The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-08-04
WE WILL NOT WAIT.
Porto Rico VIII Be Captured Before
Peace Negotiations Are Begun.

This Government Positively Received Ma
Overtures for Peace Before Last Tues.
day-An Talk About Bad Faith by
Our Govern mept Not True.
WASHINGTON, July 90 0-Porto Rico
will be taken before peace negotia.
tions are really begun. Gen. Brooke
and his army sailed Thursday. A sec.
ond expedition has already reinforced
Gen. Miles. Troops are ready to sail
from Tampa and the three Ohio regi.
ments, 1st, Sd and 5th, also at that
place, will embark this week.
As for peace, every one is waiting
upon the president He spent some
time Wednesday night talking with
cabinet officers and public men, but he
still is silent as to his intent. One
thing is certain and that is his an
swer. when it is given to Spain, will be
an ultlmatum.
The administration is adverse to dis.
cussing settlement through a third
party and after the president has given
his answer through the French am
bassador, he will expect Spain to take
up the matter. France may be all
right now, but her sympathies have
been with Spain and we want no fur.
ther misunderstanding. We have
ambassadors at London and Paris and
sohas Spain and it is though hit that
the preliminaries will be entrusted to
one of these after the answer of the
president is made. 1t is expected that
when the cabinet considers the ques.
tion with formal care, as will be the
case Friday. the interchange of views
will show considerable divergence,
but no difficulty is antici-
pated in arriving at unan.
imous conclusion before an ad-
journment is taken. According to the
present programme the reply will be
placed in the hands of the French am.
bassador on Saturday It can be stat
ed, however, that the cabinet is
not yet unit upon details of
the proposed reply. The senti-
ment among the presidents ad.
visers ranges from q demand for all
the territory upon which the Amer
ican flag has been raised, with coal
ing station in the Canaries and a war
indemnity, TO the most moderate
terms which can be suggested with
honor and dignity. Whether the
president will offer Spain def
mite terms is still unsettled.
The ultimatum may take the form
of demanding from Spain her views
before we go further. A rumor says
that Spain wants hostilities stopped
on Sunday.
The president has already given his
answer to this by ordering the sailing
of Gen. Brooke and advising Gen.
Miles to move on to Ponce and San
Juan without loss of time. 1t is said
on the other hand, that by Offering to
Spain definite terms upon which
peace can be negotiated this govern
ment will throw upon the Spanish
authorities the responsibility of a
refusal or an acceptance. If the re-
quest of Spain Tor some suggestions
should be met by a counter proposal.
as to what concessions would be ac.
ceptable, the door would be opened for
a lengthy and indecisive correspond.
ence. This, of course, the president
desires to avoid
Neither is there any intention of
naming immoderate and even impos-
sible terms, with view of yielding as
the negotiations proceed. 1t is the
presidents present purpose to submit |
to Spain the very lowest conditions
upon which the United States will
agree to peace, and from this ulti. |
matum there will be no deviation. The
American conduct OF the case will be |
frank and open, with no attempt 1T |
disguise or subterfuge.
WASHINGTON, July 20-It can be
stated on the authority of the state |
department. and the foreign embassies
here that there were no overtures in |
behalf Of Spain for peace or a cessation
of hostilities until the French ambas-
sador last Tuesday afternoon
presented his note to the president
This statement is made with full knowl-
edge of European denials and must be
accepted as that of the government
Of the United States Therefore, all
IT the talk about bad faith shown by
our government in pressing the Porto
Rican campaign during the lastI few
lays is absolutely without foundation.
'psniards Want Hostiiitiss Stopped Sun.
day.
MADRID, July 29.-When questioned
peace negotiations Prime
Sagasta said that Duke Al
nodovar de Rio, the foreign minister,
n his note TO President Mckinley,
1aa askad fov a su>c~u.l~. - L..Aar |