Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1902 — EXPLAINED BY BRAGG. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EXPLAINED BY BRAGG.

Reported Reference to Cubans Modified by Consul General. Consul General Bragg says the publi-. cation of an alleged statement by him in a letter to his wife that "Uncle Bam

might as well try to make a whistle out of a pig’s tail as try to do anything with the Cubans,” was wholly unwarranted. He telegraphed to the State Department that he was not accurately quoted. He denies that he used the inelegant comparison attributed to him, and says that what he

wrote was that “when Uncle Sam gos through trying to make a whistle of a pig’s tail he would report whether he could make an Anglo-Saxon out of a Cuban.” Should the Cuban government see fit to make an issue of the consul general's letter, his recall will be unavoidable. As a semi-official Washington statement puts it, “it is not the custom of the United States to continue an officer at a station where he has rendered himself persona non grata to the inhabitants to an extent that impairs his usefulness.” The Cuban minister, a Washington dispatch says, recognizes that Gen. Bragg is an old man anil that whatever opinion he may have expressed to members of his family, his official conduct iu Havana has been above reproach.

GEN. E. S. BRAUO.