The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04
GENERAL LUDL0w's POLICY.
His Object Is to Set Up a Stable Cuban
Government.
havana Letter in washington Post.

Havana Letter in Washington Post.
Recent critics of General Ludlow are be-
ginning to get a clearer view of his policy
as to the government of this city. The cafes
were full OF all kinds of structures at the
time Colonel Moulton was removed from
the head of the police department here. Co
incident with the removal of Colonel Moul-
ton was the appointment on Gen. Ludlow S
staff of Major John Gary Evans. When the
newspaper men assembled to get General
Ludlow's version of the affair he said it had
never been his intention to make army Off
GERS integral parts of the police force here;
that Major Evans had not been appointed
as successor to Colonel Mouton that the
chief of police would be announced later.
The next day Senior Menocal was named
and many other Cubans completed the list.
rs already given in the press dispatches, of
those WhO under the supervision of General
Ludlow, would directly administer the af-
fairs of the city government While this
step of General LudloWs caused much fric-
ton on the part of the friends of Colonel
MOulton, the effect is seeming to be most
gracious. For example, last Sunday the
Prado,' the great promenade through the
officers in fine fette There were hundreds
of them, coming from nobody knew where.
1t was the first real CLEAN of recognition
they had had and the effect has been most
wholesome and tar-reaching.
There has been, as far as / know, only
one class Of argument against the plenti-
full admission of Cubans into office, and that
is that the business interests here being to
a great degree Spanish, should have repre-
This fact is being borne in mind by Cen
eral Ludlow, but he seems to be impressed
with the greater fact that the sooner
Cubans are put at the work of self-govern-
ment the more rapidly will The result of
stable government" here be worked out.
Those who fail to realize the intent of
General Ludlow's policy seem to take it for
granted that the United States government
is preparing to deal in bad faith with the
Cubans.
AZ the days go by. however, it becomes
more and more apparent that the United
States authorities here will be pleased to
have the Cuban republic stand alone at the
earliest possible moment. Every help will
be put in its way and In due season the
Cubans will take over the government This
at any rate is the seeming intent now of
the authorities who regard the words of the
resolution of Congress as something more
than a subterfuge, to be interpreted now
in a spirit different from that in which 1t
was passed. Yet the prevailing sentiment
one encounters here, especially among army
men, is set forth in the words 1.-THE Cubans
not capable of self-government." If
this cannot be peremptorily denied, it is
certainly true that the leading young
Cubans who gather here are temperate. in
telligent, forcaful, many of them having
been bred in American colleges and uni
VerstieS.
As a consequence of this recent action of
General Ludlow there is a rush Of Cubans
for positions of all kinds. Many of them
are being accepted on the police force. which
is now organizing. Yet some Spaniards
also are being taken on.