The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-14
DECLARES HE SHOULD BE
BROUGHT TO TRIAL FOR
KILLING AMERICANS.
STANDS WITHOUT PEER
In the School of Crime, Dishonor, Cor
ruptor ard Perfidy-Deserves
the Doom Of Common
Criminal

Washington, d. G., Dec. Ia
Speaking of his resolution offered
in the senate last Friday authorizing
the president of the United States to
take all necessary steps to apprehend
President Zelaya, of Nicaragua. and
bring him to trial on charge Of the
murder of Groce and Cannon, the
two American citizens. recently eX
ecuted in Nicaragua, Senator Rayncr,
of Maryland. today addressed the sen
ate at length. Senator Raynerg
speech, stirring and denunciatory in
tone and characterized by dramatic
fervor, was an unsparing arraign-
ment OF President zelaya whom he
designated as one of the criminals
of the age.
What | am concerned in now, !"
said Senator Rayner "is not the Ques-
tion of the belligerent rights of the
revolutionists, or in case of their sue
cess their recognition either as the
de faeto or the de jare government,
but in the speedy apprehension and
punishment of Zelaya. This desperate
is everything that the secretary OF
state says about him, and great
deal more II the country knew what
is known in official circles in refer
ence TO his general depravity, it would
regard the secretarys communication
as exceedingly temperate, as it shows
upon its face the restraint under
which he was aborng in dealing with
such character
q have watched for years the revo.
lutionary history Of Central America,
and am familiar with the career of
great many of the importers and
usurpers and the grotesque and mot
ley leaders that have sprung from
their chaotic institutions, but Ze-
laya is probably the most despicable
figure that has ever risen in their
midst If he were simply a highway
man, we might identify him; il he
was simply tyrant who oppressed
the people for the purpose of robbing
them, we might particularize him; if
he was a usurper who was only hold
ing on to power SO long as there was
any money in the treasury to steal, or
any further territory that he could
sack for private plunder, we could as
sign him to proper place in the
ranks of some of his predecessors,
and if he was purely an assassin who
regarded murder as a legitimate pro
fession through which he could de-
spoil his victims of their possessions
until the time came for him to flee
from the hands of retributing justice,
it would be an easy task also for any
one acquainted with the political his
tory of Nicaragua to classify him.
He is, however, all Of these things
cUiHDlHeu. III tue SCHOOl VI tolIup-
tion, dihonor, perfidy and crime he
stands without a peer, and exhibits in
one glow of associated harmony the
pride of every modei and the perfec-
tion of every master. | have been
informed upon the most reliable at
thority that the vices of his private
life are more infamous in their in
describable details than the iniquities
of his public career. Such a creature
as this deserves the execration OF
mankind, Now, as the eliminating
infamy of his administration, tramp
ling upon every instinct of humanity,
in violation of universal law, in de-
fiance of those precepts of the inter-
national code that have been recoS-
nized ever since the night of bar
barism receded before the rays of
civilization, he has put to torture and
then to death two American citizens
who were not guilty Of treason. who
were not spies, but whom he had cap
tured as prisoners of war in the army
of the revolutonists. This act was
not only the act of a fiend, but was
an insult to the honor of this repub-
lie. and cannot remain unavenged
at is absolutely preposterous for
us to talk about indemnity. Indemnity
is no recompense for murder. Even
if we were willing to accept such a
compromise, there is no one to give
us indemnity, because the revolu-
tionists will soon be in power, and
the comrades in arms of these unfor-
tunate men should never be assessed