The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-17
THE PICTURESQUE
REBEL LEADER
Something Of the Character
of Pascual Orozco, the
Mexican Leader.

Mexico City, April 17.-While most
Of the other military personages Of
the two revolutions have permitted
their personalities. views and daily
movements to become subject matter
for the pencils and typewriters Of the
correspondents with considerable free
dom. the most Interesting figure of
them all at the present moment is at
the same time one of the least known
either in Mexico or out. That IL Pas
cual orozo. the fighting head Of the
present revolution Al we'll as Of that
of year ago. =
Orozco fs q 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
particular circle there are not many
moral certainty that he can ''hog-tie"
a steer quickly and artistically, that he
can throw diamond hitch on pack
animal and that when he speaks he is
in the habit OF receiving respectful at
tention.
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 a 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 slightly stopped and looking
straight at the camera as II more in
terested in it than in the results of
the snapshots
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 leader; but
he. has never courted publicity in any
Of his campaigns. He had been fight
several months before the reporters
found OF what his name was and be-
gan putting him in the news. The cap.
ture Of Juarez early in May, 1911, less
than year ago, brought him into
public view. President Madero had
been busy and conspicuous with his
organization of a provisional govern
the way from Washington to the in
terror of his own country: but Orozco
had been doing most Of the fighting.
Twice since then Orozco has been In
Mexico City. He came first to person.
ally escort President Madero to the
palace on the day of his Inauguration
in September. He came again quiet
ly last February on personal business
with the government.
In the Capital.
In period of q little over year
Pascual Orozco has removed himself
from his rather humble station of be-
ing the trusty man who coupld he
given the responsibility Of conveying
q pack-train of valuable ore through
position where he expects to make or
unmake presidents. So far as any
body knows there are no heraldic
symbols Of Spanish nobility anywhere
up the Orozco family tree. Men who
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 of bandits in Chihuahua,
say that in those days he had difficulty
in readink anything that was not set
in clear type. But he prospered in q
material way and was far from being
poor when he took up the revolution
ary cause. His claim against the Ma
dero government for personal services
and expense incurred by himself and
father. who 10 now a colonel under his
command. amounted to $4,000 gold.
Tho assertion that only half that
amount was allowed has been report
ed to have done much to wean him
away from the Madero interests.
It 10 probable that feeling that he
himself made" Madero. and that he
has not been pleased with his own
handiwork. 10 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 az anybody else's and
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. successful outcome.
He has developed rapidly as a fac
tor in Mexican revolutionary politics
and 1t IL the very possibility that his
development Is yet incomplete that
tsrssting. He has made his reyoiu-
tion 40 substantial an affair that It 10