Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-06
COL. ROOSEVELT
SEIZED PANAMA.
IS DIRECT CHARGE
The World Prints Documents 20
Back Accusation Against
Former President.

fed by a series of documents, intends
to show that President Roosevelt wa
directly responsible for the taking O
Panama from Colombia. It gives
history of events connected with tn
revolution of 1908, the visit of Ameri
can warships to Panama waters an,
the final independence of the republi
of Panama Among the charges mad
are
That the revolution in Panama wa
fomented by the American Govern
nlent, through President Roosevelt.
That it was for the financial and pc
litical gain of few favored ones.
That American capital and the Pan.
anna Railroad Company assisted the
revolutionists and bribed Colombian
soldiers to desert their government.
| That an American officer actually
unfurled the flag of the revolution.
That but a small portion of the in
habitants of Panama knew of the
revolution, conceived and planned il
New York, until the arrival of Ameri-
can gunboats to protect the Pana
manians from Colombian soldiers, de-
+, spite Rooseyelt's statement that
Panama rose as one man"
That President Roosevelt ordered
the invasion of Panama by American
marines and soldiers.
That the seizure of the Isthmus was
at the time the Colombian Govern
ment was about to send representa-
tives to Washington for negotiations
on the purchase of the canal site.
Quote Secret Files.
1t is stated that secret files of the
war department bear out the charge
that the department was fully aware
of plans of the revolution and acted
accordingly in issuing orders to war.
ships. President Roosevelt, 1t is
stated, ordered American warships &c
enter Panama waters and prevent at
tack by Colombian soldiers on the rev.
olutionists. He is charged with hav-
ing entered the conspiracy with Doc
tor Amador for taking Panama. The
worlds story in part is:
president Roosevelt's answer to
the overtures of Colombia for the sale
of the Panama site was Characteristic
The very same day, October 10, 1903,
he ordered the navy department ia
hold warships within striking dis
lance of the Isthmus of Panama on
both the Atlantic and Pacific sides.
A month previously he had received
from military spies who had just
come up from Panama information
gathered with a view TO the seizure
of the isthmus, even to the best posi-
tions for artillery to command the
cities of Panama and Colon and 10
the number of mules that might be
procured in far interior villages. Pres
ident Roosevelt had also detailed Cap
tain Sidney A Cloman and Captain
William G.. Ham to the military in
formation division of the general
staff. Later these two officers
went to the isthmus as spies. Captain
Cloman passed as lumberman under
the name of Mr.. Otis and Captain
Ham as Mr.. Howard, posed as min
ing engineer.
The Revolutionary Committee"
ION october 30, 1908, the day fol-
lowing issuance of Mr.. Roosevelt's
order to the navy department, DR..
Manuel Amador, staff physician Of
the Panama railroad, left New York
for Panama. He had been sent to the
United States to obtain the support
of the American government toward
an independence movement by what
since has been known as the 'Revo-
lutionary Committee He had brought
with him a cable code containing
cyphers for the names of William
Nelson Cromwell and Secretary of
State Hay to communicate with his
friends in Panama. The revolutionary
committee was composed of DR.. ANA
dor himself, Jose Augustin Arrange,
land agent of the Panama railroad;
Carlos Constantine Arosemena, Ricar-
do Arias. Nicanor de Obarrio, Freder-
leo Boyd, Thomas Arias, the brother
of Ricardo and the representative in
Panama of Charles r. Flint's Ameri-
car Trading and Development Com
pany, and Manuel Espinosa B.,
brother-in-law of Amador.
AT the first conference of the revo-
lutionary committee Amador said he
had handed Bunau-Varilla a note in
dicating what assistance Panama
would need in order to secure her in
dependence and that Bunau-Varilla
finally promised to place 100000 at
the disposal of the revolution as soon
as the movement was made, on con-
dition that he should be Panama s
diplomatic representative In Wash
ington. Amador then outlined to his
fellow conspirators the plan agreed
upon between Bunau-Varilla and the
authorities in Washington, which was
to declare Independent only the Canal
zone and the cities of Panama and
Colon, and that United States war
ships and marines would be both at
Colon and Panama to pryent the
Colombian forces from attacking the
Panamanians, and that az soon as the
government could be formed the
United States would recognize the in
dependence of Panama, which was
to take its place among the nations
of the world as the Republic of the
Isthmus.' Finally Amador showed a
draft of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, which had been prepared in
New York, and cable code to enable
the conspirators to communicate with
-Varilla through Joshua Lindo
of Piza Nephews & Co., Is Broadway
New York. Amador then unwound
from round his body the flag of the
new republic which had been made
by Mrs. Bunau-V arilla.
Large Force Sent to Panama.
at was at this time when the
United States was at peace with
Colombia and before the United
States had any treaty with the fake
republic of Panama, President Roose-
welt, without any authority from
Congress, sent a large force of Amer.
Jean marines and sailors with artil-
lery into the continent of South
America He did not merely occupy
the Isthmus or land troops to pro-
tect the Panama Railroad, but he in
vaded the continent of South Amer.
| lea, sending a force as far al
Yavissa and Real de Santa Maria.
"On December IL, President Roose
welt gave orders to Secretary of tn,
Navy Moody to establish strong
posts inland.
Movements on the Isthmus follow
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