The times., 1899-08-30

Thomas Simpson, United States Consul
at Puerto Plata, Santo~ Domingo. tele-
graphed the State Department yesterday
that all towns in his consular district ex-
cept Monte Cristi are in thes possession
of revolutionists. Puerto Plata, Mr.. Simp-
son says, surrendered Monday.
Mr.. Simpsons consular district en-
braces the northwestern part of the Do
miniean Republic, and is considerable dis
tance from San Domingo City, the capital.
All the towns in the district at which the
United States Government has representa-
tives are on the northern coast, and II is
impossible to tell from MIR. Simpsons mes
sage how much territory is now in the
possession of the revolutionists Ii is re-
garded here as reasonably certain, in view
OF the information that has come to the
Government from official and private
sources, that the revolution is likely to be
successful.
The claim of the Government supporters
that the people generally are not in SYM
pathy with the revolution is not borne out
by the report of Consul Simpson. Puerto
Plata is second in Importance among the
Dominican seaport towns. and Is several
hundred miles from San Francisco de
Maeoris, which was taken by the rebels,
facts which show that the uprising is be-
coming general. The opinion is expressed
here that unless Jiminez hurries to Santo
Domingo and takes personal charge of his
forces he will lose much of his prestige
and his place as Presidential possibility
will be taken by one of the younger. fight
ing generals, most likely by General Ho-
racio Vasquez
NEW YORK, Aug 29.-The cable de-
spatch from Santiago de Cuba which was
received here on Monday by Senior Andri-
ano Grullon, the agent here of the revolu-
| tionists and which announced the surren-
der of San Domingo, the capital of the Re-
| public, turns out 10 be a canard. 1t is
| believed that the object of the despatch
| was to Offset the effect of the action of the
! United States authorities at Santiago in
preventing General JimineZ from landing
/ there. 1t may. be- however. that the pur-
| pose was to influence exporters here and
cause them to withhold shipments OF mer-
chandise and food stuffs for San Domingo
/ until quiet is restored, thus forcing the
| people of the capital either to join the
! Line steamer for Dominican ports Will
! leave on Friday with one-half the usual
! cargo. Adt ~
/ In the absence at Saranac Lake of Consul
General A. Wos Gil, Gen. Abelardo A.
Moscosco has taken charge of official COM
munications with the Government and in
reply to a cablegram asking whether the
reyolutionists had appeared at the capital,
he received a, despatch tonight from Pres
! ident Figuereo answering in the negative.
| On receiving this despatch General Mos
coscc gave out the following statement:
1T will be necessary for the rebels to
| first take all the other provinces before
they can hope for the surrender of Santo
Domingo The Government has over 5000
/ soldiers there and three gunboats. Besides,
there are $4,000 Mauser rifles in the ar
senaI at the capital. In the southern and
eastern provinces the people are in sympa-
thy with the Government and it will not
be long before peace is again restored
A peculiar feature in regard to the in
terest displayed by General Moscosco in the
welfare of the Government is that until a
! week ago he was one of the most enthu-
siastic revolutionists in this city. His
sudden change of front is explained by him
as follows:
II was one of the organizers OF the revo-
luton, but because of General Jiminez, who
has shown himself only pronunciamento
general and not a fighter, / have altered
my views. He has no fixed idea of what
he intends to do in case he should become
President, which viii probably never be-"
In connection with General Moscosco's S
change of heart it might be said that he
has been in exile here for eleven years.
He has now received a full pardon from
President Figuereo and says he will return
to Santo Domingo and assist in combating
the rebels.