The Portland daily press., 1899-11-11
(B ,ston Transcript. }


wsshington, Nov. s..-Ths Presidsnrs .
programme with regard 70 Caba 10 now
known. II oontsmplatss the rstirsment
Of General Brooke from the military ssv-
ssnorship and the Substitution Of . civi,
sovsrnmsnt with General Leonard wo,d
st itA head. The first OF January II like
ly 10 b red lettsr day In Cuban his
tory. On that day In 1898, spain plAyei
her last card In the effort 10 hold the Is
land By setting up an autonomous gov
ernment. On the first Of January, 1877.
the spanish dag cams down forever an !
the Amen ican went up over Cuba. On
the coming first Of January, II tbs Pres
idsnt oan carry out the plans he has now
In mind, thel sxistins military govern
msn. IN the island win give way 20
civil government, and Cuba will have
taken her first long stride on ths rIad o.
ward Independence.
Such Is the information your corr G.
spopdent has obtained from souroe
abovs question. 1t Ia not . new plan OF
the Presidents. but oas h1 has bad In
mind for SEVERAL months The oom-
plants from all sourcss about General
Brooke's inHdsquacy fer his pres,nt du-
ties havs bsen inossSant. and 1t has bsen
obvious that soms remedy inust be Ap-
piled soon, or half ths labor spsnt In
putting the island Into bett3r mora
and sanitary condition would have besn
thrown away. BY the bsst. uppre1udloed
Judges, the fo-cnlled cabinet with whis h
Brooke has surrounded himself has
proved dead failure or worse. IL has
retard rather than helped ths work Of
regensration. The general has allowed
himself to be "steered" by this handful
OF am bilious men instead Of listening TO
their advice and then weighing 1t for
Himself. The President has been reluct.
ant TO take any STEPS which could be- oon-
strued rs humiliating to Brooke, because
the latter has done as well as his natural
limit ations Of mind and tempsr would
deliberatlon to let Brooke bs undisturbed
till the time came for dispensing with
military rule, aud then quietly to let him
pass out simultaneously with the order
of t,ings which he represented.
As has boeu said, General Wood 10
marked for the civil governorship. IL
was hint from the President thnt high
or honors were In store for him which In
duoed him to turn his back upon the
fiattering offers made him q while ago t,
return to the Unitsd states and enter
private business. He made plain to the
President at that time what difficulties
bes,t him In the government OF Santiago
whole island In It's present hands, but
Was advised to bsar the nnnoyHno~s pa
tiently a while longer. The progra nme
mapped out by the President had no
sooner been suspected In official circles In
Cuba than obstacles to Its execution be-
gan to present themselves. Ihres men
would be affected In status hy tha pro-
posed change: James IL. Wilson. titz-
hugh Lee and William Ludlow. All
these were brigadier generals Of volun-
teers, like Wood, but his senior In their
own grade and Ludlow, with his regular
army raLk as colonel OF engineers,
would always remain the military supe-
rior OF captain and assistant surgeon.
1t is not known that either OF the trio
had any criticism to paEs uron Woods
ability as an executive, but all had de-
oided objections TO being subordinated to
him by his elevation to the governor
ship. General Lee recently came home
on leave Of absence and General Lud-
low has taken tie same oourss. Both
have In vie W. 1t IL understood here, the
full dIscu ussion of the subject with the
President before ne takes an irrevoeable
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