Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-13
NURDERER'S MOOSE
WANTED FOR Z[LAYA
SENATOR RAYNER VIGOROUSLY
ARRAiGNs NIcARAGUAN PRES
IpENT IN SPEECH.
WORST OF eRoTEsouE
AND MOTLEY LEADERS
Demands That World Be Told That
United States Flag Follows Every
Citizen in Every cIme-says Reso-
luton is Not Declaration of War
Other News.

Washington, Dec. 1S.-Speaking 20
MS resolution offered in the senate last
Friday authorizing the president to
take all necessary steps to apprehend
Aeiaya, of Nicaragua, and bring him
TO trial on charge of the murder of
two American citizens Senator Rayner
today addressed the senate at length
Rayner's speech was an unsparing ar
raignment of zelaya, whom he desig-
mated as one of the criminals of the
age.
Speaking of the killing of the Amer
iccans Rayner said:
IL Zelaya had the right to sentence
these men to death and execute them
In cold blood, then we must acknowl-
edge that right and recognize it before
the nations of the world. If he did not
have that right, no matter how petty
and insignificant he may be in the eyes
OF diplomacy or upon the sphere of the
worlds action; no matter how trivial
and unimportant a station his govern
ment may occupy, this government is
mis- accuser. and If he is guilty he must
be awarded the doom and fate that he
deserves, so that every tyrant on this
earth in every nationality under the
sun and in every government, large or
small, and especially these dictators in
several of these Central American
states, who have received every favor
and consideration at the hands of the
United States, and TO whom has been
extended the official hospitality of our
land and who in return therefor have
exhibited to us at, times the bitterest
hatred and visited upon our citizens the
most cruel indignities and outrages,
shall be told once and forever, that our
flag follows our citizens wherever thew
go. and that when assassinations like
this occur the malefactor must take
his place like any other culprit at the
bar of criminal justice and must an
swer for the deed with his liberty or
his life."
"Grotesque and Motley Leaders,"
II have watched for years the rev.
olutionary history of Central America,
and am familiar with the career Of a
great many of the importers and
usurpers and the grotesque and motley
leaders that have sprung from their
chaotic institutions, but zelaya is
probably the most despicable figure
that has ever risen in their midst. If he
were simply highwayman, we might
Identify him; If he was simply a ty-
rant 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 terri
tory that he could sack for private
plunder, we could assign him a proper
place in the ranks of some of his pre-
decessors, and if he was purely an as
sassin who regarded murder as a legit-
innate profession thru which he could
despoil his victims of their possessions
until the time came for him to flee
from the hands of retributive justice,
it would be an easy task also for ANY,
one acquainted with the political his
tory of Nicaragua to classify him.
ZeIaya All That is Evil.
HE is, however, aiii CO these things
combined. In the school of corruption,
dishonor, perfidy and crime he stands
without a peer. and exhibits in one
glow of associated harmony the pride
of every model and the perfection Of
every master. have been informed
upon the most reliable authority that
the vices of his private life are more
Infamous in their descriable details
than the iniquities of his public career.
Such creature as this deserves the
execration of mankind. Now as the
eliminating infamy of his administra-
tion, trampling upon every instinct of
humanity in violation of universal law,
in defiance of those precepts of the in
ternational code that have been recog-
nized ever since the night Of barbar-
ism receded before the rays Of civiliza-
ton, 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
as prisoners of war in the army of the
revolutionists. This act was not only
the act Of a fend, but was an insult to
remain unavenged"
Not Declaration Of War.
The resolution which he offered was
not a declaration of war, said Senator
Rayner. The guilt for what he charac-
terized as "a great crime against the
rights of American citizenship" did not
rest upon the people Of Nicaragua, he
said, but upon the dictator of Nicara-
gua." The resolution was directed
against President Zelaya individually.
He desired that his resolution be con-
sidered as a separate proposition from
any action that might be taken with
reference to the state Of government
existing in Nicaragua.
zEuAYA's IRON HAND.