The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-20
he coyrRAD1crs GEN. WEr1ER.
A Spanish Critic Recalls Things That Arc Not
Brilliant in WcyIer's Recent Career.

iiin IN VcyteFb hhcCeuk NuFcoF.
MADRID, Oct. THE ublic. here had scarcely
recovered from the impression caused by the
publication of Gen. weylcr's letter comparing
tho present condition OF affairs in Cuba with the
situation at the time that Gen. Martinez Campos
had command o; the island. when Senior Juan dc
Urbinns, an intimate friend of Martinez Cam.
pos, came to the front with a communication to
e. Dia, in which. after admitting that the Mar.
shall had been unable to prevent the westward
march Of the insurgent invading forces. the
writer says:
when Gen. weyler speaks of the indelible
track which the insurCent torch blazed on their
march from Santiago de Cuba to Pinar del Rio
he makes a great mistake, for the destruction OF
property by fire began at San Juan y Martinez.
in Pinar del Rio. II there actually exists an in
delible track Of fire it must be eastward. and
that marked by the insurRent path in that
direction after Martinez Campos had with
drawn from Cuba.
ITO say that the insurgents proceeded unmo-
Tested from Santiago de Cuba to Pinar del Rio
Is not absolutely exact. There are the fights
at Iguara. La Reforma, Limpios de Taguasco.
Coliseo, and others which prove the contrary;
and yet Martinez Campos was never escorted,
as Gen. Weyler was. by twenty battalions. with
which / beg to say that l would venture to
travel from one end Of the island to the other.
| ia SOtlpuh1 ~ ~ "iAO aAt buoA'u iNASN
fear of their being hurt.
III, as 'Weyler alleges, any proprietors paid
taxes to the insurgents. they surely did not do
30 through tho advice of Gen. Martinez Cam
DOS, nor did they secure authorization TO 90 so,
as was the case after Martinez Campos returned
spirit was depressed when he took omman OF
the island. True, and the greatest proof OF this
may be found in the fact that many well.to-do
families in Cuba hastcned to escape from the
island under the influence of the damaging nj
legations regarding Gen. Weyler's earlier career
in Cuba.
"Gen. weyler speaks of deficiencies in the
commissariat at the time Martinez Campos was
Captain.Gencral Much could be said about
this, but there is nothing which so eloqucntly
describes the condition OF affairs in Cuba under
Weyler's administration AS that picture which
he himself drew OF his campaign in Pinar de
Rio when he was compelled TO go TO sleep at the
Rubi Hills without having had anything fol
supper, and, having next gone to Los Palac!os
all he found there was corpscs and wounded
soldiers.
sanitary condition OF his army. Yes. to clcal
the hospitals he sends the sick 10 Spain by tn,
thousan % and converts the transatlantic steam
ers into an undertaking concern, so large IL tn,
number OF the unfortunatcs whose bodies hav,
to DO thrown overheard before the steamer
reach Spain! But what does this matter to Gen
Weyler, since it Is not in Cuba that the soldier
To complete tho picture let us recall tina
strategical combination OF Weylcr througl
which a column failed to reach is destination
because tho road did not exist by which 1t ha
been ordered to go: and that other instance
when one Of his columns was left isolated froI
the other forces with which 1t was supposed I
march; and again. that incident when Weylc
went to Los Palacios with the purpose Of d,
feating Maceo. just at the moment that the II