Show Another Guess I LONDON May 11The Madrid correspondent I cor-respondent of the Daily Mall believes that I has already been resolved to respite the Competitor prisoners ait Havana Ha-vana the queen regent being especially desirous to avoid complications The ministers the correspondent contends aT with her and will do nothing to jeopardize jeo-pardize the position of Cuba In an interview in-terview with the correspondent ha with Senor Sagasta the Liberal leader he refused to discuss whether the men taken on the Competitor were simply smugglers or filibusters but he said it was evident that if pardon were i grante to the British prisoner It cannot I can-not be withheld from the Americans The Chronicle gays In an editorial Mr Olney is an exceedingly determined deter-mined man and it Is therefore quite certain cer-tain that the filibusters will not be shot There is only one course of action ac-tion that can save Cuba to Spain and that is t make terms with the Insurgents Insur-gents and t grant reasonable auton omv omThe Graphic commenting upon the question at issue between the United States and Spain over the men sentenced sen-tenced to death at Havana compares the Competitor cases to the Jameson raid and says Englishmen can sympathize sym-pathize with the United States looking look-ing at the scandalous misgovernment in Cuba But the analogy collapses when the attitude bf the United States In Its raiders is compared with England to hers What would Europe have said if Mr Chamberlain had talked to President Krueger as Mr Olney talks to Spain We trust however that Spain will show clemency to the flll busterers for the knowledgethat she will not do so twice may help to put Mr Olney on his guard and to moderate moder-ate the enthusiasm of the Florida Cu banophiles WELL ADVISED I 1 The Times says Spain is well advised ad-vised in yielding to Mr Olneys demand I for delay She has thus averted an explosion ex-plosion of popular Indignation in the United States which no administration could have resisted I Is extremely fortunate that the sentences have not been summarily executed so that Spain is able to avert unappeasable quarrel A friendly discussion of the points at issue will give time for angry passions on boith sides to cool I will not be denied that Spain has the right on her side but to insist upon the letter of her rights would be in the highest degree de-gree impolitic The United States can make a strong case 1 merely technical grounds Spain can hardly seriously advance the quibble that the privilege of a civil trial to American citizens under the treaty only belongs r residents resi-dents in Cuba while in face of the death sentence it could not te hoped that Irregularities In the trial would be overlooked If President el I Cleveland had yielded to the pressure to acknowledge the insurgents a belligerents bel-ligerents the Competitors captives would have been entitled to the privileges privi-leges of prisoners of war Therefore it would be singularly bad policy to give the United States an irresistible reason for conferring upon the insurgents insur-gents an advantage hitherto withheld Both the Spanish government and press ought scrupulously avoid anything tending to make the continued neutrality neutral-ity of the United States impossible Captain General Weylers attitude could be better understood I he had any success in dealing with the insurgents gents Whatever the explanation maybe may-be circumstances seem to be rapidly settling the Cuban question and very unfavorably for Spain A WARNING The New York correspondent of the Times warns the Madrid press that its hostile tone to the United States makes it more difficult for this government govern-ment to ursue the friendly course which it still desires to follow and weakens the influences of those still numerous and powerful classes who i hppe to avert a collision between the two countries |