The Washington times., 1902-04-06
San Doninicans After
Cuba'S W,arrior-Patriot.
HAS BEEN REPEATEDlYURGED
Believe Time Is Ripe for a Formal
American Protectorate Upon Lines Of
Gomezs Life Dream of One Great In
sular State for Entire West Indies.
Especial Cablegram-Copyrighted.) )

ing rapidly. The outbreak is regarded 2:
but popular response to the general de
mand Of the people of all classes thai
Maxine Gomez -Baez, who led the CuDaI
revolt against Spain, and has since re-
turned to the Island of Haiti to resum,
his residence in Monte Cristi twhere he
was borr some seventy odd years agol
shall proceed to the City of San Domingo
and assume the Presidency of the mu-
latto Republic, which he has. in response
to previous calls, invariably declined.
Maxine Gomez's father, who had been
previously viceroy of the Philippines. was
one Of the last captain generals of San
Domingo or Eastern Haiti. under the
Spanish flag. and his uncle, the mixed
blooded Tagal- dominican General Bae1,
was President of the country after it had
thrown off European dominion and become
a Republic"
Urged to Accept Presidency.
When, after the assassination Of the
dictator General Herreaux-Lily, more
than two years ago. the several local fac
tions scrambling for the succession, after
few weeks of insurrection, united in an
appeal 10 General Gcmez. and sent spe-
cial delegations to Havana to urge his ac-
ceptanee of the Presidency, the Dominican
Congress even went SO far as to proclaim
him to the office and despatched char
tered vessel TO Santiago de Cuba to bring
the general. with his family and military
staff. by sea to San Domingo City.
But Maxine Gomez Y Baez, the Cuban
-.-r.
duty was due TO Cuba the land of his
adoption and choice. and the Cubans be-
lieved they still required his personal
presence at Havana to lend counsel and
aid in the final adjustment of matters then
pending between those who, under his
leadership, had fought so many years for
Cuban independence and the allied Ameri-
can military authority, which had under
taken to assist in its establishment and
guarantee its sovereignty, protecting 1t
at the same time from further European
aggression; and SO, Gomez declined the
Dominican presidency.
Dominican's Second Appeal.
Then came a second delegation of Do
minicans, among them the president of the
Dominican congress and three different
aspirants to the chief magistracy Of the
Republic to beg Don Maxine to arbi-
trate their differences, and, acting in the
interests of peace, to designate for them
president Of the Republican, pledging
themselves to unite upon and support
whomsoever Gomez might name.
After hearing their petition, General
Gomez told them to go home and proclaim
one Jimenez. a New York merchant In
close business touch with the Wanamaker
syndicate, a gentleman in no wise con-
sal ~s.L ZN,t, of .l- x-sya Tz-
minican factions then in the field, and
whose leaders had appealed to him to ar
bitrate their differences.
Control of San Domingo Trade.
The wanamaker syndicate is composed
Of certain Amsterdam and Philadelphia
capitalists who. operating under a New
York charter, and protected by the Ameri- |
can flag have for some years past con- |
trolled the trade of San Domingo, and ad- |
ministered its foreign customs and inter- |
nal revenue tax service.
In response TO a despatch from General ,
Gomez, Jimenez closed up his private
business in New York City, and went to
Cuba shortly after the departure of the
Dominican notables. Upon arriving at Ha-
vana, he was met by cablegram from
San Domingo City announcing his formal
election" there to the presidency of the
Republic.
Offer of Cuban Officers.
Many Cuban generals, colonels. majors.
and captains, who had been with Gomez
in the Cuban revolution and Spanish
American war, volunteered as partisans
Of Gomez, to accompany his friend, Gen
eral' Jimenez, to San Domingo, prepared
tn fOb no l.
thority and power, until General Gomez
himself should be able to leave Cuba, and
be free to take up the reins of Dominican
Government. A ship was chartered, money
being supplied by one Will l.. Wright in |
behalf OF certain parties, who, though at
The time connected with the Havana post
office, were supposed to be the confidential
Of the Wanamaker syndi-
,ate. with an eye keen TO the advancement
d the American interests throughout the |
West Indies.
friends of the movement the vessel wa, |
held up, after leaving Havana, by a mill
AIRY order emanating from Gen. Leonard | ,
Wood, then military governor of Santiago
ie Cuba, and most of the STAFF Gomez
vas sending with Jimenez was arrested
aken of, and thrown into prison at Bara-
GA, under the charge that they were O
P''N'hb al III hieu inEdslon OF tne ter
'itory OF neighboring Government,
riendly to the United States"
Jimenez Permitted to Proceed.
Jimenez and his family were, however,
crmitted to proceed, and the man Wright, J
former newspaper correspondent, whom
he Cuban Director General of Posts. Ma !
or Z. G. Rathbone, had brought down c
rom Philadelphia TO be his priyate eec
etary. and who was carried on the rolls ,
{ Havana as "selector of postoffice
ties, went along. accompanied by a
on Of Gomez, to see Jimenez inaugurated.
Maxlmo Gomez's friends at Havana
'ere much chagrined at General Woods
Interference with the Jimenez "expedi- c
on" as it might have nipped in the bud
ne Cuban generalissimo's ambition 10 be
Dominican Warwick as well as Cuban
bertador- TIE men arrested at Baracoa !,
ere not released for months When they
nally were liberated on petition of a Il
elegation from the Cuban constitutional A
invention, whom Gomez interested in d
ieir behalf. Jimenez having in the
eantime been peaceably installed al San
omingo city. naturally had no need of II
ieir machetes,
Secret Of Dominican Revolution.
The fact of Porto Rico having been N
'anted free entry for her products into G
e American markets--as a territory of n
e United States-coupled with the pros N
,cts of tariff reduction upon Cuban L
oducts. and the probable early addition u