Plot To Upset Republics.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 9, 1913:
Zelaya Accredited with Widespread Latin-American Plan.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, March 8.— There have come to the State Department in the last two days' reports from the City of Mexico and from consular officers accounts of a general federated revolution in Central America, the general object of which is to overturn the administrations in various republics which have had the countenance of the Roosevelt and Taft policies with regard to continued domination by the United States.
    These reports are not the first intimations of this general uprising. There have been from time to time in the last three months indications in almost all the Latin-American republics of a demonstration of resentment at the influence of this Government in those countries. The inception of the plot is credited to Zelaya, the former President of Nicaragua, and it is said he has met with friendly aid in his plans from many ex-Presidents and their followers.
    Definite information of what has been going on has in some cases been received and it has been evident that the movement is well financed and likely to result in a sharp blow in a short time at some point of distinct advantage to the Revolutionists. The revolution was planned to be started, it was believed, just as the Taft Administration was retiring and the Wilson Administration was entering into control of affairs here.
    This plan has met with temporary discomfiture because of the disturbances in Mexico. The whole plot since the overthrow of the Madero Government has assumed a new phase which includes at least eight States of Mexico, which will join into the movement and add to its scope and force.
    It is known that some of the dispatches received at the State Department since last Tuesday are of the most alarming character, but their contents have been absolutely guarded from publicity. A prominent State Department official when asked as to the truth of the fugitive rumors said that in some places in Central America the United States "is sitting on a volcano," but until President Wilson was well in the saddle and the politicians drawn to Washington by the inauguration and lingering to look after appointments had left for home neither the President nor his Secretary of State would be able to address themselves to the situation that steadily was growing more and more menacing.