The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-06
PRE- ES|DENT 7
LEI 7 ON
FRIENDS
NOt One Member of CaStrO'S
Family Raised a Voice
in His Half.

Caracas, Saturday. Dec. 3G-Gen-
eral Castros power in Venezuela
crumbled IN day like house built
nained standing Even his own
brother. Celestine. after turning over
his guns and ammunition 10 the ap-
pointee of President Gomez, fed into
| Colombia Not one MEMBER OF Cas-.
tTo's family has raised up MS voice
| for him. for 1t was his custom 10 treat
them more or less as ne did the Tor
eign diplomats and his ministers.
Castro inspired fear II nothing else
in Venezuela
With his absence tho fear disap-
peared and the reaction against his
RUE, which began on Sunday the thir-
teenth, was consummateG on the fol-
lowing Saturday. II was not only the
most complete upheayal m the his
tory OF Venezuela, but the most popu-
lar and most bloodless one.
Not for a moment did General Co
moz and his friends imagine that they
could bow to the wishes of the masses
and save the nation from It's present
Industrial ruin. brought about by Cas-
tro's disastrous domestic enc roreign
policies.
There were dark clouds over the ho-
Tizon in the shape of several bar
racks In Caracas filled with soldiers
antagonistic to the new government.
led by clique Of Castro's followers.
With Governor Cardenas at their head.
This made il necessary for Dr. Jose
De Jesus Paulo, the foreign minister,
to go. on December II, TO the Bra
lillian, British and Italian ministers
md tell them It would be well to
cable for warships. as conditions
might arise at any moment that would
make It impossible for the govern
ment to protect the lives and the
property of foreigners. Each of these
ministers cabled their request to his
Goy ernment, but none responded ex-
cept the United States, anG It's ves-
sci. the Dolphin, arrlve- yust six days
after the danger was over and eleven
days after the cable was sent.
II on Saturday, the nineteenth, the
plot 10 assassinate Gomez nad been
successful. II minor telegraph en-
ploye had not rus. ed TO the presi-
dent with copy of the fatal message
from Berlin, which is said to have au-
thorized the conspirators TO take ex-
treme measures, th-n the triumph of
the Castro party would surely have
resulted In the pillage OF Caracas and
especially of the hated foreigners
There was not a warship In La
Guayra, as the Dutch vessels were
entirely beyond call.
The failure of the plot uDo the nat
uTal overthrow of the entire Castro
machine resulted in Cry OF tnanKs-
giving throughout Venezuela.
President Gomez has RISEN 10 the
occasion and not only are the foreign
disputes Of Castro being sertied, but
all the restrictions against trade and
the monopoly are being abolished.
The hundreds of political prisoners
have all been released and have been
returned to their destitute families.
Many Of these had been In dungeons
for eight and nine years without
trial Not only has the minister of
the interior, West Point graduate.
General F. l.. Alcantaro, by name.
called upon ell the Venezuelan eXpa-
triates to return to their ratnerland.
but President Gomez has written many
personal letters and cablegrams ure-
ing them to return and collaborate
with him in building 1t up again out
OF its ruins.