Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1912 — CUBANS PLEDGE GOOD BEHAVIOR [ARTICLE]

CUBANS PLEDGE GOOD BEHAVIOR

Factions Meet Gomez and Agree to Keep Order. WOULD AVERT INTERVENTION Patriot* Bury Hatchet and Bind Them•elves Verbally to PulJ^ Together for General Good of Cuban People. Havana, Cuba, Jan. 19.—Concerning the conference of President Gomez with representatives of all the political factions and the veterans an official statement has beep giveq out. “The meeting terminated,” says the statement, “with everyone breathing words of patriotism, a fact which*filled the president with optimism because he found in his old companions in arms and in all the others present a flrm determination to save the republic, as might be expected from those professing their love for the Cuban fatherland.’’ It Is certain that all at the meeting pledged the Interests represented by them to make every possible sacrifice to uphold President Gomez in his efforts to remove the faintest justification for American intervention. Details nf the agreement reached at the conference have not been given out. It Is probable that one of the first actions taken will be the passage by congress of an act revoking the annulment of the civil service law and thus putting an end to the pernicious attempts of the veterans to divide the Cubans into classes contrary to the constitution. Colonel Orestes Ferrara, speaker of the house of representatives, said after the conference he was convinced that all the trouble was due to congress truckling to the veterans by abrogating the civil service law. Congressman Manuel Sacedes, representing the veterans, said they would be satisfied with what they had gained, although they believed the president’s action in forbidding officers to attend meetings of the veterans was unconstitutional.