Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-08-13
|PALMER DESCRIBES
VICTORY PARADE.
More Serious ExcesSes Than
Those of Yesterday Are
Feared.
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quickly into crowd that hoped for
another glimpse of him. The diplomatic
victory he won as one man trained in
discreet diplomacy instead of a COM
mission left him as crisp as ever,
though smiling, and seemingly as de-
tached as MORO Castle, which has seen
so much history made in this old city.
Col. Manuel Sanguily, the chief pro-
moter Of the army movement, and
for advice, while public emotion ex-
banded swiftly to frenzy of celebra-
ton.
You could count all the population,
for all were in the streets or hanging
over balconies. The first picture, as 1
roamed the streets, was one of supreme
human happiness and release over the
universal personal triumph in a war in
which both sexes of all ages were SOL
diers without uniforms.
Crowds Grow to Throngs.
Never, it seemed, could people feel
SO sure 1t was their victory A talka-
tive, gesticulatory nation, from groups
they spread to crowds, from crowds to
immense throngs. Machado could not
stop them from yelling. His city had
become theirs. People who did not
know each other embraced fervently
and thumped each other in the back,
Spanish fashion. The hated army and
police of yesterday suddenly had be-
come smiling friends. Policemen en-
braced and kissed. They forgot they
were on beat and ranged with the
throngs.
Hurrahing and cheering soldiers on
lor of
people, voicing their approval Other
soldiers took leave. if it was not granted,
to enjoy the applause of heroes. Sol
diers and police made speeches from
curbs and balconies, telling how it was
done and in the present stage some
were getting into disputes as to who
won the war, so rapidly do emotions
run the gamut after eight years of sup
preston.
With the army and police in such
an amiable mod, freedom became
license before noon. To the victor be-
longs the spoils. In the looting Of the
unguarded presidential palace, as the
crowd bore out curtains, furnishings
and letters, the supreme profiteer
seemed to me grinning and shouting
colored woman who flourished aloft
piece of the embroidered presidential
linen. That palace she said, had be-
longed to Machado; now part of it was
hers. The best substitute the crowd
found for the palms of victory were the
Gamma leaves of the presidential gar
dens. Automobiles painted white with
the letters A c rushed by bearing
young men who belonged to the secret
society which endured torture and
bombing vendettas. Now, in the open,
tney receive the huzzahs of the police.
Hard-1aced types came back to the
streets to add their variety to the
tnrongs. Crowd leadership developed
10 olrect wrath on anything accessible
associated with Machado. Thus I saw
mob in fury mash the presses and
gut the Office of provisional President
Ferraro's newspaper and then, lust now
wreck barber shop which some one
nao shouted was Machado's.
Strong Arm Men Executed.
The victims of Machado persecution
released from jail are more heroic than
the soldiers to people. Suddenly
ieaoef shouted to crowd including DO
Mcemen and rushed and pinned against
his face. The crowd stormed about
MN. shouting and jeering, as the police
snot down one of the strong arm men
OF the plain clothes squad which had
peen MachacoS ruthless tool. Such
was the fate of its chief. People point
OUT the strong arm men and police exc
cue them on the spot. The identlfica-
ZION Is sure, because none but the strong
arm squad was allowed to carry fire.
arms. Ane
A tropical hose stream, poured IN the
neated emotions Of the street thrones
IN the form of terrific afternoon rain
PROVIDED at least a recess to the victory
paIaoe, which were becoming orgies.
IN the course of this historical dav
1or Cuba, spent half hour with the
qulet cultivated oculist, Horacio Ferrar
IN MS lovely home in the Malecon resi-.
GENITAL district. This veteran of the
[eDelilon OF l096-1898 told how he and
Col. Manuel fostered the movement in
the army. which came to a head YES
teroay afternoon. He had been offered
the presidency as one not engaged in
politics, but he refused because. as he
SAID, his part was to save Cuba from
American Intervention.
II neither he nor the armv would
profit by the coup he believed that
would give Cuba a chance to show it
could govern itself. The army heads I
talked with are sure that after the
people have worked off their emotion,
any serious disorders can be prevented
But the interventionists hold stubbornly
that theirs is the only solution.
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