Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-06-16
WAS GOMEZ B9|BED2
Did He Receive SIS, 600 From
Governor General
Wood !?
CHARGED THAT tSTEATloN
HIRED HIM NOT TO RUN
FOR PRESIDENT.
Associated Press Correspondents Says
tie Can Put His Hand on the
Check.
DENIAL MADE AT WASk4tNGTO N

The New Orleans States of last Sat
ursy evening says:
within q week there will be reveal
ed in Washington tho most sensational /
transaction that has Yet come to light
in connection with the investigation
now going on Of the expenditures OF
money by Governor Leonard Wood III
Cuba.
This statement is credited to Chas.
NJ. Dobson. once correspondent Of the
Associated Press in Havana.
1T has been discovered Nh Dobson
said, that Governor Wood paid ST.
GOO to Maximo Gomez. and that this
ton Of the Mckinley administration
to prevent any outbreak of the poru
lace at the time of the last national
election in the United States.
81 know just where the check fol.
this sum of money can be found con-
t1nued MI Dobson. Il know where
to lay my hands on it. There is no
secret about the payment of this
bribe among the friends of Governor
Wood or those on the inside of the Sc
crets Of the administration of affairs
under the Wood regime. President
Roosevelt knows about it.
Just before the last Mckinley cleo
tion an element in Cuba. which recog-
niZe Gomez as their leader. threaten
ed to take to the woods unless their
general was recognized by all factions
in Cuban plitics as candidate for
first president Of the island There
were two reasons why the administra-
ton at Washington and General Wood
did not desire to have any trouble at
that time.
"One was that it would be disastrous
to the election then in progress in the
states and the other was that the adj
'ninistration did not want Gomez as
the first presient OF Cuba.
Palma was the man favored in
Washington, and it was decided that
nothing should thwart the well-laid
plans to land Palma in the first Cuban
presidential chair.
Wood did not make the payment OF
his own voltion. He was advised to
co so by the officials at Washington
who were in higher authority than he
"The payment Of the bribe was cola-
sidered to be a matter of diplomacy
one of those diplomatic expedients
that the officials Of every nation in
higher authority have to resort to at
times. for the reason that unscrupu
lous men work themselves up into high
aces and have to be dealt with occa-
sional.y on practically their owu
terms
After consultations between Gen
eral Wood and President Mckinley
and other officials at Washing gton" MI
Dobson declared, lit was decided that
$4,000 should be paid to Maximo &c
mez The money, in reality. bribe
was duly handed over to the general
| IN the form of check. ! know just
where that check is to be located al
| this moment. know where SON.
r.her papers bearing on the sam.
| transaction that are not proper,
speaking. checks. may be turned up.
1.-The argument for the payment OF
the money to Gomez. who received il
not long before the last national elec
ticn day was that an outbreak in Cuba
then might lead to serious compi.sv
;ions at Washington. Then, for son,
| reason best known to the admins
| tartion. it was decided. appaneati>
above everything else. that Palns
should be made president of Cuba
Statement by Associated Press.
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