The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10

Edison, William NJ. Evarts, william H. Webb,
Stewart L. Woodford, Thomes L. James Dar-
win K James, Frederick R.. Coudert, Powell
Clayton, James O'Brien. Richard Mansfield,
Lorillard Spencer, Edward Lsuterbach, Samuel
GompeIs, Charles S. Adler Warner Miller
John k. Doudge. Ashbel p. Fitch, James J.
dore Roosevelt, Cyrus Clark, Walter S. Logan.
Anson g.. McCook, Felix Campbell, Ellis H.
koberts, J. J. O'Donohpe, Fred William Hollis,
Joseph Pool, Noah Davis. Murat Halstead,
William II. Arnoux, Thomas E. Stewart, Gid
con J. Tucker, Capt. George w. Brown. Dwight
townsend, C. p. Crosby. Thom as st. John Gaff-
ney, James r. OBierne, Everett Masten,
Colonel John Jacob Astor, General Dan But
terheld, William Rockefeller, James Gordon
Eennett, A!onzo B. Cornell, Hugh ]. Grant,
Thomas G. Platt, Russell Sage, Robert Bonner,
Martin 4. Mcmahon, Rev. R. Heber Newton,
George Hoadly. Rabbi Gustav Gottheil Charles
ID. Murray, William II. Crane. Albert shaw.
Muholland, Israel Ellis Isaac Olcott Rhines,
Erwin Wsrdman, Henry l.. Einstein, Jackson
Wallace, r. c. Alexander, C. H. Denison, Frank
B. Carpenter, John C. Mcguire, Fred Taylor,
John b. butcher, John F. Dillon, Herman A.
Bolte, John Wanamaker, Arthur C. Butts,
Robert g. !nsersoll, Timothy L. woodruff, Au-
eral G. I. Christensen, w. E. d. Stokes, General
Lopez de Quesalta, Francis Wayland Glen,
John Rutledge Abney, Howard K. Bayne, Otto
Rosalsky.
The plan of organization which the local
league proposes to follow is that adopted
in New York, and outlined as follows in a
letter received from the New York head
quarters yesterday. In it Colonel Ethan
Allen says:
We would suggest that you secure a hall for
public meeting Notify each member of
your committee and have them sign the call,
having the signature of your Mayor at the
head; then secure the added signatures of as
many more prominent, in Dfuen ial citizens as
you can. For your meeting invite your strong
est, ablest and most patriotic speakers, and at
the meeting elect board of officers and adopt
resolutions (see suggestions in our resolutions
lnclosed). After the meeting send copies of
the resolutions you adopt to your members of
Congress, also OF your Legislature, and to this
Office.
The petition to be circulated contains
the following, among other declarations
for liberty:
Let us so speak that the executive of this
Nation and our representatives in Congress
shall re ecogniZe Cuban independence, and all
Will be well. We are not required TO raise
put we are called upon to declare that the
heart OF this Nation is with the oppressed
Cubans, and then, with her independence ac-
knowledged, her unermed heroes may obtain
from us as required the equipments of war.
as Spain has done heretofore, and thus we
blaze the way for final victory, as surely to
follow as, In the end, right triumphs over
wrong.
Mayor Phelan will appoint the com NIT.
tee OF fifty to take steps to unity Cuban
sentiment here just as soon as he receives
list OF sympathIZers from which 10 Sc
lect them. All persons who will partici-
pate in the proceedings to free Cuba, or
who will add their names to the lists OF
sympathiZers are requested to send their
addresses to Secretary Faust Mascherini,
7l8 Greenwich street.