The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-03-07
CASTRO OFF SOON
FOR The CANARIES
other Depressing News From
headquarters Of the
RcvolutiOniStS.
But GOMEZ WILL. QUIT
Nnd Then There May Be or
May Not Be All Sorts Of
Revolutions i'm Venezuela.

tCN tipriano Castro Is going 10 Inc
Canary Islands within few days. This
was promised yesterday by onc of the
representatives of the former dictator.
who is now at the Savoy. on the re-
Ceipt of this information news repre-
scn,atives OF the junta reporters went
ont in front of the statue OF Gen. Sher-
man in the plaza ut ring low means
As II this were not enough to darken
one bright. sunny afternoon. word was
also received that Juan Estrada, one
Of the twenty-sevcn living ex-Presi-
dents of Nicaragua. was not in the city
at all. as was reported. but was some
where between Costa Rica and the
nearest ocean.
To lose Castro and Estrada at one fell
blow was entirely too much. There
then is forthcoming the material for
that shivery tale OF consplrators sitting
all over Pearl street cafes in the light
of one sputtering candle, slipping alb
sinthe and ordering arms and men 10
meet them at half past in the
morning Mt West Scventy-tl,ird street
and Fscoia avenue.
Where? you ask. Simple enough for
regular junta man. Drop into the
nearest cafe of the South Americans.
lend an intelligent ear to the conver-
saton OF that mustached group In the
corner and take notes.
This. then, IL the very latest bulletin
from the revolutionists Some time this
month President Gomez OF Venezuela
viii abdicate But why will he abdi-
cate? How impatient you are! That is
Just the point. There is q new law in
Venezuela that no one can be President
more than once In succession. In view
of the one cup OF coffee at a time rule
Gomez viii resign and put In his
hrother-in-law or his cousin or some
one in the family. Then when the
elections come next September Gomez
will go out into the prado and say to
those who have not been shot: Behold
me! l am eligible for election since /
have not served one whole term" If
the plan works out all the anti Go
mezers will have the privilege of run
ming two feet away before they are
shot in the back by the Federal army.
Gen. Gomez will be elected by popular
acclaim ana tnere VIII De more labor
for the local undertakers,
But halt one must not overlook
Gen Jose Manuel Hernandez Of the
Hotel Empire and Venezuela Gen.
Hernandez announced the other day
that no matter what happened he
would start revolution IL Gomez
started anything. Just let Gomez so
much as make a mean look at some one
and Gen. Hernandez will go down there
at the head OF band (brass and
trusty). and call him out OF his name.
SO that Gomez might as we'll know now
FIRST as last that that abdication act will
not get across.
But in the meantime Gen. Hernandez
SAYS that he will have nothing 70 do
with Gen. Castro sbould tho donosed
dictator get IN a revolution of his own
II seams ,ha, u.hiIa ,bo ,,vo nv. nor-
fec,lv Friendly and all ,ha, sort op thing
and are both "arin tho rovernmen,"
one is n Tory and the other a whip or
whatever they are down there and thev
could never. never pot toyether IN n
revolution Furthermore II seems tba,
~ Castro attamnts IN Iand IN Nioarar,,,
or Colombia he cam, hacausa rhs.o