Barbour County index., 1898-11-09
ALL WANT OFFICE.
Cuban Insurgents Clamoring for
Political Jobs.
RIVAL FACTIONS At MANzANILLO.
General Rabi and General Rios Each
Insists That His Faction Has
First Claim TO ali of the
Local Offices.

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of the military department. of Santi-
ago, has been instrumental in bring
ing all the elements among the Gu
bans to the front. No fewer than
1900 insurgents, of whom SEQ are
officers, want offices, and their
clamor amounts almost to a demand.
There are two leading factions, one
headed by General Jesus Rabi and the
other by General Rios. At present,
most of the offices are held by rep
resentatives of the Rabi faction, in
cluding the mayoralty and the Gus
tom house inspeetorships. General
Wood, in order to pacify the Rios fac
ton, has given them six positions on
the rural police force and turned over
to one of their people the lighthouse
at Cape Cruz, together with several
other minor appointments. But
neither party is satisfied, each think
ing that it ought to have all the off,
ces. General Rios does not dare ex-
press his opinion publicly on General
Rabi, but he feels that this is his dis
trict, as he has had the nominal
| charge of it for three years, and that
it ought to belong to him, so far as
appointments of Cubans to office are
concerned, and all the more so be-
cause he represents General Calixto
Garcia.
The majority of the insurgents here
have no money and go about living
| from hand to mouth and wondering
what viii happen next. Armed men
are not allowed rations. As the Gu
bans will not disband and will not
work, nothing remains for them bnt
to strut about the city, with mach
etes and revolvers. Some of them are
nearly naked; others appear in long
| legged patent leather boots with sill
yer spurs, carrying superbly wrought
Toledo machetes. A few wear i'm
! naculate white suits and Panama
hats. These are, for the most part.
the New York contingent, each man
now a veritable bombastes furioso.
Except when he is on board the
Eunboat Hist, which brought him
here, General Wood is besieged by
these seekers for office. Among the
interviews he has had was one with
General Rios, who wanted the mavor
of ManZanillo, one of Rabi's faction,
dismissed and his own man appoin ted
TO the mayoralty. General Wood
! asked on what grounds the dismissal
could be sustained. He said: 'Is not
! the mayor competent officer? Has
| he not an excellent reputa ton? Did
/ he not serve bravely and effectively
/ throughout the WARP"
To all of this General Rios replied
in the affirmative, but he insisted that
his own nominee was entitled to the
/ hon ho
| The interests of the city and the To-
cality were apparently minor consd-
erations in the mind of the Cuban
commander. But this appears to be
the case everywhere among the Cuban
! insurgents.
General Wood and Colonel Petit
regard the outlook as rather discour,
aging. Still, they hope that some
means may soon be found to break
up the Cuban army. The members of
I the rank and file are anxious to 90
to work, but the leaders refuse TO
allow them to do so, and the men do
not dare to do so, as they would cer-
tainly be shot if captured.
General Wood is hoping that the
other towns he will visit in his trip
around the province will not present
! the same vaXatious conditions as pre-.
vail here, where the Cuban problem
is presente1. in very different form.
the most difficult he has yet encoun-
tered.
1T was necessary to send detach-
ment of the Fourth immune regiment
under a sergeant to the Rigney plan
tation, in order to compel the armed
Cubans to allow men to work there
The undertaking, however, proved
successful, and 200 men are now req
ularly employed.
The latest advices from Santa Cruz
del Sur, the meeting place of the Gu
pan assembly, do not report the ar
rival there of General Maxine Gomez
| put there are persistent rumors that
the friends of Gomez, who are dele
gates to the assembly, will endeavor
TO embarrass General Calixto Garcia
and his supporters.
Lieutenant Young and the officers
OF the Hist have been most enfhusi-
astIcafly welcomed here by the Cu-
bans, who are grateful for the heir
many times extended to them. Tb,
gallant little boat during the war va
as much an object of love to the Cu-
bans along the coast as fear TO the
| Spaniards. She was quite as wen
known to both parties as the New
York city hall is to the residents o.
the metropolis.
Lieutenant oung has formally
claimed, on behalf of TIE United
States navy, the wrecks of the Spar
Ish gunboats that went ashore or
were sunk by the United States run-
Doats IN the memora ble eaga gemen
on Manzanillo on 81 uly / last
After final conference with Colo
mel Petit regaraing the management
OF the district. General Wood left TO.
Santiago at noon yesterday on board
the hist.
1 Wednesday next he will proceed 10
Guantanamo. from which point. afIc,
first returning to Santiago, he WI,
leave for the north coast of the prov
ince, to be gone probably week OF
ten days
Thirty-seven governors, as many
.