The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-02-05
NO NEARER THE End.
The War in Cuba Goes on as In
Weyler's Days.
BLANCO'S SCHEMES FUFRE.
There T. No Hope Of Ever bringing
the Insurgents "a Auionomy-silan
ish Troops Are In Had CoH-
dltiou % Push Cubans.

New York, Feb A dispatch 70
The Tribune from Havana saysi
General Blanco has returned from q
trip 10 the eastern provinces, which, put
In the best possible light, has failed to
come up 20 the expectations raised az
Madrid The sagasia ministry cannot
longer delude itself with the false hops
that the adhesion Of few minor In
surgcnt chiefs Is evidence that the insur'
rection Is disintegmting from within.
IL power Of resistance is shown BY the
fact that In such military operations as
have taken place during the last fort
night the advantage has been with the
insurgents. Briefly, the situation, which
by this time must be understood by the
ministry, Is that persuasion has failed TO
win the insurgents 20 autonomy, and
the army has had no better success.
The intraagcantes have their remedy.
They are not making threatening dem
onHmtions against the captain general
and telling him that the situation 4 In
supportabl, and that the only practica-
BE solution Is for him 20 90 home. For
the present they are oonienting them.
selves with advising Madrid Of these
facts What action they viii take later
In the form Of dissatisfaction cannot b.
foctold Though Weylor has many
I Tartisans. they do not look Tor him 10 ~
turn 20 Cuba In command. They realize
that the recall of Blanco would b. a con
fossion that the policy he was sent oui
20 indorse Is a failure. They do not ex
I pcct that the Sagnsta ministry viii con
foss itself out Of Office In this manner
They talk vaguely that the army mus
h. made supreme ii inforcing peace, Al
though the army had not been suprm,
for years.
II Il the frank Judgment of competent
military judges that the Spanish troop
In Cuba today are In worse condition
than the insurgents, though both tn
strength and the resources Of the latte
may b. exaggerated. weyler failed II
his campaign In Santiago. Pando crit
cizcd Weyler. but be has done no better
In two months the sole achievement o
. his forces has been 20 rescue the suryiv
ors of the garrison Of Guanna. Ina
General Luquo should b. driven int
Holguin from one direction and Genera
Linaros should seek refuge In the towl
from another direction indicates a fai
degree Of activity on the part Of the In
surponts In Santiago, under the com
mand Of Calixto Garcia and Rahi Gen
Pando has had the extra ammunition
Tor which h. asked Everything wa
done that the authorities could do "a
the soldiers. Nevertheless the sickncs
j. very gruat
The authorities do not feel that the
can trust autonomy a. civil policy .
the hands OF ifs enemies, 80 they tax
! means TO insure the elections nesultin
favorable % the government Tho Mar
Quis Apozioguia continues his efforts 3
enlist the younger conservatives on th
side Of a policy Of moderation and 20 do
tach them from the radicals 20 the IN
tmnsigcantes lie docs not seem &
make Roadway.
The local autonomists complain OF th
distribution Of the municipal patronag
since the rformists and the autonomi,
par:as formed an organization by fusion
. Il does appear % b. a vital mattel
Nevertheless. individual autonomists a
not like Il that individual rcformisi
get the ofilccs.
The autonomist cabinet remains in n
hpsc. Tho general staff Of the arm
encroachos further upon its suppose
functions by the control Of the pro.
ocnsonhip. The newspapers complai
bitterly that through all the periods {
repression they have never been 90 con
pletoly muzzlcd as under the prcscr
regime Of libcnlity.