The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-08

the foregoing satisfactory that he may
designate persons in representation OF
| himself who, with those in nv name
| may agree to clauses of the capitulation
| upon the basis Of returning TO Spafn.
! accepted already in the beginning by
the general-in-chief Of this army.
Awaiting reply, / am your servant,
| JOSE TORAL."
AT the meeting the following day
uenetai Iorai said he was willing to
surrender with the consent of the can
tain general, but 1t would require a lit
tie time to have his acts confirmed by
the home government: that in the
meantime he appeared to appoint COM
mlssioners to arrange the clauses of the
capitulalon. Not only this, he offered
10 surrender the balance of his COM
mand. which had not been under fire
during the campaign. The remarkable
oner was on his motion and was in the
nature or a surprise to the American
generals present. However, at the
conference or the day previous. General
Miles reminded him that he had been
rendered the most liberal terms ever
oHered TO an enemy, that his fleet was
destroyed and that they were 5000 miles
from home. Torars offer could be ac-
counted for In one or two ways-either
that the troops We're wanted at home
To meet a threatened revolution. or that
they wanted to get home and regarded
TINS as the only means of doing so at
the expense of the United States.
Whether Blanco and the rest of the
Spanish forces in Cuba would have sur
rendered on the same terms is not now
ana perhaps may never be known
The place of landing the Porto Rican
expedition had been so thOroughly ad-
vertised in communications sent over
the French cable and i'm the newspapers /
or our own country and telegraphed to /
MADRID ana from there to San Juan.
that, not having received the necessary /
appliances with which to disembark. /
General Miles decided, after leaving the 1
w indWard passage, to change his course
ana land on the south side of Porto
hlco, where the Spaniards were the least
prepared and the least expecting to re-
celVe him and where he knew that the
of the troops and sup
plies could be most easily effected.
From the time of that disem barkation.
Turing the following ~ days of the cam
paign, he kept the Spaniards guessing
Nhat the next move would be- When
-hey withdrew along the line of the
great military road between Ponce and
san Juan they destroyed the bridges.
Instructed the roads and fortified strong
losltlons In the mountain passes, and
hen were surprised To find a column of
lis army was sweeping around the west
ma OF the island, capturing the princi- |
al cities and towns, while another had |
'assed over the mountains over the
rail which the Spaniards had supposed
and therefore had not for
lned or guarded ii, and the first they ,,
new or the march of the American ,
rmy was the appearance of a strong
rigade within 20 miles of the northern ,
oast at the terminus of the railroad r
San Juan with Arrecibo I
Ihe Island of Porto Rico was fairly | q
'on by the right of conquest, and has c
ecome part of the United States. &
he sentiment of the people was in no n
ense outraged by the invaders, but on X
ne contrary was successfully propit-
tied. people who have endured the
7Verity of Spanish rule for four CEN 4
lrles hail with joy the protection of II
he great republic One Of the richest b
actions of the country over which our q
ag now floats has been added and will j
OF lastlng value to our nation, polit- W
ally, commercially and from a mill u
ny or strategic point of view. u
Possession of that island has also y
any further resistance by the rt
panish forces in Cuba hopeless. and -
eneral Miles firmly believes that by re
lr and Just treatment the people of :.
lba can be easily controlled. either u,
a friendly ally and neighbor, or To -
come a part of our country as the =,
.ople Of Porto Rico ~
General Miles remained i'm Porto Rico 30
long as he deemed his presence ne -,
ssary for carrying out the wishes of o.,
e president and now returns TO the -,
1.ted States. bringing with him near
o,goo men who are no longer requir- no
there being some 1900 remaining. he
nply sufficient for all purposes He wi
turns at once to Washington, where bn
believes he can be most useful. as cri
considers the most important need
the hour now to be the immediate
iuction OF war expenses and the re-
rn OF large portion Of those in the
Itary service as soon as possible to s'a
Fir former occupations. where tbev
: most needed. T