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Show ELEGTION IN CUBA. General Gomez "Will Probably ba Made President. Santiago De Cuba, Oct. 17. The meeting of the Cuban assembly at Santa Cruz is fixed for October 20, but owing to lack of transportation facilities, facili-ties, the members of the assembly will be unable to arrive at Santa Cruz on time, and the end of the month will probably have come before the election of a president and cabinet take place. El Cubano, a daily paper of Santiago, predicts the election of the following ticket: President, General Maximo Gomez; vice-president, Senor liarl-lome liarl-lome Masso; secretary of foreign affairs, af-fairs, Dr. Domingo Mendez Capote; home secretary, Senor Benjamin Guer-ra: Guer-ra: secretary of justice, Senor Jose A. Lanuza; secretary of war, General Calixto Garcia; secretary of public instruction, in-struction, Senor Enrique Varona. The local papers are much wrought up over propositions denying the right of the Americans to grant concessions which Cuba Libre would repudiate. |