The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05
CUBAN POLITICS.
The Population Is Forming Into
Three Parties


Havana, Sept. 5.-There were disor-
| ders last evening at Guanabacoa in
connection with a meeting called to
protest against Mayor Hyatt Stones
were thrown, some damage to buildings
was one and a riot was barely avoided
A number Of prominent Cubans, among
them the Marquis of Santa Lucia and
Gen Lecret were present
Gen Gomez has Informed the mayor
of Bejucal that he gratefully accepts
the offer of the municipality to erect
a mausoleum for the remains OF his son
and of Gen Antonio MaceO by public
subscription The vault viii be IN the
form of a five pointed star and the
railing crowned by machete points
The official returns as to yellow fever
up TO the end of August show 50 cases
and 20 deaths. OF the cases 10 were
Americans and Of the deaths II.
La Lucia publishes today a short
item from the eastern part OF the ISL
and asserting that the coIOred pOpula-
ticn intends to be heard from in the
event of the independence OF CUBA, as
the coIOred leaders claim that their
race did most of the fighting and has
been unfairly treated The paragraph
goes on to say that such assertions on
investigation will prove to be we'll
founded.
In the country districts of Puerto
Principe and Santiago de Cuba, colored
clubs have been formed to promote the
theory that to the VIctOrS belong the
spoils and a slate has been prepared
with Guiberto Gomez, a mulatto as
president; Demetrio Castillo, WHITE
man as vice president and Quintin
BandeFaS, a black as commander III
chief of the army.
Gualberto Gomez thinks that the
movement is now confined to the east
ern provinces but that a new party viii
be organized or rather the old party
reorganized. as neither the Cuban ma
tional league nor the Cuban national
party satisfies many prominent Gu
both platforms.
As for himself he says he is repre-
sentative of the old revolutionary par
ty. whose central principle, like the
central principle of the Cuban national
party, was to secure independence but
he viii not join the Cuban national
party because it desires Maxine Gomez
for president, a choice which, in his
opinion would be a great misfortune
and lead Cuba to some such fate as be-
fell Sante Domingo. under HeureauX-
Possibly he may join the national
league.
If he should not join the National
league Gualberto Gomez says the revo-
1utionary party viii soon issue pro-
gramme arranging for the election of
representatives In that event the is
land Will have three distinct parties
Maxine Gomez, he declares, has a large
following, but much larger than he
deserves. The main thing that every
one is waiting for is the census and
then the general election which is to
GuaIbertO Gomez insists that If the
census proclamation had been less
vague and had made a definite refer
ence to independence the island would
have been greatly quieted and set at
ease, whereas, capital is still timid and
the people are disappointed
The PrOtesta, a paper suppressed by
the Spanish in 1884 reappeared today
and it is said will endeavOr to counter
act the influence welded by the NUeyo
Pals in favor of a protectOrate.
In a leading editorial the PrOtesta
says: 1.-The enormous sacrifices of the
Cubans seem to have been in vain.
Cuba has shed much blood and tears
and the island is soWn with corpseS
and ruins but the Cuban finds himself
even worse of then before. He has
himself in the bonds of the United
States. There is but slight difference.
Perhaps the vibrating voice of the
Cuban people will serve to keep at bay
the cupidity and greed of the Ameri-
cans. Would to God that it may. We
appeal to all who have in their veins
the glorious Spanish blood to unite in
which IS approaching to destroy, with
manifest satisfaction, the Cuban peO-
pie.
The Americans as a race have for
gotten their past. They have forgotten
Washington and Lincoln They are a
race different from the Cubans. They
are a race that puts into figures the
yearnings of national spirit The Gu
bans are ready to fight again not
which understands that in a fate
fraught hour it will have to play a
game with its life at stake on the chess
board OF death