The Washington herald., 1911-03-17

Of an anti-re-election amendment. Mr..
Madero was rightly elected President OF
Mexico last summer. but we are willing
to have a new election IL held under ab-
solute guarantee of fairness, and by the
result we will abide. To make plain our
demands. we will put them as two: FL
fective suffrage and None term as Presi-
dent"
Not n Difficult Problem.
Senior Cara is a very sincere and de-
voted as we'll as able partisan. and
his views are most reliable and informa-
tive. There would seem, however. TO be
reason for believing that the matter of
peace negotiations would not contain as
many difficulties as he thinks. In this
locality, at least, the insurrection has
not gained any strength of late, and to
my view has lost some of it's potency. II
would take a most important and over
whelming victory by the Madero forces
to restore the prestige the movement had
ten days ago.
II the insurrectos succeeded in getting
the three field pieces over the border that
they have somewhere along the line near
here, a change might be possible, or II
Madero were suddenly discovered to be
a provincial Napoleon instead of a IL
brary patriot, my theory would be
knocked: but TO date the fact remains
that the insurrectos. to put II mega
lively, have not gained and the federals
have.
1t is true. in the point OF recruits
from this side of the line they are rich;
the offices OF the junta are crowded every
day with men eager to get over, but un-
less there is an undiscovered general
among these; unless some one of them
- d
overalIs' pocket, the more men Madero
has. the greater is likely to be his set
back.
Added to this is the undoubted fact
that all over Mexico a national spirit
is developing and with a good, amtahle,
and ambitious people, such as are the
Mexicans, the prospect OF peace with
advancement Is likely 10 he much
more appealing than that OF war with
no wages.
That hero Of the sticks Of dynamite and
bottles of nitroglycerin. Oscar Creighton.
has been deposed from the command OF
his fraternity of Diavolos. l learn from
one of the "colonels' of the foreign
legion that Creighton's men objected TO
him because "he exposed them too much
to danger" Which is another feather
from the wings of the dove. II the SOL
diers who have done such superb work
putting the railways Oul VI bISlLAtSS
and Creighton's followers dislike danger,
the same logic would apply to the others.
DepOSed from Command.
II is only fair to the men of Creigh-
tons command to say that they have
objected TO him because he insisted
always on selecting the best horse to be
had and on cold nights would commander
five blankets when his men only had one
Therefore, they held a referendum, or an
initiative or some of the political re-
forms they amuse themselves with, and
by a vote deposed Creighton, who took
his dynamite and left their playground
a general election of these foragers
was then called. and they chose as their
commander an American who fights Un-
der the name of slim" Can you blame
him? slim" also wears plenty of
whiskers, and is said to be a good but
careful fighter. with no inordinate lust
for extra blankets or blooded mounts.
Our 10000 troops are probably drilling
too hard to guard the border. Those field
pieces spoken of which are on this side of