4 to 12 August 1915 · Haitianspan
A commission in top hats sails north to collect Rosalvo Bobo
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To quiet the north, the Americans needed Rosalvo Bobo detached from his Cacos and brought down to the capital. On the advice of Jacques Nicolas Leger, Captain Beach assembled a delegation with standing: Archbishop Conan, the former president Legitime, and Charles Zamor. In black silk hats and topcoats, escorted by Caperton's French speaking flag lieutenant Coffey, they sailed for Cap Haitien aboard the Jason. A day of high confusion followed, with landing parties from two American warships helping to sort out the claimants. Demobilised government soldiers who wanted to go home were put aboard another ship, and the Jason came south with government men berthed forward and Bobo's people aft. Caperton listed the passengers: General Bobo with a staff of twenty six generals, two more generals besides, and seventeen nuns. Bobo talked without stopping about regenerating Haiti and named no measure for doing it. Coffey thought him unbalanced. Zamor told Coffey the man was crazy. Caperton's orders were to hold an election and see that a suitable candidate won it.
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