Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-03
WASHINGTON EXPECTS UNITED
STATES WILL AGAIN IN.
WADE CUBA.
MORE TROUBLE EXPECTED
WITHIN NEXT TWELvEMoNTH
Conditions in Island Republic Unset
tied and Natives Believed to Be In
capable Of Self observation-disclosures
Stole Last EIeetion-lnside History
of Occupation and Conditions.
Especial correspondence

Especial Correspondence
Washington, April 3.-washington
insists on regarding the final and con-
elusive evacuation Of Cuba, as the best
joke Of this jokesome occasion. Wash
ington thinks the United States troops
will be back in Cuba, and there to
stay for all time, by the end of the
year. Nobody at all familiar with con-
ditlons in the island believes thu. to-
days evacu; I G. is more than ao April
fool Joke.
But meantime Cuba, under Presi-
dent Gomez, is going to make it's last
try at H-government, and it is go
ing to be given a good-faith chance
to make good. This is the determined
purpose of the Taft administration.
The people of Cuba elected Gomez;
they started the rebellion of 1906 be-
cause they had been deprived Of the
right to elect him. He represents the
liberal elements, which are also the
more ignorant and the less stable ele-
ments in the country.
Gomez Stole Election.
President Palma, the first executive
OF free Cuba, was a candidate for
second term, and was declared elected.
| 1t is now common knowledge among
the Americans whom the occupation
took to the island, that he was not
honestly elected, but was counted in
as result of frauds. Gomez was the
candidate against him and was count
ed out. The liberals were themselves
divided between Miguel Gomez and AL
fredo Zayas, a senator; Zayas head
ing the more moderate element of the
liberals, while Gomez vas the idol of
the soldiers and the negroes. After
Palma had served a short time on his
second term the Gomez people took
to the jungle and started a rebellion.
That was in August, 1906, and the re-
bellion aimed at the immediate occu-
patton of Havana. President Palma
appealed to President Roosevelt to
send a 'warship, and Mr.. Roosevelt
refused. Thereupon Palma, who knew
his case was hopeless if left alone. re-
signed, and the country was left with
out a president. Shortly, the situation
became SO serious that Havana was in
danger of falling and being sacked and
then Washington sent the Denver,
which landed a force of marines to
protect the national treasury.
Cuba Pays the Bills.
The American occupation was not
decided upon until after Secretary OF
War Taft and Assistant Secretary of
State Bacon had been sent to Havana
to investigate the whole situation.
They found the inwardness OF the diff
ficulty; talked to the leaders of both
sides; and reported to Washington
that occupation seemed unavoidable.
Then President Roosevelt determined
to send troops; and the movement was
executed with precision and effec-
, tiveness which presented striking
, contrast to the clumsy, unwieldly
, thumb-fingered aWkwardness of the
same movement at the time of the
Spanish war At the outside, about
, 1000 troops were maintained in Cuba
, by this government. The maneuver, IL
is worth mentioning, did not cost this
q country anything because Cuba vii
pay all the expense from a plethorie
treasury. Whatever else may be SAID
of Cuba, it is most comfortably solv.
ent.
( The little American army Of occ'l
, patton was distributed in camps in va
j rious parts of the island. The mos
e important Of these We're Camp Colum
: bia, six miles from Havana, with thu
Twenty eighth infantry; Baracoa, OIL
the north coast, with force of ma
rines; Caribarien, with the Fifth in
fantry; Camaguey. the railroad cente
of the island, half way from Havan;
to Santiago, with the Seventeenth IN
fantry, and the headquarters of Col
onel Van Orsdel; Cardenas, with par
of the Fifth infantry and headquarter
of Colonel. Cowles; Ciego de Avila, Il
the heart of the island. close to the oil
Spanish trocha between the province
of Santa Cara and Matanzas, where
battalion Of the Seventeenth infantr
was posted in probably the most i'm
portant strategic spot on the island
!. Cienfuegos, where part of the Fifteent
= cavalry maintained the headquarters {
= Colonel Chase; Guanajay, with part G
:, the Twenty eighth infantry; Guine:
= Twenty-seventh infantry and marines
= Holguin, where important mines ar
= located, which required to be watched
and were guarded by the Eleventh in
fantry and marines; Manzanillo, on tn
south coast, with a detachment Of md
rines; Matanzas, headquarters of t.
Twenty eighth infantry and Colon
!. Cwaat. PueyitaS on the north Goa