The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-24

ST. Louis, Feb. 23.-Among the dis
tinguished men invited to participate
in the mass meeting of the Cuban SYM
pathizers, which was held Saturday
night last in Music hall, was General
Bradley T. Johnson, the ex-confederate
of Richmond. A letter from the gen.
eral, dated Feb. is, was received today
by John F. Cahill, secretary of the Gu
ban relief committee. General Johnson
was in Havana when General Fitzhugh
Lee first arrived there, and gave the
latter much valuable assistance in
scanning the situation. After express
sing regret at his inability to be pres
ent, he writes:
John Randolph's sneer about the
combination between the Puritan
and the Blackleg, Quincy Adams
and Henry Clay, would be changed
into horse laugh at this new firm
of the president and the inquisition.
The successor of George Washing
ton in alliance with the grand in
quisitor
Explain this mystery; make it
known to all men that the mOnev
of Spain permeates the most secret
recesses of the administration; that
OUT dSSlSldul secretary Is the
ularly retained counsel of the Span
ish consul at the city of New York,
and that the counsel of the Spanish
embassy in Washington has just
been assigned by the attorney-gen-
eral of the United States to assist
the United States district attorney,
William T. Marburv of Baltimore,
in prosecuting Roloff and Luis, in
dicted in that city for the violation
of the neutrality laws.
''The Spanish government, there
fore. not only directs the operations
of the revenue cutters of the United
States to assist Spain and prevent
the Cubans from getting ammuni-
tion from the United States, but is
actually directing the operations of
grand iuries and of courts.
Il do not believe that such a
thing ever occurred in an English
speaking court before such juries
We're invented. that foreign sover-
eigns would appear by counsel in a
prosecution of a private citizen by
his own government and assist that
government in executing its own
laws. when at anv moment war
may break out between the two
countries.
There must be some reason for
Ills ClOSe lcdSue anu pul
who can tell what it is?
THE Cubans are doing exactly
what our ancestors did from 1775
to 1871. They will win just as our
ancestors did, Notwithstanding the
efforts of the president of the
United States to assist in putting
them down.
Neither president nor revenue
cutters, nor special counsel can turn
back the tide OF time or prevent
Cuba from becoming free. Yours
truly,
''BRADLEY T. JOHNSON"
Secretary Cahill. who was in Cuba
the ten wears war, says
that he can answer the question in
General Johnson's letter, What is the
THE Nora claim of $1,000, ,OOO," said
Mr.. Cahill, was paid by the Spanish
government to a syndicate of lawyers
in New York, composed of friends and
relatives of President Cleveland and
parties directly connected with the ad-
In return for this, as
surances were given to the Spanish
government that Spain's interest in
Cuba would be protected during the
term of the present administration.
This information comes to me from
parties perfectly reliable and who have
access to the highest political circles
1t the national capital"