Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — SPANIARDS ARE DEFIANT. [ARTICLE]

SPANIARDS ARE DEFIANT.

It May Be Necessary to Send Warships to Havana Bay, Havana advices say there is a possibility that warships will be sent to Havana again in the near future by the United States. The demauds and protests of the American commission have been treated by Spanish officials with contempt and defiance. The commission cabled to President McKinley asking for power to enforce respect for its protests. The trouble was caused by the sale of 150 cannon by Spanish officials in defiance of the protest of the American commission. The Spaniards are fleecing the people of the island by official brigandage.