Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — WANTS THE GENERALS SHOT. [ARTICLE]

WANTS THE GENERALS SHOT.

Fiery Debate Tskss Place in the Spinith Cortes. Spanish political circles are greatly agitated over the meeting of the Cortes and the public awaits the action of that body with keen interest. The opening session was marked by scenes of disorder, bat personal encounters that threatened at different times were avoided. Discussion of different phases of the war with America provoked general nproar. Count d'Almenas was particularly severe in his attacks upon the Spanish generals and demanded that those who surrendered be shot* Rivera. Weyler. Blanco. Linares and Cervera, he declared, were failures as fighters and administrators. A great uproar followed this statement, and a number of people were expelled from the galleries.