Carlists, who would like to see Don Carlos on the throne, the
Republicans, who would like to abolish the throne altogether, and
several other lesser parties are approaching Weyler in the hope of
attaching him to their cause.

He has arrived in Barcelona, where he will remain for a few days, and
will then go on to Majorca, his birthplace.

Barcelona is known to be the headquarters of the Carlist revolution, and
though Weyler has implied that he belongs to neither Carlist nor
Republican party, his sojourn in Barcelona will give him ample time to
see how the land lies, and find out what profit there may be for him if
he joins the Carlists.

It is reported that he desires to form a party of his own, which shall
oppose home rule in Cuba, and uphold the kind of warfare that he waged
as the only means of saving the colony for Spain.

This is a clever idea of his, for he is likely to find many adherents
among the merchants, who are dissatisfied with Sagasta's plan for home
rule, and for giving the Cuban legislature the right to fix the tariff
on all goods sent into Cuba.

The merchants want the tariff arranged by Spain as it always has been,
and they want it so fixed that Cubans will be obliged to buy their
goods in Spain.

One of Cuba's greatest causes of complaint was the high tariff which
Spain imposed on all goods entering Cuba except those of Spanish
manufacture. This tariff made it impossible for Cubans to buy their