Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1906 — IT WAS ONLY HOT AIR [ARTICLE]

IT WAS ONLY HOT AIR

Cuban Moderates Are “Climbing Down” After a Very Warm Lot of,Talk. STATESMEN INDULGE IN WIND V i • Talk About Using Dynamite as a Conclusive Argument. UNOLE SAM 18 ROASTED HOTLY Suggestion That Europe Be Invited to Help Settle the Trouble But Reason Seems Finally to Prevail. Havana. Sept. 27.—The Moderates have agreed to appoint a committee to negotiate terms of peace with a committee of the rebels and Liberals, leaving all points upon which no agreement is reached to the arbitration of the United States commissioners. The Moderates have abandoned the condition that' the rebels must first lay down their arms before negotiations can eofnnience.

Havana, Sept. 27.—A meeting of the Moderate national assembly was hastily called to discuss the pressing question whether some way could not yet be devised to settle the present difficulty without the threatened United States intervention.. The meeting was held at the residence of Senor Dolz, president of the senate. More than sixty persons were present. They Included Vice President Mendez Capote, nearly all the members of the cabinet, and almost all the leading senators and representatives. Many officers of the rurAl guard were present In uniform. Started with Letting Off Steam. No sooner had the meeting assembled than the pent-up indignation against the United States peace commissioners broke forth. Several men began in loud voices and at the same time to condemn Secretary of War Taft and Acting Secretary of State Tin con, who were deelnred to have shown partiality in backing the rebels and discrimination against the Moderate side of the controversy. The speakers shouted denunciations against the United States government and hotly Insisted that the Moderate party should appeal to the powers of the world for protection against the usurpation of the sovereignty of Cuba by the United States. Kten Talked of Dynamite. It was declared that the government forces should fight to the death rather than submit to the terms Insisted upon by the rebels, and one speaker depicted the horrors of negro domination which would result, he said, from the threatened Liberal ascendancy brought about with the alleged assistance of the United States. Some of the most radical present asserted that the government halt plently of dynamite In Havana w’hich would be used to precipitate those International complications that accrue from the destruction of foreign property. Proposal to Call on Europe. Several prominent men said that by using dynamite they could bring about Intervention by Germany, or perhaps by Great Britain, while others declared rashly that they knew that foreign dlsplomats here would favor snch a course, and It was argued that the destruction of the German bank and the damaging of English railroad property would soon result In European Intervention. Certain properties belonging to citizens of the United States were specifically mentioned as convenient for such attacks. Several speakergjßiep sald that..they would

prefer Germany or Great Britain in Cuba to the United States.

ONE ABSOLUTE CONDITION But It Was Found Not To Be So Absolute After All. This talk subsided after an hour and a half and the meeting then settled down to the question whether it was not possible to re-open the negotiations with the peace commissioners. The one point upon which the meeting was unanimous was that the cardinal condition of the re-opeulng of negotiations should be that the Moderates insist that the commissioners require the rebels to lay down their arms before proceeding to negotiate. After a brief consideration in which no difference of opinion was shown it was agreed that Acting Se<*etary of the Interior Montalvo should visit the United States commissioners and acquaint them with the party’s insistence on this condition. Senor Montalvo therefore proceeded to the United States legation and submitted this condition to Taft and Bacon, adding that if the proposition was not acceptable to them the government forces would refuse to lay down their arms or deliver them either to the rebels or the commissioners, in the meanwhile Senor Dolz had been sent for‘by Secretary Taft. He appeared at the United States legation and made the following proposition, requesting the opinion of the commissioners thereon: “That both sides appoint committees of six to treat for peace, but with the prior condition ttrnt the rebels lay down their arms.” Secretary Taft approved of this, with the exception that it was unfair t* make the rebels lay down their arms before the acceptance by both jiarties of a formal agreement to abide by the terms of the ultimate decision. Seuor Dolz returned to the assembly and reported tli6 YesnTf of bis”efforts. At the resumption of the meeting and after hearing and hastily discussing the views of Secretary Taft, the assembly precipitately receded from its contention that the rebels must lay down their arms before negotiation could be re-opened, and resolved to notify Secretary Taft that It would appoint u committee of six to meet a similar committee from the Liberals to negotiate peace terms, leaving all points upon which no agreement wqs reached to the arbitration of the United States commissioners. The assembly directed that Secretary Taft be requested to notify the Liberals of tilts actiou of the Moderates. to arrange for the appointment of a similar committee by the Liberals, and to fix a time and place.

Husband Kill* HU Wife. Vincennes, Ind., Sept. 27. —John Debord, 30 years of age, entered a restaurant at which bis wife is employed here Rnd shot and killed her. Upon seeing him enter the woman started to leave the place, but Debord fired four shots at her, and she fell dead at the door. Debord had been drinking. Immediately after be fired the shots Debord escaped, but was later captured. Would tCvai>gellM> the World. Richmond, Ind., Sept. 27. —At the opening session of the Indiana yearly meeting of friends, the largest body of Quakers In the world, John Henry Douglas, of Pasadena, Cal., made an appeal for pushing the evangelisation of the world. Robert W. Douglass, of Versailles, ()., also spoke. Several states and some foreign countries are represented. Well Known Indlanapalttan Hurt. Indianapolis, Sept. 27. —A. C. Sbortridge, at one time a well known aducator. and after whom Shortrldge high school was named, was run over by a Greenfield interurban car at stop No. 7. about a mile and a half east of Irvington, and ope of his legs was cut off. He is blind and 73 years old. Paul Spot for the Family. Evansville. Ind., Sept 27. —While fishing for mussel shells In the Ohio river Guy Martin lost bis life. His brother was drowned in the same spot several months ago.