Show ROOT DENIES S MASOS REQUEST Will N t Postpone tho the Cuban CubanS Q S le S 1 1 D DY S Y EFFECT WF Or WOULD won liE U II hl hUts lIo id ho flie l I unit 11 Defer ii us ii I id C hil S Dee Dec ir Hoot lids hits u tI l to tu A th of I t tho thu Maso party In lit Cuba Cutia who In nt in n this city denying lila lils request for ft a postponement of ot ho tho Tho Thu lh letter which la INa dated tell In Is as ns follows S air Ilic fhe tot for of postpone ID III cut of the lie Clu presented by hY you on Saturday cIl December I 14 In tn behalf of oC the tho of Clon Oon na no for tOI l pt of Cuba hall loan beau carefully coli Tho Tue effect lIfred of ot granting ho tue would W bo be 1 0 to 10 prolong American oc occupation u anil nii IJU I hu thO IhO independence once ence of or Cuba Cubit ami tind tho control ot of the Island by tho ho of hot her own people Thin This ou u jit not 1101 to 10 bo ho done dOM In the Interest of any candidate or with without without out the tho most must weighty and The of ot reasons NUSOn which you present In Is that tInt the tho central trl 1 hoard heart of or scrutiny as nil now Mil constituted In itt composed of or g none of or whom Is In favor Ivor of or Gen bit Mare Maso anti all nil of ot whom ate are In iii favor favot of ot den Oen and you 01 declare that that board Is la un no unfair unfair fair and anti will hil bi be unfair In the tho perform performance ance of or Its He duties Tho The bund board to tn which you refer was waif constituted without reference to any nil candidate and before berolo any 1111 candidate had bait been b n named It U consisted of the president and nun four of ot the Ih distinguished if of thu Ihu conven convention tion iou elected by II h the of ot Cuba to tn for ui tho tue establishment of ut the new leW government It has Imie the approval of vt the tho convention C cult of or the tho people whom tho the convention represented inco the hoard board was iua thus constituted constituted candidates hI for tor the presidency him have Icon been LC n nominated Unit and It Il that you your friends have nomi nominated a ft candidate who vho Juts has no adhe adherent rent on tho Ihl board furnishes furnished no for turning the hoard board out of oC or for tOI postponing the and thi election machinery carefully provided 1 for tor or the representatives tives lives of ot the Cuban tiba nl people P In convention assembled and new II ma iia machinery chinery for Cor the purpose of ot putting nutting ad hermits of your candidate Into ollICe If It such a course were wert adopted now nominations would bo bJ tel rei now nosy propositions and now non nr at unit und Len aen election might bo be Indefinitely postponed IO It JI Is a n false theory of le which that gentlemen placed d In con positions of or public nubile lIe trust would be bo guilty of at official malfeasance anco because they the may personally prefer Otto ono candidate rather than another As to 10 the tho assertion that the central board of ot scrutiny lifts In fact proved to 10 be unfair something beside 1 mere assertion III hi necessary lr No Rots recta stated slated y tIto nt to IUS till assertion except that you that nn an Ille ihie Illegal gal nl Deletion of delegated tt to 10 provincial board of ot canvassers has been be n approved but bill you state that I was a n failure to 10 post ot a list of or taxpayers which the city council councilor of Havana ought to have havo posted Ilo ledon on the tho of ot October This was not at tho the business ln of ot thc tho central board boul of ot scrutiny I am nm Informed moreover by cable from Havana that the tho list In question wan posted on the of ot October The rite single dRY dayt delay could e tild not have oc cc occasioned I you or your associates the slightest t Injury or Inconvenience and I 1111 an nn objection based upon Ullon it Is IR In the tile highest degree technical While I do not for tor a It moment sup suppose suppo pose 1050 po e that you Intend any I ny such Ruch result I cannot avoid the conviction that your request rails calls upon the tho United States for tor or that very vory Interference with the Cu CI Cuban ii ban election which your our associates associated have deprecated and which It I Is IR our duty dUlY and purpose purl oso to avoid your ap tip application must mUNt accordingly be denied |