The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-05-26
Long Expected Letter Is Finally
Issued TO the CnbanS.
TELLS OF HIS LOVE AND TRIALS.
Insurgent Leader RecOunts His
Work and Strongly Justifies
His Position.


A special from Havana says: The |
expected manifesto Of General Maxine
Gomez was issued Thursday evening. |
It reviews his part in the negotiations |
with Governor General Brooke and |
speaks Of his love for Cuba and his
sufferings on her behalf in the past.
General Gomez says in part:
''The hour has now arrived for me
to raise my voice in justification Of my
position and to describe the arduous
work 1 have done since my first visit
to General Brooke. 1 protested to
him against the sum offered by the
United States as insufficient to accom-
plish the good intended Awaiting an
answer to my protest I sought a solu
ton Of the question. General Brooke,
representing the chief magistrate of
the United States, announced his in
ability TO add to the sum already set
tied upon.
Spectators then attempted to in
tervene, offering suggestions which
were refused by me. They presented
a proposition to the military assem-
bly,, But the scheme was frustrated by
President McKinley's refusal to rec
ognize that body. 1 deemed the for
nation of militia practical solution,
and General Brooke, who approved
the idea, asked me for a summary of
my views on the subject. To this [
replied that 10000 men were all it
would be possible to get from the Gu
ban army without distinction as to
race. My answer was sent to Presi-
dent Mckinley, together with per-
sonal letter giving explicit reasons
why such a course was necessary.
81 had many conferences with Cen
eraI Brooke in my endeayors to dis
cover such a plan Of payment as would
not exclude the men who had never
carried arms.
General Brooke insisted upon the
surrender of same before the receipt
of money, and l also desired that such
arms as had already been surrendered
and such as should be surrendered
hereafter, might be delivered to ware
houses in the care of Cuban armOrers
to be paid out of the Cuban treasury
I do not think it a diegrace that the
Cuban soldiers should receive from q
government which is able to pay, sums
that will relieve their immediate needs
I am convinced that it is compatible
: with obtaining peace to have an army
1 with arms reserved to defend Cubi
j. against her enemies, and in the mean
time to be guarded as the relics OF
glorious struggle.
SIN my judgment, whether the nrm
II. were disposed of to the municipal au
Il thorities or to armorers, it would b.
Il all the same under the intervening
government. The Cuban commission
ers, however, refused to agree witt
l. General Brooke and the Americans
, and declined to fix dates and place
N where the Cuban soldiery could de
a liver up arms and receive paymen
from the American paymasters afte
Identification by their respectiv
&c chiefs"
e. After further praise of "Genera
Brooke's consideration and decla
ration Of his own desire to correct a
error existing in Cuba, with respect
n the United States, he goes on to say
BY 81 did not act alone, as seems to b
g popularity believed, but always cor
e suited with our officers.
- "My advice to you now is to retur
~ to your homes with the amounts offere
u. by the intervening government and
it's practice patience, which will be an az
ot ditonal proof of your heyoism.
4 "fn this way we shall reconstru
!. most rapidly the homes consecrated /
IL the blood of martyrs, blood poured OF
m in behalf Of purpose now attaint
FOR and thus begin this cycle Of libert,
Inv with the grandest prospects, precedt
g by the heralds Of future prosperity al
- peace. This work is your portion.