The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-12-08
Educated in Spain and has Undying
Hatred for AmcriCans--Regard
Himself as Modern Napoleon.

Whether the United States or enc
mics of his own blood be first to over
throw him, certain it is that Jose San
tos Zelaya will be known to the world
as the man without a conscience.
A fratriride, wading through blood
to accomplish the ends of his per-
verted ambition, Zelaya long has been
a synonym for terror in revolt-ridden
Nicaragua, where now the revolution
list army seems at last to have ac-
complished the tyrants overthrow.
Zelaya is an opportunist, a sensual
lst, thug.
And at the same time he possesses
the faculty for leading men that has
made him supreme for years In the
fever-plagued, tropical. peppery little
republic.
What He Looks Like.
Zelaya is dark, swarthy though of
unmxed blood. A man whose blood
is unmxed is marked in Nicaragua,
because most Of the people there who
are not wholly Indians-and these in
clude the common classes-are half
breeds, octoroons. negritos and Euro
pean adventures. Zelaya's father
was a rich coffee planter. He himself
was educated in Spain and grew up
as a youth to hate Americans. When
he returned to the land he was to rule
he brought this hate with him and al
so nature free from control and
coupled with vanity.
On state occasions, before his ac-
GOVERNMENTS were spattered with
swamp mud in his fight from Man
aqua, Zeaya used to smear his face
with rice powder to make him look
real "blanco" of unmixed blood.
When election day would come
around. the event was a farce. The
standing army of Nicaragua was
marched up and voted for Zelaya.
Then the government got the army
drunk.
Consequently, by zelaya's orders
there were more opportunities to
Join the army before the election
md afterward. if the army ven
tured to beat up a few Americans, or
burn an American warehouse or two.
nobody cared, least of all Zelaya.
Blnffcd U. S. Once.
The United States government was
once awed by Zelaya-he thought,
and he dreamed great dreams of be-
coming a Napoleon of the tropics, be-
reft Of conscience as he was.
Then the elections became more
corrupt, the army was strengthened
for voting purposes and made more
intoxicated also for voting purposes.
And meanwhile the people of Mica
ragua stood for all those things.
zelaya, man without conscience. still
held aloof from tampering with the
Catholic religion of his country,
AS an opportunist Zelaya first shoRe.
He studied government In France.
Belgium, London and New York. He
married a beautiful woman. and all
the country soon sympathized with
Nine. Zelaya.
AS sensualist, there was no out
age against his countrys womanhood
hat he stopped at.
Tortured Young Girls.
The parents OF young girls whom
he had his troops lock up in his pal
ace have gone to Zelayas torture
chambers in great numbers. Some
have never come back.
As an autocrat Zelaya carried out
to the end anything cruel or unjust
vat he fancied. He has had only one
minister in his cabinet. and this man
merely was a professional fiatterer.
r anyone brought bad news to the
palace he was likely to be kicked
Town the front steps by Zelaya him
self. or to be beaten by bodyguards.
Consequently, Zelaya, the autocrat,
Iemmed In on all sides by his foes.
vas ignorant of the volcano under
rim until it was In a high state Of
-uptlon. ..a.
Is First Glass Thug. 81
AS thug Zelaya stands first class
mong all the Central American
hugs who have moufted shaky
residential seats. FL seized the
,roperty of others. ESPECIALLY Ameri
ans He hated all griA goes, as the
'oreigner is called in tle unhealthy,
| noisome land.