Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 839.00/978.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams—Paraphrases.]

American Legation,
Santo Domingo, December 2, 1913—Noon.

The Government is impatient of my insistence upon decent elections, and has arrested three principal orators of the opposition. The nightly demonstrations give color of right to the Government’s course, and the opposition probably hopes for American intervention. Placards are posted about the city quoting my written promises to secure constitutional remedies. I urge sending the additional vessel immediately.

Sullivan.