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The Dominican Republic in the American Press: United States newspaper coverage of the island, gathered and translated for readers in both languagesLa República Dominicana en la prensa estadounidense: la cobertura de la isla en los periódicos de Estados Unidos, reunida y traducida para lectores en ambos idiomas
June 4, 18984 de junio de 1898 · Indianapolis [Ind.] · Grant Annexation Debates & Bondholder PoliticsDebates de Anexión de Grant y Política de Bonistas

The Indianapolis journal

SourceFuente: The Indianapolis journal · Indianapolis [Ind.] · June 4, 18984 de junio de 1898
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015679/1898-06-04/ed-1/?sp=5

In contextEn contexto

Grant Annexation Debates & Bondholder PoliticsDebates de Anexión de Grant y Política de Bonistas · 1865–1905

President Ulysses S. Grant championed a treaty to annex Santo Domingo (1869–1870), sparking a historic Senate battle led by Charles Sumner. Later coverage tracked President Ulises Heureaux (Lilís) and crushing European bond debt.El presidente Ulysses S. Grant promovió un tratado para anexar Santo Domingo (1869–1870), provocando una histórica batalla en el Senado con Charles Sumner. Informes posteriores siguieron al presidente Ulises Heureaux (Lilís) y la deuda externa.

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The *Indianapolis Journal* reported that insurgent forces led by Generals Morales and Villanueva were advancing on Puerto Plata and Santiago de los Caballeros against Dominican President Heureaux. The report profiled revolutionary leader General Juan Isidro Jimenes, an established merchant with business houses in Europe and the Caribbean who had organized the movement from New York. It noted that Jimenes enjoyed wide popularity and had previously resided in Paris to escape Heureaux's hostility toward political rivals.

El *Indianapolis Journal* informó que fuerzas insurgentes encabezadas por los generales Morales y Villanueva avanzaban sobre Puerto Plata y Santiago de los Caballeros contra el presidente dominicano Heureaux. El informe trazó un perfil del líder revolucionario general Juan Isidro Jimenes, un consolidado comerciante con casas comerciales en Europa y el Caribe que había organizado el movimiento desde Nueva York. Señalaba que Jimenes gozaba de amplia popularidad y que previamente había residido en París para escapar de la hostilidad de Heureaux hacia sus rivales políticos.

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The passage where this article was found, copied from the newspaper page itself, reading errors and all. This is exactly what the summary above is based on.El pasaje donde se encontró este artículo, copiado de la propia página del periódico, con sus errores de lectura y todo. Esto es exactamente aquello en lo que se basa el resumen de arriba.

Morales and Villaneuva, they are marching

on Puerto Plata, while another detachment

Is moving against Santiago de los Caballeros,

on the Yaque river east of this place. Gen.

Garcia, another Dominician leader, is said

to be taking part In the revolution and It

Is expected there will be a rising at Santo

Domingo, the capital of the Dominican re

public.

General Jiminez is a merchant who has

business houses here at Monte Cristo, at

Puerto Plata and at Hamburg. In his youth

he served in the army and for many years

he has been very popular In Santo Domingo.

President Heurreaux, according to a com

mon saying among the Dominicans, has

killed off all the prominent men on whom

he could lay hands and who might be rivals.

The President’s hatred for General Jimlnez

is especially marked, but the latter has kept

out of his reach, residing chiefly in Paris.

About two months ago General Jiminez left

Capt Haitien, ostensibly for Europe, via

Porto Prince, but it is said he did not go any

further than New York, and it is believed

that while in that city he perfected the

arrangements for the revolution in Santo

Domingo over which, if successful, the great

majority of the Dominicans for tho time

being at least would rejoice.

General Jiminez is fifty-five years of age

and of a mild temperament. He has refused

several times to be a candidate for the

presidency of Santo Domingo. His father

was formerly President of that republic.

1:50 p. m.—General Jiminez was regarded

as the wheel horse of the revolution which

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The Indianapolis journal. (1898). Indianapolis [Ind.], 1898-06-04. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015679/1898-06-04/ed-1/?sp=5

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Indianapolis journal, 1898-06-04.

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