. The Cuba review. GENERAL JOSE MIGUEL GOMEZ. Liberal Candidate for President of Cuba. The conservatives want For the municipal elections and Separate the provincial elections sep- Elections. erated, and not at the same time as now planned; the latter to take place two days before the Presidential elections. They claim the municipal elections belong to national and not local politics. There is a movement on Guarantee .foot to secure from the of Stability United States a promise to Wanted. guarantee the maintenance of the new government, when it shall have been established. An imme- diate organ
. The Cuba review. GENERAL JOSE MIGUEL GOMEZ. Liberal Candidate for President of Cuba. The conservatives want For the municipal elections and Separate the provincial elections sep- Elections. erated, and not at the same time as now planned; the latter to take place two days before the Presidential elections. They claim the municipal elections belong to national and not local politics. There is a movement on Guarantee .foot to secure from the of Stability United States a promise to Wanted. guarantee the maintenance of the new government, when it shall have been established. An imme- diate organization is urged having this purpose in view, to present the matter to Washington; also the United States may be asked to promise another intervention should a revolution again break out, and to allow the retention of American troops after the inauguration of the new govern- ment. The new law increasing Cuba's. ALFREDO ZAYAS. Also a candidate for President of Cuba. He rep- resents one wing of the Liberal party and Gen. Gomez the other. native armed forces may render such ac- tion unnecessary. A committee of the conser- The One- vative party called on Gov- Hundred-Day ernor Magoon on January 25. Period. They called attention to the necessity of the civil and ju- diciary law being approved before the elec- tions, and also said that if the elections are held in December the senators and presi- dent cannot take possession on February i, 1909, because the Cuban constitution re- quires a period of one hundred days be- tween an election and the possession. Gov- ernor Magoon answered that Mr. Roosevelt could fix a date by virtue of his powers through the Piatt amendment. Members of the Provisional Government say it will be necessary to curtail or omit the hundred-day period between the popu- lar election for president and the meeting of the electoral college. A committee from the na- Well tional assembly of the liberal Satisfied, party, declaring that they voiced the sentiment of the p
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