The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
By Washington Bureau. United Press
 Associations.)

l 1 (By Washington Bureau. United Press Associations)
 | Washington, May 2S. = Whatever l charges. of inactivity may be laid at the doors of the leaders of the two fac l tions which have been Struggling,-or l supposed to have been struggling,-for :; the control of Nicaragua, the same cannot be said for their agents in the 1 United States. Some time ago dis | patches to the State Department con | forces of Madriz were within twenty | miles of Bluefields. the citadel of the | revolutionists under Estrada. A bloody battle was expected at any moment. l Twelve days later the news was flash I ed over the wire from Consul Moffatt | that the Madriz army was within ten | miles of Bluefields and a battle was expected any moment. It took twelve days to advance ten miles,-al very | good rate of progress. it seems, in | Central American revolutionary war fare.
 But while the two armies, so-called. | were dashing madIy into the fray the | two agents at Washington have been having campaign of their own which makes the warfare down there look | puerile by comparison. Dr. Salvador Castrillo. agent of the revolution. has | slain several armies invaded Mana qua and all but had the country in his back pocket. And Senor Don Luis Corea, likewise. not to be outdone, has all but crushed the remnant of revo- | lutionary forces so many times that | it is wonder they have the courage l to stay in the fighting game. So many have been wounded and slain" 1 that Nicaragua, according to their re- | ports, must be one vast battlefield of wounded and dying.
 Heretofore the campaign has been | conducted in some such fashion as | this: Dr. Salvador Castrillo. flashing | several sheets of telegraph paper in | vades the State Department with the i momentous news that General Mena, commanding the army of advance. has | met the Madriz army and routed it | completely opening the way to Mana ! qua, the Nicaraguan capital. Num- | bers have been slain and those who 1 have not have deserted with glad cries of joy and run over Nto the insurgent | side to fight against the tyrant in whose army they have been forced to serve. It seems that it will only be | a day or two before Managua is taken | dential mansion.
 Scarcely have Dr. Castrillo's foot steps died away when Don Luis Corea appears on the scene. He is smiling | triumphantly. The revolutionists have been demoralized, their army has been
 shattered. So many of them have been killed that it is impossible to | count them. Madriz is merely wait | ing to march on Bluefields and sweep
 the revolution into the Atlantic,-if it | does not succeed in eluding capture 1 by hiding on fruit boat If MT. | Knox will kindly recognize pr. Madriz | as president of Nicaragua he will save all this muss and bloodshed and do the poor unfortunate revolutionists a real flavor. They are only boys, anyway, | %hnvv cho o111C hr hs,0 0lr ;r, o>1 | learning their lessons instead of being
 forced to bolster up the pretenses of
 a mountebank of a revolutionist. | A day or so late Consul Moffatt at
 Bluefields or Consul Olivares at Mana | qua will probably send in brief dis l patch saying that there was a mixup 1 between a part of revolutionists and
 several of Madriz's soldiers. One man
 was severely hurt by being hit over the
 head with bottle.
 | And this is not all these two active
 representatives of unrecognized but aspiring governments of the same un- | fortunate country have to do While
 in the midst of a most arduous cam paign they are like as not to be rudely | interrupted by a message from New Orleans saying that the other side is preparing to send down a ship loaded
 with ammunition and American sol- | diers of fortune and for heavens sake
 to stop it. Therefore. either Dr. l
 be hurries to New Orleans and clam ors to the district attorney to stop I this open violation of the neutrality laws of the United States. The revo- | lutionists did not succeed in getting. | away with their expedition The | MadriZ people were more successful. | They managed to get the Venus out of | New Orleans.
 ! Despite all the horrible warning that
 seems to be going on the report that
 a batch of American soldiers of for
 tune,-theY are mostly tramps in real | ity,-are to sail for the scenes of hos | tility seems to create more fear than a whole native army. It has been
 openly charged by the generals that 1 the Americans, once in the conflict, l do not observe the South American i etiquette of fighting at all In one | case a general-perhaps a general l issimO,-hoisted a flag of truce to 1 lodge a protest with the enemy that some Americans were killing his men. | In another case an entire army balk- cd at going into action until 1t could be exactly determined in what posi-
 tion three Americans who happened to | be in the ranks of the opposing army, were. After much delay the informa- | tion was secured whereat the army dashed gallantly to the attack at right l angles from the Americans
 | By actual analysis of a Nicara guam | army. in the present hostilities if it
 numbers 800 men. is composed of usu- | ally about six generals, twen.y-four
 men with rifles that shoot around the
 corners. and the rest small boys arm
 ed with an odd assortment of knives l and machetes. When a campaien fails it is usually because of sore