The San Francisco call., 1896-07-21
GENERAL EzETA
ON HIS MET TIE.
He Issues a Manifesto
Anent the Jimenez
Incident.
DOESN'T M1NcE WORDS.
Prieto Alvarez and Consul Cal
deron Handled With
out Gloves.
a STORMY SCENE IN PARIS.
The Ex.President Believes He Is
the Victim of Deep.Laid
Political Plots.
a STORMY SCENE IN PARIS.

Salvador, whose contretemps of last Tues
day with Don Pedro Jimenez in the
dining-room of the Hotel Marechal Mel
created such hutter in local Spanish
Americal social circles, does not seem to
relish the idea of suffering in silence. He
has prepared manifesto for publication
in the next issue of the Revista del Pa
ciico, of which the following is an
abridged translation:
Since left my native land on account of po-
litical affairs, which need not now be men,
toned, have been followed by atrocious cal
umnies, by shameless lies and by intrigue and
have been in jured on every hand.
These evil forces have been set on foot and
subsidized by General Gutierrez and his Cabi-
net, who, by means of a most ignobie and in
famous campaign OF dietribe are vainly en-
deavor1ng to ruin my reputation before my
compatrlots and friends.
had determined through respect for my
self and out OF consideration for society, to let
silence be my only answer to these unelean
attacks and absurd inventions, engendered by
rancor and stimulated by love of lucre; but
the moment has come in which l have to
speak, not because the lies against me are
worth the trouble of refuting, but because
they may deceive the confding natures of
persons who do not know me, or who are
absent, for they say that caiumny is like coal
when it does not soil it smuts.
Referring to the Spanish paper El Comercio,
published in this city, which EZeta terms ga
shameful sheet" he says: In its issue OF Sat
urdey, the 18th instant, it published lying
and most abusive farrago against me, in
which, after Showering insults upon me on
account of the Jimenez incident, 1t
maliciously perverted the TRUTH distorted
facts, and, in passing, made a defense
plant instrument OF my enemies. This
unhappy man instigated by an individual who
is the official and officious agent here of Gen
eral Gutierrez, might have had the intention of
assassinating me, but on coming into my pres
ence he trembeG so that he could hardly take
out his pistol, and though was unarmed my
serenity seemed 10 perturb him completely, as
the many persons who were present can attest.
1t is then the most ridiculous error to suppose
that this little fellow spat upon me.
AS for the instrument itself-that is TO say,
Jimenez-I never knew him, even by sight. in
Salvador or in any other place; and since he
was not an acquaintance OF mine, what motive
can he have had in attacking me?
Continuing, Ezeta says he did have the mis-
fortune to know Prieto Alvarez, to whom, he
says, he gave generous aid and protection
when he was in abject poverty. He termed
him "a malevolent individual, who now aims
his poisoned shaft against me in his unworthy
sheet II l were to look into the vocabulary
which he uses in order 10 gain food for his
family 1t would be difficult, ii not impossible,
for me to find word with which to stigmatize
him. Prieto Alvarez, the same man who now,
like the serpent, stings the breast which in
other days was his refuge from misery, was q
favorite of mine at the commencement OF my
administration" +"
He removed Alvarez in disgrace for cause
he says, but afterward he appealed to his
brother, General Antonio EZeta, and, "by
means of entreaties and false, honeyed words,
made him believe that it would be well to
found newspaper in Mexico for the purpose
of refuting the calumnies and insults which in
that republic were being cast upon the politi-
cal refugees of Salvador in Guatemala.
General Antonio Ezeta, who at that time
was Minister of War, judged il prudent to
listen to the arttul libeler, and more on ac-
count OF compassion for his family than tor
any other reason, and in obedience to
his generous impulses, he gave money
and provided free passage for Alvarez
soon founded paper in which Ezeta claims
to have been smothered with exaggerated
tributes until he felt called upon to order an
investigation in TO the matter. He found that
the treasury of Salvador was maintaining the
paper and Ezeta says that he commanded the
immediate suspension of the subsidy for
Alyarez's paper.
He says some tart things about the pub
Usher of FL Comercio and, continuing,
says:
TIE great Quintana says that every one tries
to make firewood out of the oak that has been
am fallen and in exile, find myself surrounded
by braggarts, anxious to give me the coup de
grace. But l have no right to complain.
Others than / have trodden this same path
meeting the same difficulties atevery step.
This is not the first scandal in which M Y
enemies have sought to entangle me. In Paris
an individul named Robert Alvarez offered me
an insult, for which i chastised him. He did
not dare TO expose his life by returning TO my
presence.
But why should waste time narratfng the
unworthy Vaccinations of which l have been
the object? l had determined to ignore these
petty, despicable efforts of impotent revenge,
but since l see that there is deep conspiracy
against me, when General Gutierrez, degrad-
ing the official rank of which he is so
proud, has the impudence to subsidiZe
vile and insolent sheets for insulting
me and making a mockery OF me, he
himself distributing the indecent publications
among the people OF Salvador, to the great
detriment of my honor, 1 find myself obliged
that the shaft of calumny, like two-edged
sword, may return upon the towards who
brandish it against me.
extend an invitation to the bullying boast
ers who behind my back address me by every
opprobrious eDithet, hoping thereby to gain
friendship and coin from General Gutierrez.
Why Will you not be decent men? Why can
you not meet me face to face with equal armsf
Do you fear that / will kill you? Don't be
afraid; perhaps you may be the winner.
this Calderon, to whom my defemer
refers, is not simply Consul of Salvador in San
Francisco, but also an agent picked out
from among my worst enemies. ID 1890,
when he was surgeon of the division COM
manded by General Villavicencio, he went
over to the enemy with the ambulance and
outfit. The war having ended, and Salvador
being victorious, Calderon took advantage OF
ernment, but hardly had he returned to Saliva
dor when he became entangled in political
conspiracies. 1t was not thought proper to
punish him according to the rigors OF the law,
so he was exiled from the country
reason why Gutierrez has thrown these two in
dividuals in my way. The public, my friends
and the Central American Society OF San Fran
cisco shall pass judgment upon my enemies.