River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-12-23
PRESIDENT RESIGNS
ZELAYA TENDERS HIS RESIGNA-
TON TO NiCARAGUAN MA
TIONAL CONGRESS.
LOOKED UPON AS FORMALITY
Rulers Action Is Acclaimed by People
with Shouts for United States
and Estrada-Sends Message to
Assembly.

Managua, Nicaragua. - President
zelaya has resigned. He sent his
resignation as chief executive to the
national congress of the Nicaraguan
republic on Thursday.
Five deputies were appointed i'm
mediately upon the receipt of the
resignation to draft bill looking to
its acceptance, which is now consid-
cred mere formality.
Accompanying his resignation Ze-
laya sent the following message to
congress-:
"The painful circumstances into
which the country is plunged call for
acts of abnegation and patriotism on
the part of good citizens, who are the
witnesses of the oppression of the
republic by the heavy hand of fate.
The country is staggering under
shameless revolution which threatens
the nations sovereignty and foreign
nation, unjustly intervenes in our af-
fairs, publicly providing the rebels
with arms, which has only resulted
in their being defeated everywhere
through the heroism of our troops.
ITO avoid further bloodshed and for
the reason that the revolutionists have
declared that they would put down
their arms when surrendered the ex-
ecutive power, hereby place in the
hands of the national assembly the
abandonment of the remainder of my
term of office, which is to be filled by
substitute of their choosing, with
the hope that this will result in good
to Nicaragua, the re-establishment of
peace and particularly the suspension
of the hostility of the United States,
to which l do not wish to give pre-
text for Intervention"
News of the presidents action
spread throughout the city, and soon
great crowds moved through the
streets, shouting for the United States,
Estrada and the revolution.
Apparently there was no other
course for Zelaya to take. The people
were aroused. The guns Of the revolu-
tionists threatened. The warships of
the United States lay in Nicaraguan
ports.
Managua has been seething for days.
The spirit of revolt has spread even
to the gates of the palace. Zelaya sur
rounded himself with an armed guard.
Unchecked, the people have marched
through the streets, crying for the end
of the old, proclaiming the new regime.
Who will take up the reins no one
knows nor cares. There is no doubt
that congress will act quickly.
DR.. Jose MadriZ, judge of the Central
American court of justice at Carriage,
who has been close to Zelaya and is
now his choice for president, is on his
way here.
Madriz has his following strong and
influential, even among the revolution
lists, but Gen. Estrada, under whose
command the great body of fighting
insurgents now face Vasquez's troops
at Rama, will have none of him.
Estrada's word will bear weight in
the choice of president.
Zelaya has known, too, that MadriZ
is not acceptable to the United States,
and he has sought to learn who would
be looked upon with favor by that
government as his successor, but the
American government, so far as can
be learned, has named no man and the
choice probably will lie with those
who have gained the upper hand.