The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-14
IEtAYA IS NJ 0 ST
! Df$IGABtE OF
49, -
ALL BEsP0Is
Maryland Statesman, in Speech That
Rings With Denunciation, De
mands Arrest of Nicaraguan
President.
SIN the School of Corruption. Dis
honor and Perfdy zelaya Has No
i Equal Speaker Thunders
--sENNTOR RAINIER.

N WASHINGTON. Dec. 13-m not
able address delivered in the senate
To-day. Mr.. Rayner (Dem, Naryland)
supported his resolution introduced a
Few DAYS. ago, authorizing hc Wcsi.
uent ITO take all necessary steps for
tho Capture OF President Zela5a OF
Nicaragua. and his trial on the charge
on murder. Under the spell uf tho
maryland senator's eloqucnce the gal
keries tllled rapidly and senators list
Fned intcntly As Rayncr argued that u
WAS both The duty and the right ot this
government 10 seize Zelava and try
him.
"a great crime has been commit
red, he said. against the rights Of
american citizenship, which cannot
pc allowed 20 slumber The gull does
pot rest upon the people OF Nicai aqua
md therefore TO punish them would
not subserve the purpose OF MY reso-
tution. This resolution is directed
against the dictator of Nicaragua indi-
Mutually. and | want it entirefy separ-
Rted from any proposed step We may
Fake i'm reference 20 our Interference
In Nicaragua
Rayner said that Cannon and Groce.
me two Americans shot 10 death by
Eelaya order. fought with the revo-
mtionlsts. They We're simply. when
captured, prisoners OF war. he de-
Elared and the universal law OF civil
nzed nations now forbids the killing
6r wo1ndiug az prisoners of war. He
asserted ttat the question whether the
&icaraguan insurgents had belhgerent
tight had nothing 40 do with Mis-
case. and he cited state department
mrecedents as to the policy of this gov
lernment in protecting citizens
At the time Of the Hungarian revolt.
the Austrian envoy termed as a spy
an agent sent by the United States 10
Hungary Webster, secretary OF state.
notified the Austrian Imperial coun.
Gil that II the American agent was
treated rs a spy. that act would be a
declaration Of war
What l. am concerned ia. contin-
Ned Rayncr is the speedy cppre-
hensiop and punishment OF Zelaya.
have watched for years the revolu
tionary history Of Central America.
and am familiar with the career Of a
great many of the imposters and
hsurpefs and the grotesque and mot
ley leaders that have sprung from
fheir chaotic institutions. but Zelaya
is probably the most despicaOle figure
that has ever arisen IN their midst
In the school of corruption. dis
honor, perGdy and crime. be stands
without a peer and exhibits ln one
glow-nf associated harmony the pride
of every model and the perfection OF
every master have heen informed
npon the most reliable authority that
the vices or his private fife are more
infamous IN" tfefr -Tndesclibdble dc.
tails than the iniCuities- of his public
career. *"'
Now. - the eliminating infamy
OF his administration, trampling upon
every instinct OF humanity in viola
tion OF universal law. in defiance OF
those precepts of the International
code that have been recognized ever
since the night of barbarism rccedcd
before the rays OF civilization. be mas
Put 10 torture and then TO death two
American citizens whom he captured
as prisoners OF war IN the army az the
reyolutionists This act WAS not OniT
the act OF fcnd. but was an insult
to the honor Of this republic and can.
not remain unavenged -