Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-18
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nossesses the open sesame to the
white H.use. Although mere sell
ing agent for property Of doubtful
yalue he has been received as fire.
ouently and with as much cordiallty
nv the president as the most favored
and influential Republican senators.
No likewise has had access to the
secretary of state on all occasions.
Cromwell is the very incarnation
of the spirit of the $40,000,o00 which
has so seriously disturbed the peace
and permanence ct the Colombian re-
nubic. He is the man who first ar
ranged to sell the Panama canal to the
limited States for that sum. He al
ranged the details with the insiders Of
the French company at Paris and SUBJ
seouently made satisfactory arrange
ments for the purchase by congress.
He became ill at a critical point of the
negotiations with the Bogota gov
ernment, and it has been explained that
the failure of these negotiations fol-
=1ewed as natural consequence.
If Cromwell mad retained his health,
his friends say ruefully, the treaty
would have been ratified by the Co.
)ombian congress and the present COM
n]ications would have been avoided.
Ry the time Cromwell was up and
ready to resume business. h1wever,
the Colombians had managed to grasp
the significance of the gigantic trans
action. They saw tnat $4,000 600 was
going to somebody or something that
had nothing tangible to sell. while they
who were expected eventually 10 deliv-
er the goods were expected t be con-
tent with $4,000 600.
Mr.. Cromwell. with all his as
tuteness, was not able to change this
ASPECT of the case so far as the Colon
bians were concerned. Neither was he
willing to give them any part of the
1000 900. Every cent OF that sum,
it is understood, had been promised;
to whom remains to be disclos I'd.
Spy In the Waldorf Junta.
The part that Cromwell played in
the revolution remains to be ascer-
tanned, but there are senators who
feel that the story must come out
before a canal treaty is ratified. 1ney
will send for the lawyer and request
him to furnish the senate With every
scrap of correspondence in his pos
session relating to the affairs of the
canal.
At least three Democratic senators
have within a few days been placed
in possession of information about the
revolution and the conspiracy leading
to it that is of a sensational character.
1t appears that there was spy IN
the Waldc~f Astoria junta who furnish
ed his government at Bogota with ac-
curate accounts of everything that
that brood of adventurers did. That
man is ready to come forward and tes-
tify to everything he knows about the
junta and it's connections in Panama,
Washington and elsewhere. His story
is being investigated and if it is found
to be reliable he will be brought to
the capitol and introduced to the 18TH
amian committee as volunteer wit
ness. 1t is understood that he is able
TO shed much light upon the connec-
tions that were maintained betweGl
the junta and the administration here.
Roosevelt's Friends Are Anxious.
AS the rumors multiply about graft
and greed being the underlying cause
of the Panama revolution the presi-
dents friend are becoming anxious to
have it understood that he knew abso-
lutely nothing about that phase of the
matter. They say that doubtless many
things were kept from him and that
he could not De expected to know that
the men who were secretly melting
him to aid the revolution hoped to
obtain their reward when the $4O,-
0oo,000 the purchase price of the
canal, was paid to the agents of the
French company. They won!d like the
public to believe that the president
acted only from a patriotic purpose.
The public will readily believe this.
Mr.. oosevelt's career e~crnpts him
from the suspicious attacking to 9TH
ers who enjoy his confidence He dia
not dream that the purc,}a @ money
for the canal was vast corruption
fund