Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1908 — CASTRO ABANDONS THE PRESIDENCY [ARTICLE]

CASTRO ABANDONS THE PRESIDENCY

Says In a Statement He’ll Keep His Hands Off. Berlin, Dec. 25.—-Cipriano Castro gave out a statement which amounts to abandonment of his claims to the presidency of the Venezuelan republic. The statement follows: “After taking cognizance of everything printed in the newspapers from Venezuela I doubt the attitude therein attributed to the present government St Caracas. But I will have more to fiy on this subject when I am in better health and when I have full knowledge of what has occurred. “In any event I shall place no difficulties in the way of the present administration of Venezuela in settling the pending controversies with foreign governments, even if this should involve my own withdrawal from activity in the affairs of the nation."