The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-03
RIVAL CUBAN PRESS AGENTS.
NOW THE GOVERNMENT rs READY
WITH THE ONLY REAL NEWS.

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out Cable. Dispatches 20 Prove ~.
The Cuban revolution has begun in New
York. Col. Carlos Aguirre announced on
Saturday that he had opened a press bureau
for the dissemination Of the only true news
from Cuba. Yesterday Senior Ernesto
Fonts y Sterling. q Moderate member OF
the Cuban Senate and brother to Palma's
Secretary Of Finance, sent word to the
newspapers that he had opened an informal
press bureau at the Victoria and would here
after be pleased to send them four cable
messages a day, giving the only true news
that showing how the Government was
downing the revolutionists.
The Government battery got into action
Immediately after wheeling into position
yesterday and fred this charge:
The papers are not getting the real news
Of how the Government IL successfully put
ting down the revolution. l therefore hand
you these dispatches showing the true
state OF things. They are dated yesterday
at Havana n they are all signed by my
brother, Secretary Of Finance to President
Palma. ..' co.. ,., &c.
Here is the FIRST one:
Fight between Capt. Collazo's and Col.
Asbert's forces ends in defeat for revolu-
tionists. Numbers killed. Rural guards
attacked with great decision, hand to hand.
FONTS
Another concerns the quarrel which took
place, according to the best authority, be-
tween President Palma and Vioe-President
Mendez Capote in the Presidential palace
three. or four days ago. 1t reads:
Deny the news Of the break Of Mendez
Capote with President. FoUrs.'
"A third reads:
Everything going we'll. Government
is strong"
Senador Ernesto ,Fouts y Sterling, in
formal press agent to h Cuban Govern
ment, is a man Of middle height, with fiery
eyes and ar aggressive gray mustache.
The revolutiOn2 Poufl' be exclaimed.
"A revolution for jobs only. l will say
nothing about the leaders, for many OF them
are my friends-oh, IL is a sort OF little
quarrel In the family, that Is all. It will
be put down In no time-in no time
The Senador said that he was not a duly
accredited press agent OF president Palma's
Government. But he usually spends his
vacations in New York. He has been
here for three weeks. In addition to being
a Senator and brother to President Palma's
Secretary Of Finance, he is secretary and
attorney TO the Havana Electric Railway
Company, an eleven million dollar Ameri-
can concern which has the franchise for
the street railways Of Havana, and the
Havana Central Railroad Company, a five
million dollar American concern which is
building a railroad in Havana province.
A few days ago he decided 70 soc tina. the
American people got h real news from
Cuba and inaugurated the system whereby
his brother will send it to him daily.
What has been the matter with the papers
here? Icant explain the way in which they
exaggerate the spread Of the revolution
and make all the news read favorably to the
r~evolutionists. 1t must be changed. 1t
should not be. Therefore l am obtaining
the four cables daily so that you can see
how things are really going in Cuba.
why, the revolution is not a serious
AFFAIR at all. II the Congress had increased
the Rural Guards 1000 over their present
number as President Palma asked, the little
trouble would have been squashed as soon
"a it appeared. The Government was not
prepared and that was the whole trouble;
the revOlutionists have nothing to fight
for. This il no revolution for liberty, for
life, for homes. II is just a revolution for
Jobs, that is all. Why, the revolutionists
say that President Palma did not treat the
veterans Of the Cuban war Of freedom
justiyl They were all fully paid Of and satis-
fed. And to-day the only veterans who
are out for the revolution are Pine Guerra,
a brave man, II is true, but only a Colonel,
and OF no intelligence and u countryman,
a quo riro, and Asbert, another Colonel.
while we-ah, all the most popular
veterans-Andrade. Rodriguez. Betancourt
and tho rest-are all with the Government.
And they are all Generals-certainly all,
without exception, Generals.
They cry out about the elections having
been illegal. Bah! They themselves the
Liberals-headed by Senator Zayas, modi-
fed the good electoral law that the House
of Representatives sent up to them for the
bad, and then sent It back to the House W
DAYS before the closing. Had the House
not adopted it there would have been no
law and no elections. We had to adopt 1t.
And the bad things about that lawLtor l
admit there are many loopholes in 1t for
what you call crooked work[were tut IN
there by the Liberals in the Cuban Senate.
do o Americans believe what they say
about President Palma's arbitrary re-
nova Of the seventeen mayors OF pro-
vincial cttiesI Listen, and tell me II W"
too would not have lone just what MIR.
toral law that Senator Zayas insisted upon
was one giving over the making up OF pro-
visional committees with whom the voters
registered before election to the mayor OF
eachr city. Now the city administrations
are generally Of the Liberal party. All the
municipal administrations are pretty bad,
hut when President Palma found out that
the Liberal mayors were taking money from
the city treasures TO influence men to vote
against him, as well as putting on the DeRis-
try lists false names through the provisional
committees they appointed, and also forcing
their employees to vote the Liberal tlcket,
would not you hRve suspended them as he
did? True, he replaced them with MOder-
ates. But what else was there to dol?
Leave all that unjust election machinery in
the hands of you enemies2
President Palma is a just man and a good
President. Ask any Of the Americans who
have lone business in Cuba II this ia not 20.
Nothing would be better for them than the
Palma Government. Is soon as the Presi-
dent receives the arms which lave been
shipped to him we will have an army Of
10000 or $1,000 men in the field. and sweep
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