The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-15

ASPIROS VIEWED
WITH MORE FAVOR
Diplomatic Circles Gradually Withdraw
Ing The Boycott.
OFFICIAL MIND PERPLEXED
Action Of AuStria'S Representatives Are
Unreasonable and Unjust.
THE WcE-PRESlDENT STILL SICK
1t Has Been Practically Determined
That General Wheeler Shall Go to
the Philippines and Assume
Government of Manila.
THE WcE-PRESlDENT STILL SICK

Washington still continues to perplex the
official mind here, almost as much as the
troubles out in Samoa. Samoa is thousan s
of miles away and the German emperor
can be handled through the tedious chan
nels of diplomacy, but Mr.. Aspiros is not
only near to the capital of the United
States" but actually in the capital, and a
daily visitor to the White House. TIE
president is said to resent very deeply the
attitude which the various legations ard
embassies here have assumed toward the
ambassador of a power so close and SO
friendly to the United States as that of
Mexico.
The severe criticisms passed upon the
actions of the diplomatic corps have caused
the French and the English to disavow any
hostile intention toward Mr.. Aspiros, and
as consequence Mr.. and Mrs. Aspiros
have been invited to dinners at the en-
basses OF these two great powers. Mr..
Aspiros has INDUCED in no criticism of the
treatment accorded his wife and himself,
but when asked if he had noticed the Dip
lomatic snub, said he had been invited to
the French and British legations and that
these gentlemen had called on him. 1t
seems now that the Austrian legation here
wired to the court of Francis Joseph for
instructions as to what to do and receiy ed
instructions to have nothing to do with
the new Mexican ambassador.
Signed MaximiilaI's Death Warrant
To uphold their position, the men who
are leading in this ungracous conduct to-
ward the new diplomat have spread the r.
port that Asp res signed the death warrant
of MaXimillian, which act can never be
lCpOdOnpd The n n nd no MANILA
of Mexico might be forgiven their share,
they say but 1t is impossible TO shake the
individual hand that held the pen which
signed the warrant. This has been den ed,
but not yet proven. The Mexicans and
those who are intimate with the Mexicans
assert most positively that M. A p ros d. d
nothing more than his position as judge
te-general required that he should
do He conducted the prosecution, but
those over him had to sign the warrant
that committed Macmillan to death.
During this discussion one sees how diff
ferently those of the old country and those
in America view the act of Macmillan or
any other similar act to steal a country
and build 1t into an empire merely for a
title. They overlook the fact that Maximil-
liam was an usurper and an enemy; that
his act was a crime which would meet
with capital punish ment in any European
country, but they only remember the ga |
liant officer who, when he had a chance TO
fee and seek safety on an Austrian ship |
at Vera Cruz, that he refused to do so, |
preferring to remain b. hind and share the |
fate of the few Mexican generals who had |
followed him and who had been condemned |
to die as traitors to their own land
Looked On As n MARTYR
The opinion of the Mexican as to the |
gallantry of this act varies from that of |
the diplomats here, who look upon Maxi |
milan In Mayioo thew r1 |
him as an INSCRIPTIONS leader who never |
did believe that the French or even this |
country would permit his death, that his |
refusal to leave when an opportunity was |
offered him was merely to gain time for |
Carlotta to intercede with the French and |
with the pope in behalf of his failing for |
tunes. The whole matter, his ambitions, |
his army, his failure, his trial and his death |
are being talked over here as If 1t were all |
contemporaries history, as if the chapter |
was not ended, as il his death had not |
closed the volumn.
Mr.. Aspiros, however, is not accredited
to the diplomatic corps of this city, but to
the government at Washington, and out
side of the diplomatic circles he receives
nothing but good will and hospitable well
come, which will be doubled as the foreign
hostility toward him increases.
The American people are not wont to re-
ceive either with sympathy or patience at
this late day the doleful soiloquy of Rich
ard H., beginning:
For heavens sake let us sit upon the
ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings"
Hobart Still Very Sick
The vice-president still continues to be
very sick man. He had bad turn last
Thursday but is better now. The president |
never fails to walk across the square in
front of the white house to the home of |
Mr. Hobart every afternoon to inquire |
about him. Every morning Mrs. Mckinley
sends a bunch of flowers picked by herself |
and done up with her own hands TO the
vice-nresident asking whether he passed |
an agreeable night. The relations between |
these two houses that of the president ana |
that Of the vice-president, are very Close |
This fact is only commented on mere TOT |
the reason that such close and intimate |
friendship between president ana VICE
nresident is the exception and not the rule
General Wheeler has been continued IN
tbe armv as stated he would be in these |
dispatches some time ago. II IS practleaily
settled that the Albanian will go to the |
Philippines, and in all probability be made
the governor of the city of Manila Gen.
aral wheeler has some novel ideas as to |
the hest methods of bringing the Filipinos
into closer appreciation of this government, |
ond has impaired these opinions to the |
president where, it is said, they have fall |
en- OF, rich soil. If he is made governor OF
Manila it is most likely he will be permit
ted TO put them in active operation. In
speaking of the Philippine problem, he
said to me yesterday;
wheeier's Idea of Pacification
an my opinion the Filipnos should be
allowed to send delegates to congress. They
know nothing now as to our institutions,
and we should afford them every opportu-
nity to learn. The archipelago could be d.
vided I'D into three or four territories, and
eacA. territory be permitted to send a dele
gate. OF course they would not have a
vote but they would be able by watching
the transaction of public business, to come
to some. appreciation of the government.
and in time impart it in their own way to
their own people.
..It would be well to invite delegations Of