The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-07-26
A NEW REVOLUTION
CONCESSIONS TO FOREIGN C0RP0.
RATION USED TO AROUSE
CUBAN PEOPLE.
Charge That President Was Benefi.
ciary Government Started Alarm
Politics Injected BY
Leaders.

Havana, July 25.-Not since the
rc-establishment of the Cuban repub-
lie have there existed such peculiar
political conditions as have prevailed
for the past few weeks--conditio
fraught with great unrest and much
peril to the stability of the republic
and yet apparently not assignable to
any specific source other than the
nervous tendency OF the Cuban peo-
pIe to yield to alarm on insufficient
provocation.
This tendency has been stimulated
in the present instance by the action
Of the government in making osten-
tatious military preparations for de-
Tense and INDUCING in expressions Of
its determination to crush merciIcss-
ly any attempt at revolution at time
when it was apparent that from one
end OF the island to the other there
was not visible the faintest symptom
% a'iy tendency to disorder.
THE re4ui 81 this policy on the
part nI President Gomez and his adj
ysets HAS md an unhappy effect
AIead confidence in the govern
taent has been shaken and the admin
i~tlation has alienated many OF its
ppre3ls
Iig immediate provocation of this
late of affairs was the initiation OF
3,tac&3 0f Tho administration by the
aeN8lHEer Hi Dia, founded for this
press purpose by Congressman Ar
mand Andre, wherein IT was charged
that the president and his encourage
had accumulated vast sums by distri-
huting enormously valuable conces-
slons among foreign corporations and
political friends OF the admnistra-
ton.
The attacks continued SO persis-
tently that the president issued a
public statement giving what purpor-
ted to be an inventory of his estate,
which appeared to be of but moderate
dimensions.
Eventually the government assum-
ed an attitude of defiance. The city
was thrown into semi-panic by the
sudden call to arms of the garrison
oil Castle La Fuerza and the surround
ing OF the palace soon after mid
night by rural guards, artillery ana
infantry. According to the palace
authorities the movement was merely
To detirmine how rapidly the troops
could be turned out in an emergency,
but this explanation was received
with open credulity. 1t declared that
the administration was panicstricken,
but for what cause no one could haz-
ard a guess.
Then Gen. Maehado, secretary of
the interior, who also discharges the
functions Of war, issued statement
denounciug the critics of the presi-
dent, whom he announced was first
and foremost soldier who would not
finch from shedding blood and max
ing the astonishing declaration that
even should 90 per cent. OF the Cuban
people oppose the presidents admins
tration they wouldbe crushed with
cut mercy. This utterance served to
rana,y and infIama the attacks of hn
nti-administraton press.
Added to these elements of unrest
has pen a renewal of the agitation re-
gardng the succession to the presi- |
dency Despite Gen Gomez reitera-
ton that he would never accept re-
nomination many of his supporters
continue to campaign actively in his
behalf aud rc-elcctiOnists clubs are
being formed.
There Is no reason to believe that
Vice. President Zayas has the least
idea of renouncing his claims to the
nomination which was accorded him
in the last campaign as the price OF
support of his faction in the election
of Gen. Gomez. Still another prob
able candidate for the presidency |
whose popularity in the liberal ranks
is high is Gen. Carlos Garcia Velez,
the special ambassador at the corona
tion in London.