ARCHIVES 2STATES orate throughout Central America to protect the Canal.
Various Democratic Senators do not agree with this, saying that it is a dangerous enterprise. The President asserted, however, that the project would not be put through unless Nicaragva agreed to it, etc. etc. Enc. No. 27 Upon the strength of this unconfirmed rumor, the local newspapers issued a call for a mass meeting to protest against such action on the part of the United States.
Upon the appearance of this notice, endeavored to see the President but was unable to do so.
He sent for me later in the day, but the demonstration had already begun.
On the following morning called upon the President by appointment, and he expressed his regret for the occurrence and said that had been unable to prevent it, alhtough he had advised the press that the rumor was entirely unconfirmed and that he did not believe in its accuracy. called to the President attention the utter improbability of such a course of procedure on the part of the United States, in view of the declaration of the policy of the Administration in regard to its attitude towards Central America, which had been so favorably commented upon by the press of this city.
The demonstration consisted of a gathering at six of a crowd estimated at from 600 to yoo persons, in one of the public plazas of the city, where a platform had previously been erected. The speeches were highly incendiary and in parts threatening and insulting, the orators being prircipally of that vicious foreign element of Central and South American political refugees.
The only prominent Costa Ricans among them were members of the press.