President Recalls Move On Nicaragua.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 29, 1912:
Decides on Train Not to Send Tenth Infantry, Now Stationed in Panama.
THINKS THE MARINES WILL DO
Will Have Sufficient Force In Managua by Next Week, He Says, to Protect Americans.
    ON BOARD PRESIDENT TAFT'S TRAIN, ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 28.— President Taft to-night rescinded his twelve-hour-old order directing the immediate dispatch from Panama to Nicaragua of the Tenth Infantry.
    From his private car in the Rochester yards the President wired to the Acting Secretary of War instructions to recall the order. A sufficient force of marines, the President said to-night, would be in Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, and Corinto, its principal seaport, early next week to insure the safety of American lives and property,
    The President's action came at the close of a day spent largely in considering telegrams from State, War, and Navy Department heads in Washington. The President expressed to-night to friends on his car the belief that there would be more than 2,000 United States marines on Nicaraguan soil by Tuesday. A long telegram to-night from the Commander of the United States gunboat Denver, now in Nicaraguan waters, said that the insurgent leaders had given assurances that they would open the lines of communication from Corinto to Managua. The Nicaraguan Government itself asked for assistance from the United States, and it stands ready to aid in opening the railway line to the coast from the capital.
    The message to the President said that the rebels possessed five locomotives and the Government five. All ten of these may be put at the disposal of the United States if necessary. The recall of the order for the dispatch of the Tenth Infantry followed the receipt of this telegram from the Denver.
    The President did not conceal his anxiety to-night over conditions in the Central American Republic, in Managua, Corinto, and other towns the situation is not now specially dangerous to Americans, but in other parts of the country pillaging of all sorts has been going on.
    The people of Nicaragua, the President has been informed, are suffering untold horrors, and Americans are suffering in many instances with them.
    To friends to-night Mr. Taft declared that if the Senate had agreed to the proposed treaty with Nicaragua, which he advocated on his long trip last Autumn, the misery existing to-day would never have arisen. Under that treaty the United States, he said, would have administered the customs of Nicaragua, and since the customs are almost the only source of national revenue, there would have been little to attract a revolutionist, who would not care to tackle the United States.
    In the course of the day the President received several long telegrams from Acting Secretary of State Huntington Wilson in Washington. His order to the Tenth Infantry to advance on Nicaragua was issued in Beverly just before he started for Columbus, Ohio, where he will speak to-morrow. Messages from Mr. Wilson were received at Albany and at other points east of Rochester, and telegrams from the Navy Department also kept coming to Mr. Taft's private car.
    Neither the State nor the Navy Department wished to see United States troops sent into Nicaragua. The custom in similar cases has been to land marines. The President said to-day that, while the sending of a regiment of infantry would not be an act of war, he would prefer to use marines if an available force could be found quickly. His telegrams to Washington evidently were fruitful, for he was of the opinion to-night that the navy had found enough marines to look after every American in Nicaragua and all American property that might be endangered. If he finds the situation critical later, he will not hesitate to use the army, but he is hopeful that the insurgent and Government leaders will see the futility of trying to make it uncomfortable for American citizens.