The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-07
BLUE MASS PATRIOTS OVATION III WElLER|
Seth Lows Fellow Dyspepcs Monster Demonstration in
Cough Up Platform. the Havana Plaza.
IA COOPER UNION RALLY he THANKS DEPUTATIOl 81
BILIOUS FOR SPEECH CAPTAIN GEN.
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT. ERAL ADMIRERS
LOWS ANALYSIS OF NEW Y0pS NEEDS CITES SHERMAN HIS EXAMPLE
he THANKS DEPU TATIOl S
SPEECH OF THE CAPTAIN GEN
ERAL TO 10000 ADMIRERS.
CITES SHERMAN As HIS ExAMPL!
The Butcher March to the Sea His IdeaI--
The Rebels Know Me and Fear
Me and viii Not Resist

Havana, Oct. Gin spite of Captain
General Weyler's prohibition, a notable
demonstration took place here today in
his honor. The Bourse was closed as
were also the principal stores and tobac-
co and other manufactures. All the mani,
streets were gaily decorated.
| The various professions united at Cen
trail Park and they moved together to
the plaza in front of the Captain Cen
erals palace, where as many as 10000
people were gathered. Several bands
discOursed patriotic music. The plaza
and the thoroughfares leading into it
were densely crowded.
A number of Populations went to the
tralace, where they W-sre received by the
| Captain General. According to the Of
fetal accounts they assured him that it
was the desire of all the loyal inhabit-
ants of the island that he should con-
tinue at the head of the government and
carry on the campaign against the in
surgents.
| They also expressed confidence that
the Madrid government was inspired
with altogether too high designs for the
welfare of the country to withdraw the
luuSlTlOuS Cul6l WHO uuu SuUJuSuteu Inc
Iinsurrection."
Captain General Weyler, after thank
| ing the deputations for their assurances,
said he had accepted the command in
difficult times and without conditions
The success of the campaign could be
estimated and properly appreciated by
the country from the visible facts.
| In the course of seven months four
aapl,-
Jpacifed and he was confident of being
iable to pacify the two remaining pro-
vinaes, at the proper time with the
forty battaEons ready for the task He
said he expected to be able to pacify
Puerto Principe and Santiago de Cuba
at an early date, ''for the rebels there
know me and fear me and will not resist
me-"
STILL" said the Captain General, 81
believe the war should be ended with
war, here as everywhere else, and not
with shameful dealings, disgraveful to
my nation and air the more so, IN view
of the terrible condition of the rebels
| | have followed the policy of the illus
trious Canovas. / would like to please
| those who are today demonstrating in
/ my honor by remaining in Cuba, but the
delicate position IN which / have been
placed has compelled me today to re-
quest the government to dispose of my
position in whatever way it may think
convenient, and however the matter
may be decided, l shall always be pro-
foundry grateful to the loyal inhabitants
Of Cuba who in such eloquent terms
have expressed their absolute approval
of the policy l am following to bring
the war to a close.
II care little for the criticism made
by a section of the Spanish press whose
newspapers have been found in expe-
ditions landing in the island, or for the
calumnies of the disguised and und:s-
guised insurgents of the towns"
When Captain General Weyler ap-
peared on the balcony of the Palace he
was, according to the official accounts,
''frantically cheered" by the crowd af-
ter which the various professions pa
raded through the principal streets fol
two and a half hours, shouting for
Spain, the Queen Regent and the gov
lernment.
| The entire demonstration was orderly
and is officially described as without
political COLOR