Show DICTATOR CASTRO SUFFERS S BEFEAT i VicePrcsident Gomez Takes Advantage Ad-vantage of Absence of Chief to Cause His Downfall CI stro IB I Charged With Complicity In Attempted Assassination and Impeachment Proceedings Are Proposed to Legally Settle His Retirement Caracas Venezuela The downfall oj President Castro In Venezuela has been completed with the frustration of n desperate plot to assassinate Cot jinn Vlncente Gomez the acting jrosldont A prominent lawyer has filed accu JA r tlons In court charging Castro with II complicity in the attempted assassl nptlon and proposing his Impeach irtont f There was a meeting Friday night of the plotters at the residence In Caracas of Garhlcras Guzman secretary secre-tary general In the last Castro cabl ilcl and who was placed In charge of Castros personal business In Venezuela Ven-ezuela when the president left for Germany The conspirators decided upon a coup detat They determined to assassinate as-sassinate acting President Gomez i Joso do Jesus Paul tho foreign minister min-ister General Leopoldo Hapllstn and ether prominent men seize the administration ad-ministration of the country and with the army terrorize and overawe the population Gomez Is said to have discovered the plot and acting boldly and quickly quick-ly I succeeded In arresting the prime movers and averted an outbreak As soon as the news of the sensational sensa-tional occurrences became known nn immense crowd gathered in the Plaza Bolivar and gave unmistakable evidence evi-dence of Its satisfaction with the turn affairs had taken There Is to bo a general reorganization reorgani-zation of the government The fall of President Castro leaves no obstacle in the way of settling tho various International In-ternational questions confronting the republic Jose do Jesus Paul the former minister min-ister of foreign affairs who played a prominent part In all Venezuelas foreIgn for-eign relations for the last six months has been commanded to go to Europe to settle all outstanding disputes with foreign powers CIpriano Castro Is a man of humble origin His father was a stock raiser Jn the Andes near tho Colombian border bor-der Ho Is swarthy of complexion slight In stature of wiry strength and has a piercing black eye Ho shows his Indian extraction Like most Venezuelan presidents Castro went into office at the head ot a successful success-ful revolution He drove out Presi cent Andrado and entered Caracas October 21 1899 He has shown remarkable courage determination pcrsoverence and skill in conducting Venezuela through nine years of stormy life He has had to contend with powerful revolutionary movements at home and at times with the combined action against him of Germany Great Britain Franco and Italy This occurred In 1902 and was for the purpose of making Venezuela Vene-zuela fulfill Its obligations to tho said rowers Castros quarrels with the powers have resulted in the severance of diplomatic relations between Venezuela Vene-zuela and Holland France tho United Unit-ed States Colombia etc and as long as Castro was In power there was Apparently little hope of reaching any settlement of these various misunderstandings misun-derstandings |