Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17
senator Gallinger of New Hampshire
Presides Over the Assembly.
ALLEN OF NEBRASKA A LEADING SPEAKER
Declares He Would Like to See Turkey and
Spain Wiped fiOm the Map.
CHANDLER SENDS A LETTER OF REGRETS
Compares the Attitude of the United
states Toward Cuba to Tint of
England Toward Armenia
and Crete.

WASHINGTON, May 16--An enthusiastic
audience Of men and women, many of them
well known In Washington, packed the
Columbia theater to its doors this afternoon
at monster mass meeting held in the be-
half OF the cause OF Cuba. The theater was
appropriately decorated. Seated on the plat
form and participating in the exercises were
Senator Gallinger and Senator Allen, ex-
Senator Butler of South Carolina, Rev. Hugh
johnson, pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist
church, Rev Howard Wilbur Ennis and
number of others unidentified with the inter-
ests of the insurgents.
General William Henry Browne, president
OF the Cuban league, called the meeting to
order and introduced Senator Gallinger as
the presiding officer. The latter made a
brief address and read a number of letters
and kilograms of regrets among them being
those of Senator Frye, Senator Burrows |
and Commander Carkson of the G. A. r.
Senator Chandler sent the following letter |
of regrets:
Guirre: Dear sir-Although unable to at
tend the meeting tonight 1 send a Few
s Of 1ed Of Of 9GRs GaSa for AS the
wish to the United States declare and
maintain the independence of the island, as
and made the United States a nation, of
course shall as prae,ical pEsl, II friend end vote vote
benefcent end. / hope and believe that
congress and the presiden, will soon for
beiiigereney. This step, followed as it will
be by all the other Independent nations of
cure, the Cuban ndependence which is
sought for, Moreover without delay we
and an army to land upon the soil of Cuba;
first TO protect the lives and property of
ntroriOlS and lnciViliZed methods of
fare adopted by The ne Spanish % a geeals am
conscious of no passionate hostility to
spalp. In 1861 she recognized the southern
confederacy, within less than three months
II she cannot hold Cuba without making. 1t
one vast desert and graveyard by drlv-
ban BAN ofileers W anS soldiers for rebellion and
If between iSGl and 1865 one confederate
general had been thus put to death all the
have sent their fleets and armies 3 600 miles
across the ocean to END such barbarous
southern confederacy. Yet General Robert
u, Lee and al his generals were as truly
Theodore Menendez Gonzales, who was
shot for that offense at Cabanas fortress in
We blame England for abandoning the
harmless and peaceful Armenian Christians
@g no t6e I Greeks bd to i9f saagR
ter by the drkish despot England reports
that we dare not stop the methods Of ,n, un,
in the American Crete, the fair island of
Cuba. and both charge and counter charge
independent we. are observing a traditional
and universal American policy, the duty to
foT5 Of cuba from m ry SPAIN 'u''s the severance
In 1896 also ne democrats pledged them,
heroic struggle for liberty and indepn ndenee''
the United States should "endeavor to Sc
cure peace and give Independence to the
There need be little fear that these pledges
VIII S otsa tba RresSnt 5ndrr Mckinley eoSdn %
the. platform upon which ne was elected
and will soon do his part toward making
csSp Sesa ffs a%a %h T Hs G y
spirits to be undue caution, with the cries
n"a p"f9s ana % h Of
human cruelty and dastardly murder, but
@ aSd T he % ' before S be ohR th rarSa is his eas e
cree which went forth IN his, triumphant
Of ad made pc frGm
oG M ~ thia faith in great party
''''' "'p'' wv WILLIAM fH'ttiTa 4. tctHiTAaNSDLER.
Karl Decker Of Washington. who, as
correspondent of the New York Journal
spent some time in Cuba much of 1t with
branch of the Cuban army in Santa Clara
province, gave n description of the condition
of affairs existing and Of the pitiable plight
OF many OF the people suffering for the
necessities of life, He ridicued the claim
Get out by General Weyler that the island
had been pacifed and said that II the Cubans
were granted belligerent rights by the United
States they would certainly win. Mr. Decker
has just returned from Cuba.
IL the course Of short speech Senator
Allen Of Nebraska humorousy declared there
was no division in the populist ranks on the
question of Cuban liberty. In this whole
matter he thought there had been too much
sacrifice to spirit of eommercialism and 1t
was time this government had a little more
humanity and a little more Americansm.
He declared that the United States could
not afford to have decaying monarchy with
a foothold on this continent, and he would
be delighted TO see Spain and the Ottoman
empire wiped from the map of Europe, II
the government were to send squadron to
Havana war would cease In thirty days and
II would not be necessary to fire gun. II
the United States should say to Spain: you
shall not war upon the hospitals, upon women
and upon childhood, Weyler's occupation
would be gone"
Mrs. Clara Belle Brown OF the Woman's
National Cuban league said that the league
had but one platform one aim and one end
and that end was the establishment OF the
republic OF Cuba. Remarks were also made
by Rev Dr. Kent Mrs. Lincoln, vice drec-
tor OF the woman's league. and Rev. Howard
Wilbur Ennis
Ex-senator Butler Of South Carolina read a
series OF resolutions which had been pre-
pared and there were unanimously adopted.
They earnestly protested against the bar
barous and inhuman methods" OF Spain In
conducting the war In Cuba. declared that
this government should recognize the in
eurgents as bellgerents and Cuba had
demonstrated that II was her manifest
destiny that like Mexico she should be free
and independent without the pay TO Spain of
any indemnity.
A private letter received In this city yes
terday morning from an American resident
I'm Saneti Spiritus was read which gives the
following details OF the death Of Colonel
Carlos Agulles. a Cuban officer resident In
New York for twenty years. whose family is
well known In this city II Is dated Saneti
Spiritus. May 7. aud the portion referred TO
reads:
81 send letter to you with the request