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Show CUBANS ARE HAVING TROUBLE Gomez Announces He Will Make Appointments Ap-pointments Without Considering Any Faction. Havana. Not since the downfall of the administration of President Palma has the political atmosphere of Cuba been more obscured and more laden with suggestions of trouble than now. The re-established republic is scarcely nine months old, and already rumors are persistent that some way Is being sought to secure the retirement retire-ment of President Gomez, either by persuasion or compulsion, and to place Vice-President Zayas at the head of the nation. Probably the most serious condition tnat tne presiaent races is tnai resulting result-ing from the continued failure of efforts ef-forts to effect a complete fusion between be-tween his partisans and those of Vice-President Vice-President Zayas. For three years negotiations to this end have been in progress, and at least half a dozen times announcement has been made oi their suocess. In the presidential campaign cam-paign there was a truce, but, with the beginning of the distribution of offices under the new administration, mutual distrust was re-established. A few days ago General Gomez startled liberal leaders in a letter in which he stated that, so far as he was officially concerned, he had decided to consider the fusion as an accomplished fact and in view of this, he would make appointments to his cabinet without reference to the particular faction of the liberal party to which the appointee might have belonged. |