Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — SPAIN MAY GIVE UP CUBA. [ARTICLE]

SPAIN MAY GIVE UP CUBA.

Suspicion Increases That an Evacuation Is Actually Intended. There is a suspicion in Washington official circles, which is gradually becoming a conviction, that Spain is preparing to turn the island over to the Cubans. A correspondent says that there is no doubt that the Spanish Government and people are sick of the war. Some of the officials here suspect that Spain would be glad to get rid of Cuba, if she could do it gracefully, and without seeming to acknowledge that she has been whipped. These views were strengthen by a dispatch which Senor Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish minister, received from Captain General Blanco, containing notice of the granting of what appears to be an order of amnesty to all political exiles from Cuba. This indicates that Captain General Blanco has revoked the orders of Weyler, under which American citizens were expelled from the island. If Blanco intends to adhere honestly to the policy outlined in his' dispatch to the Spanish minister, everybody expelled from Cuba, except common criminals, may go back to the island with assurances of their safety as long as they obey the law.