History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . Copyright, J8g3, by y. C. Himment. U. S. Battleship Maine Entering the Harbor of Havana, January, 1898. the offers of autonomy, demanding inde-pendence. The pacificos were no betteroff than before, and relations between theUnited States and Spain grew steadily morestrained. Two incidents precipitated acrisis. A letter by the Spanish Minister atWashington, Senor de Lome, was inter- 214 EXPANSION [i8g8 cepted and published, holding PresidentMcKinley up as a time-serving Lome forestalled recall
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . Copyright, J8g3, by y. C. Himment. U. S. Battleship Maine Entering the Harbor of Havana, January, 1898. the offers of autonomy, demanding inde-pendence. The pacificos were no betteroff than before, and relations between theUnited States and Spain grew steadily morestrained. Two incidents precipitated acrisis. A letter by the Spanish Minister atWashington, Senor de Lome, was inter- 214 EXPANSION [i8g8 cepted and published, holding PresidentMcKinley up as a time-serving Lome forestalled recall by resigning;yet his successor, Polo y Bernabe, could not. Photograph by J. C. lUttnieitt Wreck of U. S. Battleship Maine. fail to note on arriving in Washington achill diplomatic atmosphere. In January, 1898, the United States bat-tleship Maine was on a friendly visit atHavana, where she was received with thegreatest courtesy, being taken to her harborberth by the Spanish government on the evening of February 15th, iSgS] THE WAR WITH SPAIN 215 the harbor air was rent by a tremendous ex-plosion. Where the Maine had been, onlya low shapeless hump was splendid vessel, with officers and crewon board to the number of 266, had sunk, awreck. Strong suspicions gained prevalence thatthis was a deed of Spanish treachery, or at-tributable, at the very least, to criminal in-difference on the part of the alleged positive connivance by Span-ish officials. War fever ran high. When,five days later, the Spanish cruiser Vizcayavisited New York City, it was thought wellto accord her special protection. March9t
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