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Show STRENUOUS ' POLITICS IN ISLAND OF CUBA. Cnba appears to be too precocious a.youngster in learning the ' political game as if is played bj her foster parent. The recent primaries down there had Texas backed off the boards for real strennosity and excitement; and the double-crossing that was in rirtpnce would be a credit to a New York boss. Such an interest this country, it hardly seems wise to let our hot-headed wards attempt at-tempt self-government. The strenuous politics in Cuba has sounded a warning note; the Filipinos might play the political game with far more disastrous results. was taken in the outcome that one man, a Congressman, was shot ' in the back by hirelings of his political rivals, and in every town of V importance rioting assumed serious proportions. . The result of the campaign was viewed with . alarm in the rnited States, as it seemed to fulfill the predictions that had been de that the Cubans were not fitted "for self-government The fr was expressed that Cuba might again have to be taken under, i rot ecting' wing and governed under the direction of the admin- f"r . at "Washington, It seems certain that the Cuban situa-! situa-! .,1 et reach a point where interference will be necessary un- 1 105 ome 0 the cooler heads can frown down the disgraceful con-,it?of con-,it?of the ambitious and unscrupulous politicians. , r rtain it is that the efforts of the Cubans :to govern tiem--TnWve not succeeded as had been hoped in this, country, and' .errea pa . tbe FilipIn0B wm f eei the effect of thelad example Cef The sentiment has been growing rapidly .that the' frhfflppinei i Ttt ready for self-government; and the recent campaign in are not yet trfngthen that feeling." ; Despite the clamor of the JlUptao tot Independence, and the. natural love f or freedorn |