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Show DICTATOR CASTRO" MDEFEAT Vice-Pretident Gomez Takes Advantage Ad-vantage of Absence of Chief to Cause His Downfall. Castro Is Charged With Complicity In Attempted Assassination, and Impeachment Proceedings 'Are Proposed to Legally Settle His Retirement. Caracas, Vonozuoln. The downfall of President Castro In Venezuela has been completed with tho frustration of a dospernto plot to nssasslnato Juan VInconto Gomex, tho acting rresldont. A prominent lawyer has filed accu-rations accu-rations In court charging Castro with complicity in tho nttompled assassination, assassi-nation, and proposing his Impeachment. Impeach-ment. Thero wah a mooting Friday night of tho plotters nt tho rcsldonco In Caracas omarbloras Guzman, secretary secre-tary Bonoral In tho last Castro cabinet, cabi-net, and who wns placed In chargo of Castro's personal Luslncss In Venezuela Ven-ezuela when tho prcsridfnt left for Germany, Tho conspirators decided upon a coup d'etat. They determined to as-Knsslnnte as-Knsslnnte nctltij; President Gomez, Josn do Jesus Paul, tho foreign minister; min-ister; General Leopoldo llaptlsta, and ether prominent men; seize tho administration ad-ministration of tho country and with tho army terrorlzo and ovornwe tho population, Gomez Is said to havo discovered tho plot, and acting boldly and quickly, quick-ly, succeeded In arresting tho prlmo movers nnd averted an outbreak. As soon as tha news of tho sensational sensa-tional occurrences becamo known, an Immense crowd gathered In tho Plaza Dollvar and gnvo unmlstnkablo ovl-donco ovl-donco of Its satisfaction with tho turn affairs had taken. Thero Js to bo a general reorganization reorgani-zation of tho government. The. fall ot President Castro Icavee. no obstacle In tho way ot settling tho various International In-ternational questions confronting tho republic. Jose do Jesus Paul, tho former minister min-ister of foreign affairs, who played a prominent part In all Venezuela's foreign for-eign relations for tho last six months, has been commanded to pa to Europe to settlo nil outstanding disputes with foreign powers. Clprlano Castro Is a mnn ot humblo' origin. Ills father was a stock raiser In tho Andes near tho Colombian boo dcr. Ho Is swarthy ot complexion, slight In staturo, of wiry strength 'and has a piercing black eye Ho shows' his Indian extraction. Llko most Venezuelan presidents, Castro wont into odlco nt tho head of a successful success-ful revolution. Ho drove out President Presi-dent Andrado nnd entered Caracas Octobor 24, 1893. Ho has shown romnrknblo courago, determination, porsovoronco' atfd skill In conducting Vcnezuola through nlno years or stormy llfo. Ho has had to contend with powerful revolutionary mnvcpionts at homo, and nt tlmesl with tha combined action against him of Gormany. Great Britain, France and Italy. This occurred In 1902 nnd! was for tho purpose of making Vene zuela fulfill Us obligations to tho said rowers. Castro's quarrels with tho powers, havo resulted In tho soveranca of diplomatic relations between Venezuela Vene-zuela nnd Holland, Franco, tho Unlt-i cd States, Colombia, otc, and as long as Castro was In power there was apparently littlo hopo or reaching any' settlement ot theso various misunderstandings. |