Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-27
SEEKS AID FROM US.
IN HONDURAS ELECTION
Maxine Burro Rosales Coming to
Washington to Appear Before
State Department.
Hopes to Convince Officials Here He
Is Proper Person for Presi-
dency of His Country.

Agents of the Department of Justice
have been informed that Maxine Burro
Rosales. who has held various posts in
the cabinet of Honduras, is on his way
TO Washington, to appear before the
Department of State and endeav.r to
convince officials of the department
that he would be a suitable person for
the presidency of that country. in the
hope of enlisting State Department aid
At the division of Latin American af
fairs it was said today that nothing is
known of the reported impending visit
of Mr.. Rosales. who was characterized
by Boaz w. Long. chief of the division,
as a general in the Honduran army. Mr..
Long said his only information on the
subject of the reported impending visit
had come from newspaper men.
Mr.. Rosales is UNDERSTOOD to have
gathered the idea from unidentified
sources that the United States govern
ment is dissatisfied with the present
government of Honduras. although
nothing of the sort could be ascertain
ed at the State Department today.
Mr.. RosaleS has been a candidate for
the presidency of Honduras for the
past ten years. He has been at New
Orleans Tor some time, and agents of
the Department of Justice have been
investigating reports that he has es
milton there and at Mexican points on
the Caribbean sea, one days sail from
Honduras, for use in Il possible revolu
ton in Honduras.
Questions Fair Election.
The presidential election in Hon
duras is scheduled to take place next
month. Mr.. Rosales is understood to
claim that if a revolution is begun in
Honduras and the country is placed in
a state of turbulence that fair elections
cannot be held and that they will be
regarded as illegal if held under such
DR.. Alberto Membreno. former Hon
duras minister to Washington, is now
president of Honduras. He was the
first designate,' or vice president un-
der the Bertran administration, and
upon the latter's resignation in July
last he went home to become president
OF the republic by automatic operation
or law. DR.. Bertran has kept Honduras
at peace for four years, and his friends
in Honduras have been demanding that
he should stand for reelection. There
rs, however. constitutional provision
in Honduras that a president cannot be
again elected while holding the Office
he must have been out of office for at
least six months before being allowed
TO again accept the office or run for
election. So he resigned and DR.. Mem
VI siio mas peen serving as president
Ihe agents of the Department of JUS
ice are endeavoring to ascertain where
Mr.. Rosales got the idea that the pres
ent government of Honduras is unsat-
isfactory to the United States or that
the United States State Department
would countenance an attempt a revo-
luton or other interference in the in
ternal affairs of the republic The idea
mas created more amusement than any
thing else among government officials
VINO are familiar with President Will
sons policy of keeping hands off" in
Latin America.
That there is some intrigue afoot.
however, is believed by persons famii-
lar with Latin American affairs. This.
they say, VIII probably be developed
upon the arrival in Washington of Mr.