The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-17
Junta of Cuban RevoIntiOnists
Present Their Grievances
In a Proclamation Issued in
Mem York.
PALMA Is TMPEACHED.
Charge Is Made That His Elec-
tion Was Unfair.
Will Be Content With Nothing
Short of New Election.

New York. Sept. 1.-THE revolution
ary 5unta of New York has issued
proclamation giving the lik eral or in
surgent reasons for taking up arms
against the Palma government This
proclamation says:
In the first place. this movement
must rot be confounded with the inter
necine strife that SO often disturbs the
peace of the republics Of South and Cen
tral America IN these latter move
ments the one object of the leaders is to
gain control of the presidency. With US
it is not so.
I'VE have been careful not to over
draw the seriousness OF the present sit
uation in Cuba and have made no
charges that can not be fully substan-
tiated by unbiased Investigations.
We charge that President Palma. OBJ
tanned his election to office through
fraud and intimidation and by the de-
nial to the liberals Of their right Of suf-
frage.
I'VE charge that the government Of
President Palma was directly RESPONSE
bic for the killing of Colonel ENRIQUE
Villuendas, a member of the house of
representatives at Cienfuegos, on Sep
tember p, 1905.
we charge that President Palma has
usurped the powers and functions of the
governing bodies Of the municipalities
and has annulled, arbitrarily and with
out warrant of law, the elections Of lib
eral officers, displaeing them with mem
bers of his own political party
I'VE charge that he has in like man
ner removed from the bench judges who
refused to act IN their judicial capacity
according to the dictation. Presiden,
Palma also has imprisoned without ju-
diciaI proceedings. members of tie lib
efal party, because they voice their pro-
tests against his dictatoriaI conduct.
THE liberals have made continued
peaceful appeals that this Injustice be
righted, but to all these the government
turned a deaf ear Denied the coRstitG-
tfonal rights for which the Cubans
fought bled and died for nearly half a
century, we decided that the only re-
course was again to take up arms.
I'VE now ask oaly one thing. and
that is that the Illegal and fraudulent
election OF last December be annulled
and a new election be held at which
every Cuban citizen will be given a
fair chance to vote"
In concluding, the proclamation
says THAT Palma is today the dicta-
tor of Cuba Instead OF Weyler," and
declares that the men who surround
him are the same who supported the
Spanish regime while patriotic Cubans
were in the field fighting.
The Times today states that accord
1 ing to a story which Is being told in
! financial circles here, the real cause of
the action of President Roosevelt in
regard to Cuba was not the appeals of
American sugar planters, but a COM
plant made through the British en-
bassy at Washington regarding the
/ damage done to the property Of the
| Western railway which Is owned by
British capitalists.
Nicholas Rivero. proprietor and edi-
! tor of the Diario Den La Marina, ar
rived in New York Sunday from Ha-
vana.
n zaid. ssxxrI,ay, lef+ Havana ~,
Thursday the situation was considered
| grave, but / think that Mr.. Taft will
reach an agreement with the revolu-
| tionists by supporting some of their
claims.
''I do not think that the rebels will
accept anything less than new cleo
ton"
Asked if he believed that President
/ Palma would resign. Senor Rivero re-
piled: Il do not think that he would
resign of his own accord, but if it were
necessary for the peace of Cuba I am
sure President Palma is patriotic
enough to do So
Another Cuban who arrived here
Sunday is quoted as stating that there
4 were ever $4,000 well armed insur-
gents in the field at the present time,
which was more than there were Ia
! the last war with Spain
Navy Department Is Busy.
Washington. Sept Interpretations
by the navy department for any emer-
gency in Cuba continue. but no addi-
tional orders have been issued dis
patching warships to Cuban waters.
The Minneapolis and Newark are I'M
! der rush orders to prepare for sea, but
have not yet been sent away. The
situation has not yet developed to a.
point where it is believed that battle
ships will be necessary, though the
Virginia, New Jersey and Louisiana
are undergoinf the shaking down.
process and can easily be picked UP by
wireless if it should happen that they
are needed in a Cuban emergency.
Saved by the Marines.
Boston, Sept. IA cablegram re-
ceived here today by E. F. Atkins
from Cuba says the general conditions
1 in the South Santa Clara province are
desperate, but that the Atkins factory
and sugar manufacturing buildings on
the Sole6ad estate have been saved
from the insurgents by the presence
of marines from the gunboat Marietta.
About 1000 people are employed on
4 the Soledad estate, which is one of the
! largest in Cuba controlled by an
| American, and up to now it was be-
neved that the buildings on the prop
erty were IN danger from the revolu-
| tfonists.
Mr. Atkins said today that all trans
portation had been suspended in the
/ southern country and that the interior
/ towns were practically without SUP