The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-07
WILL DEMAND INDEPENDENCE
Is UNALTERABLY OPPOSED To
PROLONGED OCCUPATION of
CUBA BY UNITED STATES
POWERFUL AS A POLITICIAN
Gomez Is More Than a Guerrilla
Aeader-He Has Already Begun
TO scheme for Reinstatement as
mmander-fn-Chfef NJ the r.,
Dan Forces-OppOsing Parties of
Cuba Seek a Compromise.

HAVANA, April 6.-The Cuban mill
tary assembly being dead, Gen. Maximo
donez Will take up his programme of
sololrylng the Cuban people into a party
that shall, without ceasing, urge the
united states to withdraw from the ISL
and. His purpose is to make the peonla
seem to have but one emotion, one desira
the thought of independence and of alb
solute separation from the United States.
Gen. Gomez considers the dissolution of
the assembly as his personal achieve
ment, aided by the military administra-
ton here, and countenanced at WASH
ington. He believes mat he energies
from the controversy with the assembly
stronger than ever with the better class
es. His theory is that the Cubans. who
before thought him merely an adroit
guerilla chief, are now prepared to re-
gard him as a political leader, and that
few days more will probably see him
In name general-in-chief of the army.
TO REINSTATE GOMEZ.
Yesterday the Cuban general, Pedro
Diaz, who commands in the province of
Pinar del Rio, invited several generals
and brigade commanders who are friend
the latter's future course. AS many who
were invited were some distance away
from Havana and could not arrive here
In time for the meeting, there were only
few actually present; but the epossi-
bility or reinstating Gomez as command
er-in-chief was informally discussed,
with the result that little or no opposi-
ton to the proposal developed In order
to get a more general expression of opin-
ion 1t was decided to defer the formal
meeting until tomorrow morning No
other candidate is possible, and if any
such action is attempted 1t will undoubt-
edly be carried through.
Gen. Gomez, If reinstated, would be of
greater service to the United States in
the disbursement of the 50, 000 900, but his
political 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 temporary, and may sooner
or later be overturned. American OBJ
servers consider any such agitation as
extremely harmful to the industrial re-
Vival 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 govern
ment may have trouble with him yet.
His attitude has always been consistent
regarding independence for Cuba, and
he is still working for the same end.
PARTIES SEEK JOINT EFFORT.
The national Cuban party and the Liga
Patriotica continue their campaigns for
the formation of the party of Cuban in
dependence. Efforts are now being made
to effect a consolidation of the two
movements. The principal difference be-
tween them seems to be that one wishes
ward representatives In national con-
vention, to be chosen according to the
number of voters in ward, while the
other insists upon three delegates for
each ward without regard to the num-
Der of voters in it. The committee of the
national party had the question of con-
solidatioD under consideration last night,
but decided that 1t had no authority to
act independently. The probability is
that a, union will soon be effected, and
that both organizations will then pro-
ceed upon the same lines throughout
Another strike has just begun the
lines of the United railroad system.
There have been many similar attempts
by the employees of this system to Sc
cure a re-establishment of the rate of
wages in vogue before the war. In each
case the companies have conceded some
thing, and there has been little delay to
traffic and no disorder growing out of
the agitation.
The appointment by Collector Bliss of
a Cuban negro to a position in the Ha-
vana customs office is applauded by the
element that is always seeking to pro-
pitiate the negroes. 1t is expected that
similar appointments will be made at
other ports.
All the official flags were half-masted
today at the hour of the interment in
Arlington cemetery of the 1886 soldiers
who gave their lives for their country
in Cuba or Porto Rico during the war
with Spain.