. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 22 THE CUBA REVIEW. An Historical Scene. End of the Second American Intervention. The American Fla I. Cuban Artillery Rand Cuban Artillery Cuban Permanent Army PRESIDENT JOSE MIGUEL GOMEZ. [Condensed from an article in Current Literature.] His is the extraordinai-y magnetism of a commanding personality. It is to this per- sonality that he owes the supreme position now his. S'o much, on the authority of Cu- ban newspapers least friendly to him, may be premised with assurance. Like all his countrymen native to the great cane-growing province of Santa Clara
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 22 THE CUBA REVIEW. An Historical Scene. End of the Second American Intervention. The American Fla I. Cuban Artillery Rand Cuban Artillery Cuban Permanent Army PRESIDENT JOSE MIGUEL GOMEZ. [Condensed from an article in Current Literature.] His is the extraordinai-y magnetism of a commanding personality. It is to this per- sonality that he owes the supreme position now his. S'o much, on the authority of Cu- ban newspapers least friendly to him, may be premised with assurance. Like all his countrymen native to the great cane-growing province of Santa Clara, Jose Miguel Gomez has a very Latin tempera- ment. He was born and brought up among a people who retain as much of the customs and manners and morals of Andalusia as our own Kentucky mountaineers conserve of the ways and speech of Shakespeare's England. Santa Clara is a species of survival of the Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella, its natives revelling in attributes exploited by writers of picturesque romances long ago. Jose Miguel Gomez has the old Castilian manner, an inheritance from a grandmother famed for her beauty. His father was a wealthy plantation owner and cattle-breeder. There was no reason why Jose should not have spent his four years at the university in Ha- vana with a post-graduate course at Sala- manca or Toledo, were it not that an innate propensity for revolution impelled him at sixteen to imprison his parents in their pro- vincial mansion and administer the pa- ternal acres as if they were already his by inheritance. Thus did he play before he was of age that revolutionary part which, enacted time and again before provincial audiences, was to crown him at fifty-three with supremacy. Viewed merely as a man, there is no doubt in the Cuban journalistic mind that he possesses the requisites of greatness—the boundless fertility of resource, the fine cour- tesy, the spontaneous tact, the complete self- control, the tenacity of will and the intel- lectual power. H
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