Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-23
GENERAL bIANCO'S METHODS,
According to This Writer, Are Little
Better Than Weyler'S.
Assassination and Bribery Are the
Strong Points on Which He Bases
a HJpe OF Pacifying Cuba - A
Paid Assassin in New York to
Take the Field and Secure the
Death of Gomez-Ready to Buy
a Prominent American-General
Lee Said TO Be in Danger.

Philadelphia, December 22.-The
Press tomorrow will publish a sensa-
tional letter written to resident of this
city by "a distinguished resident of
Havana, whose name is withheld for
obvious reasons. The letter says in
part:
you know that the policy of Gen,
Blanco has always been a combination
of bribery and assassination. You will
not be surprised, therefore, at what is
to follow. The information has been
given to me by Cuban who, owing to
the autonomist force, holds a position
in the councils of the Captain General.
THE friend tells me that DR.. Con-
gosto, who is the Machiavelli of General
Blanco, has several schemes in store,
but the most important ones, those that
will give you clearer insight into the
methods of pacification, that the Span
iards intend are the following:
THE first scheme is most important.
Dr. CongOStO has sent an emissary to
New York. / do not know his name.
He is a tall man with full beard, black
eyes and a marked Spanish accent,
though | am not sure Of his national
ity. He has probably started already
for New York, where he hopes to join
one of the filibuStering expeditions and
reach the army under Gomez. He is
to find out the depots of arms and the
hospitals. When an occasion presents
itself he is to murder Gen. Gomez. HIS
recompense for all these services will be
some thousands of dollars
ely trouble is to understand where
thew will get the money
THE second scheme is with reference
to overtures to be made to those fight
ing in the field for Cuban liberty
"You know as well as I do the old
man Jose Roban. and you remember
as we'll as I do that in. the former up
risings he showed himself to be Span
lard Of the Spaniards. Now his son
Luis is the leader commanding the in
surgent brigade at Sagua. For this
crime the father was expatriated and
sent from Sagua to Havana, where he
now resides. DR.. Congosto knows that
Gen. Gomez has issued a proclama-
ton ordering every leader to see that
all emissaries who may present them
selves with proposition of peace that
are not based on the absolute indie
pendence of the island shall be sent
NnNSu W tNdlu liz lul luti dduS tJldt
all attractions of this order shall be
considered treason. Now Or. Coneosto
conceived the idea of sending the father
to the son with propositions looking to-
ward autonomy, thus placing the son
in the position of either shooting his
father or being himself declared a trail
tor. The poor old man refused. but I
know not how long he may withstand
the pressure that is being brought to
bear on him.
''The last scheme is as follows:
"Dr. CongOsto is endeavoring to Sc
cure the services of some prominent
man in the United States. This prom
inent person is to come here, and on
his return to the States is to declare
that autonomy is an accomplished fact.
that peace is firmly established and
other foolish things.
LAS if this could alter the real state
of affairs and as if Consul General Lee
were net here to tell the truth. And,
by the by, very much fear that if this
gentleman Uee) does not take his de-
parture in good time he is running
the risk of being blown to pieces