The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-30
GONZALEZ SENDS
APPEAL To j. s.
INTERVENTION IN
COSTA RIGA ASKED
Deposed President a Refugee
in United States Legation
-Bloodless Revolution.
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.-Alfredo
| Gonzalez. deDosed president of Costa
Rica, has sent an appeal to the United
States government for Intervention.
| He Is a refugee now In the American
I; legation at San Jose, where his former
minister Of war, Federico Tinoco, has
/ installed himself as provisional prest-
Ident following a revolution that was
brought to a triumphal conclusion
twelve hours after 1t was begun with
out bloodshed.
Word that the ex-president had sub
mitted his appeal TO the American min
lister was received here in a private
! message and late tonight the state de-
| partment had not been advised Off.
cially Of the development.
Official and unofficial reports OF the
overthrow Of the Gonzalez admlnistra-
tion, while throwing virtually no light
on the causes, afford little ground for
the belief that the United States will
! interfere. The revolutionists killed.
no one, and according to reports re-
, ceived by representatives Of interests
in that country, and the developments,
was the culminiauon Of popular de-
mand. State department advices to-
day said the capital and countryside
were quiet and that business, official
! much the same routine as it had be-
fore the coup d'etat was made.
IL disorders follow, and II there Is
reported any danger to foreigners a
warship will be sent to Costa Rican
waters.
President Gonzalez and Manuel Cas-
! tro QueZada, Costa Rican minister to
Washington, who was home on leave
Of absence, were granted asylum in
the American legation without ques-
tion when the appeared for protection
short time after General Tinoco pro-
claimed to the populace that the presi-
made himself the provisional execu-
tive.
Delay Explained.
The delay Of Minister Hale In rl-
porting the incident to the state de-
partment was occasioned by refusal
of the new authorities to permit him
to use the cable for the transmission
of his dispatches until complete order
{ had been established General Tin
oco's control Of the army and his per-
sonal standing with other men high in
the government affairs apparently on
abled him to accomplish the overthrow
Of President Gonzalez without opposi-
ton. For a short time railroads out
| OF Sam Jose were not permitted 10
operate but before Sunday night they
lwere running as usual.
| Great surprise was caused at the
state department by the revolt. For
almost forty years Costa RiCa has
been without a revolution and has
been set forward as a model Latin
American government. Gonzalez en-
tered the presidency in 1914 as The
choice of the chamber Of deputies, the
presidential election that year having
failed to result in a definite choice.
During his administration the rela-
tions Of the United States and Costa
Rica have been somewhat embarrass-
Ing. particularly because Of the con-
troversy that arose over the question
of the right Of Nicaragua to enter into
treaty with the United States ceding
rights for the building of an inter
ocean canal without having consulted
Costa Rica. Costa Rica, through the
legislation here. has been appealing
| to the United States to induce Nicar-
aqua to abide by the decision of tho
Central American court Of justice.
which decided that Nicaragua was at
fault in having entered into the treaty
without the consent Of Costa 4,lca.