Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — MAY SUCCEED WEYLER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAY SUCCEED WEYLER.

Lieut.-Gen. Pando Is Said to Be More Brntal than the "‘Butcher.” Lieut. Geo. Pando, who is spoken of as Capt. Gen. Weyler's successor at the head of the Spanish forces in Cuba, is reported to be a man of blood and war—more,brutal, perhaps, in his methods than the “butcher,” who has made for himself a name in history ns a murderer rather thaw as a soldier or a conqueror. Pando has always believed that the suppression

of the Cuban rebellion w.%s an easy task. He predicted that Campos would suppress .it, and when Campos failed he ascribed the failure not to his own bad judgment, but to lack of soldierly qualities in the baffled captain general. Gen. Pando is apparently quite friendly to the United £tifaes. He says there is not now and never has been danger of the American annexation of Cuba. « He favors Cuba's paying tribute, commercially, to this country. Cuba’s natural market, he says, is the United States, jn»d. he believes in making new treaties o< reciprocity to encourage increased commerce.

LIEUT.-GEN. PANDO.