Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1909 — Diplomatic Comment. [ARTICLE]

Diplomatic Comment.

“Many stories have been told of Cipriano Castro, exiled president of Venezuela, and of bis monumental conceit,” said Dr. T. ft. McDonough of San Francisco to the Washington Herald. “During tlie Russo-Japanese war the fall of port Arthur was being explained to him. “‘Pshaw!’ lie exclaimed. ‘With 500 Venezuelans I could have taken it In four days* “ ‘With a thousand In one day, your excellency,’ said the diplomatic representative of a European power. “Castro was so pleased that it Is said the diplomat succeeded the next day in procuring the payment of a claim that his government had been vainly pressing for years.”