THE 



CUBA REVIEW 



'ALL ABOUT CUBA." 



Copyright, 1907, by the Munson Steamship Line. 



LIBRARY 



NEW YOkK 

 BOTaMCal 



Volume VL 



JUNE, 1908. 



Number 7. 



POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT MATTERS. 



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Actual dates for the first 

 Elections elections were decreed on 

 Aug. 1 for May 25 by Governor Magoon, 

 Governors and in a few weeks the peo- 

 aiid Mayors, pie will be entitled to vote 

 for candidates for provincial 

 and municipal offices, and incidentally their 

 attitude toward tihe election program gen- 

 erally will be manifested. Combined elec- 

 tions will take place on Aug. 1 for a gov- 

 ernor and eight councilmen in each prov- 

 ince, the municipalities electing a mayor and 

 councilman. The governors will hold office 

 until Feb. 24, 1913, and the mayors until 

 Aug. 1, 1912. 



Party divisions will not be 

 Presidential sufficiently apparent in the 

 Preferences earlier elections to determine 

 Not the direction of the vote for 



Indicated. President, for in tlhe choice 

 for governors and mayors 

 there will appear local preferences which 

 will merge Miguelistas, Zayistas, Conser- 

 vatives and others into new combinations 

 for the time being and obliterate strict 

 party lines. It will be difficult therefore to 

 base any prediction for Presidential votes 

 on the conclusions of these first elections. 

 According to the New York Sun the indi- 

 cations point to a spirited fight for all offices, 

 although a few weeks ago it was predicted 

 that tihe Miguelistas would refuse to vote. 

 The election for President will be held on 

 December 1, four months later. 



Governor Magoon has 

 Election granted an appropriation of 

 Expenses. $100,000 for election ex- 

 penses. These will in part 

 be refunded to the state by the municipal 



and provincial governments after the elec- 

 tions. The whole burden is not on the 

 state, according to the electoral law, but 

 under its provision the state is permitted 

 to advance the funds to be reimbursed 

 afterwards. 



The political emblem of 

 Cuban the Conservatives is a five- 

 Party pointed star. Notice was 



Emblems. sent to the other political 

 parties, the Board of Elec- 

 tions and Governor Magoon. The emblert> 

 of the Liberals has been the seal of the 

 Cuban republic, but as the party is divided 

 into Miguelistas and Zayistas, it has not 

 yet been determined which faction will 

 claim it. 



At a meeting of the Con- 

 Havana's servative party in Havana, 

 Mayoralty May 23, Julio de Cardenas, 

 Ticket. the present mayor, received 

 64 votes and S'enor Fernan- 

 dez 57 votes, the former being declared the 

 regular nominee of the party. Later it 

 was said that the latter would be nomin- 

 ated on an independent ticket by his sup- 

 porters. 



The United S'tates troops 



Troops Not stationed in Cuba will not be 



to Be withdrawn at the present 



Withdraii'u. time. The announcement 



was made at Washington, 



May 26, after several conferences between 



President Roosevelt, Secretary Taft and 



Chief of Staff J. Franklin Bell. 



In Cuba the opinion is general that the 

 troops will not be removed until the gov- 

 errjiment is formally turned over to the 

 newly elected Cuban officials. 



