The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-13
Tho Disgraceful End of q Dishon-
oraDlc Career.

Tho Disgraceful End of q Dishon-
orablc Career.
The revolution in Cuba is stronger at the
time of WEYLER's fall from power than 1t
was when he took command of the Spanish
army there twenty months ago. The revo-
lutionary forces in the field against Spain
are greater than they were then. The extent
of Cuban territory under the revolutionary
flag is much larger than it was then. The
revolutionists are more hopeful Of success
than they ever were at any time in the
past. The spirit of the armed Cubans has
never been moro r~esolute than it Is now
their purpose is the same as ever.
WEYLER has been a failure; and his re-
nova from the office of Captain-General is
the proof of it. He has made for himself a
record Of i~ncompetency, savagery. and
shame. He has brought dishonor upon the
name and the rms of Spain.
The last few weeks of WEYLER's rule in
Cuba have been weeks of markedly bad
luck for him in the war. Since the begin
ming of last month the insurgents have bat
tered his army in every province of the
island. They have captured the Spanish
stronghold Of Victoria de las Tuna
and compelled its garrison to surren-
der. They have engaged in nearly a
hundred fights within the time speci-
fled, in all of which they have been the as
sailants. They have raided the suburbs of
Havana, and have been constantly in the
vicinity Of the city. Their strategy and
man9uvring have been such as to prevent
WEYLER from assuming the offensive with
any large body of troops. They have crossed
the eastern trocha many times, and have
thus demonstrated it's uselessness to Spain.
They have made it plain that the other
trocha, constructed last year for the de-
fence of Havana by WEYLER himself,
was not an insuperable obstruction to
their movements. They nave resumed OPP
erations in the west, and lave been more
active than they had been at any other time
of the year in the province of Pinar del Rio.
In truth, it can be said that the last weeks
of WEYLER's rule in Cuba have been weeks
of opportunity for Gen. MAxIMo GOMEZ,
for Gen. CALIXTo GARCIA, and for the other
valorous leaders of the army of liberation.
During all this time WEYLER has stayed
in Havana, as he had during all the months
of summer beyond the reach of danger and
out of hearing of the revolutionists rifles.
Only upon two or three occasions this year
has he ventured out of the city, and upon
none of them did he travel far. AT one
time he mustered a large body of troops, took
u safe place among them, and announced
that it was his purpose to crush the rebel
lion at once; but his men had marched only
Il few miles from Havana in an eastcrly
direction when he returned to his palace,
leaving them in camp, where they remained
till the rainy season set in and put n stop
to their advance. AT another time he went
by steamer as far along the coast as Ma.
t~anzas; but a day after his arrival there
he returned to the safer place which he had
left; possibly for the reason that a report
had reached Matanzas that the rebels were
preparing to attack it. Upon only n sin
gle occasion, during WEYLER's stay of
twenty months in Cuba, has he been out of
the city for as long as'a week. That occa-
sion was near the end of last year, when he
went to Pinar del Rio, in the company of
forty Of his battalions, for the purpose of
destroying the insurgents then under the
leadership of Gen. ANTONIO MACEo.
That campaign was worthy Of It's COM
mander. His troops ravaged the province,
killed as many pacificos MS they could over
take, burned ten or twelve of the Cuban
hospitals, and drove the insurgents to their
places of refuge in the mountains. Then it
was that WEYLER had the opportunity of
issuing n proclamation, for the information
of Spain, that the pacifcation of Pinar del
Rio had been accomplished.
WEYLER has done nothing that can
be put to his credit, as n soldier or as a
civil ruler, since he went to Cuba. He has
reduced no province to subsection; he
has taken part in no engagement.
Great rs have been his army and his re-
sources, he has not quelled the insurrcc-
ton, or even reduced it's strength. We have
often heard that he was engaged in the
planning of campaigns that were sure to be
successful but he has not carried out any
one of his many plans. In his manifestoes
he has often spoken of the weakness of the
insurrection but the insurgents have de-
fled him to the last. When appointed to
Havana he promised to end the war in
short time; he has been asking for more
time, and yet more, and again more, ever
since then. He sent a report to the Madrid
Government a few weeks ago that he had
pacitled four of the six provinces of Cuba
but within these same weeks the Cubans
have waged war necessarily in every one
OF the provinces that he named. His
demands upon the Spanish treasury have
| been excessive, 80 excessive that, as We