Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — SPAIN WON’T PROTEST. [ARTICLE]

SPAIN WON’T PROTEST.

No Demand fdr Miss Cisneros’ Return Likely to Be Made. No alarm need be felt that serious complications between this Government and Spain will grow out of the liberation of Miss Cisneros from the Spanish dungeon at Havana by the reporter of a New York •newspaper, says a Washington correspondent. There is nothing in the existing treaties under which she can be extradited. In an excess of friendliness for a foreign nation the President, in the discretion vested in him as chief executive of the republic, might turn her back into the hands of the Spanish authorities if an urgent demand were to be made upon him. For President McKinley to take such action would be to arouse the American people into a high state of excitement, and with a knowledge that such would be the case it is extremely doubtful whether the Spanish Government would inqjgt upon such a course. The incident great excitement in the State Department. The opinion there is, however, that nothing serious will come of the incident and that the Spanish Government will not attempt any grand stand play looking to the return of the escaped prisoner. The notoriety which will attach to the young woman and the great ado which her escape has caused will be more or lees annoying to the Spanish Government, but it 14 hardly probable that the Madrid officials will be betrayed thereby into making demands which would almost certainly occasion trouble and which could under no circumstancee result in the return of the girl. There is a sentimental side to the case which would prevent any such conclusion to the affair. She ie safe on American soil, and there she ie likely to remain until she can return in safety to her island home.