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REVOLT EXTENDING.
Maxine Gomez Invades Puerto
Principe = Recruits for
Cuba Libre's Army.
BIZ Gable to the United Press.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, June u, 1886
Maxine Gomez has reached Puerto
Principe, and crossed the frontier. He
has about 1000 men with him and has
succeeded in evad.ng the government
troops sent to head him off. The in
vasion of Puerto Principe means that
the insurrect.on which has SO far been
confined to the Santiago province is ex-
tending westward. In Puerto Principe
province hundreds of Cubans are joining
Gomez. The Marquis de Santa Lucia
has again taken up arms. and with him
are several deputies and young men of
good families.
General Campos has asked for addit.ons
al troops to suppress this new uprising.
A Visitors Observation.
WASHINGTON. June L. 1895.-Dr.
Wolfred Nelson, of New York City, for
eight years resident of Central and
South America and the West Indies. was
in Washington yesterday to consult with
Surgeon General Wyman of the Marine
Hospital Service over the possibilities Of
danger from the introduction of yellow
fever. DR.. Nelson, during his stay in
Cuba, made himself familiar with the
views and purposes of the several po-
porter for the United Press he gave an
interesting resume of the political con-
ditions there.
"of the 100000 population of Cuba"
he said, 'the whites, Spaniards proper
ly so called, as a class, are intensely
loyal to Spain and want no other rule.
They are the conservative party. An
other section of the population. chiefly
do at
eastern end of the island, comprise the
autonomistic party. 1t has adherents in
all parts of Cuba, but its stronghold IS
Santiago The autonomists want home
rule for Cuba under the Spanish flag,
as Canada enjoys home rule under the
British flag. A third party want Cuban
independence under the name of separa-
tists The fourth party, small one,
| is the revolutionary party, which I'M
sists upon free Cuba at any price.
Havana, the capital city, with a
population of 100000. is conservative
stronghold. During the last rebellion,
which continued from 1868 to 1878. the
revolutionists carried on a guerilla war
fare, seeking the Businesses of the lofty
| mountains. Today, to a man, the con.
| servatives and the autonomists are for
/
| The horrors of that long and bloody
| war are all too recent.
.'The autonemists claim that their par
"The autonomists claim that their par
Their manifesto, recently published gave
| a complete history of the efforts of the
party from the time that the rebels in
| 1888 inaugurated the ten years war
which created the Cuban debt Tlae man
| ifesto asserts that many misguided men
who fought against Spain in that con-
| tiict are now enrolled in the ranks of the
| autonomists. They seek reform now by
peaceful agitation and by the expression
of public opinion. The manifesto de-
nounces the present revolution as one
| fatal to Cuba, instituted by Invaders
| from without who are wholly unfam-
| iliar with the progress made in Cuba
| with the reduction in the Cuban debt
and a steady advance along the lines
| laid down by the autonomists.
| 1.-The autonomiSts earnestly pray to be
| delivered from their deliverers, whom
| they characterize as foreign invaders,
| who, unasked landed on the island at a
| time when their presence is the only OBJ
| stacle to the realization of the hopes
| of the autonomists; when the Cuban re-
| presentatives in the Cortes at Madrid
| Cuba has imperial representation in the
| Spanish parliament-had secured the en-
| actment of new laws and when her out
| look was the brightest.
| can immense amount of misinformation
| has been published in the United States.
| Many kind-hearted and sympathetic peo-
pie have been misled and have been aid
| ing a rebellion with which all that is best
| in Cuba has no sympathy
| The manifesto closes by SAYING
'"rhis revolution, like the last, will cost
| many lives. but the awful burden of such
| a condition must rest on the foreign in
vaders If American expeditions to and
| from Cuba. conducted under the cover OF
night, cause a new epidemic of yellow
| fever in the Southern United States 1t
will be an awful price to pay for as
sisting a people whose only prayer is to
he daIiILared frnrn their doli1rarar.e