The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-11
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Edwin Emerson in the New York Inde-
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w had drawn to himself every
outlaw and fugitive from justice who
up to that time had been hiding in the
Morelos hills or in the vast under
ground caves of Cacahuimilpa.- near
Cuernavaca.
Later, when Zapata and his men
took Cuernavaca, zapata opened the
jail and penitentiars, and. putting a
good rifle and handful of cartridges
into each convict's hands, he babe
them help themselves to horses wher-
ever they could find them. AS there are
several horse ranches and rich hacien-
das with celebrated racing studs in the
immediate vicinity of Cuernavaca, 1t
did not take long before all those new
recruits went mounted on the best of
horses, as was here to be seen.
After the great review of zapata's
bandit forces Senior Madero committed
the colossal blunder, as 1t turned out
to be, of paying off all of Zapata's
men LOT lne1r dlltStu StINlttS III the
Madero revolution, without putting an
armed guard over them to see that they
actually turned in their rifles and
cartridges before returning to their
homes.
The result of this was that Emiliano
ia pata simply drew the sum of $1,000
pesos set aside for himself and his fol-
lowers, without bothering TO turn In more
than few stacks of arms; after which
not give up any more arms unless they
received twice the amount of the origi-
nally stipulated sum.
After this the misunderstanding be-
tween the newly constituted government
authorities and the Zapata brothers grew
apace. zapata was summoned to the
capital. He came defiantly, surrounded
by an armed bodyguard. In his brief
stay at one of the principal hotels in
Mexico City he livensd things up by
shooting out all the windows of the can
tina because they would not serve him
with drinks after in the morning.
On the following day he and his COM
panions Communicated some half dozen
city taxicabs and rode back to Cuerna-
vaca, about rs miles away. After this
Zapata and his men in Morelos became
quite unmanageable so far as the newly
constituted authorities were concerned
Francisco de la Barra. Mexico's president
ad interim, tried to temporize with the
Zapata brothers for while, after which
Senior Madero, in his capacity as leader
Of the revolution, pending his election as
constitutional president. made a special
trip to Morelos to Smooth down the
enraged Zapatists.
But the Smoothing down" did not
lowers were Shooting up" the columns
of regular soldiers who had been sent
to garrison the most important towns
of Morelos, in response to the frantic
appeals of the bandit harried inhabi-
tants OF that state.
From this time forth the campaign
between Zapatas bandit hordes and
various expeditions Of government
forces has been in full swing.
Zapata and his men, after being
driven out of Cuernavaca, swung south
east to Yautepec and Cuautla, In More
los, and after that southwark to Jo-
Julia, both of which towns were once
moro put to the sack.
About this time 1t was thought that
the bandits could be brought to terms
/ bv moving against them with tho for
mer rebel forces of Generals Figueroa
and Asunsolo. now converted into loyal
Guards. for a consideration-but the
zapatists. reinforced by the former
rebel forces of General" Almazan, an
other dissatisfied revolutionary leader
first inflicted reverse upon Figueroa's
rurales, in the mountain Businesses OF
the Sierra OF ccotlan. which separates