The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-03-30

The Cuban Commanders Appeal Against
the Tyranny Of Spain.


Chicago, March 3O.-The Record to-
day says: Mr.. c. e. Crosby, whose
letters to The Record have appeared
over the signature of Don Carlos,
joined the army Of General Gomez
early in February, having made his
way through the Spanish lines after
secretly communicating with the rebel
governor of the province of Santa
Clara and receiving from him an
armed escort to the headquarters Of
the Cuban commander. He was pres
ent at a number of the recent engage
ments, at which there was hard fight
ing. A letter from The Records Ha-
vana correspondent, Crittenden Mar
riott, gives the information that some
of Mr.. Crosby's correspondence has
fallen into the hands of the Spaniards
on its way through the lines, and the
Spanish authorities have been trying
to seize him. His last dispatch was
received March "a, having been writ
ten in the camp of General Gomez,
near Arroyo Blanco where he is now
reported to have been killed
by the same courier, doubtless was
sent the important letter of General
Maxine Gomez to President Mckinley,
published below Mr.. Crosbys copy of
this letter reached The Record office
Sunday, having come by mail, as it was
the desire of the Cuban commander
that it should not be published before
the original was in the hands of Presi-
dent Mckinley.
"If Mr.. Crosby has really paid with
his life for his courage and enterprise
the readers of The Record gain from
him as an earnest of his ability as a
correspondent knowledge of the re-
markable letter which was sent by
General Gomez to President Cleveland,
and which either went astray or was
kept secret by its recipient, as well as
of this later communication, which
probably arrived at the White House
last night"
General Gomezs letter to President
Mckinley is as follows:
General Weyler has arrived In this
district Of Sancti Espiritu with a
numerous army. He comes not to
fight nor to expose his strength to the
forces with which / defend these parts
but as a sanguinary and cruel general,
who win avoid combats and spread
crime and desolation everywhere He
comes to murder the peasants in the
field, to kill the children and to drive
our prosecuted and outraged women
to the woods, leaving their homes to
be burned their hearths violated and
their gardens destroyed. This is how
General Weyler pacifes Sancu Es-
piritu, or wherever he may be. Then
he authorizes those who ask him for
bread for their children and allevia-
tion for their miseries to go out into
the country and to steal and destroy
whatever they may find
"With this permit me to send YOU
a copy of a letter which 1 had the
honor to send your predecessor in Of
fee, Mr.. Grover Cleveland. It is the
hope that it may move you to sacred
action that induces me to take up my
pen to trouble you:
" Mr.. Grover Cleveland, President oi
the United States
"Sir-Permit a man whose soul Is
torn within by the contemplation OF
unutterable crimes to raise his voice
to the supreme chief Of a people free
cultivated and powerful DO not, ]
beg regard this action as an inon
perfume act of oficialism. You your
self authorized it when you conceded
| to me place IN your last message L
/ congress.
"Even more, I beg you do not regarS
| It as a request for Intervention in ou
| affairs We Cubans have thrown our
/ selves into this war confident in ou
| strength. The wisdom of the American
| people should alone decide what cours
Of action you should take
IT viii not speak of the Cubans n
arms. No, 1 raise my voice only in tn
name of unarmed American victims o
a frightfui cruelty. I raise It I'm tn
name Of weakness and Of innoeenc
sacrificed, with forgetfulness Of IN