The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-06-15
tspeeial to The Post.N

New Orleans, June I4.--"Within a week
there will be revealed at Washington The
most sensational transaction that has yet
come to light in connection with the in
vestigstion now going on of the eXpendi
lures Of money made by Governor Wood
during his regime in Cuba, said Charles
NJ. Dobson the former staff correspondent
OF the Associated Press at Havana, Cuba,
who was in this City today on his way
to New York.
1T will be disclosed that Governor
Wood paid the sum OF $4,000 to Maxine
Gomez, the so-called Cuban patriot, and
that this sum was bride paid with the
sanction of the Mckinley administration
at Washington to prevent any outbreaks
OF the populaoe at the time of the last Ma
tonal election in the United States
Il know Just where the check for this
sum of money can be found. l know right
where to lay my hands on it. There is
no secret about the payment of this bribe
among the friends of General Wood or
administration OF affairs under the Wood
regime. President Mckinley knew about
it. President Roosevelt knows about it.
General Wood did not make the payment
OF his own volition. He was advised TO do
so by the officials at Washington, who were
in higher authority than he. The payment
of the bride was considered 10 be matter
of diplomacy, one of those diplomatic ex-
pedients that the officials of every nation
in high authority have to resort to at
times for the reason that INSCRIPTIONS
men work themselves up into high places
! and have to be dealt with occasionally on
practically their own terms.
"Just before the last Mckinley election
an element in Cuba, which recognized Co.
mez as leader, threatened to take to the
woods unless their general was recognized
by all factions in Cuba politics as the can
didate for first president Of the island,
| There were two reasons why the admins
tration at Washington and General Wood
did not desire to have any trouble at that
time. One was that It would be dis
sstrous to the election then in progress
| in the States, and the other was that the
administration did not want Gomez as the
first president Of Cuba. Palma was the
man that was favored in Washington, and
it was decided that nothing should thwart
the well-laid plans to land Palma first in
the Cuban presidential chair.
Gomez had posed as patriot before
the Cuban people, but it was known to
purposely revealed TO General Wood by
representatives OF Gomez. And 10 make
the matter of financial recompense for any
ameliorstion Gomez might bring about
more emphatic, as it were, Gomez began
to advise his old followers, the negroes,
for the most part from the eastern provin-
! ces, to take to the woods in case they
we're unable to obtain the freedom at the
hands of the United States for which they
had so long fought. Preparations were
actually begun by Corners men to act in
accordance with his instructions, had not
General Gomez been treated and reckoned
with. Finally he made known the fact
that he would consent to withdraw his
name from before the people as candidate
for the presidency, and advise his follow
ers to abandon their hostile intentions If
he should be allowed to use the sum of
$4,000 in his work of pacihcation, claim
| ing that the amount was necessary for
the purpose il it were to be carried through
without any chance of failure.
after consultations between General
Wood and President Mckinley and other
officials at Washington it was decided that
the sum OF $4,000 should be paid to
Maxine Gomez as he had asked. The
money-in reality bribe-was duly hand
ed over to the general in the form of
| check
"As stated. and as I repeat, know
just where that check Is to be located at