The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-29
MARTI REPORTED IN JAMAICA.
crBANs AT KEY WEST EXCITED
OVER THE STORY.


Cen. CampOs Warmly Welcomed IN
Prerto PrIncipe-A Mig Meeting in
the Interest of Cuba Held at Pablo
Bench-MayOr Fletcher of Jackson
vile Delivers One of the Strongest
speeches of the Meeting in Favor of
Free Cuba.
Key West. Fla. MAY =s.-Great excite
r,snt was caused among the Cubans to-day
nv a ru1hor that Marti had arrived at ia
msica. The telegraph Office was besieged
By Cubans awaiting answers to dispatches
sen, inquiring II the rumor was true.
Gustave Richelieu, the American sailor
arrested in Santiago de Cuba on Feb. %,
las-. arrived in this city to-day on the
schooner Mary Jane from Nassau. He re-
rorts that the American consul at Santa
~ refused TO secure him passage 10 the
T-nited States. He was sent aboard the
American steamer Niagara by the cores
pondent Of the New York Herald. and was
landed by the captain of the steamer at
Nassau. Consul McLain at Nassau Sc
cured him passage to Key West. Richie
II lien saws he was compelled to sell his cloth
ing to purchase food while in prison. He
IS in Key West penniless.
III
celebration at Pablo beach to-day attract
"a several thousand Cubans from all over
the state as Secretary Quesada of the
Cuban revolutionary party, Carlos Ces-
pedes and other prominent Cubans were
advertised 10 make speeches. The Span
ish government kept a watchful eye and
ear on the proceedings in the person of
The private secretary of the Spanish con-
sui at Tampa. Speeches were made in
Spanish by Col. Enrique Comazo, who
fought calamity for Cuba's freedom in the
last revolution, Col. Eduardo Reina a
member of the executive committee of the
revolutionary party, and Col. Castro of
the Columbian republic who has been in
Tampa for some time instructing the re-
cruits Of the Cuban party in military tao
tics. All of the speeches were bitter
against the Spanish government, and were
received with cheers by all except the
Spanish official.
Col Fernando Figueredo of Tampa, a
Cuban patriot and the recognized leader
Of the revolutionary party in Florida,
spoke in English and denounced the Span
ish authorities for suppressing news of
the war now In progress. and for sending
out false reports of the capture and death
Of Cuban leaders. He said that Gen. Jose
Marti was not dead as reported. but would
be heard from in due season.
Mai. A. j. Russell of Jacksonville also
spoke ne came out openly IN FAVOR OF
free Cuba and advised the Cubans in
America to go to the seat of war and crush
Campos, the Spanish governor
But it was left for Mayor D. L. Fletcher
of Jacksonville to excite the vast assem-
blage TO the highest pitch by his denuncia-
ton of Spain. The mayor said Spain had
fastened a government on Cuba that is
most oppressive and ruinous, exacting a
taxation that 1t was unable to bear. II
forced upon them the products of other
countries of an inferior quality. All these
things Americans condemn. Spain propos-
ed to carry on warfare more cruel and
barbarous than that during the rebellion
Of lS6S-lS7S. Spain had even released lieu
tenant colonel from prison, where he had
been sent for most outrageous crimes and
placed him at the head of the Spanish army
in Cuba She had made the same pledges
as heretofore, but forgot that the Cubans
remembered the violation of the contract
She had broken her faith twice, and
now the Cubans were bound TO fight to the
bitter end. He asked if Americans could
stand calmly by and see Spain reinforce
her army in Cuba with men from her
penal colonies and reinforce IL on the
island with the scum from the Jails He
lkened the Cuban question to the Ar
menian and Bulgarian atrocities. In those
the European powers interfered, and he
was Of the opinion that the United States
should increase It's squadron around Cuba
and see that such atrocities We're not
carried on there 1t was a fight which
meant freedom for the Cubans or that
they be forever bound in slavery. Amer
leans were forced to observe the neutral
ity laws but they would hope to see the
banner of freedom wave DER the island of
Cuba
Havana. May 2S.-Gen. Martinez Campos
arrived at Puerto Principe at o'clock this
morning. He was received with the same
degree of enthusiasm which characterized
his former visit and marks his appearance
everywhere. 81