Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-18
I'm PROOF Of PLOT
LII OsURES REGARDING PANA-
MA PROMISE A LIVELY
SENSATION.
ktrt AGENTS Of the Canal Are eport-
ed as On the Pay Rolls of the
Government.
v AGED IN =. BAD LIGHT

Panama revolution was Planned
New York and Washington and that
pb officials of the government were
oni7ant of the secret workings of
eonspirators is beginning to accu-
llate.
h has been disclosed that members
aast on one occasion was granted
arters were at the Waldorf-Astor1a,
ade three visits to Washington and
least on oneo ccasicn We're granted
an audience with Secretary of
Iate Hay. They frankly told that Of
eial what they hoped 20 accomplish
Id asked his cooperation for the full
lment of their pans. But the inter-
ew is said to have turned out unsat-
factcrily.
The secretary of state was not ready
his official capac'cy to extend rec
enition to revolutionary movement.
hat he or somebody else identlned
Fith the administration took cogni-
ance of the intentions of the conspir-
tors and made ready to enable the
United States to reap the largest possl-
10 benefit from the revolution was
hade apparent by the proximity of our
karships to the Panama coasts when
he revolution actually occurred. One
bf the conspiratG'r who had visited
Washington at least twice, was Dr..
Amador. who is now on his way from
Colon to Washington as a special am
bassador of the Panama republic. Am
bdor was the virtua! head of the Wal
horf-Astoria junta. Because he was a
native cf Panama and had been mixed
lp in other revolutions it was deemed
b prudent step by the spectators and
hdyenturers who initiated the move
ment to keep him in the forefront. NJ.
the present minister
from Panama who was received for
mally by the president the other day,
dm not turn up as an active member
|pf the junta until Amador found it nee
|essary to ga to Colon. Varila is un-
derStoOd to have been in Paris when
the first steps We're taken and he did
not come to the United States until
the movement was fairly under way.
Then he was sent for by persons sup
posed to represent the Panama COM
pany in the United States. They be-
lieved they needed a man like Narilla.
and from the moment his name was
nrst broached he was slated for the
post ef minister plenipotentiary
Scandal Will Be Disclosed.
One thing remains to be deveoped
and that is the identity Of the secret
agent OF the Panama company in
washington, who, according to DR..
Albert Shaw, of the Review of Re-
views, kept the administration in
touch with the trend of affairs on the
lsthmus. DR.. Shaw has recently de-
MED that he obtained the data fer
MS remarkable forecas,> of the event
OF revolution from the president. II
Ne dld not obtain it from the president
2e obtained it from Secretary Hav.. for
ne Is as intimate with thc@oc"etarv
81 state IS he is with the president.
III either event the doctors article
proves concusiyely nat the admins
tati. n was cognizant OF every move
u tfie revolutionary junta operating
rom TIE WaldOrf-Astoria, and was Sc
sfetly encouraging it.
several Democratic senator's who
ire deslrous of ascertalning the truth
tpout the affair believe they are on
-he track of the welrlnformed Wash
hstoh agent and intimate that when
lis identity is disclosed the American
'uoilc will be surprised. They even
h.ilhate that he is government of
iciai or fairly high standing. That
HIS Is not Improbable has been
SHOWN on several occasions since the
evolution began, when news from the
s'"iiius that Secretary Hay and the
resident regarded as authoritative
vas furnished from unknown sources.
" hehever the governments consuls
iase lalled to make ample use of the
'aples the secret agent of the promot.
rs mas stepped into the breach in a
most satisfactory manner. He has
.eVer been without news and the state
department. has not hesitated to nse
lis information
m'' Cromwell and the coIombians.
ostenslbly William Nelson Crom-
ven. 'he New York representative of
lie fanama Canal company. is author
-eu 's agent or the company in this
oul'is. obviously. although a re-
nai Naoie man, Mr.. Cromwell has his
mutations. He must have suboraln.
.'es' ana 1t is to be regretted that he
'a' iio. always been careful as to the