The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-07
Cen. Gomez WILL
Be RE-|NSTATED
As Commander er-in-Chief Of The
Cuban Army
WILL TAKE UP PROGRAMME
Of Urging Complete Separation
From United Sta
~ y
IT is HIS CREATES 5 AMBITION
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To Be Known as Pc : 1 as Well as
Military o.S .er.
3
ANOTHER STRIKE HAS BEGUN
On the United Systems of Railways on
Account of an Attempt by EN-
ployes to Secure Restora-
tion of Former Wages.
ANOTHER STRIKE HAS BEGUN

Havana, April 6.-The Cuban military as
sembly being dead, General Maxine Gomez
will take up his programme of soidifying
the Cuban people into party that shall,
without ceasing, urge the United States to
withdraw from the island. His purpose Is
to make the people seem to have but one
emotion, one desire-the thought of inde-
pendence and of absolute separation from
the United States.
Gen. Gomez considers the dissolution of
the assembly as his personal achievement,
aided by the military administration here
and countenanced at Washington He be-
lieves that he emerges from the contro-
versy stronger than ever with the better
classes. His theory is that the Cubans,
who before thought him merely an adroit
guerrilla chief, are now prepared to regard
him as a political leader and that a few
days more probably will see him in name
general-in-chief of the army.
Yesterday the Cuban General Pedro
Diaz, who commands in the province Of
Pinar del Rio, invited several generals and
brigade commanders who are friendly to
Gomez to a conference regarding the lat
ters future course.
Only Few Present
As many who were invited were some dis
tance away from Havana and could not
rive here in time for the meeting, there
were only few actually present; but the
possibility of reinstating Gomez as COM
mander-in-chef was informally discussed,
with the result that little or no opposition
to the proposal developed. In order to get
a more general expression of sopnion it
70 he
ing until tomorrow morning. No other can
didate is possible and if any such action is
attempted it will undoubtedly be carried
out
General Gomez, if reinstated, would be of
great service to the United States in the
disbursement of the $4,000, 900, but his politl-
cal programme means the keeping up of
agitation and disturbance In the minds of
the people and the weakening of American
authority by producing the impression that
everything done by the Americans is tenn
porary and may sooner or later be over
turned
American observers consider any such
agitation as extremely harmful to the indus
trial revival and the restoration of Cuban
credit. Some who are high in authority and
who have exceptional opportunities of
knowing the character and ideas of Gomez,
think the United States government may
have trouble with him yet His attitude
has always been consistent regarding in
dependence for Cuba, and he is still work.
ing for the same end.
Party For Independence
The national Cuban party and the Liga
Partriotica continue their campaigns for
the formation of the party of Cuban inde-
pendence Efforts are being made to effect
consolidation of the two governments. The
principal difference between them seem that
one wishes ward representatives in a ma
tional convention, to be chosen according
to the number of voters in a ward, while
the other insists upon three delegates for
each ward without regard to the number of
voters in It. The committee of the national
party has been the question of consolida-
ton under consideration last night, but de-
cided that 1t had no authority to act in
dependently The probability Is that un-
ion will soon be effected and that both or
ganizations will then proceed upon the
same lines throughout.
Another strike has just begun on the
lines of the united railroad system There
have been many similar attempts by the
employees of this system to secure a re-es-
tablishment of the rate of wages in veerS
before the war. In each case the compa-
MES have conceded something and there
has been little delay to traffic and no dis
order growing out of the agitatons
The appointment by Collector Bliss of a
Cuban negro to a position in the Havana
custom house is appauded by the element
that is always seeking to propitiate the
negroes. 1t is expected that similar ap-
pointments will be made at other ports
All the official flags were half-masted to-
day at the hour of the interment in Ar
lineton cemetery of the 1886 soldiers who
gave their lives for Their country in Cuba
or Porto Rico during the war with Spain.