The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-08-12
CENTRAL AMERICA JUNTA
RENOLTTIONISTS OF SOUTH AN.
ERICA MAINTAIN HEAD
QUARTERS IN CAPITAL.
To the TiHkle of Cracked lee i'm Glass
eg the EXiles Discuss the
Affairs of the Little
Republics.
United tress SPECIAL

Washington, August 12.-Now that
the summer season is OF in Washing
ton and most Of the members of the
diplomatic corps have fitted away to
the cooling breezes of the north shore
or khe mountains, the attention Of the
public can be centered without dis
traction upon the Central American
junta which maintains itself at the
cafe of the Arlington hotel.
The gathering of eXiled Central
American revolutionists in New Or
leans could hardly be more pictures
que or more imaginative than the few
midsummer diplomats who gather at
these headquarters and, to the tinkle
tinkle of cracked ice in the long
glasses, discuss the affairs of the five
republics, those events which have
come to pass and those which will
come to pass, and, for the most part,
those which have not nor ever will
come to pass. For this little left be-
hind fragment of Washington's diplo-
matte coteIie is nothing if not mag
NATIVE
The midsummer sun beats down
hot on tae striped awnings and the
pavements without bake in the heat.
Under such circumstances the whir
of the electric fan and the tinkle of
the cracked ice encourage meander-
ing thoughts, which percolate through
the drowsy atmosphere until whiff
from the hot street explodes them like
toy balloons. What revolutions are
not stamped out what diplomatic
coups are not dealt under the lam
gurous influence of those electric
fans and the seductive tinkl'ng of the
tall glasses,
A thousand times is the United
States, as friend or foe, crushed I'M
der foot or exalted to the skies. A
thousand times does the valor of the
great generals of the South American
republics gain bloodlegs victories. A
thousand times is the diplomacy OF
Secretary Knox torn to tatters by
clever strokes, all until one emerges
from the cool depths under cover OF
the striped awnings to realize that
the world is very matter of fact and
very commonplace again.
But, such as it is, the junta serves
it's purposes. Many correspondent
hard put to it to find substance fol-
his copy, seizes upon the meanderins
thought and makes column of 1t for
the delectation of the great American
people. A hundred times In the sum-
mer months is the tide of affairs turn
ed in Central America in some fash
ion or other in that darkened room
only to be turned back again by the
announcement from the state depart
ment that things are just as they
have been. One day all is for Madriz
another 1t is for Estrada. The nex'
whoop La Zelaya is coming back tc
stir up trouble or ship has slipped
away from Hampton Roads to blow
Managua into the sea.
What junta gossip fails to brine
forth is supplied by rumors from
New Orleans or Mobile--long since
called the banana route by the news
gatherers. In the past the banana
route has occupied first place. but
that has reached its zenith. The col
ony of revolutionary exiles in New
Orleans have done much to enliveI
the slow hours. Hardly fruit boa
comes in but some ragged figure runs