The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-27
$25O, ,OOO U. 5. MONEY : r FOR BOGOTA TRAITORS
THIS IS THE STORY sMYTHE WENT
 TO PANAMA TO INVESTIGATE.
CabIegram Announcing His Success Put Inte Hands of state Department Attempts to Discredtt Smythe --RepubIicans Declare
 His Object to Bc the Fo-
 menting of Rebellion In
 Panama.

Brooklyn Eagle.
 Clarence smythe, as an agent of the Democratic National Committee. did not so to Panama to foment a second insurrectoi as alleged by the State De. partment.
 That he did go as an agent of the the Democratic commtttee is undsniaoiy sion of far greater importance to the American people than that of attemp. ting to forward one of those papier mache revolutions characteristics of the South American republics.
 He went to Colombia to secure docu- mentary proof of the fact that the present Republican administration had not only fomented the Panama ana asa q feyoe ,oa Marroquin government of Colombia to
 This is the truth of his business in Colombia and Panama
 under the second Cleveland adminis- tration United States consul to Carha- gena, Colombia. After hts removal he returned to this country. put as a the papers formed by the Atlanta Constitu- tion, returned to that country to con- duct a series of correspondence on sciai and economic subjects. Ills acquaint- ance with the public men of Colombia was large because of his previous or ficaI position and 1t came to his know ledge as common talk in official circles, after the Panama revolution. that Mar roauin, then president of the Republic of Colombia, but now dead. had been induced by the United States authori- ties to send such troops to Panama os- tensibly for the repression of the re- bellion but actually to aid 1t.
 325O,OOO for Marroquin's Influence. It was common talk there at that time that the sum that had induced to tns act os anS sS that that money came from the secret services fund of the United States. When this present political campaign was under way MT. Smytne sugsesIeo course of the Roosevelt administrator toward the South American republics, especially toward Colombia had been such as to injure the commerica! re- lations between this country and them and has turned the drift of trade away from the United States to Europe. He convinced the committee that IT ne were sent to that country ne cou.a based on facts and statistics obtain
 What smythe Offered to Prove. In the course of this comunication ne told of this common talk of seduc- tion of Marroquin and the American fermentation of the Panama rebellion. He also expressed his beliet that through his relation he couia . ootaan sha capital of Colombia.
 MT. Smythe had been commended to the officers of the National Commit tee in a manner that justified conf rized to proceed to Colombia to en- deavor to secure this proof and ostsn- sibly to write the series of letters he had suggested.
 MT. Smythe is now on his returning voyage with proofs of some kind, but what their character will be will not be known until his arrival In this country.
 of Smythe's Dispatches.
 The discovery of his presence in Panama and Colombia by the State De- partment is due to the fact that a tele- gram intended for an 0fncer of the National Democratic Committee got into the hands of the State Department of the United States government This committee officer had been in the con- sular service. So had MT. Smythe.