Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-16
A DOMINICAN JUNTA.
Little C0terie In New York Plans to
Aid Rebellion.
SCHEMES OF FILIBUSTERING.
The Leader Of the Junta Tells In
an Interview why He IL Bitter
Against the Existing Order
of Things.

New York, Aug. 1.-THE rebel junta
which eXiled fighters and politicians of
Santo Domingo have started in this city
within the past week to help along the
revolution in their native island has been
in constant expectation of important
news from the scene Of fighting. The
junta, which is perhaps the smallest jun
ia that ever did business. consists of four
ardent Domincans, who push along
plans for sending an expedition Of men
and arms to the assistance of their broth
er insurgents in the field.
The movement here ID headed by pic
turesque Dominican warrior who has
passed through the heat Of half dozen
rebellions and who bears on his person
not only the scars of battle, but the mark
of the would be assassin. He is Gen
eral AbelardO A. Moscoso, an exile from
Santo Domingo, who was shipped out of
the country by the lately assassinated
President Heureaux. General Moscoso
is dark skinned, dark bearded, tall and
thin, with high forehead and eyes that
burn and flash with electric energy when
he talks of the revolution.
Formerly he was one Of the conspicu-
GUS fighting members of President Heu-
reaux's staff, but he fell out with that
ruler and was sent out Of the country.
More than 200 other Dominicans were
exiled also for political reasons, and Gen
eral Moscoso says that in the last ten
years Heurcaux put fully 1000 people to
death because of political opposition to
him.
General Moscoso has with him in the
junta Father Charles Philip Morales, a
Catholic priest who escaped from Santo
Domingo the week Heureaux was as
sassinated and came here; Macmillan
Grullon, General Jiminez's secretary,
who arrived here as a missionary from
the general two or three days ago, and
A. Grulon. General Moscoso declares
that the junta already has all the arms
and money it needs and that in a few
days an expedition will set out from
some port in the United States to join
the men who are fighting the existing
government in the Dominican republic.
VIII Lead the Expedition.
He expects to be at the head of the
expedition and to take the field and the
three other members of the junta will
20 along also. Besides these, there are
said to be 21 other Dominicans in New
DIX WILD nave uetluEcu Their W ming
ness to go to Snnto Domingo and fight.
In fact General Moscoso declares that
every Dominican In New York Is active
ly in favor of the revolution. excepting
Senior Coos Gil. the Dominican consul
here, and he is put down as neutral
The preparations for the expedition to
be sent against the government are be-
ing carried on secretly, and it is under
stood it will not sail from this port The
local revolutionists, who are in touch
with their brethren on the island. are
evidently expecting some event of inn
portance to happen in Santo Domingo
any moment.
"Unless division among the revolution
lists themselves defeats their purpose,
the revolutionists are sure to succeed.
said General MoscCso. II believe that
the existing government will be over
thrown inside of 80 days. The present
regime is one of ignorance and despot-
ism. 1t is based solely upon the power
to kill and to exile.
"Figuero, who succeeded Heureaux, il
a good fighter but nothing more. He nor
any Of his associates have any concep-
ton of what the science of government
Is, and they do not know there is such
thing as political economy. The present
president has never been out of the coun-
try. The educated men of the country,
the travelled men, those who were edu-
Gated in foreign universities, are all OPP
posed to the present form of the republic.
"No king is so absolute as the presi-
dent of Santo Domingo. Heureaux used
this power as a tyrGnt, exiting and kill
Ing his enemies. Even those he eXilel
were logged by assassins. Three years
ago an assassin stabbed me through the
body while was in Porto Rico.
''The revolution is already powerful.
We hold the three most important prov
inces Of the island, and my latest dis
patches report progI ess."