Rumors Of Cuban Revolt.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 5, 1912:
Rise In Connection with the Coming Election.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    HAVANA, Oct. 4.— With the Cuban Presidential elections less than four weeks distant, sensational rumors are being circulated. One is to the effect that the Conservatives have threatened President Gomez with revolution unless the Government is absolutely impartial. Another is — and it is but fair to state that confirmation is not obtainable — that a revolutionary plot is now in the embryo stage to be hatched before the elections, under the hypothesis that the United States will throw all its support to the constituted Government after the election.
    The recent Nicaraguan note dictated by President Taft, in which the policy of the United States is clearly defined, is taken as an indication that a post-election revolution would be crushed ruthlessly even by American troops, if necessary.
    Another sensational rumor tells of a plot to assassinate both Gomez and Zayas. Speaker Ferrara has notified the Secretary of the Government that his life is endangered, and that if protection is not given him he will arm his own private guards.