Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-12-23
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Of CASTRO
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ATTEMPT TO OASSASSINATE
PRESIDENT GOMEZ FAILS
Castro'S Successor by Splendid
Exhibition of Nerve Puts
Down Plot to Overthrow the
New Regime,

lBy Morning journal special Leased wirel
| Curacao, Via Willcmstad. Dee. 22.-
| Caracas, Monday. Dec. 81 The end
of the rule in Venezuela of Clpriano
Castro has come. The dictator who
has governed the republic with a rod
of iron since he took forcible posses
sion OF the yellow house in Caracas in
1899. is now openly charged with con
| spiracy to compass the assassination
of a man he left at the head of the
republic when he saileu away on No
vember % from la Guaira. nominaIly
to secure skilled medical aid in Ber-
lin fer a maladS OF long standing and
is today thoroughly discredited. The
Bank of Venezuela has cabled its cor
respondents at Berlin and Paris can
ceiling the unlimited letter OF credit
given to President Castro when he left
Venezuela for Europe and no one in
Caracas believes he win ever dare re-
turn to the capital The Castro cab
met has been forced TO resign and a
new and progressive ministry has been
appointed by Juan Vicente Gomez. the
acting president.
The attempt on the life OF Gomez
was frustrated by the coolness and
courage and the daring act of the
president himself Alone and unsup-
ported he arrested the ringleaders Of
the conspiracy with his own hands in
the presence Of their armed adherents
and after this action he issued a
proclamation sayinf that not only had
he saved his own ~ but he had main
tanned tHn highest ideals of the re-
public.
Already the new administration
shows signs OF % desire ana intention
to settle the disputes between Ven
ezuela and foreign powers that have
kept the republic in light Of un-
enviable notoricy for several years
past.
At a conference held yesterday Act |
ing President Gomez and Baron Won |
Seckendorn, the German minister in |
charge Of the interests Of Holland |
since the departure of the Dutch min |
lister, NJ. De Reus, last summer. II was |
agreed to suspend the operation of the |
decree issued by President Castro pro-
hibitng the transhipment of goods
destined for Venezuela.
Pending the signing Of the treaty
between Holland and a duly empow-
cred Venezuela commissioner the
Dutch warships that have been patrol
ing the Venezuelan coast for nearly
three weeks. will be withdrawn The
attempt to assassinate Gomez and sew
eral OF the ministers was decided upon
December is. Gomez heard of the
plot and took the personal stand that
nipped it in the bud. The men CON
cerned in the conspiracy were Prcsi-
dent Castro's closest friends and best
known adherents. Secret cipher cable
grams have passed between President
Castro in Berlin and his agents here
since the popular anti-Castro demon |
5tratiOn of December 10 and IA 4 II
prominent lawyer has filed an accusa-
ion in the high court, charging Cas-
ro with completely in the plot to as
iassinate Gomez and proposing the i'm ]
oeachment of Castro. I
Minister of the Interior Linares Al e
'antara, issued proclamation today }
addressed to the governors of the fed :
raj districts and federal territories u
which, after praising the new govern {
nent, says; r
Nov or never Venezuela can and b
must prove that il possesses. as do all e
human associations with virile tradi- q
ions and intrinsic virtue. the ability
o govern itself well and indefinitely z
improve a
Today by order OF the first magis- b
rate, all citizens in prison for poltl- n
alcauses are liberated. To complete II
his act Of necessary justice an Ven 7
zuelans at large for the same cause b
re called back We have pending the q
International conflict which the coun- a
~ knows of through the recent gov u
rnment announcement and this de- "
hands from Neuezuelans the obiiga-
ION Of uniting in common cause Let N
S show that we are worthy and
trong in defcnsc Of the honor OF our
lag"
The proclamation says further that
lch state will dispose OF a share % ~
s income according TO the constitu-
on. and the government viii study
very economic question and give par
cular attention to Nenezuela's credit r.
eforring to public contracts, il says be-
rat these must be re-esta blshed on a
he basis OF consistent and reciprocal w
)od faith. "N,nezuela knows" says sp
le proclamation. to what principally oh
due the poverty Of all the working CD
asses, and the government viii make w
rectificatious Vene- IA
iela wishes @ frank and continuous n,
iendship with an civilized nations
'e must therefore try 20 come to
me definite conclusion in regard 70
iestions now at issue. always con 81
lting. however the dignity of this na
iti0n and its inaIenabie rights he