Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — SPAIN IS ASLEEP. [ARTICLE]

SPAIN IS ASLEEP.

Haa Not Tet Realized the Completeneav of Her Defeat. According to reports from Paris, the American and Spanish peace commissioners are dangerously far apart on the quesSns at issue. Some French diplomats ;o have conversed with both the Spanish and American members even assert that unless one side or the other backs down on material points the war is evidently not over. The Americans may yet have to sustain their demands with a naval demonstration. The position taken by Spain is believed to account for a desire to keep Blanco in Cuba as long as possible. With his large army he could seriously embarrass the United States should negotiations be declared off. French influence,, however, which is very potent in Madrid, is that Spaniards shall accept the inevitable and be reasonable. Frenchmen are indignant at their Spanish friends for having learned so little from their defeat. It has been repeatedly suggested to the Spanish commissioners during the last few days that a frank confession of helplessness and an appeal to the magnanimity of the victors would secure for Spain the most liberal possible terms. Bat the Spanish leaders rejected the suggestions os absurd. The Spanish demands are stated to be substantially as follows: ’’Nothing beyond a port and a cowling station in the Philippines to be reded to the United States, A favored tariff iu all of the lost territory for Spanish textiles. The power whose sovereignty prevails at Manila to boar the entire Philippine debt and part of the islands to remain with Spain, which islands may be sold to any other power. The entire Caban debt prior to the last revolt to be saddled on Cuba.”