Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — CUBANS WILL NOT SURRENDER [ARTICLE]

CUBANS WILL NOT SURRENDER

Officers in Dinar del Rio Providence 3 Issue a Proclamation. The following official document has been issued by the Cubans from Plmar del Rio province to the world: "We will never forget the bloody of senses of the sanguinary Weyler, repre* seating the Spanish nation, his assassination of aged people, women and children, the persecution of our families by the brutal Spanish soldiery and the efforts of the chiefs to exterminate all the elements that compose Cuban society. All these have aggravated our convictions and we declare again that we will not accept anything but absolute independence. We must have a government of our own and an assembly of representatives according to our own constitution. We are sworn to liberty.” There was a great manifestation in Key West, Fla., by over 10,000 people, mostly Cubans, against the acceptance of autonomy frem Spain. It concluded with a grand torchlight procession and addresses by prominent Cubans at San Carlos opera house. Strong resolutions wen adopted against accepting autonomy. Among the transparencies in the procession were “Independence or Death” awl “Down with Autonomy.”