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Show THE CUBAN ELECTION. The Cubans appear to hav'o passed through the crisis of their recent election elec-tion without serious disturbance. A good deal of threatening, a good deal of alleged planning for rioting and trouble was reported, but President Gomez appears ap-pears to have taken ample stops to preserve pre-serve tho poacc. Mis precautions were evidently effectual, and tho voting pro-cooJed pro-cooJed without tho disturbances that wore so frooly planned. These plnns, howevor, came to naught in the faoo of the firm precautions that tho government govern-ment put into effect. At the same time it is to bo noted that the elections had to be guarded by the military in order to preserve tho peace. But elections supervised by the military arc pretty certain in the end to lend to a military despotism, and certainly the average citizen would hardly feel free to go out and vote against government candidates in the j faco of armed guard at the polls. For. while it is true that tho ostensible pretext pre-text for having the soldiery guard tho noils is to preserve tho peace, tho offoct ot military oversight of elections always al-ways is to ovorawo the voters and kill off the opposition. The talk of intervention by the United Unit-ed Statos in Cuba, iv be forced by OiiioutCtf and rioting, waa evidently the inventive which canted President Gomes Go-mes to suard the poll so strictly, so that no cause could be alleged for intervention. in-tervention. It has been an open secret se-cret for many years that certain in-torestd in-torestd in Cuba would be dclightod to havo tho eovernntont of the ' United States assert it sovereignty over Cuba aud continue a military rolo through h governor general. But that is a sort of work the United States b loth to do, and It will not intervene in Cuba, tralaes there is plainly to he seen there eondittono of anarchy, of violence, nnd of incurable iwcnpncltv, nueh as every food citizen of the United States would .e otrv to hae' proved existed in ! i;tn. 't a 'ho. .11 stand alone, with the I i te I states a good friend, and f 1 1 " ' " reciprocate that friendship. But the periodical calls for intervention, and the intermittent suggestions that intervention inter-vention by the United States is needed and must come, are certain to be-meu-ucing to the stability of any government govern-ment in Cuba, and to inculcate in tho minds of the Cubans that they are not really their own masters, but must behave be-have In a certain way, or the bic tutor will como and give them tho discipline which they need and have failed to apply ap-ply to themselves. That sort of reiterated reit-erated crisis is good neither for the United States nor for Cuba; and we trust that the Cubans will so conduct themselves always as to gradually kill off all such plots and the. utterance of all such sentiment as would threaten intervention or tho challenging of their own popular rule. Let that rule be such that everyone can rely upon it safely for justice, peace, nnd order, and the United States will only be too glad to keej) its hands off from Cuba, just a3 it docs from all other countries that show themselves possessed of governments govern-ments reusonablv efllcient and safe. |