Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-07-28
STATEMENT FROM sHAFrER.
He Explains Iiis Relations with Garcil
md tho Conditions In Snntlngo.


Denver, July GA special to the
Republican from the New York Her.
AIDS correspondent at Santiago. says:
Major General William II. Shnfter,
commander of the American forces in
the campaign against Santingo, to-day
gave an interesting interview on the
situation here.
General Shafter throws more light
on his controversy with General CaliX.
to Garcia. the Cuban leader, and now
makes public for the first time the fac,
that he and the Cuban general had
some correspondence about their diff.
ferences prior to the open break be-
tween them.
You Dlay tell the Herald" said Gen.
eral Shafter, when called ut the pal
ace. in which he is now comfortably
situated, that the situation in Santi-
ago is much improved. Twenty thOus.
and Spanish soldiers in the province of
Santiago have laid down their arms,
leaving less than 5000 to be accounted
for. l hope that all Of the Spanish
army will be accounted for by the end
of the week, SO that the work of load
ing the troops on transports will be
over as soon as possible and the cam
paign in the province be brought to a
close.
Colonel Wood has been installed as
military governor. with full power to
act as circumstances may warrant.
I'm the country many of the Spanish
troops have gone to work, while here
in Santiago, as you can see for your
self, business has been resumed.
.'As to the political situation l have
little to add to what already Is known.
l regret that General Garcia should
feel offended because he was not per-
mitted to be n signatory to the Span
ish surrender. In letter written to
him in reply to his protest have
made it plain that the ceremony of
surrender in the retention of the Span
ish municipal officers and tariff duties
must be treated as temporary meas
ures, quite apart from the final perma-
nent policy of the United States in
Cuba. The letter was personal and
very friendly in tone, but General
Garcia made no reply to it,
General Shafter and Senor Ros, the
civil governor of Santiago, have had Il
serious clash over the governors off
cious and unauthorized dismissal of
Spanish officials. General Shafter un-
did the governors work, sharply re-
Duhttl anu Silitu a.
"presuming rascal" AS n result of
this heated interview, Senor Bos an
nounced that he will resign. The Gu
bans are highly indignant over Gen
eral Shnfter's action.
DIR. Joaquin Castillo. brother Of the
general, who is in the city, said to me
that the Cubans We're much diSap-
pointed and disgusted ut the action of
General Shafter in prohibiting the Gu
ban troops from entering the city.
1--WE have" he said, carried on this
war for three years. We have borne
tolls and hardships and the brunt of
the fight. Now that it is partly won.
we are treated worse than the Span
iards. the common enemy. We see
Spaniards parading the streets clad in
the uniform of Spain and filling lucra-
tive offices, while our troops suffer
hardships and privations in the inter-
ior. We see men bitterly opposed to
both Cubans and Americans still re-
tnining posts of honor under the pre-
tense of preventing the cessation of
the machinery of civil government"