THE CUBA REVIEW 



Running Away With a Nomination 



The Chinaman (Zayas)— Stop, thief! General Asbert is running away with my pipe!— From La 



Politica Comica, Havana (see page 9). 



General Carlos Garcia Velez, 



Timely Cuban minister to England, 



Political is another probable candi- 



Talk date for the nomination of 



the Liberal Party for the 



presidency of Cuba. 



According to letters received by friends, 

 he will carry on a vigorous campaign, and 

 considers himself the logical _ candidate 

 under the present disturbed condition of the 

 Liberal Party. 



According to La Independencia of San- 

 tiago de Cuba, General Menocal will soon 

 confer with the leaders of the Conserva- 

 tive Party at Havana concerning political 

 matters. President Gomez in his recent 

 famous letter to General Menocal, while 

 he does not praise the Conservative Party, 

 does make some serious statements regard- 

 ing his own party, the Liberal, which he 

 says is disrupted, both rank and file un- 

 disciplined and undermined by personal 

 ambition. 



Vice-President Zayas, who with reason 

 regards himself as the natural "heir to the 

 throne," counts on the active support of 

 those radicals led by Pino Guerra. 



The rural guard, it is emphatically de- 

 clared, is not for him. The friends of 

 President Gomez, who have so often de- 

 clared that he is not seeking, nor will he 

 accept, a renomination, are rallying around 

 a new candidate, whose nomination they 

 hope will be accepted by both wings of 

 the Liberal Party, and thus insure another 

 liberal in the presidential chair. This man 

 is General Asbert, now governor of Pinar 

 del Rio Province. 



His running mate has been selected in 



the person of General Machado, secretary 

 of the Interior. The latter is very popu- 

 lar with the rural guard and with the 

 people, and has the confidence of the busi- 

 ness interests. 



On September 12th Repre- 



Gen. Menocal s&nt2Li\Y& Mariano Corona, 



Non- editor of El Cuban o Libre, 



Committal interviewed General Menocal 



regarding the presidential 

 nomination and believes the latter will 

 eventually accept. In his paper, giving 

 the results of his visit, he bases his hopes 

 of the general's acceptance, on certain 

 significant expressions let fall by the latter. 

 General Menocal said that the election of 

 a conservative only would ensure the sal- 

 vation of Cuba, it is the onty party quali- 

 fied to change the present situation and 

 cause a return of credit and confidence in 



General Menocal's View of It 

 Menocal— You must excuse me, Liborio, Cuba's 

 in a bad way and I'ni better off at Chaparra.— 

 From La Politica Comica. 



