Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-17
ANXIOUS TO Whip us.
An Ex-physician Of Fort Worth Thinks
Mexico Would Give Uncle
Sam Hard Fighting,
Cutting ia Mere Respondent Than
Usual and Wouldn't object
TO an Offer OF Bail.
(, ne 0reasers Think They Can whip Us and
III eem Exceedingly Anxious 20 Try.
", ~, More Troops at Fort Bliss.

". q w GOT n BAD.
Ell PAsosf *, Aug. l6.-There is no
change In TIT situation to-day, aud peo
pie seem to have settled down to await
the arrival OF the envoy said to be on the
way from Washington.
Cutting Is not quite so hopeful to-day,
and no doubt would now accept bail or
compromise with his enemies in any hon
orable way that would bring him his lib-
erty.
Five hundred troops have arrived at
Chihuahua from the City OF Mexico and
will remain there, II is said, until they
are needed at Paso del Norte.
Company i of the Tenth United States
infantry arrived here this morning, and
are quartered at Fort Bliss.
DR.. w T. Baird, who practlced medi-
cine In Fort Worth at one time, but for
the last eight months has been
living in Ortiz, town south
of Chihuahua on the Mexican Central,
has arrived here and says that he has
been compelled TO abandon that country
on account Of the vindictiye feeling of
the Mexicans, caused by the demand for
the release OF Cutting He says that the
Mexicans of all classes are for war. He
only met one person who is opposed to
war, and he was very intelligent Next
can, and declared that he intended to
leave that country and take up his resi-
dence in Texas If war should occur.
/ DIR. Baird was asked II the ruling pow
ers wanted war with the United States.
| He answered, Yes; you see Dlaz is sit
uated very much as Louis Napoleon was
| in 1870. He is confined at home
with an opposition which threatens
/ TO overturn him. He is bitterly hated
/ by the other party. He thinks that he
can silence this opposition and consoli.
date his power in the enthusiasm OF q
forei war. / think myself that he
would give the United States all the
work they would want for some time
There is no doubt in nay mind that Dis1
is the ablest military leader in North
America to-day, and war with Mexico
would not be play for the United States
think there will be war, for the simple
reason that Mexico is bent upon 1t Thii
delay and discussion OF legal points ar,
simply to gain time and also to gain the
! sympathy Of the world or the Latin por
ton Of IL. 'ai-s
This talk OF conflict OF authority be
tween Diaz and the state of Chihuahu,
is absurd TO anyone who knows anything
about the Mexican politics. Diaz is {
dictator. He makes and unmakes gov
ernments and legislatures and courts al
his pleasure. A syllable from him anC
Cutting would have been surrendered
weeks ago. IL suits him for the present
to let the responsibility nommally rest
upon the shoulders Of Chihuahua, that
is all.
Mr.. w. p. Wood, who has landed in.
terests in Mexico, came up to III Paso to.
day. He says the Mexicans can whip the
United States and are willing to try It,
BECAUSE THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT 1T.
CITY or MEXICO, Aug. lG.--An exami-
ration of sixty papers from the interior
of the republic, including journals of all
shades of opinion, shows that Cuttings
case excites almost no interest outside OF
the press in the capital and on the north
ern frontier.