THE CUBA REVIEW 



AND BULLETIN 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1907, by the Munson Steamship Line. 



Volume V. 



NOVEMBER, 1907. 



Number 12. 



POLITICAL MATTERS. 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



GARDEN. 



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The month's poHtical news 

 Politics is not particularly enlivening, 

 Quiescent, as all parties striving for the 

 leadership in the struggle for 

 the Presidency of Cuba have been inactive. 

 The various factions have held but few- 

 meetings of any importance, and there are 

 no signs of any 'harmony between the two 

 wings of the Liberal party. One faction 

 supports Sr. Alfredo Zayas and the other 

 Miguel Gomez, the former candidate of the 

 Liberal party at the last election Cuba has 

 held, when Estrada Palma was re-elected 

 President. Both factions are maintainhig 

 their ground, holding meetings as occasion 

 offers to keep alive the enthusiasm of their 

 followers. 



The executive committee of 



February the Gomez faction of the 



Elections Liberal party petitioned Gov- 



W anted. ernor Magoon asking that the 



date for the municipal and 



provincial elections be definitely fixed for 



February. 



The request concerning the elections 

 voices the dissatisfaction of the Liberals 

 at the continued postponement. Under the 

 present governmental programme it seems 

 impossible that the first elections can_ be 

 held before March or April, or possibly 

 even later. . . . 



Commenting on this petition the Diario 

 de la Marina says the resolution may_ be 

 sent to Washington and lead the United 

 States government to imagine that the peti- 

 tion represents the will of the Cuban peo- 

 ple which the Diario declares is not so, 



and it urges other political 

 Petition parties to express their opin- 

 Does Not ion. A protest against the 

 Represent resolution of the Miguelistas, 

 Cuban followed very quickly from 

 Will. Sr. Leandro Gonzales Al- 



corta, a prominent, influential 

 Liberal and leader in last August's revolu- 

 tion. He says no such hasty measure is 

 warranted by the conditions. The political 

 divisions, he says, should be obliterated 

 and Cubans should unite. Like the Diario, 

 he does not believe the petition represents 

 the people. El Mundo falls into line and 

 urges good Cubans not to precipitate the 

 establishment of a republic, but help to have 

 good laws framed and tested before they 

 acL, taking all necessary time in order to 

 experiment successfully. 



At the present time there 

 Don't Want are four politcal parties in 

 February Cuba, and the faction headed 

 Elections, by Jose JNIiguel Gomez claims 

 to control the political situa- 

 tion. All other parties, except this faction, 

 are willing to have the elections a year from 

 now, and not next February. The New 

 ork World says that these political factions 

 would rather see the continuation of the 

 American government in Cuba than to take 

 chances on the election of Gomez. 



It was hoped that when the enumera- 

 tion had been completed that the widely 

 •\arying views of the leaders would end 

 and that all parties would have a desire 

 for a peaceful and fair election. While 



