The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 11, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXIX. NO, 163. OLNEY'S THREAT BEARING FRUIT, Execution of the American Captives in Cuba Is Delayed. TO BE TRIED IN SPAIN. Supreme Council of Army and Navy Will Pass Upon the Evidence, GENERAL WEYLER'S PROTEST. Will Resign if the Prisoners Are Not Put to Death—Another Expe- dition Starts. | | HAVANA, Cusa, May 10.—The repor reaches here from the United States that Captain-General Weyler has notified Sec- reiary of State Olney that the Americans | captured on the schooner Competitor will be exccuted in accordance with the sen- tence of the court-martial which tried | them, despite the protest of Oloey, Itis| uot known here that the Captain-General has done anything of the kind. The only thing that he has said about the case is that Consul-General Williams had pre- sented a claim that the Americans should be tried by a civil tribunal, as they were not bearing arms ‘when captured. Itis believed the matter will be decided at a Cabinet meeting to be held in Madrid. The British Consul bas claim in favor of Kildea, the Englishman who was captured on the Competitor. Great secrecy has been observed regard- ing the proceedings in the case, and the fact that the men were sentenced to death | has not been made generally public here. | Al that is said is mere hearsay. presented a | lishman, who was mate on the schooner Competitor. e WILL NOT BE EXECUTED. Fate of the Americans to Be Decided at Madrid. . WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10.—When Secretary Olney was asked to-day if any news had been received during the day re- specting the action of the Cuban or Span- ish authorities upon the cases of the Americans condemned to death for parti- cipeting in the Comvetitor filibustering expedition, he briefly responded in the negative, The best opinion in Washington coin- cides with the information telegraphed from Havana, that the fate of the Ameri- cans concerned will be decided by the Spanish Oabinet at Madrid. The impres- sion prevails that they will not be exe- cuted. . DENOUNCE THE Anti- American Feeling in Spain Revived by Cleveland’s Action. LONDON, E~6.,, May 10.—The Daily News will to-morrow say that it regrads the Competitor case as being of the most serious nature, recalling as it does the Virginius horror. The paper advises the Spaniards to mistrust their own national ferocity 1n cases of this sort and adds that by prompt and timely intervention Queen Regent Christina may find a solution of the difficulty. The Madrid correspondent of the Stand- ard telegraphs that the anti-American feel- ing among the Spaniards has been bitterly revived by the action of the United States Government in the case of the fillibusters who are now under sentence of death at Havana. The Prime Minister has announced pubticly that the United States do not protest against the right of Spain to punich the filibusters but against their summary trial by a military court, claim- ing that American citizens are entitled to be trieda by the civil courts under the treaties of 1795 and 1877. Spain, he added, was willing to consider the demand of the | United States and had telegraphed Cap- tain-General Weyler to delay the execu- tions. Great Britain had also protested against the execution of Kildea. The Epoca recommends prudence and intimates that the Government{ will seek | again to conciliate President Cleveland. The paper confirms the statement that the case has been transferred to the Su- preme Council of the Army and Navy at Madrid. The execution of the sentences is tnus virtually shelved. All the Madrid papers, with the excep- UNITED STATES. On Friday last rebel bands invaded the town of Hoyo, Colorado, eighteen miles from Havana, and burned 158 houses, in- | cluding the town hall. Cornelio Alvarez will be shot at Colon, | province of Matanzas, to-morrow. morn- | ing, aud at the same time sentence of | death will be executed on Jose Blanco Al- | fonso in the Cabanas fortress here. Both men were convicted of the crime of re- | bellion. | Nine political prisoners were deported to Spain to-day. General Pando sailed on the same steamer. S RAGE OF THE BUTCHER. Weyler Will liesign if the Americans Are Not Fxeeuted. MADRID, Spary, May 10.—It is under- stood that the Cabinet hasdecided to place the case of the men captured on board the | filibustering American schooner Competi- | tor before the Supreme Council of the Army and Navy for a revision of the pro- ceedings of the court-martial held in Ha- vana. | A dispatch from Havana says that Cap. tain-General Weyler is angry because of | the attitude of the United States, and that he will resign unless the sentences are exe- cuted. The dispatch adds that the con- | duct of the American Consul-General is | very irritating to local Spauiards. He | shows himseli everywhere, and nis talk is | menacing. | The Imparcial’s Havana correspondent | says that a man who was tried by court- martial on the charge of piracy, admitted to the court that the American police made it a point to vanish when a filibus- tering expedition was departing from Key West. Prime Minister Canovas del Castillo in- formed a meeting of Conservative Depu- | tiesand Senators last evening that it would be impossible for the Government to in- troduce reform in Cuba until the situation in the island resumed its natural condi- tion. The British Consul at Havana has cabled to Queen Regent Christina asking her to pardon William Kildea, the Eng- WaLkep FrRom Sonoma To THE CONVENTION tion of the Epoca, denounce the United Btates in their comments on the case. The Standard will say: ““The position of the Spanish Govern- ment must attract sympathy. If it quashes the sentences it will lose the ser- vices of the only man in Cuba upon whose firmness and generalship it can rely, and will, besides, have to face the invectives of its countrymen at home. On the other hand, if the justice of the sentences is maintained Spain must face a probable war, to which the Caban insurrection will be mere child’s play. The present crisis is produced by conditions which, ordi- narily, good. will would have rendered im- possible.” The Chrenicle will say: President Cleve- land has an admirable opportunity to emancipate Cuba. He will not regret it if he uses it to the full, for there is no longer any doubt that Spanish rule in Cuba is abominable. el SMPANIARDS CLEVERLY TRICKED. Arms Loaded Onto a Filibuster in the Midst of Spies. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 10.—If the British steamer Laurada took arfls and ammunition for the Cuban insurgents last night, the persons wko engineered the ex- pedition cleverly outwitted the Spanish authorities who watched her down the bay from a tug. The Laurada arrived hiere from Philadel- | phia yesterday afternoon and dropped anchor off Liberty Island at 8 o’clock. At 8:30 o’clock the Dalzell tug Raymond’took aptain John O’Brien from the Battery anding and put him aboard the alieged filibuster. Captain Dickman of the lat- ter craft came ashore on the Raymond and went to his home in Brooklyn. At 7 o’clock another Dalzell tug, the F. B. Dal- zell, tied up at the Battery landing. She had orders to wait until Captain Dickman came back with a party,’then to proceed to the Laurada. A half hour later, Captain S8am Hughes, Captain Dickman, a Sandy Hook pilot, and an engineer came down to the little dock. With them was John D. Hart, a tall, slim, weil-dressed Cuban, about 60 years of age. and was accompanied by a 15-year-old boy, who might have been his son. The Dal- zell then steamed out to the Laurada, and the party climbed aboard. On board the steamer all was quiet. A few sailors paced the deck, but there was little sign of activity on board. At that time, it is believed, there could have been no arms on the vessel, as she was only drawing twelve feet of water, Finally Hart and his clerk climbed down the Laurada’s side and got aboard the Dalzell, which took them to the city. All this time there was an interesting hunt for the Laurada’s arms going on. A steam lighter had been lyingat pier11 East River, during the early afternoon. On the Spanish line, pier 10, a party of Spanish spies watched the lighter, while a tug with steam up lay down at pier 3 ready to give chase in case the lighter loaded and started down the bay. A little after 3 o’clock the lighter began toload cases and boxes at pier 11. The spies made a dash for pier 3, got aboard their tug and waited. Slowly the lighter moved out into the river. Her head was turned and she started at a fast rate of speed up the stream until she was oppo- site Corlears Hook. Then she tied up at a pier there and took on more cases and boxes. The tug with the spies on board followed, and steaming up the river a short distance stopped and waiced. It was getting dark when the lighter again steamed out into midstream. E£he turned and when she got straightened her screw began to churn the water intoa white wake. The tug with the employes of the Spanish Government on board took nochances. The tuz’sengine was **hooked up” and the chase began. Lighter and tug sped down the river, dodging the ferry-boats and other craft. The former took the Brooklyn shore and going across Buttermilk channel rounded Governors Island. The tugz was right in her wake and was just about to turn back and call for the United States revenue cutters Chandler and Hudson, which lay at the Barge Office with steam up, when the lighter suddenly disappeared. She had gone around Governors Island instead of across the bay to the waiting Laurada. The tug followed and saw the quarry glide through the gap into the Atlantic Basin and tie up. A few men disembarked and in a few minutes her lights were put out and the basin was in silence. The spies on board the tug were thrown entirely off their guard by this-maneuver and steamed about the bay, around the Laurada and back to the barge office, where, it is said, they reported to the Bpanish Consul, Signor Baldasano, who was awaiting the tuz in company with United States Marshal McCarthy and sev- eral assistants. They were ordered back to Atlantic Basin. When they got there a sight met their gaze that dumfounded them. There was the lighter still tied up, but her decks were innocent of a single box or case. They bad been removed while the spies were chasing about the bay on another errand. Itis alleged that the Excelsior made three mysterious trips from the vicinity of the basin to the Laurada before 8:30 o'clock, when she lifted anchor and steamed out through the Narrows. It was announced about the Battery that four Gardiner guns, 400 cases of ammaunition, and tweive Jong cases, supposed to contain Winchester rifles, composed the Laurada’s cargo, but this could not be verified. [t could not be learned for what port the Laurada bad cleared. LOADED OFF ASTORIA, The Laurada Carries a Full Cargo of Munitions of War. PHILADELPHIA, £A, May 10.—From information received here to-night it is likely that the alleged filibustering steam- ship Laurada took a cargooi armsand ammunition and a party aboard off Astoria, L. I. After outwitting the Span- ish spies in New York Bay last night the Laurada slipped up Long Island and hove too off Astoria. Here, it is said, three tugs el bty AR St ' Continued on Second Puge. The latter carried a satchel, | RACING FOR THE - WHITE HOUSE Claims of the Managers of the Several Republican Aspirants. FIGURES AT VARIANCE. Why Ex-Senator Platt Believes McKinley Will Not Be the Man. GROSVENOR SURE OF SUCCESS. Aldrich Says That Coo', Sober Judg- ment Will Nom‘nate the Man Prom Maine. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 10.—Ex-Sena- tor Platt maintains that the nominee of the Republican Convention will not be McKinley, and io-night he made a state- ment of the grounds of his opinion and the reason why, in his opinion, another man would win. “The convention,” said Mr. Platt, “will contain 918 delegates. It will require 460 to nominate. According to the figures printed 1n the Tribune this morning, wbich are in all respects in accord with the facts, the delegates instructed for McKinley number 510. This is 145 votes short and of these eighty-eight votes remain to be chosen. When it comesto a vote in the convention McKinley’s support will be lit- tle in excess of the number who consider themselves bouna by instructions. “My opposition to McKinley proceeds almost entirely from my belief that he will get the party into turmoil and trouble. He is not a well-balanced man of affairs, as Governor Morton is. He is not a great man, as Senator Allison is. He is not an " astute political leader, as Senator Quay is. He 1s simply a clever gentleman, much too amiable and much too impressionable to be safely intrusted with a great executive office whose quest for honor happens to have the accidental advantage of the association of his name with the last Republican protective tariff. “Mr. McKinley, as I think the Tribune recently remarked, had reaily less to do with the industrial law than had either Governor Dingley or Senator Aldridge. But simply because of his position as chairman of the Ways and Means Com- mittee of the Fifty-first Congress it has borne bis name, and there seem to be a good many people who labor under the impression that he wrote it, line for line, and that the theory tnat it embodies originated in his colossai intel- lect. I would not deny him one jot or tittle of the credit that really belongs to him, but it is most. unnandsome to defraud others of the credit that belongs to them.” Mr. Platt goes on to' say that there are two great questions to be settled—the tariff question and the currency question. The people do not want a radical tariff in any direction, but a safe, healthy and ra- tional bill, and Mr. McKinley represents the most radical and extreme views of pro- tection, On the silver question he says Mr. Mc- Kinley’s convictions are not revealed by his votes or his speeches, and the Repub- lican candidate for President must be a man who stands out firmly as an advocate | not of sound currency, with gold as the stand » UNCLE SAM--Well, you have done it. ard of value—such a man as Governor Morton, ‘“When the delegates at St. Louis come to consider these things,’” he says, “their choice for sident will not be William McKinley,” and he concludes: “They wiil realize that their candidate should be a wise, temperate, conservative, educated statesman, with definite polcies, fixed opinions and a safe record.” el ALDRICH IS HOPEFUL., Believes Sober Judgment Will Result in Iteed’s Nomination. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10.—Con- gressman Aldrich made the following statement to-night: *The friends of Speaker Reed, fully con- scious of the gains made by Governor Mec- Kinley in the pending National contest during the past week, but with full infor- mation concerning the position and stand- ing of the delegates thus far elected, are yet hopeful if not confident of the ultimate success of their candidate before the con- vention. “Up to date there have been elected 832 out of a total of 918 delegates, ‘of which number it is reasonable to say that Gover- nor McKinley bas, excluding the contested cases, 361 votes. Concerning the latter, we will not prejudge the action of the con- vention. The number of delegates yet to be elected is eighty-six. Should he succeed in capturing them ail, and he will not get one-half of them, he will still fall short of the necessary majority, and must then rely uvon the contested cases to give him the nomination. “All Republicans favor protection, but it is quite evident that the taniff will not be the sole issue of the campaign, for a new and more important element now com- mands public attention—the money ques- tion. The straddling platform will never do, nor can any candidate who was ever ou it gain the fuil confidence of the people. 1t is for this reason and because we believe that sentiment is undergoing a rapid and radical change in that particular that we are convinced the candid sober judgment of the delegates after deliberation, which will be had between now and the 16th of June, will nominate Mr. Reed, because he best represents the great business interests of the finarcial world and the American people.” LAt Sl GROSVENOR’S BULLETIN. Says No Earthly Power Can Prevent MecKinley’s Nomination. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10.—General Grosvenor, in his weekly bulletin relating to the Republican Presidential nomina- tion, issued to-night, insists that it is all over but the shouting. “I do not deem it vitally important,” he says, *‘to issue this bulletin. Everybody who has knowledge enough to be signifi- cant and candor enough to be manly knows that this contest is over and that no earthly power can prevent the nomina- tion of McKinley on the first ballot. “I still insist in placing in my table the men who have been elected beyond all reasonable doubt, and who are either in- structed, pledged or known to be sup- porters of McKinley. If I should doubt the integrity of men who had accepted elections as National delegates with in- stractions attached to their elections, the public would infer either that I had knowledge - that there were scoundrels elected as delegates or that long contact with vicious men in politics had poiluted my mind to such an extent that I believed that other men were dishonest. *‘In thisconnection it may be stated that there is great interest being taken by the masses of the Republicans of the country in t he nomination of President this year— more 80 than has ever been taken by the people since I have known anything about politics—and the power of public opinion that has crushed combinations and humil- iated bosses and marched in triumph over the great body of the Sta‘es is abundantly capable of realizing the fruition of the vic- tories it has won.” General Grosvenor’s table of votes by States and Territories aggregate 548, in ad. dition to which he asserts thatat least nty votes east of the Alleghanies are enumerated by him, Included within his able are sixty con- | “tnat allowing the politicians who are tested seats, some of which, he says, will be surrendered to the McKinley delegates without further contest. But allowing that all should be decided against Mec- Kinley, General Grosvenor figures out for bim 488 uncontested, instructed and pledged votes on the first ballot. Of the 72 delegates to be elected he counts on 50, which, added to the 488, makes 538 beyond all controversy. . “Thus it will be seen,” he continues, superior to us in the management of all these affairs to have their own way upon every one of these contests and unseat avery one of the McKinley delegates, still, then, McKinley will have a sweeping majority.” Coming in conclusion to the question of the committee on credentials, about which there has been some anxiety mani- fested in certain quarters, General Grosve- nor says: “McKinley has either the entire delega. tion or the majority thereof in thirty- three States and Territories, so it may well be understood that McKinley has a sweeping majority of the States uncon- tested. He bas a National committee, honest and incorruptible, and will have two-thirds of the States and Territories, which will insure him a fair committee on credentials, which is all he asks.” e CLEVELAND’S CHANCE. May Secure the Nomnation by a Vigor- ous Cuban Policy. SPRINGFIELD, Onro, May 10.—John | Bookwalter, wno has been mentioned as u | delegate-at-large from Ohio to the Chicago Convention, répresenting the silver element, said tnis afternoon | in talking of the probability of| President Cleveland’s nomination, that he is of the belief that Mr. Cleveland will | receive the nomination. He thought the } Cuban question would reach such a stage | that it would- give the President an op- portunity to arouse the patriotism of the | people and the inevitable resuit would be his nomination at the hands of the ccn- vention. QUIET SEc s gl ar W ORLEANS. Foster’s Inauguration May Not Be Interrupted. NEW ORLEANS, La., May 10.—A tele- gram irom Baton Rouge saysall the mem- bers of the Legislature are on baund and | that all indications are that Governor | Foster will be inaugurated for his second | term with scarcely a ripple to disturb the | proceedings. Many sensational stories | have been sent abroad about what is going | to happen at the State capitol, but the armed men who, it was said, would bej there to seat Captain Pharr, the Populist- | Republican candidate for Governor, who claims he was elected, have failed to ma- terialize. Governor (it nifie DELAWARE VOTES FOR QUAY.'! What the Republican Leader Says After the Fight for Delegates. PBILADELPHIA, Pa,, Muy 10.—J. Ed- ward Addicks, the Delaware Republican leaaer who yesterday defeated the forces of ex-Senator Hi:gins in the fight for | delegates to the State Convention, ir an interview here to-day said that Delaware’s votes in tlie National Convention would be cast for Quay. SERIOUS RIOT IN HUNGARY. Sacialists Raise the Red Flag at a Uni- versal Suffrage Demonstration. Hundreds Wounded. BUDA-PEST, Huncary, May 10.—A se- rtous riot occurred in this city to-day. The agitation in favor of universal suffrage led to the holding of a procession, i"i which, it is said, 15,000 men took part. The demonstration was under the leader- | ship of Deputy Ugron. The procession was orderly until the socialists in the ranks raised a red banner. Herr Ugron pleaded with them not to | spoil a good cause by displaying the em- blem of social disorder, but his words were unheeded. Then the real workingmen at- tempted to seize the banner .and a free fight resulted, in which a great numberof the processionists took part. The.policein quelling the disorder found it necessary to use their swords and hundreds of the rioters were wounded. A large number of arrests were made. SO e ey TROOPS FOR SUAKIM, Two Native Infantry Regiments Under Urgent Orders. LONDON, Exe, May 10.—The Times will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Simai, | stating that two native infantry regiments | will start for Suakim at the earliest possi- ble moment. The dispatch does uot men- tion whether these troops are to take an active part in the Soudan campaign or whether they wili be used for garrison purposes at Suakim. fromn e The Cholera in Egypt. CAIRO, Eayer, May 10.—There were twenty-three cases of cholera and sixteen deaths from the disease reported in Alex- PRICE FIVE CENTS, FOSION 1S THE SINGLE ISSUE, A Question to Be Decided at the Populist State Convention. SENTIMENT IS DIVIDED. Wilkins of San Jose Leads the Fight Against a Coalition With Silverites. GATHERING AT SACRAMENTO, Scattering Delegations Put In an Early Appearance—Views of the Leaders. SACRAMENTO, CAn, May 10.—With one single exception the proceedings of the Populist State Convention promise to be harmonious and quiet. But this one issue, at this early stage of the State gathering of the people’s party representatives, promises to evolve oratory, debate, divis« ions and heartburnings that would make glad even those who saw to fit to criticize the splenaid work of the recent Republie | can Convention. This momentous question is whether to fuse or not to fuse with the silver party, who meet in National Convention at St. Louis by invitation of the executive com- mittee of the Populist party on July 22, the same day on which theconvention of the latter is to be called to order. On this issue the lines will be sharply drawn, and the most determined and vig- orous campaigning and ‘ wire-pulling will be done within these lines until the thirty- nine National Convention délegates are officially ‘instructed in reference to the matter. The situation is a peculiar one, though one easy of comprehension, even by one not a politician or even a political economist. The opposition to the fusion movement will be led on the floor of the convention by M. W. Wilkins of San Jose, editor of a paper in that city called the New Charter, Ever since the movement was launched he has wielded nen and tongue’ against it on every occasion and dt every oppors tunity. He declares that with men like Senator Stewart of Nevada at the head of the silver party it is certain to be domi- nated by monopolists, corporations and capitalists, the very elements that the Populists are most strenuously seeking to eliminate from the economic system of the country. Then he points to the fact that Stephen Gage was very prominent in the first call for the formation of a silver party in Cali« fornia and that George W. Baker, the chairman of the Silver party of California is a railroad attorney, as he is employed to look after the Oakland railroad franchises. From these facts, he argues to his own satisfactory conclusion, and to that, it is claimed, of many others that the silver | party of California will be controiled by the monopoly element; and, reasoning further, he declares that if this is the case in California, with its known antagonism to everything monopolistic, it is likely to hold gooa of the National Silver Conven- tion as a whole. Holding these views, which he has made not the slightest attempt to conceal, Edi- tor Wilkins pronoses to oppose a union of the silver and Populist forces at St. Louis under any and all conditions. His idea is that the ally or allies of his party must be as devoid of suspicion as was declared to be the wife of Cwmsar. As Mr. Wilkins tersely expresses it, heis afraid that an alliance with the silver men will give the Populists the platform and the white metallists the nominee, and he cites past instances to prove his assertion that fusion has always proven disastrous to the Popu« lists and advantageous only to the ally. En passant it may be remarked, that owing to the generally unfortunate results of these coalitions, the word *‘fusion” ig stricken from the lexicon of the Populist, He prefers union, consolidation, alliance, federation, or any other synonym. The mere use of the term “fusion” in connec- tion with any proposition is sufficient to defeat 1t. Wilkins, who is evidently destined to be known as the great anti-fusionist, has al« andria to-day. Three cases were reported in Cairo. ready achieved considerable prominence in his efforts to establish what is known as ONE OF TRE FIRST DELEGATES TO ARRIVE