Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-13 | Page 4 | The Chandler Outbreak

H-H-H- H I 4 HM t- t i THE t CHANDLER cHANDLER- OUTBREAK i J H- H Hf t 4 f n 4 M 4 MM 1111 4 4 MM 44 4 II 4 H 4 4 4 H 4 s- s Perhaps to relieve the monotonous but romu i leisure of his connection with the Spanish Claims Commission rea readers s ers will remember that Senator Ex-Senator William E. E Chandler recently felt im im- impelled polled to let the time know that if Gen Stewart I L r our Minister to at l I Madrid in April J 1898 had demanded Cuban independence of Spain Spain- it would have been handed out on ii j a gl gold l pla plate e with with- th the l i least ast h hesitation Hence instead of a war we Rho should ha e enjoyed peace and the pleasure sure of the Cuban Cuija natives turning their country into a cross between Haiti and tie the other pl place ce tl n name mime me of which begins with the same initial letter lettel I General Woodford has been heard heaM from on the theS the'S subject S Dj ct He deprecates contention or discussion He Re merely says sars that he lie never proposed independence ence because if he had done so his departure from Spain would have been heen more sudden than agree agree- able He ile did not suggest purchase to t the time Spanish Government as charged by bj Mr Chandler He did dd didone sound t one 01 or t two Q public men in irs Madrid 1 on the subject subject sub sul- but at once found that the tile idea would not be le entertained All the time time a and ld up up to the time day relations relations rela rein were sundered General r Woodford says h he was working loyally and arduously to accomplish the heartfelt desire of President Pi McKinley McKinle which was tt th av avert rt War in my jiny honorable w way possible sible Senator Chandler seems to have been adequately answered answered- Probably the matter will end there as asfar asfar asfar far as he is ned concerned and doubtless his iii next lec lecture ture tUl t to th time the cou country will wll be upon the more familiar topic of f the wickedness s of New NV Hampshire rail railways rail rail- ways