240 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION
- Portell Vila, Historic de Cuba, IV, 388-89.
- Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, p. 110.
- Estrada Palma letter of October 10, 1906, in Magoon, Report,
1906-1907, pp. 12-15. - Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, pp. 17-18; Maj. H. J. Slocum to Brig.
Gen. H. L. Scott, December 15, 1906, Scott Papers; Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood to Maj. Gen. A. Rodriguez, January 13, 1907, Wood Papers.
Part o£ the Rural Guard's failure, Magoon reported, came from
Palma's instructions "to avoid armed conflict with resulting loss of life
and arousing passion and animosities which battles engender." - Magoon, Report, 1906-1907. p. 18; New York Times, October 11,
- Havana Post, February 8, 1907.
- Republica de Cuba, Decree 281, December 14, 1906, Gaceta
oficial (November-December, 1906), pp. 4594-95. General Order 28,
March 11, 1907, Republic of Cuba, Headquarters of the Armed Forces,
copy in File 206-1, CC/PGoC, RG 199. - Capt. E. Wittenmyer to Maj. H. J. Slocum, December 5, 1907;
Capt. A. J. Dougherty to Capt. J. A. Ryan, August 8, 1907, both in
File 206, CC/PGoC, RG 199.
Wittenmyer's comment on the requested transfer of Capt. Ramon
Martin sheds light on his own political values; Martin, he reported, had
"queer ideas about government.... He is no friend of property,"
having "anarchistic views." - Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, pp. 19, 112; Dougherty to Slocumv
October 25, 1907, File 146-21, CC/PGoC, RG 199. - Magoon to Taft, November 16, 1906, File 005, CC/PGoC, RG
- "Report of the Rural Guard Corps of the Republic of Cuba...
September 29, 1906... September 30, 1907," in Magoon, Report,
1906-1907, pp. 493-551. - Ibid., pp. 498-500.
- Ibid., p. 501.
- Slocum to McCoy, June 6, 1907, Wood Papers. "Cubans should
not lose confidence in the future and, above all, in their friends." Wood
to Rodriguez, January 13, 1907, Wood Papers. - Taft to Roosevelt, October 10, 1906, Roosevelt Papers.
- Magoon to Taft, October 26 and 30 and November 16, 1906, File
005, CC/PGoC, RG 199. - Memorandum of October 26, 1906, to the Provisional Governor
from Maj. H. J. Slocum; Maj. Gen. A. Rodriguez to the Provisional
Governor, December 27, 1906, both in File 15984, General Classified
Files, BIA, RG 350.
The best sources of documentary evidence on Rural Guard affairs
and the creation of the Permanent Army are Files 866, 931, and 15984
in the General Classified Files of the Bureau of Insular Affairs and Files
062 and 064 in the Confidential Correspondence, Provisional Governor
of Cuba.