St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-08

want the truth. 1t is for this reason
that I forego my usual desire to avoid
public discussion, in order that the
An erican people may be put in possess
sion of certain facts, and that misun-
derstandings that have been made pos
sible between the United States and
Sapin may be avoided.
II read with the deepest regret the
statements made in the senate by some
of the most influential senators of the
United States, knowing that the facts
which were stated by them were incor-
rect; that their good faith, of which
have no doubt, had been imposed upon,
and that it would be very easy for me
to prove, with little time, that the
senators had been misinformed by per-
sons interested in bringing about a
misunderstanding between the two
countries.
Senator Sherman, in the sitting of
Feb 2S, quoted freely, among other
things, from an article published in
New York Sunday, Feb. %, 1896 He
said, giving in very strong language
his opinion Of the present commander
in-chief of the Spanish army in Cuba
the following "A book was written in
Spanish, which 1 ain very sorry cam
not get from the library, written by a
Spaniard by the name of Enrique Dom
derio, who came over from Spain with
the Spanish troops to see the war of
1872, and who
WAS so HORROR STRICKEN
with the high crimes that he saw COM
mitted that he flew to the United States
and there published his manuscript.
Telling is this evidence and it shows
Gen. Weyler, etc, etc. I have made
an investigation about that book and
l have found that the name of the
author is not Enrique Donderio. as
originally printed, but Enrique Don
deris. For this reason, probably the
senator was unable to find the book in
the congressional library Should he
have found it, he would have seen that
in the book, which is a small pamphlet
or AZ pages, not a single time the name
of Gen. Weyler is mentioned I have
carefully read, and have had the pam
phlet read by other persons, and ]. see
in it that many horrors are described
attributed both to the Spaniards and
to the rebels, but in it, as | said be-
lore, and as L most emphatically af-
1lrm again, the name of Gen. We%ler is
not mentioned one single time. T have
the DOCK at the disposal of ANYBODY
VINO would like to controvert my state
ment. L have been told that that ner-
son, Enrique Donderis, was a Spanish
ofhcer, who fought in Spain against
the government, and was sent to Cuba.
lie Iought there on the Spanish side
tnen deserted, and afterwards fought in
the reDel ranks. But although this
TACT mas been stated by Cuban svn-
path1Zer, 1T cannot be vouched for bv
me, and 1T is of no consequence. What
Is lmportant is, that the honora Bile
senator from Ohio said in good faith
that all the crimes that he related
were attributed, by Spanish author
tiles, to Gen. Weyler, and that his
good faith has been imposed upon.
WEYLER A SUBORDINATE.
Gen. Weyler went to Cuba as lieu
tenant colonel in 1869, and returned to
Spain as brigadier general in 1873. A
part of the campaign he held the posi-
tlon of staff ~officer,4he being one of the
generals staff, and some time later he
held the position of colonel of a regi-
ment of volunteers, which was made
up and paid by the merchantsrof Ha-
Naha lie -de1ended the town of HOl-
gum, being commander general of that
Jurisdiction, but he has never had in
Cuba any other position than that of a
subordinate officer. In my investiga-
tlon nave read many pamphlets writ
ten by CubaIis during the war from
is6s to 1885, but-with all. the natural
pas when a contest is standing, and
nave failedsto see the name of Gen.
'Weyler recorded as responsible for the
horrors that now, >>when 2hes:is at the
mead OF the army against the rebels.
are attributed to him.
senator morgan, in the sitting of
Feb. "a, said that, according To official
reports forwarded from Madrid by the