The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1912-01-18
INTERVENTION IS
AGAIN POSSIBLE
Political! Situation i'm Cuba Is
Causing Concern.
UNITED STATES WARNS GOMEZ
Veterans of War for Cuban Independ-
ence Exerting Themselves to Gain
Ascendency, and Prospect Is
Viewed with Alarm.

Washington, Jan. I'm note pre-
sented to the government of Cuba by
Arthur NJ. Beaupre. American minis
ter at Havana, the United States
threatened a third armed invasion OF
that country.
Mr.. Beaupre was acting on full tele
graphic instructions sent him from the
state department
The last time the United States sent
troops to Cuba was in October. 1906.
1t was recalled here that the belief
was expressed at that time by both
officials and members of congress that
the next time American soldiers went
to Cuba they would go there to stay.
Since that date, however, confidence
in the ability of the Cubans to man.
age their own affairs has greatly in
creased and there is little expectation
that actual Intervention will be neces-
sary.
The note presented, 1t was said, Is
intended not so much as a notice 70
Cuba of a determination upon the part
of this government to intervene agair.
but rather as a warning of what may
be expected unless the government
remedies the existing political situa-
ton, which Minister Beaupre and Sec
rotary Knox regard as a menace to
peace in Cuba.
This situation is an outgrowth of
the agitation begun last fall by the
association of the veterans of the war
for Cuban independence The veter-
ans began by demanding the dismissal
from public Office of all men who had
ever been identified with the old Span
ish regime in 1858, and the appoint
ment of members OF their organiza-
ton to office wherever possible
This campaign now has so far pro-
crossed that officers OF the army and
rura! guard are being drawn into IL
contrary to existing law and Presi-
dent Gomez recent decree forbidding
their participation in the veterans
movement. The veterans in return
are demanding that the law prohibit
ing the participation Of army officers
and the rurales in politics be made a
dead letter, and are defying the Gomez
administration on the issue
The text of the note presented by
Mr.. Beaupre is as follows:
"The situation in Cuba as now re-
ported causes great concern to the
government of the United States
THAT the laws intended TO safe
guard free republican government
shall be enforced and not defied is
obviously essential to the maintenance
of the law. order and stability in
dispensable to the status of the re
public of Cuba, in the continued well
being of which the United States has
always evinced and cannot escape
vital interest
"The president of the United States
therefore looks to the president and
government of Cuba to prevent a
threatened situation which would CON-
pei the government of the United
States, much against its desires, to
consider what measures ii must take
In pursuance of the obligation of its
relations to Cuba"
There is a conviction here that the
veterans movement which has been
closely observed from the beginning
of the agitation is nothing less than
cloak for the movements OF Gen
eral Nunez toward the presidential
nomination.
Though state department officials
express confidence that military occu.
n Cf1h o will he
sary at this time, the war department
is fully prepared to send troops to that
country on short notice.