The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-31

Native Land-uis Schemes.
SAN FRANCISCO March 2i.-
No one looking for Central Ameri-
can rcyolutionists would pick Domingo
\asuuez out of crowd. He has a
long and honorable record I'm the mat
ter of melting Instructions, but he
looks like a prosperous business man
whose soul would turn q handspring at
the thought of blOOdshed. He is small
and spare of figure with struggling
white whiskers, and he wears clothes
that fit him. 1t is only his eyes that i'm
any way stamp him as "a man out of the
ordinary These are keen as those of
a hawk and steady as a leyeled gun.
He is i'm San Francisco just out of a
jail i'm COrintO, Nicaragua where he
spent nearly two months and he will
go from TO New York to further the
somewhat unusual scheme of Overturu-
Ing all the little republican govern
ments i'm Central America without the
firing of a gun. 1t was because these
governments objected to being over
| turned that Senior Nasquez was carried
bodily Off the steamer TuCapel when
she arrived at COrintO last December,
and locked up by order of President
Zelaya. IL the vessel had touched at
amy other Central American port the
.
a general alarm touching his arrival
had been sent out
When Naspuez was President of Hon
duras some years ago he thought out
a plan to unite his own country with
Guatemala, Costa Rica, Hucatan, Sal
vadOr and Nicaragua, and create one
powerful republic, with himself as its
chief executive. His official duties We're
slight and he had plenty of time 10
work out the details. But as soon as
he began to put the scheme into praC-
tiCe he encountered opposition of u
sort that led him to take the first avail
able steamer for San Francisco. 1t is
said of him that he still instinctively
lodges when the door is abruptly
closed or the hotel waiter drops a
dish.
From a distance Senior Vasquez sur
veyed his field, and time served only
to increase the ardor of his ambitions.
So he set sail in the Tucapel, met with
disaster i'm COrintO and is back again
He will not say just what he would have
done had not President Ielaya caused
his arrest, but he is frank in the mat
ter of his future intentions
"If Central America has any future
at all he said yesterday, lit lies in a
combination for mutual benefit. The
| interests of all the republic are identical
and there is no reason why they should
.
What prevents it? was asked.
" 1t is prevented by the officials They
do not in any way represent the mass
,Of the people, whose say i'm government
al affairs is a very small one. They re-
present only themselves. They are usu-
ally men who have risked a good deal
to get OffiCe-their life as a single de
tail-and they want to make the most
they can during an administration that
may have a violent termination at any
moment. 1t is really a fact that the on
| ~ way to win position in that unhappy
country to-day is to finance an insur-
reCtiOn. a vote means nothing. \ gun
means whole lot
Asked if the office he had held was
won in this way, the senior replied,
|slroklng his whiskers with an contem-
plative air
well, no. have seen something of
revolutions. but l went in on a popular
vote myself"
a story was printed once that as Pre-
sident of Honduras he had caused the
| execution of five prominent citizen, one
of whom was an Englishman, i'm order
/ to discourage a threatened revolution.
He was reminded of this, and his bright
[ eyes glittered when he replied that the
| tale was false.
Il do not believe in bloodshed" he
continued. 81 am lawyer and not a
! lighting man. l believe that the union
of Central American republics can be
brought about by peaceful methods,
and l shall devote my life to accom-
plishing that end. 1 go East from here
to consult with some influential gen.
tlemen who think the same as l do.
What we want to do now is to reach
the people. 1--WE recognize that nothing
can be done with The officials, and we
VIII make no further effort to deal with
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