The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-09
ON TO CUBA.
A Sudden and Widespread Move
ment Springs Up
Among Men Out of Work to
Move on Cuba.
COMPANIES FORMED
At Kankakee, ILL.,, and Butte,
Montana, to Start
For the Front at Once to Help
Cuba's Cause.
ILLINOIS MEN ARE OFF
Leave For New Orleans Where
Others Will Join Them.
Movement May Be as Big as the
COxey Uprising.
For the Front at Once to Help
Cuba's Cause.
ILLINOIS MEN ARE OFF
Leave For New Orleans Where
Others Will Join Them.
Movement May Be as Big as the
COxey Uprising.

Chicago. Dec. 9--There appears to be
a well defined movement under the sur
face in Chicago as well as other parts
of the country among men out of work
to form organizations to proceed to Gu
ba and give their aid to the Cuban
cause
The movement may develop into ser
ious proportions in a very few days,
and become as widespread as the COxey
army movement 1t is yet impossible to
determine how far organization has
gone, but the raising of cOmpanies of
volunteers for Cuba seems to have been
simultaneous in Illinois and Montana as
related by today's dispatches
Butte, Mont, Dec. 9.-A club of Cuban
Sympathizers is being organized here to
join the Insurgents in January. Capt.
Bordeaux is the organizer and nearly
200 names are on the list.
Kankakee, Ill, Dec. "a company of
20 young men went south last night
over the Illinois Central railroad bound
for New Orleans. There they were join
ed by so others from various parts of
the United States, and the entire party
will ship for Cuba on the first outgoing
vessel and will join the insurgents. The
party was in command of J. b Hart
man, an eX-regular soldier, who served
five years in Uncle Sans service and
saw much hard fighting in the Indian
campaigns in western Dakota and Mon
tana- The young men looked like sons
of well to do parents. They were enth5l-
siastic in the belief that Cuba would ul-
timately be free. They gave as their
residences Chicago, Streator. Galesburg.
Bloomington and other cities.
MORE ABOUT THE MOVEMENT
St Louis, No, Dec. 9.-The Cuban
! junta in the United States has invaded
Missouri Agents of the revolution
ary forces struggling to free the blight
ed island of Cuba from the oppression
of Spanish rule, under the direct su-
pervision Of Senior Palma. president of
the New York junta, are working Sc
cretly IN this section of the country
for financial and other assistance to
the struggling Cubans. 1t is under
| stood that these agents have already
organized branches of the junta in
Ohio Indiana and Illinois. with head
quarters in Cleveland, Indianapolis and
Chicago, with small sub-statiOns in the
larger cities of these states
In Missouri the main office, it is said
will be in St. Louis, with branches at
Sedalia, Springfield and Kansas City
The headquarters in Iowa Will be at
Des MOines, with sub-statiOns at Bur
lington and Sioux City.
1t is the intention Of the Cuban sym
pathizers in the United States to ex-
tend the junta from one section of the
country to the other, overlooking no Op-
portunity or advantage offered for ad-
vancing the cause of Cuban liberty
One object of the junta is to encour-
age influence for the movement look
ing to the recognition of the Cuban
There is no international law against
the league as a body of sympathizers,
but sympathy with the movement be-
ing one of the minor ideas of the or
ganization as compared with that Of
giving substantial and serviceable as
sistance to the revolutiOnists, the pro-
moters of the junta are operating with
a precaution that surrounds their
movements with comparative prOtec-
ton against possible Interference on
the part of the federal authorities
The organizers for the jUnta in Mis-
souri, are said to be Senior COrtez Del
AsniO and Senior Jose PetOrez, both ma
tive Cubans. These gentlemen have
made frequent trips to all the larger
cities in this state. The branches in
this city Kansas City and st. Joseph
are the largest in the state, but none
of these are yet on footing of
strength that warrants public action.
ANY Cuban resident or American who
win donate something to the cause of
liberty may be enrolled as a member.
The total membership in St Louis is
said to be about 1,5OO and in the state
about 4 900
President J. A. Reardon of the Span
ish club says there can be no doubt Of
the existence of the Cuban junta in
Missouri.