Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1906 — WITH HIS LITTLE ULTIMATUM [ARTICLE]

WITH HIS LITTLE ULTIMATUM

That Is How Taft Brought the Cuban Statesmen to Terms. It was an ultimatum issued by Taft and Bacon'that brought the Moderates to agree to these conciliatory methods. In describing the situation Secretary Taft gave tire Associated Press if brief calendar of the negotiations leading up to the present status. He said: “The Moderates determined to force American intervention by the resignation of government officers, thus leaving affairs in our hands. President Palma chose to regard our suggestions as demands, and he rejected them emphatically. Today we acquainted Alfredo Zayas, the Liberal leader, with the situation, and he undertook to induce his associates to consent to the original proposition of the Moderates—namely, that the insurgents lay dowp their arms and submit the entire controversy to the American commission, but the rebel commanders and men in the field suspected insincerity on the part of the government and declined. * * * ‘After an exhaustive investigation we informed l>oth tne Moderates and the Liberals that unless they were willing to listen to reason the United States must enforce a settlement. I told them that a proclamation would be issued establishing a military government In tlie island, but that tills would continue only so long as necessary to restore order and insure the holding of new and fair general elections. I made It plain that this military government would surrender the conduct of affairs to the persons fairly elected as soon as they could fairly establish themselves.”