The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-15
THE LONG DELAYED MESSAGE
What Congressman from Mississippi
Think Of Il.
cONaREssaAy suLLIYAN

~ Mississippi, u Of the most
conservative men in the dele
CATION, paid his respects To the
President and his so-clllcd pol
ICY IN the following strain: 1.-The
message. in my opinion, Is typ
ical Of the President; weak, yacillat-
ing and Inconsistent. 1t smacks OF
manipulation by his masters: they
are all for peace at any price. Neither
the suffering OF the Cubans nor the
general welfare OF the people OF this
country has been considered. He has
kept steadily 10 view the interests oil
| those who are believed to have as
sisted him in the late caE1paign.
The message will go dawn in history
as being a reflection upon the Repub-
lican administration and the people
who elected Mr.. Mckinley tn Office.
l favor declaration OF independence,
followed and sustained, il necessary,
by armed intervention"
CONGRESSMAN HENRY
of Mississippi, coin;ided heartily with
the views OF his colleague. The
message" he said, sis a very volumi-
nous paper, defining no policy. lie
asks that the power belonging to Con.
grcss should be conferred upon him.
His propositions cannot be enter
tanned by even his friends, and l am
very much mistaken IL future devcl-
opments do not bear me out in pre-
dieting that he will never be author.
lied To carry out a policy which
promises nothing except a further
increase In the suifcrings Of the
| rccnncentrados and to further disturb
business in this country, by the I'M
ccrtaintics OF the outcome. | am for
the independence Of the Cubans, with
armed intervention il necessary To
carry out that policy"
CONGRESSMAN FOX
said: ''The message, in my opinion,
is Ia the interest Of Spain. II the
Spanish minister In this country had
framed it he could not have presented
his side Of the question more effect
lively. barring the preamble in which
| the President shows as plainly as 1t
can be shown that the United States
have good and just cause to put a
stop to existing conditions on the
island"
CONGRESSMAN LOVE,
OF Mississippi, who cannot by any
stretch of the inauguration be
claSsed as an extremist, but who
thinks that it is Il duty devolviHg up
on a great and christian nation TO in
tcrvene in Cuban matters, for the
sake of humanity, spoke OF lhe mes
sage as follows: Il am very much
disappointed in it. 1t was very wOrdy
but impaired nothing that was new,
| should object very seriously to turn
ing the solution OF this matter yer To
the President, as he suggests. In my
opinion, he has made n very strong
case in favor OF intervention by this
country, yet he winds it up by sug'
g~esting that Congress put the matter
in his hands. ! am in favor Of rccog'
milton OF Independence. even If this
can only be accomplished by armed
intervention"
CONGRESSMAN CATCHINGs,
Of Mississippi thought the President
had made ont IA very strong case. anC
that il he were authorized to carry
out the policy that he had outlined IL
his message war was inevitable. III
could not share with the views Of hi,
colleagues that it was A weak paper
on the contrary. the message wa
manly, dignihed and to the point
the only apprehension he had a tha'
the message shut out all hope of peace
and left us with no other rccUurs,
than the sword.