Arizona republican., 1904-10-21

speaker, in defense of his revoIution- ary course wsis pressing the opposite view upon the country in his messa ges and by his partiSans in congressional debates and while public opinion upon the question was forming. this letter was significantly withheld from the senatc for a month. thOush others on the subject were transmitted. The character of th5s occasion necessarily precIudes an exten1ed discussion of the details Of the fabricated rebellion in I,a.lama or the legal questions which pert.in to it. l. must suffice to say that l.le national administration in its pre- cipitate and guilty haste anticipated and discounted the time for the revolt. It magnified the number and charac- ter Of the insurgents. and officers of the government, cOnEdved ct sJ5serfuge 10 deceive and corrupt the forces sen-
 to subdue the insurrec ctiOn- No. Satis- lied with these illegal ard wrongful and discrediLable acts. but purposing
 70 complets-the intended spoliatson, the
 administration within two days recog-
 mixed the mock government it alone treated and upheld. and within two
 weeks in the very midst of actual
 though ElOOdiess war, 1t accepted a
 cessiOn of territory from French ad-
 venturer. who organized the cOnspir- 1cy in the shadow of the national capi- tai
 ."I accept 1t as true that the execu-
 tive officers of the administration did
 not officially and publicly instigate the
 revolt in Panama, but that the ad-
 ministratiOn. including the president.
 privately favored and encouraged the
 movement, and that this was widely
 known, is susceptible of demons ration
 and in a matter of this character it was tantamOunt to committing the gov ernment to it. The very atmosphere of
 Washington was charged with I.his be- lief. Movements Of the navy, in con sonaEce wlth wishes and expectations of the cOnspiratOrs. are ineNplfca0l4
 except upon the hypothesis of sympa- thy and forel1nowledge. The press Oi the country, whose representa- tfves ct Washington visited the state depart
 ment daily. teemed with suggestions and prophecies of secession. and the recognition of the treaty with Panama from June until November, 1903. with out objections or without denial from the department"
 The senator then read the following letter to Dr. Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews: Personal White house. October 10. 19O3 My
 Dear MT. Shawl enclose you. purely for Sour own information. a copy of s Ietter of September 3. from. our minis ter to Colombia. I think it might in- terest you to see that there was abso-
 lutely not the slightest chance of se- curing by treaty any more than We | endeavOred to secure. The alterna- tives were to go to Nicaragua, again 4i
 the advice of the great ajority ol 1 competent engineers, some of the most
 competent saying theit we had better
 have no canal at this time than gC 1 there, or else take the territory by
 force without any attempt at gettins i @ treacy. I cast aside the proposition i made at this time to fomena the seces- ! sion of Panama. WhS'- ever other gov. kernments can do the United States can 1 hot go into securing by such under ! hand means the cession. Privately. l freely say to you that I should be de | lighted if Panama were an independ- l ent state. or if it made itself so al this moment; but for me to say SC publicly would amount to an instiga,
 tion of a revolt. and therefore I can.
 not say it.
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