The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-17
WHAT CHANDLER WOULD DO
THE SENITOR WOULD DSEND 4 FLEET
 AND ARMY TO CUBA.

Thinks We Should Act With Cuba as
 Franco Did by Us-Recails That Spain
 Recognized the Southern Confectionery
 Within Less Than Three Months After
 It's Military Struggle Began.
 Washington, May 16.-An enthusias- tic audience of men and women, many of them we'll known in Washington, packed the Columbia theater to its doors this afternoon at a monster meet ing held in behalf of the cause of Gu ban insurgents. The theater was ap- propriately decorated. Seated on the platform and participating in the exer- cises were Senators Gallinger and AL len, ex-Senator Butler of South Caro- lima, Rev. Hugh Johnson, pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist church; Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis and number of others identified with the interests of the insurgents.
 General William Henry Browne, pres ident of the Cuban league, called the meeting to order and introduced Sena- tor Gallinger as the presiding officer The latter made brief address and read a number of letters and telegrams of regrets, among them being a letter from Senator Chandler who wrote:
 Washington, May 16.
 "Senor A. A. A. Arguua-Although unable to attend the meeting tonight, I send few words of sympathy and of hope for the relief and independence of Cuba.
 AS I wish to see the United States declare and maintain the independence of the island as France did that of the American colonies and made the Unit ed States nation, of course I shall as a friend vote for every minor method tending to the same end. Without de- lay we ought to send a fleet to enter the harbors and an army to land upon the soil of Cuba, first to protect the lives and proyerty of American citi- zens and, secondly, to stop the atro- cious and uncivilized methods of war fare adopted by the Spanish generals.
 Tn advocating all these measures, am conscious of no passionate hostility to Spain. In 1861 she recognized the southern Confederacy within less than three months after its military strug- gle began; and surely If she cannot hold Cuba without making 1t one vast des- ert and graveyard by driving the in- habitants into the cities to starve and by hanging, shooting or garrott1ng Cuban officers and soldiers for rebellion and incendiarism, she ought to lose the island
 "If between 1861 and 1865 one Confed- crate general had been thus put to death all the powers of Europe, with one accord would have sent their fleets and armies 5000 miles across the ocean to end such barbarous warfare and to establish and maintain the southern Confederacy Yes, General Robert F. Lee and all his generals were as truly guilty of rebellion and incendiarism as was Theodore Menendez Gonzales who was shot for that offence al Cabanas forts in Havana on Monday last.
 We blame England for abandoning the harmless and peaceful Armenian Christians to massacre by the Moslems and for submitting the liberty-lovine Greeks to slaughter by the Turkish despot. England retorts that we dare not stop the methods uncivilized war fare applied at our very doors in the American Crete-the fair island oi Cuba; and both charge and counter charge are justly made.
 'In helping to make Cuba indepen- dent we are observing a traditional and universal American policy; the duty to promote at the first good opportunity the severance of Cuba from Spain. IT 1S96 also the democrats pledged them selves to do this by their declaration oi sympathy with the people of Cuba ir their heroic struggle for liberty, anG the republicans by their promise that the United States should endeavor tc restore peace and give independence tt the island.
 There need be little fear that these pledges will be violated. President Me Kinley willingly recognizes the bond. ing force of the platform upon which he was elected and will soon do his part toward making Cuba free and in dependent. He may proceed with what will seem to impatient spirits to be un. due caution with cries and groans ringing in his ears and unarmed men women and children enduring inhumar cruelty and dastardly murder, but he will not fail to be faithful to his pledges and he Will before long register the decree which went forth in his tri umphant election that Cuba should bt taken from the control of Spain ant made independent In this faith, In 6 great party and it's president let us rest patiently and most hopefully. Every respectfully, WILLIAM E. CHANDLER.