uchlicki 72].
Even after this was quelled, tension remained. In 1892, Jose Marti, a Cuban exile in the United States, organized a revolutionary party, and in 1895 full-scale insurgency broke out again [Suchlicki 78-79]. Marti was killed in battle early on, but the war continued with the insurgents gaining ground. In 1896, Spain dispatched General Valeriano Weyler [Perez 54-55], whose repressive measures earned him the title "Beast" Weyler in the U.S. yellow press.
In January of 1898, the Spanish government made a new offer of a political settlement, proposing a plan under which Cuba would have broad self-government within the Spanish Empire. Such a status would have been not unlike Dominion status in the British Empire, as that status operated at the end of the 19th century: Cuba would have been autonomous in its internal affairs, though remaining aligned with Spain internationally. This proposal, however, was rejected entirely by the rebel leadership under Maximo Gomez, a veteran of the previous round of insurgency in the 1870s [Suchlicki 79]. The war thus seemed fated to go on.
What the prospective outcome might have been from this point, had Spain and Cuba been left to their own devices, depends heavily on how Madrid's "Dominion" proposal is to be interpreted. Either of two basic interpretion
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