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Show MONARCHY FOR CUBA. j Promoter nu Ei-jeneral With Whom the Authorities Have Had Much Trouhle. I Havana. July 4. La Lucha pub- lishes a statement regarding matters which its conductors say they have been investigating and carefully ' guarding for several weeks, owing to j the reticence of those concerned and j the desire of the latter to avoid a pre-i pre-i mature disclosure, leading to a possi-i possi-i ble failure of their plans. The paper says: "Cuba during the lust few months j has been a land of many surprises. The 'latest is the establishment of a j royalist party. The new organization is unimportant at present, probably numbering fewer than fifty members, but a well known Cuban general, who claims to be a descendent of Charlemagne, Charle-magne, is reported to be the head of the party, and the meeting place is usually us-ually the Inglaterra cafe. The Cuban general in question, is said to be dissatisfied dis-satisfied with American rule. lie thinks that what Cuba needs is not a republic, but a strong hand at the helm like his own. lie is of the opinion opin-ion that the people of the Latin race prefer royalty and the possible honors hon-ors accruing under a monarchial regime." re-gime." The Cuban general referred to is understood un-derstood to deny that he is the head of the party, but there is considerable evidence that such a movement is on foot. He is the oflicer who was recently re-cently reported to General Brooke for collecting 30 centimes from a Spanish merchant on the ground that it was an assessment for a fund devoted to driving out the intervenors. |