The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-17
Cubaa situation Outlined 70 2
Enlsgt7 5Ga1es Senator
PLEADS FOR RECOGNITION
The Effective Insurgent Force
Summed Up by Him.
MOVEMENTS IN This COUNTRY
o sganizattons Springing Up IN Many
Different Sections--A Bulletin still
Denies Maceo's Death--W Weylsr
Not TO be Replaced.

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arriving here tonight from Havana re
mort that Antonio Maceo is alive and well
and i in the province Of Siatanzas.
These passengers say that all of the
FESTIVITIES that were going on IN Havana
IN celebrate his death have been ordered
STONED since it has become known that
he is alive.
Washington, u. C., Dec. 16-A United
States Senator of prominence in Cuban
affairs to-day received a letter from ten
eral Francisco Carrillo. Of the Cuban
army. who was tried and acquitted IN
Wilmington, Del, for supposed violation
OF the neutrality laws The letter was
dated in In Campana, province Of Santa
Clara. Cuba, shortly before Maceo's as
sassination It says IN part:
.sDistinguished friend of highest con-
sideration: The general condition Of the
revolution cannot be more satisfactory for
us. We are more powerful every day,
while at every step and moment the ah-
soIute incapacity Of Spain to vanqulsh
us is nut in evidence. Our forces cover
all the island, moving freely from one
end TO the other, conducting offensive
tactics everywhere and repeatedly strik-
ing good blows to the enemy's forces aud
towns as much as the special character
Of this war allows and the manner III
which the spaniards carry On the cam
paign.
1--WE can say that the country belongs
to us. In the greater part OF the island
it is ours absolutely, as it happens in the
east. Camaguey, Remedies, Santi
Spiritns, Trinidad and Pinar del Rio. In
these zones. the Spanlards live complete
" shut up and almost besieged in the sea-
port and towns of importance, and in the
rest Of the island they do not command
any more territory. than the one they
tread upon when they are operating.
1Only by bringing ut enc time 100000
men could they, not yanQulsh us, but
place us in less favorable position and
this Spain viii not be able to do, mucli
less when she has to carry on another
war in the Philippines, which thus be-
came great auxiliary to Us.
sIn the meantime we are also prepar-
ing for this winters campaign, and we
are preparing ourselves well, for now we
are not III need of war elements and more
over we believe that the Spaniards with
what they are able to muster, viii at
tempt to make last and supreme effort
to conquer us. You will pardon me il |
do not write what our plans are; the
results will soon be felt.
stOur effective army consists of thirty
thousand men fully armed and more than
double this number are ready to receive
weapons, all under the command OF the
renowned indefatigable General, Chief
Maxine Gomez We have divided the
island into military departments, west
ern department, which is west of the
Jucaro and Maron trocha under the COM
mand Of Major General Antonio Maceo,
Lieutenant General OF the army Of lib
Grafton, and an eastern department, from
the east of the said trocha under the
command OF Major General Calixto
Garcia. Each Of the Spanish divisions
we have constituted into an army corps
and IN each of the old districts we have
brigade composed OF the forces, con-
stantly operating in that locality. These
brigades are organized into regiments;
these regiments into battalions and com
panies, if they are Of infantry, and in
squadrons. ii Of cavalry; the latter con-
stitutes the greater part or our forces
owing to the requirements Of the cam
paign.
''The supreme power of the revolution,
as you have seen from our constitution,
voted September 18, 1895, by the repre-
sentatiyes of the Cuban people in arms 10
meeting assembled is vested in govern
ment council consisting Of president
and four secretaries, OF foreign affairs,
war treasury and interior.
s.rTho treasury is in charge Of secre-
of finance in each State and under this
a delegate OF the treasury in each dis
trict, and under this the necessary SUBJ
delegate. The commissary department,
the workshops, the citizen police are
under the Secretary of the interior, who
has civil governor in each State. I'M
diately under the governor there is
heutenant-goyernor OF each district ana
this one has under him the inspectors of
workshops, coasts and communications
and the projects, spb-prefects and the
postmasters of the district, employing
the foreman and the workmen OF the
shops for the best service as well as the
employees Of the prefectures and sub
prefectures and mounted mail carriers.
All this is completed with the herds of
horses and cattle held in reserve and the
cultivated zones that we have also estab-
lished.
ooh, il the United States would recog-
nize our beliigerency, our triumph would
be an immediate one. 1t is enough to
think that such recognition would place
us in condition OF buying in the country
the necessary implements to commence
an energetic decisive campaign, which
would make the Spanish lose all hope OF
recovering the island. I know you win
continue to aid us in this manner. Not
only our interest demands, but also that
of the American people and the supreme
interests Of humanity. Indeed this war