Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1905 — CLOUD HOVERS OVER CUBA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLOUD HOVERS OVER CUBA.

Washington Officials Look Upon the Situation with Bread. Officials of the State Department, according to a Washington dispatch, are looking at the Cuban situation with feelings akin to dread. Ther£ is strong apprehension in Washington that Jose Miguel Gomez., governor of the Cienfuegos district and liberal candidate for the presidency, may take 4t into his head to communicate with the United States government and declare that popular government in Cuba exists in name only. Supporters of the Cuban administration declare that if troops are sent from the United States into the island they will simply be used to put down insurrection and to restore peace and quiet,

and that then, with a lesson taught the revolutionists, matters will go on as before. There are leaders of both sides, however, who say openly that if the American flag is ever carried to Cuba ngain it will remain. There are many members of theMiberal party—some of them the most influential men in the island—who wish the United ..States to intervene in Cuba for the sole purpose of ultimate annexation. If Cuba became involved in civil war it would Be endless, in all human probability, unless the American government landed troops and 'punished the rebels, or, as they would call themselves for sympathy-making's sake, “patriots.” History has shown that civil warfare in Cuba would be guerrilla warfare—the hardest kind of a conflict to put down without a large army. The liberals are angry to the fighting point over the arrests of their leaders—arrests made by the order of the Palma government. What will conic of it no one can say definitely, but there is sharp fear in Washington that complications are ahead that may go be.fond the realm of mere peace-making diplomacy.

PRESIDENT PALMA.