The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-17
FOR CUBA LIbRE.
Monster Meeting Held
in Washington.
RECOGNITION is AT HAND.
Letter of Sympathy From Sen
ator Chandler.
THE TIME FOR ACTION HAS COME
First Rescue Americans, Then Stop
Spanish Atrocities.
Wfthoat Delay . Fleet should he
Sent to Cuba, and an Army Landed
ON the Island-Through Her In
human Executions Spain Has For
feitea the Consideration Of Civil
fred Nations - For the United
States 20 Aid the Insurgents TO
Achieve Independence, In Only to
Observe the Traditional Policy of
America-MckinIeyW VIII Keep His
Pledges to the Country-A Mes
sage Expected in . Few Days.


fac attendance of men and women. many
OF them Well known in Washington. pack
ed the Columbia theater TO its doors this
afternoon ar a monster mass meeting held
In behalf of the cause OF the Cuban insur-
gents. The theater was appropriately
decorated Seated on the platform and
participating in the exercises were SEN
ators Gallinger and Allen. ex-senator But
Ter, of South Carolina; Rev. Hugh john
son. pastor of the Metropolitan Method
ist church: Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis.
and number of others identified with
the interests of the insurgents.
Gen. William Henry Brown. 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 let
tiers and kilograms Of regrets. among
and Burrows. and Commander Clarkson.
OF the @. A r. Senator Chandler sent the
following letter OF regret:
WASHINGTON. ID. c.. May ls.-Senor
A. Aguirre. Washington, d. C.-Dear
Sir: Aithough unable TO attend the meet
pathy and of hope for the relief and indie
pendence of Cuba.
As wish 20 see the United states de.
clare and maintain the independence of
the island, as France did that OF the
American colonies. and made the United
states q nation. OF course ! shall, as a
method tending to the same beneficent
end. i hope and believe that congress and
the president will soon formally recognize
This step. followed. as II Will be. by all
the other independent nations of the West
cnhan MISREPRESENTATION n,lh isi 70 ,,yhs f sne
Moreover, without delay, We ought 10
send a fleet 10 enter the harbor and an
10 protect the lives and property of Amer
lean citizens, and secondly. TO stop the
atrocious and unciviiized methods OF war
fare adopted by the Spanish generals.
I'm advocating all these measures. / am
conscious of no passionate hostility 10
spain. In lsol she recognized the South
months after It's military struggle began.
and surely. II she cannot hold Cuba with
out making IL one vast desert and grave
yard by driving the inhabitants into the
cities TO starve and by hanging. shooting
or garroting Cuban officers and soldiers
for rebellion and incendiarism. she ought
= lose the island. LIZ, between 1861 and
lsS. one Confederate general had been
thus put 10 death. ell the powers of Eu-
rope. with one accord. would have sent
their fleets and armies 3.eco miles across
the sea TO end such barharous warfare
and 10 establish and maintain the South
ern Confederacy. Yet Gen. Robert e.
Lee and all his generals were as truly
guilty OF rebellion and incendiarism as
was Theodore Mendez Gonzales. who was
shot for that offense at Cabanas fortress
In Havana on Monday last
We blame England for abandoning the
harmless and peaceful Armenian Chris
tians 10 massacre by the Moslems and for
submitting the iiherty-foving Greeks 10
slaughter by the Turkish despot. Eng
land retorts that we dare not stop the
methods Of unciviiized warfare applied al
our very doors in the American Crete
the fair island OF Cuba: and both charge
and counter-charge are justly made.
"in helping 10 make Cuba independent
We are observing q traditional and uni
versai American policy: the duty 20 pro-
ne FIRST fF7ss y f0sa
severance Of Cuba from Spain. In 1895
also. the Democrats pledged themselves
90 DO this by their declaration of SYM
pathy with the people OF Cuba In their
present struggle for victory and independ-
ence. and the Republicans pledged them
selves by their promises that the United
States should endeavor 10 restore peace
and give Independence To- the island
There need be little fear that these pledges
will he violated
President Mckinley willingly recog-
nizes the binding force of the platform
upon which he was elected and will soon
DO bis part toward making Cuba free
snd independent. lie may proceed with
what VIII seem 20 impatient spirits 10 be-
undue caution. With the cries and groans
ringing I'm his ears of unarmed men
women and children enduring inhumsn
cruelty and daStardly murder but he will
before Ions register the decree which
went forth in his triumphant election that
Cuba should be taken from the control OF
ert In this faith IN a great PARTY and its
president let as rest patiently and most
hoDeyuliy Very respectfully
WILLIAM r. CHANDLER"
carl Decker. OF wsShingccu. who as
correspondent OF the New York Journal.
xpent much tire In cuba. with a branch
or the Cuban army In Santa Clara prov
inre gave description - the condition
os AFFAIRS existing. ard ~ the pstiahGe
plishs os many % the people suffering
so~ the necessities % life He rfsfscuied
the clairns sent out by Gen weyler that
.he island had been rsaeified and said thar
n ire CslhaFss we're granted belMx~rent
rights bs- the United States they would
ssar,atnlv win Mr.. Decker has iu~r re-
turned from cuba
Secretary Alien. IN TIRE course of his re-
marks hurao~ausiy declared there was no
division In the PopBlls1 ranks on the
snexsIrr, 81 s-slnan lioerty. In this whole
matter he thought there had been teo
much sacrifice 70 a spirit OF commercial
ts-4,. and n was time this government bad
a little more humanity and little u0rs
ArusrfcanfSus He declared that the United
SfatNs ssstasa not afford 20 have a decay
fns mona rehv With fooshcld in this
s>sntsrent and ne would se delighted 10
-. Suafn aFss the Ottoman sniplre afpesi
from the man 81 Europe. II the president
were 20 send = Sect 10 Havana. var fn
the isaFsA would csase In thirty days
as,a sr xxr4astss4 -ssr - necessary 10 ssrF