The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-29
ND MO[LYCODDLES
 FOR NICARAGUA
Insurgents Recruiting Army
 at New Orleans
TRAINED MEN SECURED
e.e,eraI Gordou Is Going After Men to Aid the ReyoIufionists in Their Fight Against Pres-
 ident Madriz

New Orleans, March 28.-That the re- endorsements which the insurgent rep resentatives at New Orleans now plan to send to Nicara qua will be made on a much more extensive scale than had been generally understood became evil dent here tonight when Gen. Victor D. B. Gordon expressed desire Tor American sympathy in the movement against the Madriz government. It Is apparent that the revolutionists not only firmly believe that they can hold out for some time what they may now call their own but that they also look forward with confidence to ultimate success in reaching Managua and over throwing Madriz.
 They now laugh at the assertion made several weeks ago that the revo- lution had been crushed. General Cor don, who has been the active head of the insurgent colony here, talked in characteristic way tonight in discussing some of his plans.
 "Our next consignment of men will be an all star cast" said Gordon, "ard when they reach Nicaragua we expect to throw a firing line of half thous- and or more red blooded Anglo-saxons out in the fled. l understand we have
 been credited with calling on employ
 ment agents for the men we Intend
 to send from New Orleans. That's all tommyrot. We would get million
 buns if we wanted them. but they are just the kind we are avoiding. Buns eat a lot but they don't fight. It would be hard to find a more cosmopolitan crowd than that which we have all ready enlisted. They are all genuine fighting men, men who have been un-
 der fire and men who have made good.
 They are physically able to stand all the hardships which they must endure. We haven't any places for what Colonel Roosevelt calls mollycoddles.
 Tn this consignment will be old h. dian fighters, soldiers who saw some real fighting in the Spanish American war, men who fought in South Africa, and even some members formerly con- nected with the northwest mounted police. They are men who love to fight and among them are numb CT of Americans who have the murders of Groce and Cannon in their minds If this is lost, good-by to any rights or respect which Americans may claim in country" said General Gordon.
 I'm no psalm singer continued Gordon, but this Is righteous war If there ever was one. Those familiar with conditions in Nicaragua when Zo- laya was President know they were horrible. The first stroke dethorned Zelaya but there was still work left to be done. This Is the task that we have before us now"
 Carlos Chamorro, one of the numer- | n1yQ 7. m htrg n that fa n1ilV who b0 been identified with the revolution, ar rived here today on the steamer Aban- garez from Lima. He and other pas- sengers brought reports that revolu- tionists in Honduras had overthrown
 President Davila, but these lacked con- flrmation. General Gordon said he at tached little importance to the reports one way or the other. He said that 1t was 8 well known fact that Davila was made President of Honduras by Ze- laya and that the people of the coun- try stood ready to overthrow him when ever the right time arrived.
 He said this was not far of.