THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin 



Political and Government matters 



The political situation is 

 Two ever changing. The breach 



Liberal in the Liberal party is widen- 

 Parties. ing, and there are two well- 

 defined parties within the 

 camp, each with a Liberal candidate for 

 the presidency of Cuba. The one faction 

 supports General Gomez and the other 

 Alfredo Zayas. 



Both factions continue to hold separate 

 meetings and there is little talk of har- 

 mony or little chance of unity despite Gov- 

 ernor Magoon's oft repeated advice in this 

 direction. 



Jose Miguel Gomez is a 

 Who the native of Santi- 

 Candidates Spiritus, and he 

 are. took an active part 



in the last war, as 

 well as in the war of 1868, and 

 was then appointed major in the 

 Cuban army for his bravery and 

 services in the cause of Free 

 Cuba. He entered the Cuban 

 ranks gain in 1895, and was pro- 

 moted to colonel, and then to 

 major-general of the Cuban 

 Army of Liberation. He was a 

 member of the Commission 

 which repaired to Washington to 

 inform and advise the American 

 Government how to disband the 

 Army of Liberation after the 

 war was ended. Gomez was 

 electe 1 a d-^legate to the Consti- 

 tutional Convention by 63.000 

 votes. He was appointed Civil 

 Governor by the Government of 

 Intervention of the United 

 States, and afterwards this choice 

 was confirmed by popular vote. 

 Alfredo Zayas, the other Lib- 

 eral candidate, is a lawyer by 

 profession, and has a large fol- 

 lowing. At the time of the re- 

 cent trouble and revolution 

 Zayas was a mediary between the 

 Constitutionalists and the Am- 

 erican commissioners, and his in- 

 terviews with Mr. Taft and Mr. 

 Bacon were frequent and daily. 

 He keeps his own counsel, and 

 cleverly manipulates the political 

 machinery. 



The committee of 



Governor the national con- 



Magoon vention, of the fac- 



IVary. tion pledged to 



Gen. Gomez for 



president of Cuba, recently called 



formally on Governor Magoon. 



They presented delegates from 



the provinces of Pinar del Rio, 



Matanzas, Santa Clara and 



Santiago. Camaguey wired its assent to 

 the actions of the convention, but Havana 

 refused to send any representatives and 

 were declared to be in rebellion by 

 the committee. Havana is strongly 



for Zayas. Governor Magoon was assured 

 that the national convention is firmly 

 determined to harmonize so far as pos- 

 sible the diflferent organizations of the 

 party, so as to form a strong political 

 entity, and so effectually assist the gov- 

 ernment of intervention as to make pos- 

 sible at an early date the re-establish- 

 ment of the republic." 



Gov. Magoon avoided any endorse- 



MEN TALKED ABOUT IN CUBA— PINO GUERRA AND 

 COL. HERRERA. 



The one standing is Colonel Eugenlo Cautero Herrera, a well- 

 known Havana attorne.v, who joined the August revolt and' was 

 appointed to General Guerra's general staff as legal adviser of the 

 First Arm.v Corp of the Revoluutionar^ Armv. At present 

 Colonel Herrera is the Cuban Charge d' Affaires "at Madrid. He 

 was apDointed at the close of the war when Cosme de la Tor- 

 riente. then Cuban Minister in the Cortes, resigned. 



The other is General Faustino Guerra Puentes, Colonel of the 

 Arm.v of Liberation, and who was made a Major-General of the 

 so-called Constitutional Arm.v. 



