THE CUBA REVIEW 



General Mdnteagudo is tlie 



For tl'.c latest candidate for the 



Presidency presidential nomination with 



General Emilio Xunez. the 



president of the Veterans' Association, as 



his running mate. The Post of Havana 



said that General ]\Ionteagudo would have 



the support of the followers of General 



Xuiiez, w'ho seems to be satisfied with 



second place. 



General Ernesto Asbert, the governor 

 of Havana Province, is anotler candidate 

 for first place, and it is said again that he 

 will be supported by Pre.' i dent Gomez. 

 The measure of his political strength out- 

 side of Havana Province is not so full as 

 when his name was first mentioned. 



General Eusebio Hernandez is another 

 Liberal Party candidate for vice-president, 

 wath Alfredo Zayas, the present vice- 

 l)residcnt heading the ticket. In Havana 

 the general idea seems to be that the lat- 

 ter's chances for securing a party nomina- 

 tion are slim, if not altogether impossilile, 

 and that seems to be the opinion in other 

 parts of the island west of Camaguey. 



General Gerardo Alachado, the present 

 secretary of government, though discussed 

 as a vice-presidential possibility by his 

 friends, has announced that under no cir- 

 cumstances will he accept a nomination. 



La Liicha of January riTth said that 

 Governor ^landuley of Oriente Province 

 had been offered the second place on the 

 liberal ticket with Governor .\sbert of Ha- 

 vana Province at the head. " Governor 

 Manduley later declined the honor. 



Another ticket put forward was that of 

 Zayas and Machado, and a -Toalition as be- 

 fore of the opposing factions of the Hberals 

 was promised, but the refusal of General 

 Machado to accept any nouiination effec- 

 tually ended the chances of the proposed 

 combination. 



General Alenocal and^ Governor Asbert 

 are also talked of as a' team, and if this 

 could be effected naturally it would win, as 

 the only opposition vote would be that of 

 the followers and supporters of Zayas. 



Vice-President Zayas is quoted as saying 

 that he was convinced that the Hberals as 

 a party were united, despite the fact that 

 there are six candidates for ijresident. 



General Eusebio Hernandez, presidential 

 candidate of one of the functions of the 

 Liberal Party, takes a different view, un- 

 hesitatingly declaring that any attempt to 

 unite the party is doomed to failure. He 

 will only consider the first place on any 

 ticket. 



Sr. ]\landuley, the governor of Oriente 

 Province, said in an interview February 

 7th with a Nezv York i)un representative, 

 tliat the liberals must heal their differences 

 or the conservatives will w'n the coming 

 presidential election. 



According to the Post, 



General General Menocal will ac- 



Mcnoeal cept the nomination of the 



11 'ill Run Conservative Party for 



president of Cuba, although 

 he has made no public utterance of his 

 change of opinion. This, it is said, will 

 lie made at the end of the present sugar 

 liarvest. To enter politics and forego his 

 business association w'ith the Chaparra 

 Sugar Company will mean a great financial 

 loss to General Menocal, as his income 

 from this source alone is estimated at some- 

 thing like $100,000 yearly. He had but 

 recently renewed his contract with the 

 sugar company for several years. The 

 general seems to be the only available can- 

 didate of the Conservative Party, as others 

 equally prominent in the organization had 

 drawl)acks which General Menocal did not 

 have. 



Sr. Cristob.'il Fernandez 

 Spanish N'allin, the Spanish minister 

 Minister to Cuba, was severely taken 

 //( Trouble to task by La Prensa of 

 Havana for some anti- 

 Cuban utterances recently, and the paper 

 demanded his recall. Sr. Vallin in an in- 

 terview had said that there was no fra- 

 ternal feeling between the Cubans and the 

 Spaniards, that in fact there was real an- 

 tagonism shown and that recent events, 

 especially the veterans" agitation, would, 

 if continued, make it impossible ' for 

 Spaniards to live in Cuba. 



The minister published a letter shortly 

 afterward modifying some of his utter- 

 ances, but still insisting that his views as 

 given above were correct. He also asked 

 his government to recall him. 



On Januar}' :U)th he made an official call 

 on Secretary of State Sanguily and de- 

 clared that his government had given him 

 a two months' leave of absence. He left 

 Havana on February od and it was then 

 semi-officially stated that he would not 

 return. 



Sagua la Grande wants public improve- 

 ments in the shape of new highways, better 

 custom house wharves and deeper water 

 in the port. 



Franco-German interests have made an 

 offer to underwrite the Cuba national loan 

 and cancel the advances made by the 

 Speyers to the repubHc. 



The treaty for the cession of the Guaii- 

 tanamo additional lands required -.by the 

 United States naval statioa was delivered 

 February 10th to Minister Baupre for 

 transmission to Washington for con- 

 sideration and acceptance by the United 

 States. 



The matter is now being discussed in 

 the Senate and an early settlement is 

 looked for satisfactory to the United States. 



