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Show WILL RECOGNIZE ESTRADA. The dispatches sav that the United Slates Gov eminent will recognize Estrada Es-trada as tho ruler of Nicaragua. It could not be otherwise. The United States has in fact made Estrada ruler of Nicaragua, and it can hardly fail to recognize him as such. Our Secretary of State, Mr. Knox, de-cidod de-cidod the Nicaraguan contest when he gave his harsh, not to say abusive, ultimatum ul-timatum to the Nicaraguan Minister and figuratively kicked him out of Washington. Tho sympathy and oven practical support of the United States has been extended to Estrada right along in his contest. It was a Unitod States gunboat that in the harbor declared de-clared that thcro should be no bonv: bardment of Bluofields. It was the United States that kept hectoring tho Nicaraguan Government, whether under Zclaya or Madriz, with respect to what it must do with its prisoners. It has never, however, interposed anj objections objec-tions to whatever Estrada has done The sympathies of our Government and all of its acts have been for Estrada, and against tho regular government of Nicaragua from first to last; and now upon his success it was inevitable that our Government would recognize his supremacy and tho government which ho forms. |