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Show CASTRO REMAINS IN CHARGE. Withdraws Letter of Resignation of Presidency ot Venezuela. President Cnslro'n special niessngo to thn Veiieuelan congress was delivered deliv-ered Wednesday afternoon. In which he Buys: "When I abdicated It was not from any small minded nnr Interested calculation, still less was It tho result of any sorry or ridiculous furce which has no pluro In a heart warmed by tho heat of great Ideals." IIo then snyn he believed his abdication abdica-tion was duty Imposed upon him In the Intern! of pence. "With my separation separ-ation today." ho says, "nobody wnuld lone and all would gnln. since this would Imply that my efforts and my sncrlllcea wero always and under all rlreumstancea at the jn-rvlce of tho re-Duhllcj re-Duhllcj st Ita first call.", After .passing In review the other dlftteultv In thn way nf the government, govern-ment, ho saw hnw bla Intentlona were misrepresented, and he waa disheartened disheart-ened and nt that mnment resigned. "Nutwithstandlng thnsn reasons, which were weighty lo my mind." he continues, "congress iloca not accept my resignation and insltn that 1 ihoulcl co-itlnuc: Hint I should not persist per-sist therein, but considers mo still useful use-ful In tho government, fonts bnforo Its desire anil Ikiw myself to the new obllgntlonn Imposed by niy country, but only mil II the work of purifying the nation sluill be complete and order re-estuhllshed In Iho public ndminls-trntlnn. ndminls-trntlnn. Remember It well, senators and deputh. I bellevo my separntlnn necessary: yuti think otherwise. I hope tho futurn will prnvn you right. Accept an expression or my nuprcmn thanks for tho generous ilemnnntrntlnn of which nu have mndn mo Ihn oli-Jeel." oli-Jeel." When It w-as known be bail not resigned a popular demunslratlnn took place. |
