Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-26
GENERAL OROZcO.
Sketch Of the Picturesque Leader OF
the Mexican Revolution.

Sketch of the Picturesque Leader OF
the Mexican Revolution.
While most Of other military per-
sonages Of the two revolutions have
permitted their personalities, views
and daily movements to become SUBJ
ject matter for the pencils and type
writer's of the correspondents with
considerable freedom, the most inter-
esting figure of them all at the present
moment Is at the same time one OF
the least known either in Mexico or
out. That is Pascual Orozco, the
fighting head of the present revolution
as we'll as that Of year ago.
Orozco is lean, angular man, whose
personality is redolent Of the camp
and the hills and not at all Of the
council chamber of state nor Of the
drawing room. Outside his own par
ticular circle there are not many who
know even how old he is. 1t is
moral certainty that he can "hog-tie'
a steer quickly and artistically, that
he can throw a diamond hitch on a
pack animal and that when he speaks
he is in the habit Of receiving respect
full attention.
For a Mexican he is large man. A
life in the deserts and mountains OF
the north has tanned him with a
parchment finish and has bequeathed
him the loose figure that looks good
deal better on horseback than on the
ground. His hair and mustache are
black and the latter droops from un-
restrained habit. His photographs
show him lightly stopped and looking
straight at the camera as II more In
terested in it than the results OF the
snapshot.
What he thinks. what he intends TO
do become apparent chiefly in his ac-
tions. Not that he has the reputation
of being morose or silent, for his men
seem to think him an ideal leadt:; but
he has never courted publicity IL any
of his campaigns. He had been fight
ing in the Madero revolution last year
several months before the reporters
found out what his name was and De-
gan putting him in the news The cap
ture of Juarez early in May, 1911, less
than a year ago, brought him into
public view President Madero hau
been busy and conspicuous with MS
organization Of provisional govern,
ment whose ramifications EXTENDED all
the way from Washington to the IN
terror of his own country; but Orozco
had been doing most of the hghtlng.
Twice since then Orozco has been In
Mexico City. He came first to person
ally escort President Madero TO ine
palace on the day Of his Inauguration
i'm September. He came again quietly
last February on personal business
with the government.
In a period of little over year
Pascual Orozco has removed himsel1
from his rather humble station OF be-
ing the trusty man who could be CIV
en- the responsibility of conveying
pack train of valuable ore through the
mountains to Chihuahua city, to a po-
sition where he expects to make or
unmake presidents. So far as any
body knows there are no heralo|c
symbols of Spanish nobility anywhere
up the Orozco family tree. Men VINO
used TO know him in Chihuahua when
with a revolver and rifle, he took
charge Of his own pack-train and de-
livered ore through a country Where
his main business was to watch out
for and keep off bandits in Chihua-
hua, say that in those days he had diff
fculty in reading anything that was
not set in clear type. But he prosper
ed in a material way and was far
from being poor when he took up the
revolutionary cause. His claim
against the Madero government Tot
personal services and expense incur
red by himself and father, who Is now
a colonel under his command amount
ed to $4,000 gold. The assertion that
only half that amount was allowed
has been reported to have done much
to wean him away from the Madero
interests.
1t is probable that feeling that he
himself made Madero, and that he
has not been pleased with his own
handiwork, is responsible for his pres
ent revolutionary activity. He has evil
IDENTIFY come to the conclusion that his
own ideas on important subjects are
about as sound as anybody else's ana
he has thus far kept himself In a re-
lation to the revolution where his
ideas will have to be considered In
the event of a successful outcome.
He has developed rapidly as fac
tor in Mexican revolutionary politics
and it Is the very possibility that his
development is yet incomplete that
makes his personality particularly in
teresting. He has made his revolution
so substantial an affair that 1t Is hard
to believe that he, himself, will be
obliterated, even though the move
ment may be suppressed. He Is a
young man with an undoubted ability
for leadership, and with the taste OF
authority he has enjoyed 1t is not
likely that he will permit himself to
be retired to private life even II he
should be persuaded to compromise
with the government upon political
differences.