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The Cuban Negro
Nat a Menace.
Ex-Confederate Officer on the
^Nsgro Supremacy" Scare
Baised by the Spanish.
Gen. Bradlej T. Johnson in . Y. Journal.
It has been the persistent policy
for the Spanish organs, official, and
of the press here, in Cuba and io
Spain, to represent the present upris
ing of the people of Cuba against
the misgovernment of their island
ana for the rights of free men as a
mere free "nigger rebellion," a strike
of idle lazy, semi civilized barbarians
against property, religion and indus
try. Rebete are always depicted
thus by the loyal. In the American
rebellion the clergy of the Church of
England, the great landholders of
New. York and Pennsylvania and the
"business men," t*1 e traders and ex
changers of commodities everywhere
were opposed to the "rebellion.7'
They represented to the govern
ment and people "at home'* that the'
rebellion was merely an uprising of
the "low Irish" and lower orders
against the gentry?the rich people
of the day aud it took four years of
war and all the power of Edmund
Barke to convince the loyal English
men that it was really a revolution of
the people?to defend their right of
liberty Inherited from ten generations
of free ancestors.
So it is more generally accepted in
the United States that the war in
Cuba is a negro strike?like San Do
mingo and Hay ti were?with the
same horrible massacres that branded
those social' cataclysms. It cannot
be too often repeated, nor too m neb
impressed on the American people,
that this is an utter misrepresentation
and misapprehension,
j, The negro in Cuba fills a very im
portant pavt in life of the island-; but
he can never fill any leading part.
His numbers are too inconsiderable
to give him any predominating
weight. By the census of 1887, on
the authority of Mr Cabera, the best
- informed writer on the economics of
Goba, thete were 1,800,000 whites
and 485,000 blacks ?or mixed races ;
these figures vary from those recently
published by me in the Journal, but
those were given without the record.
This statement by Mr. Gabera is in
Gunton's Magazine for October, and
J take for granted is reliable \
It re 8*e therefore nearly four
white men to one colored man in
Cuba. It' is impossible to get any
;5?rt of accurate information abe'st
Ahe Cub?? Ar ?y of Liberation, as
the call it, but alloting the facts as I
could collect them from all sources,
Cubans.and Spaniards, I think that
Gomez bee about 60,000 men in the
Mel?, of . which a Spanish general
told me that he thought that 40 per
cent or 24.000 were negroes, and 69
per cent?36,000 were white men
The Caban slave owner has been,
since 1865 urging immediate emanci
pation on the Spanish government
The Cuban rebellion of 1868 pro
claimed, the emancipation of. the
slaves, and by the treaty, between
the rebels and the home government
in 1878 the freedom of , those who
fought in the revolutionary ranks.was
proclaimed
But the Cuban slaveholders insist
ed on general emancipation, which
was accomplished in the Spanish
cortes in 1886 on motion of a Cuban
deputy, Don Miguel Figueroa. In
two years the sugar crop increased
50 per cent.
The Cuban negro, slave and free,
has distinguished himself by an in
tellectual forcera mental vigor, greatly
so pen" or to that o,f the American ne j
gro. . ? ' I
Antonio Maceo, who is attracting
most attention now, is ? quadroon
He is the son of a mulatto woman by
a Spanish officer, as she is the daugh
ter of a Spaniard of rank. Maceo's
white blood shows in. his face, his
figure and his achievements He is
the guerilla chief of the war Gen
eral Weyler is now undergoing the
fate of most generals. Peop e at
home always clamor for victories in
-the fi?id John Moeby starting with
lo men va 1863, gradually collected
300 in 1863 G4, and be kept 40,000.
Union trofops chasing him ??e uever
was caught, nor cornered, and I shall
be the most surprised man in the
warld if Maceo is forced into a fight
or is caught by General Weyler
For three years Mosby and Mos
by's men rode at will over northern
Virginia, behind the Union lines,
through and around the Uniori
camps. They took General Stough
ton out of his bed and in the midst
of his troops at Fairfax Court House, !
where Mosby had 29 men to 10,000.
When Maceo and the Cubans come
home they'll stea? General Weyler
out of his bed The country is a
much better country for bushwhack
ers than northern Virginia was in
Mosby's time. It is reported that
Mr. Cleveland has said that he will
not be a party in adding another
"nigger State" to the Uaion. He
need nave no such concern. Cuba
will be a white man's country,
governed and ruled by the native
Cuban, an alert, active, sinewy, tall
and vigorous man, prodigious rein
forced from the United States. It
may be dsy, it may be months, it can
hardly be years, before the "manifest
destiny" of America will unite Cuba
to the States, and at her own time, in
her own way, she will become one
of them.
The Execution of Colomas.
It is Said to Have Been a
Shocking Crime?Brutal
Conduct of an Officer.
Key West, Fla., Nov. 29.?Pas
sengers wijo arrived last night from
Havana give shocking details of An
tonio Lopez Coloma's execution in
the Cabanas fortress on Thursday
? last. The execution took place in
I the evening. A large crowd assem
bled, and much interest was felt on
j account of the importance of the
person The crowd consisted of the
rabid Spanish element. Some Cubans
were present to give a silent parting
? to the brave patriot. When led from
the chapel the crowd hooted and
I Coloma defiantly shouted f "Cuba
libre.'' The officer of the escort
! struck him in the face Once in the
I square Coloma repeated the cry and
I the officer again struck him and
I forced a handkerchief m his mouth
to prevent him speaking. Coloma
was shot in the back kneeling. He
twice arose to face the executioners,
I *
but was finally compelled to kneel.
He was killed at the first volley.
When the volley was fired the crowd
clapped hands, gave shouts for Spain
and death to all Cubans. Coloma's
execution was a case of bad faith and
cowardice on Weyler's part. Coloma
was first condemned to a life sen
tence unjustly, since as he surrender
ed according to Campos' amnesty de
cree he should have been released
After being kept nearly two years in
prison the sentence was revoked and
he was ordered shot.
Extermimination of pac?ficos con
tinues by Weyler's secret orders,
AH commanders are ordered to clear
the country of all non-combatants
This is done silently Communica
tion with the country is difficult and
it is hard to obtain details. The mas
sacres only become known through
the missions of officers and sol
diers in some cases. Col Strucb
openly boasted in Havana of killing
over 300 old men, women and girls
who surrendered in. Pinar Del Rio
province. Many have been also kill
ed in other provinces. Col Struch,
while in his cups, gave revolting de
tai?3 of the Pinar Del Rio massacre
Weyler's edict promising pardon*is
simply a trap to entice fools.
'Well informed persons say that
Weyler, following De Lome's in
structions that it is necessary to cre
ate sympathy for Spain in Washing
ton before Congress meets, has avail
ed hi?9?e!f ?f ttt? CQiT??p9B??5* of a
certain press association in the
United States to make alleged inter
views and send flattering statements
to create a false impreseion o? the
state of affairs here
IIB I I -^M?
Languishing Li.
San Francisco, Nov. 29. (Special
Correspondence of the Southern Asso
ciated Pres )?Tokio, Nov. 16.? "Thee
grand old man of China," whose return
to Pekto was expected to be the signal
f?r his restitution to power and honor,
is now in the hands of the board of
punishments awaiting the infliction of a
penalty. It appears that some one
suggested to him the pleasure of a lit
tle trip into the palace park, which lies
in the immediate vicioity of his lodging
in Pekin.. He immediately adopted
the suggestion and was carried through
an unfrequented part of the park in hie
court chair, the keeper and the eunuchs
bowing obsequisously to bim as he pass
ed. The next day he received an offi
cial intimation that he had been guilty
of a breaoh of ettiquetie and was to be
"handed over" for punishment. The
incident is said to have led to a sharp
dispute between the emporor and the
empress dowager, who has always been
his warm patroness. It has also evoked
8)oie thoughtless remarks from local
foreign journals which regard L:'s treat
ment as an insult to the crowned beads
and potentates by whom he was re
ceived on his recent tour and which go
even so far as to suggest that a protest
should be lodged by the foreign repre
sentatives in Pekin, as if foreign inter
ference in such a matter could be justi
fied on any pretext
Prosperity or Silver.
Danville Register (gold).
Viewing the situatioo since the elec
tion, from a Democratic standpoint, the
Columbia State thinks the results were
not so bad, and says :
"We have come within 50,000 votes
of electing the President. We have
gained seventy or eighty represeota
tives in Congress. And we have an
issue to*force prosperity or victory with
in two years. That is the main object
of party effort, after all, and we are
sure to get it. The Republicans bave
accepted the gage and the people are
judges. Good, solid, satisfying pros
perity or a Democratic silver Congress
in 798 and a Democratic silver Presi
dent in 1900 !"
The issue could not be more plainly
stated. "Good, solid, satisfying pros
perity, or a silver Congress io '98 and
a silver President in 1900." It may
not have the redeeming feature of be
log a Democratic eilver Congress, but
it will be for silver. The Republicans
know this full well, we dare say, and
if they do not heed the warning and
give us the legislation necessary to
help aloog good times, no power on
earth can defeat the free silver forces at
the next election.
But we look for prosperity, aod when
-that comes the country will forget all
about free silver.
Cleveland's Opinion.
-j?
Counts on Gold Democrats,
With Independent Repub
licans, Finally Aeheiv
ing Victory.
Washington. Nov. 28 ?An evening
paper here prints an account of a con
versation between President Cleveland
and a promioeot D?mocratie politicians
to which the fjrooer expressed at length
bis views .upon the future of the Demo
cratic party. The President believes,
aocordiog to the story, that while a
blunder was made by the leaders who
cootrolled tbe convention at Chicago
last July, he is hopeful that many of
tbe men respoosible for that action will
be oonvioced of their folly in tbe oear
future. He expects to see tbe organi
zation brought back ioto the true Dem
ocratic path, and be is confident that
the party, by repudiating at first oppor
tunity tbe doctrines proclaimed at
Chicago, cao recover much of tbe
ground lost in tbe late campaign It
is those Democrats who followed Bryan
solely on the ground of regularity aod
to the?r brethren who organized the
movement leading to the Indianapolis
covention that Mr Cleveland looks for
tbe organization aod rehabilitation of
the Democratic party He is confi
dent that they will not follow the free
silver extremists ioto the Populist
camp, but will gladly come back ioto the
Democratic fold wheo the '"parting of
tbe ways''' is reached, as it will be very
shortly, in bis opinion The Dumber
of these Democrats is much greater,
Mr. Cleveland believes, than most per
sons suspect. It is bis estimate that in
many of the Southern States, particu
larly, probably a third of the votes
given Mr. Bryeo were oast by Demo
crats who were influenced in register
ing their ballots exclusively by tbe
idea of "regularity."
Mr. Cleveland is said to expect tbe
radical element of tbe party, composed
as it is of men who enthusiastically in
dorse all the dangerous doctrines pro
claimed at Chicago, will shortly be
swallowed up io tbe Populist organiza
tion. It is the President's idea that
the sooner they go the better it will be
for tbe Democratic party. He wants
the organization to be effected along
the lines laid down in the Indianapolis
platform, which be regards as tbe em
bodiment of essential Democratic prin
ciples. The president insists that it is
only to the Democratic party, purified
aod rejuveoated as be topes it will be
by this sloughing off process and by
accessions from the Republicans and ir
dependent v?t?ra, thai the peop!? can
look with any decree of hope or confi
dence for relief from their burdc?3. He
thinks the r-eatest dangers whiah new
menanee th country atre tbe greed of
organized wealth and tbe rapacity of
corporations. He sees in the return of
tbe Reyublican party to power no pros
pect of the abatement of these evils.
Beauregard Boaz Dead.
Charleston, Nov. 29.?Beauregard
Boaz, professor of mathematics and as
tronomy in the College of Charleston,
died ibis afternooo, after a short ill
ness. He was born in Virginia and
was 36 years of ageu He was a gradu
ate of the University of Virginia aod
for seven years has held tbe chair men
tioned here. A man of advanced
thought, scholarly and ambitious, his
death is regarded almost as a calamity
by tbe members of the coliege. He
was considered the most accomplished
matbematiciao of his age in the South.
Terrible Crush in an India
Town.
Bombay, Nov. 29.?A dispatch from
Baroda, capital of tbe state of that name,
gives tbe details of a fatal accident
wbich occurred there to-oight. Tbe
Earl of Elgin, viceroy of Iodia. arrived
at Baroda this evening on a vWn to tbe
gairwar, or native ruler of tbe state.
The inhabitants turned out en masse to
welcome the viceroy aod to see a dis
play of fireworks in bis benor. Tbe
; display was given in the park of the
gairway. which was open to the public
Everything passed off without incident
of note, until tbe end of tbe ceremo
nies Then tbe crowd rmde a rush for
tbe park gates, which were so narsow^
that tbey s<ioa became jaoimed with
people. Those behind, not knowing
the cause of the delay at the exit press
ed forward until the crush at the gates
was terrific. A number of persons
were squeezed to death, while others
who lost their footing in tbe surging
mass of humanity, bad the life trampled
out of them or died from suffocation.
When the crowd was finally cleared
away it w.as found that 29 persons bad
been killed and 35 more or lee serious
ly injured.
The strike of dock laborers aod
others employed in tbe shippiog trade
at Hamburg, Germany, is spreading
and trouble of a serious nature is
feared.
The great storm which swept over
Minnesota aod the Dakotas on Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday bas resulted
in some loss of human life and great
loss to live stock. Mail Agent Bur
roughs of the Great Northern road is
buried in a snow drift near Devil'*
Lake, N. D. Ke was on the west
bound train, wbich was stalled out of
Devil's Lake Thursday nveuiog and
walked to a restaurant at Devil's Lake,
obtaining as big a supply of provisions
as he could carry aod started back for
his train. He never reached it.
FROM THE WIRES.
Phil Torcer, a youog white farmer
in the dark corner of Greenville Coun
ty, died oo Saturday from the effects
of an assault by unknown parties.
His murder is attributed to one of the
family feuds that are never settled io
that region.
A special from Saluda, S. C, says:
A notorious character, named Buzardt,
was killed by three Hendersons, father
and two sons. Buzardt had killed two
meo and had shot Will Henderson
about a year ago. Henderson recover
ed, but Buzhardt has been bullying
him on every occasion since Saturday
they met again, but Heodersou resent
ed Suzardt'e conduct aod bis father
aod brother came to his rescue with
the result that Buzardt was shot aod
stabbed to death. The Heodersooe
were not arrested.
It is reported that an expedition of
over *200 Texae cowboys is about ready
to start from Poiot Isabel, oo the
iawer gulf coast, near the Mexican line,
for Cuba. The expeditioo was organ
ized by ao ageot of the Cuban insur
gents who has been in this of the
State for several weeks A targe quan
tity of arms aod ammunition will be
taken by the party.
A meeting was held io St. Louis
yesterday by railway employes for the
purpose of bringing about a union of
the various railway orders aod brother
hoods.
General Weyler has left Havaoa
again aod returned to the province of
Pinar del Rio.
Richmond, Va , Nov. 30?Mr. John
W. Starke of this city claims to have
recruited here some 500 men who are
to fight for Cuba as soon as the Cubans
are recognized by the United States as
belligerents.
Macdn, Nov. 30?A special to. The
Telegraph from the State capital, says
a bill was. introduced in the Georgia
legislature to-day prohibiting the play
ing of football in the State ; also pro
hibiting tbe sale of cigarettes or cigar
ette paper. ?
Charleston, Nov 30 ?Early this
moroiog a, fruit store beloogi?g to
Charles Perkios was discovered to be
oo fire. Tbe firemeo fouod Perkios
himself inside' tbe place with five
wouods io his bead and io ao uncon
scious condition Tbe shop was total
ly destroyed. Perkios regaiod con
sciousness during the day and said that
two meo entered bis sbopowbile he wes
sleep aod ooe,of them shot him with
buckshot aod theo robbed bim. No
shot was heard by tbe neighbors and j
the money bad not been touched io tbe
f:ash df?t?er. Tbe physicians have
fouod no bullets Dor buckshot io Per- !
kins head. This is shrouded io mys
tory aod many people believe that a !
Romao candle or one of tbe sky rock- '
eis, many of which were in the shop, !
must have gone off, hittiog Perkios ?d i
the bead aDd setting the place oo fire, '
To Fix the Price of Wheat.
The Washington Pest saye. "A
conference of nations oo the subject of
tbe world's wheat market is understood
to be desired by at least one of the
greatest foreign wheat-growiog empires.
It is stated io officiai circles here that
Russia is particularly frieodly to such
ao idea, aod is believed to be making
overtures, oot only to the Uoited
States, but to Edglaod. the Argentine
Republic aod Australia. Tbe idea
suggested, as outlined here, is that
tbese oaticcs, should they see fit to
unite io ao agreemeot upon the subject,
could fix a price for wheat, to be main
tained uniformly through various sea
sons of overproduction aod unsatisfac
tory crops, caused by drouth or contin
ual rain, and thus make the principal
grain ?tapie upon which the millions of
consumers depend for food almost as
uochaogeable io value as gold itself has
become. This would, it is argued, eo- |
able the producer, in case of ao un-:
usually large crop, to store his wheat j
aod obtain thereupon a loao that would '
tide him over uotil the wheat was in j
demaod in the world's markets, when j
he would receive a full aod fair price ?
for it." j
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