Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-26
OEGEATED CHILlANs
Think Their Cause Is Lost Dang
Pointed Out.

Think Their Cause Is Lost Dangers
Pointed Out.
New YORK, Sept. ga Lima (Peru)
special to The Herald, dated Sept. "A,
says:
There are now no less than fifty Bal
macedist refugees in this city. Perhaps
the most prominent among them is
Claudio Vicuna, who, under Balma-
ceda's government was elected to sue
ceed him as president of Chill, but
whose election has been ignored by the
junta. Balmecedas ministers-G Godoy,
BARBADOS, Espinosa and Perez Montt-
the governor of Valparaiso, and the
Moraga Fuentes, who commanded the
torpedo cruisers Condell ann Lynch who
sunk the congressional warship Blanco
Encalada in Caldera bay.
have Ia liked with all these prominent
Balmacedist SITS on the state of affairs in
Chill, and they have freely given their
opinions. Every one of them expresses
the strongest doubts Of the stability of
the present government. In support Of
this belief it is stated that here are too
many parties in Chill and that their in
terests are radically different. The
common people, it is urged, are not sa t.
isf1ed with matters as they stand, and
are bound to make themselves. heard in
opposition.
The refugees also call attention to the
acts of the supporters Of the new govern
ment in destroying the property of seua-
tors, deputies and officers who were ad-
herentS Of Balmaceda, and say that such
spitefulness is certain to create bad
impression on the country at large. 1t Is
also alleged that at the instigation of the
so-called revolutionary committee in
Santiago the city was, for time at least,
turned over to the mob and that wanton
destruction of works of art followed.
What made the pillage all the more un-
pardonable was the fact that the mob
was under the direction of a mum Der of
young men of good families.
Furthermore, the refugees criticise
most severely the action of Don Jose
Urribura, the minister of the Argentine
Republic, In permitting the suicide of
Balmaceda, for that is the way they put
it. They say that the -morteln let
ters written by the ex-president show
very clearly that the, new government
did not intend to observe the laws of the
country.
The Balmacedists also refer bitterly to
the hostile attitude of the English to-
ward the established government all
through the struggle and contrast it
most unfavorably with what they style
the correct neutrality of the United
States. They say this demonstrates the
necessity for closer relations with the
latter government.
The new leaders in Chilli, it is further
claimed, must build railroad to Iuui-
que, or else suppress the navy, because
30 long as the present condition of things
exists the country will always be ex-
posed to the danger of some political
party coming into power through cor
rupt navy, which has Iquique as an un-
assailable base with good revenue.
There is great danger now in the
large class of officers. The civil en-
ployes were loyal to Balmaceda. The
financial situation is not bad owing to
the immense revenues from nitrates. A
government well conducted should pay
off in two years all the debt contracted.
Such is a resume of the views expressed
to me by the refugees.