Arizona republican., 1906-09-27
BIRDS EYE VIEW OF
 CUBAN REVOLUTION
How It Looked to an American Who
 Piped the Show.

Sam N. Seip returned home yester- day from his summer vacation in the southland full of hope, yellow fever germs and the seeds of rebellion. He left here in midsummer intending to go Co Cuba but was unable to do so. However, he stood on the pebbly shore of the southern sea, and with eyes across the channel to the land of the hearts desire, waded out into the gulf stream daily until he stubbed his toes against the Florida keys. Though he did not get within speaking dis tance of the Pearl of the Antilles the fragrance of the Cuban leaf was wait ed across the white-tipped coverlet of the oyster beds until his clothes were saturated with the odor of the tobac- co fields and his system was thorough ly inoculated with the essence of high proof nicotine. He is so surcharged with smokers delight" that from his own personality he will hereafter in feet every stogie he makes with the perfume of pure Havana.
 A squad of Republican reporters was detailed yesterday to interview Mir. Seip but he evaded them all and the facts given herewith had to be gleaned from those he talked to and from the metropolitan papers of the south which of late have been exploiting him as d filibuster.
 MT. Seip left here with honest :n- tentions and some money. He return ed little the worse for wear in both respects. He was originally a Cuban patriot and a moral supporter of MT. PaIma's government. Then he became a rebel sympathizer and now he is for anything that looks like it would win When he first sat in the game MT. Palma was dealing, but as that gentle mans bank roll faded and the good cards began to pile up in front of Gen. Guerra, Mir. Seip discovered that his sympathies were wavering and he was more than once tempted to slip the in- suFgent leader an ace under the table. But when he found the game was go- ing to break up in a rough house, he pulled out and was about to fly the coop. A copper pinched him and it took a deal of explaining to prove that he was one of the easy marks that had been drawn into ambush instead of one of the original conspirators.
 A bit of explanation is due the read CTS who may not know MT. Seip. He is engaged in the cigar business here and likes to be up to date. He has visited the famous tobacco fields of Mexico and the cabbage patches of Pennsylvania, buying his stock direct, even having some of it grown to order. This summer he intended to go to Cuba and had previously placed an order for a million pounds, more or less of the best Havana that money could buy in that unhappy island. When he arrived in Tampa the bolster ous sounds of the Cuban quarrel could already be heard on this side the sluiceway and every newcomer was eyed with suspicion. All sorts of GUS toms officers, inspectors, spies, and secret service sleuths of this country and the warning Cuban factions, turk ed in the dark corners and sized up the visitors as they arrived.
 MT. Seip is for peace. and said SO He thought then that Palma was pres ident of Cuba, only learning some time afterward that he was merely stalling to hold the job down as long as he could, or until Cuba could get a good man for the place As this news began to leak into him. he felt a deeper interest in the operations of the insurgents This was strengthened by the fact that his tobacco patch was in the insurgent country and he wanted to be on the good side of whoever had that under