THE CUBA R E \M E W 



the republic. Regarding his own candidacy, 

 he did not believe that he was the only 

 conservative able to save the country. He 

 said that the conservatives have men to 

 spare who have more than sufficient apti- 

 tude to direct the affairs of the nation 

 from the highest seat. 



The most significant expression was the 

 statement that he considered it the sacred 

 duty of every Cuban to make as man}- 

 sacrifices as were necessary if the country 

 demanded it. This is taken to mean that 

 if it is finally demanded he will become 

 a presidential candidate. 



La Lucha is inclined to think that the 

 general '"will continue to say no until the 

 negative should become weakened at the 

 clamor of all the conservatives who de- 

 clare him to be the idol of the party." 



It says further : "We are firm in the be- 

 lief that the candidate of the Conservative 

 Party is to be none other than the same 

 one of the last election." 



Miguelistas, as the adher- 

 Fusion ents of President Gomez are 

 Seems termed, in contra distinction 

 Dead to the Zayistas. who are fol- 

 lowers of' Alfredo Zayas, the 

 vice-president of Cuba, favor Ernesto 

 Asbert, governor of Havana Province, as 

 their candidate. 



President Gomez, who has many times 

 stated that he will not accept a nomination, 

 is said to be ready to support Governor 

 Asbert's claims. The latter has become 

 popular and would run well in the three 

 provinces of Havana, Matanzas and 

 Oriente. The Za\-istas, who relied for 

 the success of their leader on the same 

 coalition or fusion, among the two wings 

 of the Liberal Part}-, the !Miguelistas and 

 the Zayistas, are accordingly completely 

 out of their reckoning. It is possible the 

 division may bring about a landslide for 

 the candidate of the Conservative Party. 



It appears, after all, that there was no 

 political pact made providing for the 

 nomination and support of Sr. Zayas, by 

 the aUied Liberal Party. It was all along 

 believed that this was the case, but Con- 

 gressman Ezequial Garcia Enseiiat, a com- 

 missioner at the convention in 1908. rep- 

 resenting the Zayista faction, has made a 

 statement within the last few weeks, in 

 which he states that the '"third clause" 

 which spoke about this support for the 

 nomination of Sr. Zayas in 1912 was with- 

 drawn at the request of the latter. The 

 only agreement concerning the future was 

 that Pres. Gomez was not to seek a re- 

 election. 



General Ernerto Asbert, now governor of Havana 

 Province and likely to become the nominee for 

 president of the Gomez wing of the Liberal Party. 



a member of the council on April 1st last, 

 his term would have ended, but being 

 speaker of the provincial council at the 

 time of the death of Governor Robau, 

 under the law he became governor. It is 

 claimed now that he should have resigned 

 on April 1st. On October 7th, therefore, 

 Juan Concervo appeared before the Fiscal 

 of the Audencia of the province and filed 

 a formal complaint against the governor 

 charging him with prolonging his term of 

 office illegallv. 



Governor ^Manuel ^"illalon was elected 

 a mem_ber of the provincial council of 

 Santa Clara in 1908, and had he remained 



LAPUSION ESTA ACABANOO 



La Lucha's cartoonist does not see much life in 

 the Liberal fusion. Time has killed it. 



