Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
HOOVER LEARNS
FROM NICARAGUA
Listens Quietly and Finds
America Has Friend in
Tropic Republic.
BY REX COLLIER.

stan Correspondent of The star.
Eote-Gredter LIGHT and clearer
perspective on Herbert Hoouer'S trip
10 South America in mich untold
diplomatic advantages Dere recorded
for the United States. are to be
gained from the interesting story
rritten by Rer Collier, The Stars
oUn representative on the trip,
iChich began January 20. The story
T'th all its intimate details. utH
continue in The Star until completed.
XIV.
Presidcnt-elect Hoover had said the
object of the goodwill tour was to
listen and learn"
He had found Nicaragua a most ex-
cellent place in which to do ones listen
ing and learning. Just what his re-
actions had been as a result of the
knowledge he had gained was matter
for conjecture. He kept counsel with
himself.
Other members of the goodwill party,
left Nicaragua with number Of quite
definite impressions fixed in their
minds The impressions necessarily
were spontaneous ones. possible of re-
vision upon more deliberate inquiry;
but since they became the principal
topic OF conversation during the jump
10 Costa Rica. they are given for what
Gney are worth.
SANDING Finds No Aid.
PIrst. it was apparent that the tend
ency to set up SANDING as martyr
OF liberalism in Latin America was
meeting with no sympathy among the
leading Liberals of his own country,
Chose hero he aSpired to be.
Second. the furore over American in
Prevention must have originated else
where than in the country directly
concerned.
Third, the Conservatives and the Lib
erals in Nicaragua were not separated
so much by differences of political
opinion as by barriers Of pride and
tradition.
Fourth, Nicaragua was eager to CO.
operate in the construction by the
United States of an interOceanic canal
through its territory.
The responsible officials of both
parties in Nicaragua with whom the
Americans talked were in complete
agreement in the estimate that Gen.
SANDING, by his unreasonable" actions,
had placed himself in the outlaw class.
He represented no accredited political
clique. outside of the small group of
supporters he had gathered about him.
Recalls Walker Filibuster.
The Liberals, with whose party San
6ino formerly was affiliated, explained
that while the bandit leader may have
been inspired by high motives at the
outset of his political career, he had
become nothing more than fllibuster
Of the type made famous in Central
America by that picturesque adven-
turer, william Walker. of Nashville,
Tenn. Walker, 1t will be recalled, was
the audacious soldier of fortune who,
three quarters of a century ago. de-
scended on Nicaragua with band of
So armed Yankees" and started the
revolutionary vogue in the young re-
public Before his bloody forays ended
before a firing squad In Honduras he
had succeeded in proclaiming himself
President Of Nicaragua. The COMPARE
son between SANDING and Walker ap-
plies only to their military operations.
To the Conservatives SANDING was a
dangerous enemy Of society, whose
crimes warranted his consignment to
fate no better than that melted out to
the American filibuster.
AS for Nicaragua's attitude toward
American Intervention, the outright in
dorsement of Uncle Sans Intervention
policies by the leaders Of the opposing
parties, substantiated by views of other
Nicaraguans-imp and unimpor-
tant-seemed to indicate that Nicara-
qua, far from resenting invasion, would
be prompt to oppose withdrawal of the
Marines.
Want Marine Protection.
TAKE your Marines out of our coun-
nv and our people again would be
plunged into civil warfare" one of
the Nicaraguans declared Conditions