The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
Many Army officers Said to BE Sup
porting Him in His Protest Against
McKfnIey's Message.
A COURT-MARTIAL ORDERED
THE "BUTCHER- TO BE TRIED BY
DIRECTION OF THE CABINET.
Bitter Speech by senior Pidal, in
which He Attacked the United
states-Cuba's New Government.


from Madrid says: General Weyler has de-
fed the governor TO take proceedings
against him AS he is a senator a special
vote is necessary to deprive him of inn
munity from prosecution, and the Cabinet
is embarrassed, as the army appears to
side with Weyler in his attacks on the
United States"
According to mail advices sent to Bar
ritz, from Madrid, in order to escape the
censorship, the Nacional, General Weyler's
organ, has published a defiant article,
pointing out that although the government
has seized the generals protest, it could
not prevent its being read in every barrack
room. The Nacional, it further appears, at
tacks President Mckinley and the United
States minister at Madrid Gen. Stewart
L. Woodford, in unmeasured terms. The
Nacional has twice been confscated, but
the manager of that paper is deputy and
therefore cannot be prosecuted. AS he de-
clares himself to be the author OF the in
eliminating articles, no other person con-
nected with the paper can be prosecuted.
Moreover, Madrid JurieS usually acquit per-
sons charged with press offenses. The num-
Der of dinners attended Jointly by General
Weyler and other officers of high rank is
much commented upon, and is regarded as
intended to show that the former captain
general Of Cuba is strongly supported by
LIlG Military. IL is even SdtQ Ifldt Oh the Udy
he presented 10 the Queen Regent his pro-
test against the wording Of President Nc
kinleys message to Congress eighteen of
the commanding officers of Madrid visited
General W eyer and congratulated him. Al
though the liberal newspapers maintain
that General Weyler's proceedings are I'M
important 1t is recalled that military queS-
tons in Spain frequently lead to grave Sc
quels.
A dispatch from Madrid: "A number of
Spanish generals have been interviewed re-
garding the conduct of General Weyler.
Marshal Campos reserved his opinion. Gen.
DomingueZ approved the government s
course in submitting the matter to a court
martial, adding that if President Mckinley
has been guilty of ,insolence, it is the gov
ernment's place to protest" Gen. Ochando
General Weyier's behavior, which is
classed in Madrid as Shutting" in apologize
ing to the Queen Regent and hastily eX-
he was not responsible for the publication
Of his protest, has alienated many of his
supporters among the CarliSts, who hoped
to entangle the general in the revolutionary
meshes. They are especially disappointed at
the fact that the government appears to be
satisfied that the so-called Weyler bubble
has burst and that the Spanish army is not
gangrened. 1t is said at Madrid that only
three of the Spanish generals are in SYM
pathy with General Weyler.
The Spanish government will send five
thousand troops to Cuba at the end of jan
uary and further troops, up to 1900, will
be sent to that island If needed.
that the Indifference of the European
bourses to General Weyler's proceedings is
a 'tsolid and satisfactory proof of the in
creased stability of Spanish politics" 1t
says: General Weyler's whole conduct
since he left Cuba has been most repre-
hensible, and no self-respectirg government
could be expected to tolerate such an act
as his absurd protest
A late dispatch from Madrid says: Senior
Pidal, of the Chamber of Deputies, on as
Stunning the presidency of the Circuo Con-
q
speech aiming at the reconstruction of the
Conservative party. He denounced the lib
eral policy in removing General Weyler
from Cuba and in granting autonomy. and
he urged loyal following of the policy Of
the late Senator Canoyas. In the course of
a trenchant attack on the behavior of the
United States he cited 'its abandonment
of the Monroe doctrine in Haiti in the face
Of menace from the German war ships. "
The speech was greeted with cries of Live
the Union Conservatives Live Spain!
and Live the Queen Regent"
Senior Pidal said: I'VE must remark that
the scandalous violation of international
is a consequence of the ignoring of such
rights recently everywhere by Liberals.
Witness Poland, Ireland and the Pontifical
States despOiled by despotism. The indif-
ference by the conservative classes gem
orally has conduced the present apathy
whereby the world hears unmoved the an
nounceTnent of American violation of all
right and all law except brutal force How
often have l been called the enemy of
to applaud a violation of international
rights practiced by nations possessing a
majority of bayonets, mindful that the
same process might some day be applied
against ourselves. How often have l been
censured when quoting De Trocqueville' s
picture of American degeneracy. How oft
en- have been ridiculed by those who now
suggest war with the American jingoes
when holding that the United States, far
from the apostles of universal peace, were
converting the children of Washington and
Franklin into people of radicals, who,
while Obliged to renounce in Haiti the in
solent Monroe doctrine before the guns of
German ironclads, purpose to apply it in
Cuba. believing that the Spanish army is
decimated by the rigors of the climate.
Let Spaniards who are opponents of con-
seryatiye principles confess the injustice of
their censures when l depicted the mercan-
burning with Indignation respecting our ex-
cesses in Cuba. They who eXterminated
the Indian over the entire territory of
America: they who in the war of seces-
sion committed horrors unequaled by any
civilized nation in the universe: they who
wear after year, in most unjust and most
cruel war where the abolition of slavery,
instead of being an act of humanity was
simply the Strategem of war, exercised the
most atrocious tyranny and at the same
time perfidv against the Southern States
they are the true fathers of the moral
greatness and material progress of the
American Nation.
CUBA'S MINISTRY.