58 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION
Relations of the United States, 1903 (Washington, 1904), pp. 374-75;
Marquez Sterling, Don Tomds, pp. 397 ff.- Report of William H. Taft and Robert Bacon, "Cuban Pacifica
tion" in "Report of the Secretary of War," U.S. War Department,
Annual Reports, 1906 (Washington, 1906), I, 451-53. This report
(Appendix E in the Secretary's report) is, with appendixes, the basic
source of published material on the Second Intervention. Hereafter cited
as Taft-Bacon Report. - Martinez Ortiz, Cuba: los primeros anos de independence, II,
515-18. - Ibid., pp. 539, 543-55; Portell Vila, Historia de Cuba, IV, 433.
- Editorial, La Discusion (Havana), November 11, 1905. For a
catalogue of Liberal charges, see the statement of the Executive Com
mittee of the Liberal party, September 27, 1905. Both reprinted in
Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 495-500. - Diario de la Marina (Havana), October 4, 1905; Portell Vila,
Historia de Cuba, IV, 441-42. Portell Vila believes Gomez was en
couraged to revolt by New York businessmen interested in annexation.
One, at least, did not; James H. Wilson told Gomez that revolt was
worse than unfair elections. Wilson to A. Figueroa, December 6, 1905,
James H. Wilson Papers, Library of Congress. - Frank Steinhart, U.S. Consul General, Havana, to Gen. Leonard
Wood, July 13, 1906, Wood Papers.