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Show mm Alio MIIICS MIX IN NICARAGUA -- Liberals Demand Separation, Separa-tion, bat Conservatives - Want a Union. FORMER ALSO ARE DEMANDING SUFFRAGE United Statts May Demand Fair Election, Whose Re-salts Re-salts Will Be Upheld. BT FBEDEBIO J. EASXJK. . MANAGUA, Nicaragua. While the incipaJ " difference " betweeulhalwt political parties ia Nicaragua u that 'aver present Latin-American lara of tba "ins" againat the "outs, there are noma really important governmental govern-mental priueiplea at take. The Con-aervativee Con-aervativee are the blue blood of Gra-ada Gra-ada and their adherenta. The Liberal, Lib-eral, are tba people of Leon and their follower. . From tim immemorial there haa been a bitter rivalry between thoae two eitiea, each of them amhitiou to dominate the politico of Nicaragua, and each in tare being able to do to. Managua, the capital, for yeara haa held, tbe balance of power, and aa the etate of New York for many yeara held the balance of power in prenden-. prenden-. tial election, in the United Btates, giving giv-ing hae to the laying "a, goes "New York, eo goas tbe union," in the eame way Managua ha largely determined the outcome in the politic and, war-faro war-faro of Nicaragua. The Conservative party alway ha boon the clerical party of Nicaragua. Aa a result it haa advocated the union of church and elate, and while una of it more progressive leader believe that thia la agaiaat the intereit of progrea. the party aa a whole Kill ad here to the doctrine. , Separate BeUglon and Politic. On the other hand tbe Liberal, following fol-lowing ' the examrjle of tbe United Stat, insist that religion and politic shall not be mixed and they are firmly aet against anything; which savora of such a union. Under th Liberal regime, covering the aeendency of Zelaya, there was a complete- divorcement of th two, but a oon as the Conservative came into power through the triumph of tbe revolution led by a Liberal aad backed bv th Conservatives, a constitution consti-tution was adopted providing for h reunion of the anarch and state. Another --issue between tbe two parties ia the question of suffrage. The i Liberal profess to believe thoroughly ia the principle of manhood suffrage, -. and stf enuusly oppose any restriction of thrballot. Of course, it must be remembered .that during the many years of Sclavs' ascendency, representing repre-senting the -Liberal party, there was no gsaater degree of enfranchisement of tne people than there is ander tbe ' Conservative regime. Tbay blame Zelaya. The Liberals, when this charge is made against them, admit the truth thereof, but declare that it waa Zelaya, Ze-laya, and not the party, which waa responsible re-sponsible for the denial to th people of the right of free government. No man could be more unpopular in hi own country than Zelaya is in Niea-. Niea-. ragua today. Even hi most intimat friends of the past now freely concede that the picture which the world has ot his brutality and tyranny is not overdrawn, and the Liberal party insist in-sist that th sine of hi administration were not those of the party, but of a ' tyrant who dominated his party aa well as hia country. They agree that his enforced retirement was a boon to the republic. It i aaid that during th early part , of Zeiava'a rogim be made a very de-rent de-rent sort of ruiesThst he was firm goes without saying, for ao man can rule long in Central America without a liberal use of the mailed fist, but be wa interested in the development of the ountry, and his interest and those of hi people were so interrelated - that to benefit himself be would also t benefit them. Olattoa for Graft. After a few years, however, it is said that eertaia' foreigner who ware .Mpon intimat term with Zelaya b 'gaa to show him how he eon Id make earn money for himself out of this project and that proposition. In this school h proved himself each aa apt! pupil that he soon was shaming his teacher, and became such a glutton for graft that tbe last years of his reign were indeed a nightmare to everybody. During these last -year, ao on ia Nicaragua was ure either of hia for- ' tune or hia life. If anyone happened to have property which Zelaya wanted he either gave it up or went to jail. If. in traveling about the country, he happened to sea any young woman who truck hia faacy she must com to Managua and become his mistress. If her people rebelled they were sent to tail until they beeaase reconciled to this condition. I The jef politico and other under strappers of the Zelaya meehin curried cur-ried favor with him by assisting him .-in all his nefarious scheme. Heeing their leader engaged in these things, .. . they themselves followed suit ia their own hhlf. aad th result wa such a widespread avstwa of depravity as to const i tat a blot a Latis America civilisation. . i Bop of Liheraia. Bine th abdication of the " mad dog of Centra America," 'a Zelaya has been called, tbe Liberals have realised that the only way for them to secure a restoration to public favor would be through decant conduct, aad whea their haaiened leader wer permitted to re-tor re-tor under a decree of amnesty, they all came back with tbe aanouaeed intention in-tention of lying low and hopiag that at th end of the proviaional guvern-ment guvern-ment anil the ruction cuder the new (Catuuastsd ea pag .) . w w " RELIGION AND POLITICS ff'nntinned from page ,1 constitution thev would be returned tu power. They aa'e professed to feel that they ar is th ma.iontv ia the republic and that they can win a rvo lution or carry an election whenever the contest is on even terms. The new American minister to ic rgua arrived hereiiust about af month after the, return of the hsnisifd Lib ersl leaders. These Liberal iVre per suaded that Minister Northcott would be fair with them, and hoped to see him and relate thir side of the que. tion to him before he was prejudiced against them by the Conservatives. -Bellev It Waa Accident. Th leader of the Liberal wa Dr. Rodolfo Espinosa. the most popular ptav sician in Managua and formerly Ze-lava's Ze-lava's minister to Washington. The verv dav of .the arrival of Minister Northrott parts of the barracks near the Niraraguan whit houae were blown up The Conservative insisted that this wss a Liberal plot aad proceeded to arrest and send into exile Ir. hs pinosa and a number of other Liberals. The Liberals in turn insisted that the explosion waa due to an accident and pointed to the fact that the soldiers had a habit of smoking around kegs of powder and other ammunition. After the explosion occurred it ws but nst aral that the Conservatives should attempt at-tempt to place the blame upon the Lib eral. inc thi would tend not only to discredit the Liberal leaders at home, but to place them In bad odor with the United 8tatea government. Th for eign- element ha generally believed that tbia explosion was an accident, and that if the Liberals had deliberately plotted their own ruin, the could not have planned it better than by aurh a ,courae. Zelaya Had" Two Burned. But th Conervtive hd distinguished distin-guished precedent for blaming it upon the Libeials. Borne years before the quartel, pr barracks, in the center of the city blew up. Nearly everybody felt that it wss an accident, knowing how careless all C entral American soldier sol-dier are with gunpowder, hut Zelsr insisted that it was the result of a da-liberate da-liberate plot, and had two leading Con-ervative Con-ervative hot on th spot. H ordered or-dered their bodies burned and refused toV allow th priest tq give tbem spiritual spir-itual comfort before death or to gather up their ashes afterward. Since the Conservative hav come into the power th priests frequently go to th scene and say mass for th repose of th souls of the victims. The spot js directly upon th lake front, where Managua goea for it evening airing, air-ing, and th bullet mark which were mad by the tiring squad ar atill via ible ia th wall. Moat Hav Fair Election. When the recant xploioa npon Ti cpa hill occurred it waa again eharged to the Liberals. Rome declare that thi hill waa nnderlaid with secret tunnels, mined and countermined, under the regime of Zelaya. They say that a present resident of New Orleana waa the electrician who laid the wirea, and that it waa connected with a secret switchboard down in th heart of the city. Tiaeapa hill is an extinct volcano, there being a large lake in the deep enter at the summit. It is th stronghold strong-hold of Managua, commanding th city and th lake front. While as oae at thi junctor can forecast tha outcome of th continuous stat of turmoil among th politician of tha two parti ea ia Nicaragua, this much doe Mem certain: Th United State ia convinced that the only way peace eaa ba bad ia Nicaragua i by insisting that-there must be a fair election elec-tion ia tha republie and that both par-tie par-tie must abide b th reult and stop thair continuous fighting. Men la Unstable.- Without thi assurance Nicaragua cannot hope to secure th American loan which ar eseential to its rejuvenation, rejuve-nation, and without them loan it is hard to see how it will be able to eecape absolute bankruptcy and foreclosure by foreign creditor. A matter now standi tba export are so small aa to afford littl ready money for th people, and tha government inrom is so limited lim-ited that it is impossible properly to maintain it and to mt th interact on It obligation. - A man may b rich in Nicaragua today to-day tand poor tomorrow. H may be bla' to buy aa Amerieaa gold dollar for Sevan dollar Niraraguan taday. Tomorrow To-morrow that nam dollar may cost him twelve dollar Niearaguaa. This fluctuation fluc-tuation in th value of its money make everything uncertain. Each aide, during dur-ing a revolution, issue paper currency by th million of dollar, without anything any-thing back of it, and aa a remit it i o depreciated that a maa may have to pay a much a ightea dollar for a ingle bottle of red win. |