... Emilio Aguinaldo of The Philippines and Jose Marti of Cuba as freedom fighters not unlike George Washington and other patriots of the Revolutionary War. Such newspapers also heartily accepted the conspiracy theory that it was a Spanish mine that destroyed the Maine. Soon enough, propagandist headliners such as "Whole Country Thrills With the War Fever, Yet President Says It Was An Accident ... ...

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