File No. 837.00/1204
The Cuban Government to the Cuban Minister
[Telegram. Left at the Department by the Cuban Minister, March 9, 1917]
You are instructed to inform the United States Government that there are no elections pending other than those of Oriente Province, inasmuch as the ones at Santa Clara were held on the 14th ultimo with the strict observance of all legal requirements and without any protests or appeals having been entered against them. Legally, therefore, the elections referred to are an accomplished fact, so much so that the governor-elect has already taken possession of his office. Any interference with that election would be contrary to the law and could not be accomplished legally, much less so if it is taken into consideration that the suppression of the definitive character of those elections in pursuance of the rebels’ demands, would represent the upholding of their illegal pretentions.