CUBA. 



those of Gomez, and had station*! 8,000 troops in 



. 



with his usual -kill avoided an encounter with 

 these, created tlu- line, and was again in II 

 without having lirvd a shot. 



Failure ,.i < a'upat. The political Hi. 

 Campo* bad been one of con. 



tain amount of nf-Tis. but n had failed. Ills 

 wan in meet ill.- iii^ ii the 



lie. and with superior numlers ai 

 sourer* end tin- r,Mh..n. N-,-oiided by ofl 



md learned the jK-ieiu-e of warfare at home by 

 planning ImttU* on (taper and with boy >; 



rya i .:.. .-::- Opera- 

 tion* .1 had al-M, failed. The be$i. 

 -'.HI raw II.. and. except th- 

 "Mwwinn of the reMs or else in a turmoil, 

 .-re had been no rebels or tendencies n 

 . :rt of the jM-ople to reU-1, the country was 

 .vitli m-urre. lion. The very people who had 

 proleated against tin- npri-ing ii"\v hailed the 



f their indep i 



was i forth, distribatind 



band* throughout Matanzas and Havana provinces, 

 I'lirnin- sugar estates on th- pretense of their ha\- 

 d some order of hi- j rail- 



ruad trains because they transported troops and 

 hanging and shooting his followers as an exam- 

 ple to the others. The whole country was claimed 

 by him. and the S|aniards. with the exception of 

 the columns sent in pursuit of Mace... put them- 

 selves on the defensive l.v rapidly fortifying them- 

 selves in the towns and cities or on sugar estates. 

 Bun. fields illuminated the sky alwut 



Havana at night, and the smoke told of the de- 

 ion going on by day. Many Cubans, both 

 and colored, who hail previously refused to 

 sanction the conspiracies against th.' Spanish 

 i now took the field, and many of the lower 

 claws joined the rebels in some particular raid, only 

 urn to their homes again and mingle witli 

 ^;>anish soldiers as unconcernedly as though 

 they were their faithful allies. The great mass of 

 peasants who inhabited the rural districts would 

 not fig"', but the Spaniard* s..on discovered them 

 in coalition with the insurgent-, and, pacifico* that 

 they w-re. they mi-led the Spaniards on every occa- 

 and officers called for their pun- 

 ishment, but Campos refused to make war upon 

 noncombatants. The Conservatives called this 

 weakness, and cried out for more rigorous meas- 

 ures. The Spaniards in Havana, astonished at the 

 rapid march of the insurgents and the inability <>f 

 the army to check them, with the destruction g 

 on at d, coalesced and demanded n 



call of Spain's greatest general, and Campos \\--m 



a failure. 

 Ckn. >W> I er. This officer landed as Governor 



ral of the island at Havana. Feb. 10. 

 He wax infamous to the Cubans for the atroeiou* 

 deeds imputed to him when operating in Cam a 

 years In-fore in the last war. but regarded by the 

 element as a general" who 



would end the Mrife bv m^ im-tliiMls. 



.rrival in Havana wa* consequ. ntly attende.l 



with demonstrations ,,f j,,y r>n the part of the 



*rd-. and he promised' to have the immediate 



ly cleared of the rebels and the 



paralyze*! industries once more assuming their 



n-uai II,- then proceeded to reorganize 



^d and somewhat di-m<.rali/ 

 and in dc.irig s-. h- made the grave mistake ,,f try- 

 ing to locate an in-ur-. nt army, using a big map 



.b a^ th- means of so doii 



assumed i n the palace of Havana when 



Maceo effected his retuni int.. Ii \inci- 



from Pinar del Rio, and, to show his disregard for 



th- now Captain (ieiieral. ^wooned down upon the 

 t "inj large city ..f .laruco. looted and 



burned it. and then mo\'i au; ( \ au r aiu a* rapidly 

 as he ' joined him. and the 1 \\ 



chiefs di.M-us-M'd futun- jdans. \\hile their detaehed 

 bands, without diM-iplim- 01 .it ion. con- 



tinued to -a* k and burn \illa_ . and plan- 



tat io- :;nlroad trams, and destroy tl. 



lions. i, l'.\ means of'moiinted 



messengers these bin i-r-.n-ht tou'--thcr t<> 



witli-^ -.itcd attack or l-ot a cit \. 



and then dispersed again continue their depre- 

 dations. Tribute \\i upon the planters 

 who Miiiu'hl to remain friendly to the cat! 



independence, others Were halloed when railLrllt ; 



servants in -.-d or shot, and pande niiim 



Seemed t have been let loo.-.. \\ . \ ;, r. like his 

 predecessor, failed 

 to comprehend the 

 movement and 

 check its impetu- 

 ous ferocity by 

 making h'im-eff 

 acquainted with 

 the tadi( 

 pl-i\ed. and. going 

 a -t.-j. or two far- 

 >ued decrees 

 preventing corre- 

 spondents from 

 learniiiLT the true 

 state of afTajrs. 

 and by his own 

 ridiculous bulle- 

 tin- sought to 

 make the public 

 iM-lievr that he was 

 winning victories. 

 He massed his 

 troops to attack 

 an army when no 



such army existed, and when informed that the in- 

 surgents got away because they \\.-r.- mounted, 

 instead of mounting hi- own soldiers, he ordered 

 them to kill all the horses they could find, whether 

 they belonged to the peaceable farmer <>r were 

 abandoned by the insurgent. Hi- rigorous meas- 

 ures consisted in giving his officers to under 

 that war was cruel, ami they must kill kill the. 

 enemy: armed <>r unarmed, it made no diflVi 

 Prisoners were a hindrance and expense, and 

 when he was informed by his lieutenants that the 

 pacifico* coalesced with "the in-ur-eiits a signifi- 

 eant nod was sufficient to sanction the shin, 

 which followed hi- assumption of duties as Captain 

 (leneral. A ware of t he protest and damorii. 

 the people in the Tinted States against thi- 



barous met IKK! of warfare, he sought to t|iiiet them 

 by publi-hing orders that no sentence of death 

 should be .\ecuted without hi- -ignature. and per- 

 tly denied the massacres that foil 

 doubt matter- id enough on either 



side, but Weyler. by his blind policy and mis- 

 management, his ignorance of fact- and want of 

 military skill and sound judgment, prevented the 

 facts becoming known, and by hi- war upon the 

 newspaper correspondents he < r<at.-d an enmity 

 which had its natural result in the mas- of pan 

 fiction that found its way into the American 

 papers and stirred the American people aim 

 the point of demanding intervention on the part of 

 our Government. His attempt to mu/xle the press 

 dear: -rated either his ignorance or fear 



of the truth, and his fal-e P only -ur- 



paased in ridiculousness by those sent via Key West 

 DJ the American correspondent in Havana. IN- 

 aot only deceived himself as to the true siti- 



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