The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-13
Their Malicious and Persistent
Attacks on Egan.
HE WAS NEUTRAL AND HONEST
Province Of Rio Grande do Sui in
Revolt Against F0nseca.
but tho Brazilian Dictator Has Sent
an Expedition Against Them-Dis-
content with the Government.


sengers on the City of Para today from
Panama, was c. A. Sweat, a railroad engi-
neer, who has passed the last two years in
Chile. He does not think there is any
chance of the Baltimore incident resulting
In serious trouble and said: "Let
Minister Egan be recalled and
l believe the war talk will subside." Max
Lowenstein also arrived on the City of
Para. He was a Balmacedist. and was
one of the refugees sheltered on the Balti-
more. He is an English subject, and
speaks in the highest praise of Captain
Schley and his action, and added:
am not inclined to criticize Minister Egan.
think he 10 being greatly misrepresented by
some of his own countrymen. 1t is not true
that he 10 hated in Chile. There was q little
feeling against him. but do not think 1t exists
any more
The Associated Press has received from
Especial correspondent in Chile series of
communications, covering events since
the overthrow of Balmaceda's government,
dealing at length with matters of interest
to Americans. and giving many interest
ing details of events which hereto
fore have been but briefly touched
upon in cablegrams. Speaking of the
hostile attitude toward the United States
government. and particularly against
Minister Egan, he says majority of the
charges are apparently without founda-
tion and arise principally from the fact
that American officials in Chileidid not give
moral and physical support to the revo-
lutionists during the war. There is hardly
a foreign resident at any port along the
entire coast of Chile who did not SYM
pathize to great extent with the cause of
the revolutionists. The latter assert that
the United Statess government at Wash
ington City was notsmade acquainted with
the true state of affairs in Chile. The
seizure Of the steamer Itata was the first
incident which aroused decided ill-feeling,
and American naval officers who were in
Iquique at the time express the opinion
that the revolutionists would never have
surrendered the steamer had it not been
for the presence of a strong United States
naval force. The next thing was the cut
ting of the cable line of the Central
and South American Company near
Iquique. The revolutionists refused
to allow cable messages to be sent
from Valparaiso and other ports controlled
by Balmaceda. The cable was owned by
an American company, who applied to the
United States representatives for relief
Captain Schley, of the Baltimore, di-
rected the cable to be cut beyond
the distance of a marine league
fom shore. The revolutionist ships
Cochran and Huascar were present,
but the Baltimore was prepared for any re-
sistance they might offer. The revolution
lists made the claim that the Americans
l. Lal ha @hok pol, .
ships in the northern part of Chile could
send information to Lima by another cable
line, which was intact, and then have it
sent direct from Lima to Valparaiso
over the American cable, which had been
cut. Consequently, during the last days
of the war the revolutionists had come to
regard the Americans, particularly the
naval representatives here, as allies of Bal
maceda, and were prepared to believe any
report which might seem to substantiate
their views. The most violent attacks,
however, were made upon Ad-
miral Brown. They assert that
he brought information of
their landing at Quintero, eighteen
miles north of Valparaiso, to Balmaceda
This story and Admiral Browns letter in
explanation have already been published
in this country. The correspondent says
that when Admiral Brown returned to
Valparaiso that day with his flagship, the
San Francisco, he sent cipher dispatch
ashore for the navy department at
Washington City. The officer who took it
had to have it approved by the intendente.
and within an hour or two after he had
filed it Baimaceda's troops were moving
toward Quintero, and the newspapers had
out extras in which it was published that
the San Francisco had just ar
rived with news of the landing OF
the revolutionists at Quintero. The
revolutionary press has been very
bitter in its attacks on Admiral Brown,
and charges are still being made against
him despite his denials that his visit to
Quintero was in the interest OF Balma-
ceda. Much capital is being made
out of the fact that some off,
eial correspondence between Balma-
ceda's ministers in August has been
found, in which it is stated that they are
irving "to get a neutral vessel" to get GER
tain information regarding the revolution
lists. In the present state OF feeling the
belief is general that the vessel referred to
is the San Francisco.
The correspondent says there is little
doubt that the foreign residents in VAL
paraiso are assisting in tanning the flame
against the Americans.
In a letter, dated October 3, the corre-
spondent deals at length with the matter
of refugees sheltered in the American iega-
ton at Santiago and the trouble arising
therefrom. He says Minister Egan had
instructions from Washington City that
the United States would continue to give
asylum to refugees until the Chilean au-
thori,ies would guarantee their safe
removal to some neutral territory,
and further, that the United States would
not permit its minister TO be harrassed be-
cause of the presence of these refugees in
the legation. Captain Schley, of the Bal
timore, had also received instructions
from the navy department regarding the
arrest of persons entering the legation.
The correspondent SAYS the order was re-
voked after minister Egsn entered a strong
protest, but spies were still watching the
building. There is ground for the be-
lief that similar plan was resorted
to in the case of the Argentine legation,
where Balmaceda was sheltered, and the
ex-president, knowing escape was imp5s-
sibie, suicided rather than subject the
minister 20 further responsibility. There
is no doubt the Chileans intended that the
order of surveillance and arrest should i'm
press the refugees in the American lega-
ton with feeling that they were causing g
Ecan trouble and that it was their duty 10
relieve him.
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