Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-14
\ SCOundreI
 Without a Peer
HIS PRIVATE VICES MORE INFA-
 NOUS THAN PUBLIC ONES.
SENATOR RAINIER BOASTS zELAYA
Addressed Senate on His Resolution Authorizing President to Apprehend zeIaya on the Charge of Murder.

WaSQlngIOu, D6C. lo.-Cp6dklIB IO his resolution offered in the senate last Friday. authorizing the president of the United States to take all nec- essary 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 executed in Nicara- qua, Senator Rayner of Maryland to- day addressed the senate at length. Senator Rayner's speech, stirring and denunciatory in tcsle, and character iZed by dramatic fervor was an un- sparing arraignnrent of President Ze- lava whom he designated as one of the criminals of the age
 What I am concerned in now" said Senator Rayner, "is not the question of the belligerent rights of the revolu- tionists. or in case of their success their recognition either as the de facto or the de jure government, but in the speedy apprehension and punish ment of Zelaya. This desperado Is everything that the secretary of state says about him, and a great deal more. If the country knew what is known in official circles in reference to his gen. eral depravity, it would regard the secretary's communication as exceed ingly temperate, as it shows upon its face the restraint under which he was laboring in dealing with such char acter.
 4 Peerless scoundreI
 T have watched for years the rev. eiutionary history of Central America, and am familiar with the career of a great many of the impostors and usurpers and the grotesque and motley leaders that have sprung from their probably the most despicable figure that has ever risen in their midst. If he were simply a highwayman we might identify him; if he were sim ply tyrant who oppressed the people for the purpose of robbing them, we might particularize him; if he was a usurper who was only holding 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 assign him proper place in the ranks of some of his predecessors. and if he were purely an assassin who regarded murder as a legitimate profession through which he could despoil his victims of their possessions until the time carns for him to flee from the hands of retributive justice, it would be an easy task also for any one ac- quainted with the political history of Nicaragua to classify him.
 "He is, however, all of these things combined. In the school of corrup- tion, dishonor. perfidy and crime he stands without peer, and exhibits in one glow of associated harmony the pride of every model and the per lection of every master. l have been informed upon the most reliable au- thortty that the vices of his private life are more infamous in their inde- scribable details than the iniquities of his public career. Such creature as this deserves the execration of mankind. Now, as the eliminating infamy of his administration tramp : Ming upon every instinct of humanity, in violation of universal law, in defi- ance of those precepts of the inter- national code that have been recog- niZed ever since the night of barbar- ism receded before the rays of civiliz- Rtion, 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 captured the revolutionists. This act was not only the act of a fiend, but was an insult to the honor of this reDub- lie, and cannot remain unavenged.
 Indemnity Futile.
 'Tt is absolutely preposterous for us Ao talk about indemnity. Indemnity is no recompense for murder Even if we were willing to accept such com promise, there is no one to give us in demnity, because the revolutionists will soon be in power, and the comrades in arms of these unfortunate men should never be assessed for compensation for their unlawful death. It is said that we ought to break off official com munication with his accredited repre- eentatives. We have already done that and that amounts to nothing, and is a matter of absolute unconcern to him.
 This government is a cowardly gov ernment if it does not make an exam pie of Zelaya before the eyes of the civilized world. This case will not admit of any tri1ing or concessions. If two American citizens- care not who they were or what they were cit izens in high standing, or as they have been reputed to be, or soldiers of for tune-have been murdered by Zelaya then he must be made to pay the pen atty of his crime. Once spread be- fore the American people the details of the execution and our people will rise in arms and demand retribution. They have not yet fully absorbed the significance of this deed. No matter how 1t was done, no trial by court martial can justify it. These men, as z. I have shown, were prisoners of war, l.