The evening times., 1895-10-24
RALLY COMMITTEE WORK
Pushing Matters Along for the
Cuban Mass Meeting.
A BIG SUCCESS PROMISED
Corp. Tanner Home From Buffalo AMI
Meeting of Committee on Resolu.
tiOns VIII BE Called at Once-Cnion
Veteran Legion FavorS the Move
mcnt-Patriotic Bodies Invited.

The promises for the grand rally Of those
! who sympathize with Cubans in their strus.
gle for freedom grow brighter each day.
! There is no doubt now of the success Ok
the movement. Metzerott Hall will be
| crowded, and the committee ON Invita-
| tons will have to begin reserviuS seats.
| Mr.. james Tanner chairman oI the COM
mttec on resolution, arrived home this
I morning from Buffalo, where he has beeu
attending the national eDcampnent Of this
! Union Veteran Legion. He will call q
| meeting of the committee, probably for
! Monday evening just as s''un as he can
| see some of the members and consult their
/ convenience.
Mr. Tanner is enthusiastically IN favor
| of the movement. The Union Veteran Le-
gion believes in the independence of Cuba
and said so at the encampmeut- Stirring
resolutions were passed asking the Guvcru-
ment to recognize the belligerent rights OF
the insurgents. They were passed, too,
with hurrah.
The keynote was struck in the response
of the m tional commander in Music Hallto
the address of welcome made by the mayor
of Buffalo. Mr.. Tanner said his remarks
were cxtenporaneous, and he was urged
on by the wild applause which greeted! his
assertion that the Monroe duCtrinc should
be living principle and not a fancy. This
then led TO a plea for Cuban recognition,
and Il gain loud cheers greeted his v!oqurnce-
The committee on invitations met last
night. Mr.. Bushrod Robinson acted as
chairman AMI Mr.. J. X. Potter. OF the
Federation of Labor, as secretary.
This committee was charged with the
duty especially of inviting To the meeting
the organized friends OF liberty in the city,
including the labor organizations, and tic
military.
FORM OF INVITATION.
The committee prepared last evening tho
form of invitation which 1t desires 10 be-
published AMI follows:
The committee on Invitation respectfully
request the presence of your organization
body at the Cuban mass meeting. TO be
held at Mctzcrott Hail. on the 31st inst, AZ
1:3O p. III.
'.BUsHRoD ROBINSON, Chairruau.
CHARLES BAUM,
.E. +. SIMPSON,
JAMES n. GREEN,
-. X. POTTER,
Committee on Invitations.
This form Will be used in the invitation
to patriotic societies and other organs
cations. and will be addressed to the pre-
siding officers OF such bodies who are
expected to extend the invitation to the
membership. Chairman Robinson, how
ever. said last night that wherever such
notification To the various societies wouiJ
be impracticabIe, that the Individual mem-
bers are expected TO attend on the invitation
published then.
The two largest bodies expected To attend
are the military and the G. y. X. Invita-
tions will be sent to Brigadicr General
ordway. and to Department Commander
Anderson and the following post COM
manders:
John NJ. Keogh, r. and p. office War
Department; George E. Davis, q. Nj. G- o..
War Department.; B. F. Chase. Pension
Bureau: George H Boston. 503 street.
northwest; j. II. Devices 6O4 Fifth street
northwest; Edmond Cotterill, War Depart
ment: F. H. Smith, War Department: Charles
T. Yodcr. 6I5 E street northwest; J. Z.
Quandcr. Kellogg building: A. F. Dins-
more, Pension Bureau; j. ". Bradbury,
navy yard, city; William II Decker, office
OF Auditor for War Department; Henry
W. Emo, Anacostia, ID. c.; j. F. Raub
Pension Bureau; Thomas B. Crisp. Pension
bureau; Jacob Moore, Soldiers Home ID.
C.; r. II. Morgan, Pension Bureau; Samuel
Georgetown, u. c.: L. Ii
Bumpas, Government Printing Office
SOCIETIES TO ATTEND.
The patriotic societies expected To at
tend are:
Associated Veterans of 1876 Judge Ed
ward Lander; Association of the Oldest
Inhabitants OF the District of CuIumbll,
John Marbury, sr.; Union Veteran Legion,
Col. James Tanner; Union Veterans Tn
ohs " iiNiHS' NbIiDEluu,
Col. c. W. Sherwood. John \. Logan Com
nand, Col. ii. l.. Street. Sedgwick Conn
nand, Col. George j. 2. Wood; Military
Order of the Loyal Legion, Rear Admiral
Francis NJ. Ramsay; National Association
Veterans of the Mexican War, Secretary
A. NJ. Kcnaday; Putnam Commandery,
George F. Stevens, District Woman Suf-
rage Association, Mrs. Martha p. Davis;
Legion of Loyal Women, Mrs. Ruth G.
5lasland, National Society of the Daugh-
ers of the American Revolution, Mrs.
Adlai E. Stevenson; Regular Army aud
Navy Union, Gen. j. NJ. SehUfield; st.
Georges Society, Charles Banks Brooks;
Washington National Monument Society.
Secretary DR.. Francis NJ. Gunncll: Army
md Navy Club Confederate Veterans.
1t is likely that very great number
,f invitations can be extended to Labor
organizations through their delegates to-
hight at the meeting of District Assembly
Sc, X Of L.
As stated, however, the committee desires
% make it emphatic that the invitation
above published is specific as well as
general