History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . f foul play. President Cleveland, while willing tomediate between Spain and the Cubans,preserved a neutral attitude, refusing torecognize the insurgents even as bellig-erents, though they possessed all ruralCuba save one province. Only when aboutto quit office did Mr. Cleveland hint at in-tervention. Soon after McKinleys accession an an-archist shot Premier Canovas,when Sagasta,his Liberal successor, promised Cuba reformand home rule. Weyler was succeeded byBlanco, who revoked concentration, pro-claimed am
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . f foul play. President Cleveland, while willing tomediate between Spain and the Cubans,preserved a neutral attitude, refusing torecognize the insurgents even as bellig-erents, though they possessed all ruralCuba save one province. Only when aboutto quit office did Mr. Cleveland hint at in-tervention. Soon after McKinleys accession an an-archist shot Premier Canovas,when Sagasta,his Liberal successor, promised Cuba reformand home rule. Weyler was succeeded byBlanco, who revoked concentration, pro-claimed amnesty, and set on foot an autono-mist government. Americans were loosedfrom prison. Clara Barton, of the Ameri-can Red Cross Society, hastened with sup-plies to the relief of the wretched reconcen-trados, turned loose upon a waste. Spain, 1897] THE WAR WITH SPAIN 213 too, appropriated a large sum for reconcen-trado relief, promising implements, seed, andother means for restoring ruined homes andplantations. But the iron had entered the Cubanssoul. The belligerents rejected absolutely. 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
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