Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-21

That The government IS IrlHlng
| With a Grave State Of Affairs, at
| Home as Well as Abroad--The
Impartial Hints at Revolution.
| Ironical Remarks Leveled at the
| Ministry-The Lee Incident Dis
turbing Factor in Spain.
| Correspondence OF the Associated Press)
| Madrid, March S.-The Madrid press,
with few exceptings, has, during the
past few days, been trying TO convince
| the public that there was never any
question OF General Fitzhugh Lee re-
| call from Havana. The facts in the
| case however, are exactly as cabled
/ to the Associated Press. Senior Sa-
! gasta, in conversation with Gen.
| Woodford, did suggest that friendship
| and good will between the two coun-
tries would be promoted were General
+! Lee to be recalled, and after consult
| ing his government, General Wood
| ford did inform the Premier that such
| a step could not be considered. Moth
| ing would have been known of the
affair had it not been that some one
| in the Spanish foreign Office confided
| the information to the official news
| agency of Spain-the Fabra Agency.
| The fact that this agency received it
and that the censor allowed it to be
telegraphed by them abroad, is, to
those familiar with methods in Mad
rid, conclusive evidence that it was
correct 1t was only the effect this
| news produced in America was cabled
back here and after there was a fall
on the bourse that there was any ques-
ton of denying its authenticity.
The Globo, the Spanish ministerial
organ, in a leading article to-day says
| it can faly mislead those who are
| ignorant of the
TRADITIONAL SENSITIVENESS
of the stock exchange. adding that
neither the government nor public
opinion should pay greater attention
to the phenomenon than it merits.
/
comes from Paris, and is due to two
absurd rumors, namely, that the Uni
| ted States government refused to re-
move General Lee at the request of
tn Spanish government, and that no
lesser person than His Holiness, Leo
| XIII. had, through his Secretary Of
State, committed himself to favorable
statements with regard to the Cuban
insurgents. The first has no basis
Whatever, the government having
neither officially nor indirectly sug-
gested Lees removal; the latter we
oplne. arises solely from Cardinal Cas-
cajares' pastoral. But it is we'll known
that the said pastoral has not been
well received at Havana
The Impartial refers to the General
Lee fumors and to the government de-
mai OF their truth as accounting for
the fall In prices. 1t declines to
DECIDE ON WHICH SIDE
the truth really lies.
Commenting, however. on the tram
guilty Of the government, and espec-
idiiy VI senior CaSdSta, IT saws.
we presume the ministers have re-
assuring information which discounts
IN their minds the panic reigning in
financial circles
But, it adds. eff they have not
what a frightful responsibility lies up
on themi We do not wish to admit II
nor even to think of it, for if the dav
should come when war is inevitable
and the present governments TRANQUIL
ity turns out to be neglect and want Of
foresight, then the foreign question
will be as nothing compared to the
home one started in our midst. AS we
have already pointed out, the most
dangerous thing which can happen ID
that the nation should imagine the
government is neglecting either the
defence of our honor or our interests.
For that will
LEAVE THE ROAD OPEN
for some ambitious man who has a
name or a political party Of some
strength"
With respect to the affair of General
Lee, the Pals says:
1T is quite clear the government Ia
determined TO live as divorced as pos
sible from public opinion, and it car
ries out this plan with a consistency
worthy Of better cause. AL this very
moment when the whole of Spain-or
rather the whole of Europe-is re-
joicing at the rumors Of complaints
addressed by the Spanish government
to that of the United States, our Min
lister of State labors to prove that no
such complaints have ever been made,
and that the government has not even
incidentally occupied itself with tha
affair
People doubt the truth of these
statements. We do not We prefer to
credit them rather than suspect what
must otherwise have happened. name
ly. that the government made the COM
plant, but in the face of the insolent
refusal Of the Yankees to make salts
faction
HAD NOT THE COURAGE
to abide by them. Nevertheless, the
rumors, we must admit, look true. All
the world believes in their authenticity
and those who do not are Of the opin-
ion tTat they ought to be true"
1'lya Pals says
General Lee may now quietly con-
tinue plotting in his Havana consul
Late
Referring to the quotation slump in
Spanish bonds, the Liberal character
lies as absurd the action attributed to
the Pope, his lofty prudence being
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