The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-03
CUBAN ELECTION
May PASS QUIETLY
Hope Grows That Second Trial
at Polls Will Be Without
Disorder,
C A NJ P Align BITE R
Despite Political Strife, Parties
Show Tendency to Get
Together.

=" Havana, Monday, September 26.-
With the approach of the elections on
November 1.-The second held by q
Cuban government without American
supervision-there has been perceptible
a growing hope that what remains OF
the campaign and the electoral strug-
gle itself may be passed without Sc
rious disorders.
The first Cuban election, that of
1904, at which President Estrada Palma
was elected for second term, was
confessedly carried by fraud, which
fact led directly to the revolution of
August, 1906. the overthrow OF the
Palma administration and the second
American Intervention, which con-
tinued under the Governor-Generalsni
Of Charles L. Magoon until General
Jose Miguel Gomez. who had been
elected President at an election held
in 1905 under the direct supervision
of Colonel Crowder and other Ameri-
can officers of Governor Magoons Cab
met, was inaugurated President of the
restored republic on January %. 1909.
That election was conducted without
hitch and without fraud
Ii now remains to be seen whether
the administration of President Gomez
is competent to guarantee the people
of Cuba a similarly unimpeachable
election. That he will make every eff
fort to do so there Is no doubt, but
it is questionable whether 1t is pos
sible 10 guard against the results OF
| the bitter factiona, animosities that
| are such g marked feature OF Cuban
! politics.
Campaign Is Bitter.
| When the campaign opened last
| summer there existed very general
feeling of dependency in regard to
the prospect of a peaceful election
and this feeling was intensified as the
campaign progressed by the continual
ton or the schism between the Miguel
| lists and Zayists factions of the Liberal
! party and the frequency with which
/ political meetings broke up amid fierce
lighting.
At three of the most important meet.
ing held in Havana, Guines and Glen.
| fuegos, knives and pistols were drawn
! many shots fired and pitched battle:
only prevented by the Intervention o.
the police and rural guards. Recent
Ily however, there has been subsistence
| of excitement and apparently dis
| position OF the warning factions to Ee
| together.
Another thing that seems to max,
! for peace IS the apparent determine
ton Of the conservatives not to at
tempt to put out their full strength
at a by-election, at which only hc.
| the members of the lower house ant
municipal officers are chosen, but t,
! make determined fight for victory a
| the presidential elections to be he'll
| in 1912
Most of the candidates for the va
| rious Offices have now been nominated
| and in Havana alone there are no les
than five parties in the field. These ar
| the Liberal party (Zayasita, the His
toric Liberal party (Miguelistai, tn
| Independent Liberal party (headed b
General Nunez), the Workingmcn'
party and the party Of Young Cuba
There is also possibility OF til
resurrection Of the Independent Part
Of Color, the formation Of which wa
declared to be illegal under law q
I Congress passed last summer. whic
1 denied recognition tfs all politiou
parties organized along racial lines.
4 Former Senator Bravo Correoso. =
oriento. has been engaged by mem
\, bers Of the Party OF Color 20 bring a
action in the Supreme Court TO tes
the constitutonality OF this law.
DeplOrable Condition.
j report recently issued by Geners
J Armando Rivas, chief OF police OF Ha
vana. shows deplorable condition c
affairs in the capital. So great ha
been the increase Of idleness and mer