconvsnisnt and
hisngreeable 10 the German cabinet
than trouble with the United States.
A letter from Manila is going the
rounds of the press here, ridiculing as
grossly exaggerated the Reports OF the
savagery of the insurgents.