The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-11-29
PRESIDENT GOMEZ FACES TROU.
ELE. AND HIS RETIREMENT
is BEING SOUGHT.
WOULD PROMOTE zAYAS
With Re Established Republic Only
Nine Months Old, Agitation Is On for
Change of vernment-Situation Is
Result Of Continued Failure Of Ef-
forts to Unite Party.

Havana, Nov. 2S.--Not since the
downfall of the administration of
President Palma has the political at
mosphere of Cuba been more obscure
and laden with suggestions of trouble
than now. The ,rc-established repuh-
lie is scarcely nine months old and
already rumnrs are persistent that
some way is being sought to secure
the retirement of President Gomez
either by persuasion or compuision,
and To place Vice President Zayas at
the head of the nation. When Gen.
eral Gomez became chief magistrate.
followers of Vice President Zayas
stood shoulder to shoulder with those
of the president and even the oppo-
stion. which had sustained the ban
ner OF General Monocal in the cam
paign of the previous summer. lent
him their loyal support in the deter
mination to give the new administra-
ton Il trial. That they regard the
trial as IL failure is evidenced by their
manifesto issued shortly before the
reconvening of congress in which they
declared their intention of beginning
an active campaign against the ad-
ministration.
Can't Fuse.
Probably the most serious condition.
that the president faces is that re-
sulting from the continued failure of
efforts to effect a complete fusion be-
tween his partisans and those of Vice
President Zayas. Dor three years ne
gotiations to this end have been in
progress and at least hair dozen
times announcement has been made of
their success. In the presidential
campaign there was a truce. but. with
the beginning of the distribution of
offices under the new administration,
mutual distrust was re-established a
few days ago General Gomez startled
liberal leaders in a letter in which ne
stated that, so far as he was official
ly concerned. he had decided To con-
slider the fusion as an accomplished
fact. and in view of this, he would
make appointments to his cabinet
without reference to the particular
faction of the liberal party to which
the appointee might have belonged.
The attitude of the president was
Objectionable to the
Layasists. because the important post
OF secretary of state recently was
made vacant by the resignation of
Justo Garcia yelez. a prominent mem |
ber of the faction, and il was feared
that the president would fill il with
one of his own supporters. The in |
cident has served to defer the ac-
complishment of actual fusion, and |
should II result in breaking off of |
existing negotiations. il is not i'm |
probable that the administration viii |
have two opposing parties to deal |
with.
Another disquieting feature of the |
is the renewal of agitation |
for the formation of n negro party.
Steps preliminary To organization |
We're taken at meeting of negroes |
IN the province OF Oriente. For some !
weeks Havana has been the mecca /
Tor negro leaders from all sections of /
the island. who have come To con-
Ter with Senator Moruadel Gado, pres
ident of the senate and acknowledged |
leader OF his race. The grievance of /
the negroes is that they have not been
accorded their share of offices. Morua
has presidential aspirations. and AS
his term in the senate viii soon eX-
pire. II is likely that he will demand
A cabinet position. either that of Sec
retary of state or secretary of public
works.