The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-02-03
HONOR FOR MARTI.
First President of Cuban Rev.
olutionists Eulogized.
CROWDS THRONG HAVANA STREETS.
General Gomez Plans to Unite the
Spaniards and Cubans In One Par
ty, Which Shall Strive For the
Independence of the Island.

& HAVANA, Jan. 80. = Four thousand
persons, men in their best clothing and
women gayiy dressed. stood amid
pouring rain in Paula square yesterday
listening to six intensely patriotic eulo-
gies upon Jose Marti, the Cuban patriot
, and first president of the Cuban revolu-
tionary government. A tablet to his
memory was unveiled at the house
where he was born, in street near by
and 81 societies. consisting of $500 per-
sons. with banners, flags and five bands,
marched through the principal thor
oughfares to the square.
The procession, whose distinguishing
feature was 500 girls wearing white
dresses and red liberty caps, started at
! o'clock, reaching the square two hours
later. The streets were gayly decorated
with Cuban and American flags, and
though the interest ran high there was
no disorder of any kind. Marti's widow
mother and son led the parade, with the
first Cuban flag used by the patriots.
which was loudly cheered.
The eulogies contained but few refer
ences to the United States or the mill
tary administration, and the only two
vituperative references to the Spaniards
We're quietly received. The tendency of
all the speeches was toward the ulti-
mate independence of Cuba, which the
orators recognized as a fact not yet ac-
complished. They declared that all Gu
bans should unite to reach that great
end, 10 make their desires known TO
the world and to claim independence as
. right when the proper time arrived.
Senor Gonzalez Lorente suggested
that the Cubans should take steps to
preserve the house itself in Marti's
memory and should give financial as
sistance to those he had left behind. He
called upon the Cubans to go to work.
Juan Gomez, mulatto with a con-
siderable reputation as an orator. made
the best speech Of the day. He coun-
Seled frmneSS, concord and determi-
nation as means to gain the coveted in
dependence. The power which has in
'tervened between the old regime and
the one we are striving for" he said. "is
Unfamiliar with the ways and habits of
our race, and, natuFslly, it will some
times blUUder IN its Efforts to fulfil Its
obligations to Cuba. The Cubans must
realize this and keup it in mind. They
must calmly indicate a mistake when 1t
Is made and have Faith that the error
will be corrected
-~sraAll the references to Cuban Iibre were
vociferously applanded and Matt. Was
held up SIS an tessEanple for all Cubans.
A Telegram of sesutation was sent to
General Maxine Gomez. Only two
Spanish flags were on view throughout
the day-one over a building USED by
the Spanish steamship line, and the
other over the Banco Espanol.
The plan of Csneral Gomez to unite
the Spaniards in Cuba with the Gu
bans proper in g party whose platform
should be the Independence of the is
land dees not altogether thrive in the
Spanish mind. Some Spaniards say.
Yes. give us the Gomez programme Of
amity." Others pre silent. AS for the
anneXationists, !{hey are very out
spoken in Havana, but more reserved in
the interior of -cj1e island. where they
are outnumberedaand far from the pro
lection of the american troops.
The Marquis Pinar del Rio has caused
some apprehension among the Span
iards by the assertion that Turing his
recent visit 20 tue United States he be-
came convinced that the American gov
ernment did NOT intend to hold Cuba
permanently. Spanish bankers and
merchants decline to lend money 0r to
give liberal credits because they fear
that the American occupation viii be
brief and that the reconstruction of the
insular system OF government will be
retarded in consequence.