convention, and the defendants Luis F. Velazquez, Clemente Soto Velez, Erasmo Velazquez, and Juan Gallardo Santiago acted as members of one or more of the committees of the convention and participated in its deliberations. Evidence was also introduced that the convention adopted several revolutionary resolutions, to wit, a resolution to abstain from voting and declaring for universal obligatory military service; and a resolution calling upon the United States government to evacuate the Island of Puerto Rico, and that it was a part of the resolution that if the United States did not accede to the suggestion to peacefully evacuate, Nationalists would resort to arms. One of the witnesses for the government, a reporter for the newspaper, El Mundo, but who was a Nationalist and obviously an unwilling witness,admitted that, although he could not state that the alternative that the Nationalists would resort to arms in case the United States did not peaceably evacuate Puerto Rico, was a part of a resolution, he did state that it was suggested by some one on the stage and was received with great applause at the convention consisting of 1,500 to 2,000 members.
Another witness testified that the resolution adopted by the Nationalist convention at Caguas contained the alternative that if the United States did not evacuate peacefully the Island, the Nationalists would resort to arms, and it was received by the convention "with thunderous applause."
Evidence of the nature and purpose of the conspiracy of the Nationalist Party was contained in several editions of the newspaper, La Palabra, which was