THE 

 CUBA REVIEW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA." 



Copyright, 1907, by the !Munson Steamship Line. 



Volume VL 



MAY, 1908. 



Number 6. 



POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT MATTERS. 



Govenior Alagoon reject- 

 Amei'ican ed the judges named by the 

 Governors Aliguelistas and the Con- 

 to Stay. servatives for the offices of 

 Provincial Governors until 

 election. The condition made when his 

 appointment of United States Army of- 

 ficers for these posts excited criticism 

 was that he would appoint Cubans to 

 the offices if the three political parties, 

 the two factions in the Liberal party 

 and the Conservatives, would unite on 

 candidates. The Miguelistas and the Con- 

 servatives alone appointed comrnittees 

 and submitted candidates, the Zayistas 

 taking no action. They could hardly do 

 otherwise, inasmuch as they themselves 

 had urged Governor Magoon to appoint 

 American officers as provincial governors 

 in the interests of impartial elections. 



There is no open disor- 

 Miguelistas der in Cuba now, but there 

 Divided. is deep discontent, and the 

 various factions hate one 

 another far more bitterly now than they 

 did when the animosity of the Liber- 

 als toward the Moderates overturned 

 the Palma Government, says the Havana 

 Telegraph editorially. The Miguelistas 

 and Zayistas, who were one in their op- 

 position to Palma, are now the most un- 

 compromising foes. But that is not the 

 worst; the Miguelistas are now begin- 

 ning to split up among themselves, di- 

 viding on the color line, and race hatred 

 threatens to add itself to the rancors al- 

 ready existing. 



General Menocal, says the 



Gen. Havana Telegraph, has 



Menocal written a letter to the local 



a Con- Conservative commictee 



servative. signifying his wishes to bet 



allowed in the fold, urged: 



thereto by Senors Fernandez Guevara,. 



Hevia, Betancourt and other members, 



of the Conservative party. 



When the ^August revolution in 1906- 

 brought on the downfall of the Palma.. 

 government. General Menocal was sug- 

 gested as the only possible man to oc-- 

 cupy the place left vacant by President; 

 Palma, but he declined, declaring that; 

 he did not interfere in the matter to> 

 gain a political place and that his serv- 

 ices were needed at the sugar mill. 



It seems to be pretty well 

 First understood now that the. 



Elections provincial and municipal 

 in August, elections, owing to the ne- 

 cessity of printing the elec- 

 toral lists instead of bulletining them, as, 

 originally considered, may not be held 

 until the beginning of August next. The 

 presidential election will be held on De- 

 cember 1. 



"Will there be fair elec- 

 Siiifrage tions, or will there be 

 Guaranteed, fraudulent elections?" asks 

 El Triunfo, of Plavana, 

 "By the demand of the Zayistas that 

 the governors be not Cubans, the entire 

 responsibility devolves and must rest 

 upon them, and there are not wanting 

 those who say, apparently on good au- 

 thority, that the Zayistas are sure of 

 victory, because promised it by an ex- 

 alted person of the intervention. 



