Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1899 — PUTS SPAIN IN A HOLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PUTS SPAIN IN A HOLE

ACCEPTANCE OF AGUIMALDO*S PLAN WOULD MEAN WAR. • Offers to Release His Prisoners on Almost Prohibitive Conditions —No Anxiety Felt in Washinaftoa Over Proclamation of Philippine Republic. Having failed to secure any consideration in the Uhited States, Aguinaldo is now trying desperately to secure the formal'recognition by Spain of the republic of the Philippines, which he publicly proclaimed at Malolos, and he has managed affairs so shrewdly that Premier Sagasta finds himself in an awkward fix. Advices from Manila say that Aguinaldo now offers to release his Spanish prisoners on the condition that Spain will recognize the independence of his selfstyled republic and become its ally. He has also demanded recognition of the Vatican and has invited the Pope to send a commission to the Philippines to negotiate for the release of the priests who are held by the insurgents. Greatly as Spain would like to see the civil and military prisoners of Aguinaldo set free, she has no desire to stir up any more trouble with the United States, and recognition of the

AGUINALDO.