Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-02

Oh COflntO, NlCdTaSuAs March 31, 1912 If former President of Nicaragu; ! Zelaya is following the diplomatic tril of Secretary Knox, he may be inter ested to know that the author of tho now famous Knox note to Zelaya, which finally broke the latter's powel and made him an exile. occupied il
 Managua the presidential palace-th,
 first tenant of that imposing exam
 pie of Moorish architecture since i
 was hurriedly vacated by the Libera President Madriz, Estrada and Diai
 during their brief tenures of the pres
 idency, contented themselves with
 more humble quarters. but the palace
 was restored to something like its old
 time grandeur in honor of the Amer
 ican guest.
 More pleasant news for Zelaya will
 be that he still has a following iu
 Nicaragua who did their best to make
 the visit an occasion for anti-Ameri- can demonstrations. However, in this
 they failed utterly.
 Mir Knox found himself projected
 into a bitter political fight or. more
 properly. two fights. The liberals
 who were shorn of power by the Es-
 trada revolution, have never forgiven
 the United States for the influence it
 eXerted at that time Some in the
 party flooded the country with in ilammatory leaflets attacking the
 United States government and Mir. Knox and the Liberal papers in Mana qua waged bitter campaign against the visit up to the day preceding the arrival of Mir. Knox, when most of their editors were put in jail. where they remained uptil the secretary of state had left the city General Ro- dOlfo Espinosa, perhaps the biggest man among the Liberals, now an eN- ile in Costa Rica, called upon the secretary of state during the latter's stay at san Jose and besought him to use lis influence to prevent the per secution of Liberals by the Consery- atiyes in Nicaragua. Of course the secretary of state could not meddle in the afair, but he would have been bet ter pleased if the Conservatives had used less strenuous means to protect him from insult.
 As a matter of fact, when the agita- ton was closely analysed it appeared that the feeling was less anti-Ameri- can than achievement, and many Liberals called upon the secretary Of state in Managua, disavOwed the in fiammatory utterances and insisted that their grievance was against the Conservatives, who, they declared, had failed to fulfill their promises for reform. Many denied that they wish eJ Zelayaism restored It also seem cd plain that the out.and-out anti Americanism was confined chiefly to the uniformed. who in their iguor- ance of the real policy of the United States had been easily made to be- lieye that the visit Of the secretary of state was the forerunner of American occupation. This belief has been found among the less informed in other countries visited.
 The trains carrying the Knox party from Corinto to Manaeua suggested an armed invasion. First there was a pilot train consisting Of locomotive and one car. The car carried fifty soldiers and from the rear door a Colt automatic gun with capacity of two hundred and fifty shots a minute was trained upon the special of five cars immediately following. The po- sition of the weapon aroused mixed feelings among the cOuntry's guests, but fortunately a freight car filled with musicians, and two coaches oc- CuPied by Nicaraguan escorts inter- Neued between the artillery and the presidential coach set aside for the Knox family Closely following the special was a third train of three cars carrying a hundred soldiers and an other machine gun. At every station soldiers lined the track on either side. All the soldiers were fully armed and were in light marching order. The cartridge belts were fixed on the auto mates ready for instant Use.
 All this precautiOn was not as re- assuring as it was intended to be- but as the trip progressed and nothing unpleasant happened the Americans became accustomed to the military display and rather enjoyed the ride of ninety miles. though it occupied six hours. The train passed through a magnificent fertile country, where neglected land can be purchased at six dollars gold an acre.
 At Ameya, Chinamdega Chichigalpa and Posoltega, small groups gathered at the stations. waved their hats and shouted "Saluate Chammora, This is the General ChammOra who figured