The Red Cloud chief., 1906-09-28
INTERVENTION SEEMS SURE
CUBAN GOVERNMENT BLOCKS
PEACE PLANS BY ADVOCATING.
FORCE UNITED STATES TO ACT

S"s o'''o So'S opcS'dl ocos'Vn
Of Congress for Friday, When He
Will Present designations Of Himself
and Vice President Mendez capote,
Havana, Sept. 26.-The Cuban re.
public stands on the verge of a sec.
ond period Of American Intervention.
The moderate party, which six weeks
ago was In absolute control of every
Office In the island, national, provin-
cial and municipal, Is determined to
abdicate everything and compel the
United States to intervene. In fact
every government official from Presi-
dent Palma down Is sincerely anxious
to force such Intervention rather than
yield to any n Of the terms offered
by the liberal party and those IN arms
against the government.
The liberal leaders characterize the
conduct of the government as treason
to the republic, while Secretary of
War Taft regards 1t as an unwarrant.
ed and d~ishonorable attempt to force
the hand of the United States into
Intervention. This. IL has been stat
ed, is precisely what the Roosevelt
administration has been most anxious
to avoid. 1t Is still just barely posi-
BILE that President Roosevelt, through
Secretary Taft and Assistant Secre-
tarv Of State Bacon, may yet arrange
to establish the liberals in control of
the Cuban government, but this Is re-
garded only as the remotest sort of
possibility. With either party in
stalled in power there would still re-
main a condition Of deplorable dis
satisfaction and unrest, and there ap-
pears nothing whatever to promise
relief save full control by the United
States.
Acting Secretary of the Interior
never turn the army over to the lib.
erals under any circumstances, but all
government officials unite in saying
that II the rebels in the field, or any
portion of them, resist American con
troll the Cuban army would cooperate
with the United States in every way
possible. The real feeling at the pal.
ace Is n of relief in the prospect
that the a~dversaries of the government
will not win, combined with the sat
isfaction that the United States will
be obliged to take over Cuba indefi-
nitely and possibly forever.
, President Palma has called a special
session of congress for Friday, when
he will present the designations Of
himself and Vice President Mendez
Capote. The moderates, however,
will not attend that session Of con.
gress, for in their hurriedly called IA
tional moderate assembly they decid.
ed unanimously simply to quit forth
with.
They will not eve attend the APP
preaching session or have anything
more to do with the government OF
Cuba, alleging that they have been
~unjustly treated by President Roose-
velt's commissioners.
This determination Is taken by
Messrs. Taft and Bacon. however, as
another indication that the moderate
leaders, since they cannot longer con-
troll the government themselves, are
determined, at whatever cost, that
the liberals shall not now or hereafter
obtain control.
Although Intervention appears GER
tain, both Secretaries Taft and Bacon
assured the Associated Press that
such a course would not be taken so
long as a government remains with
which they can treat, but in face Of
the personal communication from
President Palma hat he is about to
throw over the whole matter, Secre-
tary Taft has no great expectation
that the government will endure for
long.
Captain Albert r. Couden, COM
mander of the American squadron
here, was summoned by Secretary
Taft to consider the situation in the
event that a landing becomes neces-
sary.
The liberal and Independent Cuban
newspapers publish extra editions,
charging that the attitude of the gov
eminent was assumed for the sole
purpose of provoking American inter-
%vention and insisting that the govern
ment officers were lacking in patri-
otism In surrendering the government
To foreigners rather than to a party
of their own people.