Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1906 — REPUBLIC’S CHIEF ROUTED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REPUBLIC’S CHIEF ROUTED.

Pre*l4e*< Morale* of Santo Doming* Put to Flight by Rebel*. President Morales has fled from. Santo Domingo's capital. The cabinet sent troops after him- These forces,

pursuing Morales, encountered- him with sixty men hbar San CHMtobal" and exchanged shots. There are rumors that Morales way wounded. Many believe that Morales will crossover the mountain pass ei»

afbd join Rbdrlpief nt Monte Ciisti: When news reached Washington that a. revolution had broken out IB Santo Domingo; tlmt President Morales had fled his capital; that two factions were fighting and that no one had any idea thht any sort of government existed on the island, .there- was a manifest disposition of the administration Loro to wash its hands of the whole matter. It is admitted that if Morales is driven out and if the island is to be disturbed by a long revolution, the schemes of' President Roosevelt ’to continue the modus vivemli and collect the customs must fall. •This government apparently has abandoned Morales to iTis fate. The Intention of the Presided! seems to be only to take such steps as will protect the lives of the American receivers, clerks, col lectors and others who have been loaned to Morales and commissioned by him. President Carlos F. Morales, of Santo- DoffiThgo, who fled from his capital and Is a fugitive'from the wrath of the revolutionists, Is a product of one of the many revolutions peculiar to Latin America, lie is not yet 40, was born at Porto Plata, in the island, was educated for ft priest nnd for eight years followed that calling. lie then "turned his attention to the politics of his disturbed little country, served under Jiminez and Wos y Gil, and on two occasions was exiled for plotting against the government. He had participated in six unsuccessful revolutions, when, in October, 1903, he led an attack on the then President Wos y Gil, and being successful, declared himself dictator and Jater president. He claims to be friendly to the United States, but has always resented the interference of this country in the affairs of the islands.

PRES. MORALES.