Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1898 — SPAIN SEES A CHANCE. [ARTICLE]

SPAIN SEES A CHANCE.

May Ask America to Repress Active Cuban Societies. Following upon the almost universal expressions of disapprobation shown by the American press at large at the savage methods of warfare used by Gen. Gomez in the matter of the assassination of Lieut. Col. Ruiz, a Madrid correspondent says he has the best authority for stating that the Spanish Government thinks the moment propitious for approaching that, of Washington and asking the latter to use all means possible to repress revolu- ! tionary societies in the United States which are giving active assistance to Gomez’s force. All the Spanish Government asks is the application of the rule laid down by President Grant as the duty of one friendly nation toward another. If that is applied the Government considers the termination of the revolution will occur within a short time. The indignation was twice as great when the news reached Madrid that Ruiz was not even permitted a soldier's death, but was hanged.