The daily sentinel., 1913-08-13
MAY FORCE
HUERTA To
AbDICATE
Associated Press.

Mexico City, Aug. 13.-Only the
conviction that the retirement OF Pro-
Vlsional President Huerta means the
elevation of another reyoIutionist
and the plunging OF their country in
10 greater depths Of hopeiessness, pre-
vents thousands of representative
Mexican business men from uniting
IN petition to the existing admins
tration to yield. Many of these busi-
ness men believe that only foreign
Intervention can restore peace, but
expression of such opinions is not
popular and are made guardedly or
with due reservation. Overthrow OF
Huerta by any of the rebellious forces
probably would mean succession TO
the presidency of Carranza, Maytor-
ena or Oregon or other leaders pos
sessing no universal following such
as could be depended on to stop re-
bellion
Late in June plan was advanced
oy Manuel Calero. former ambassa-
dor to the United States, Jesus Flores
MaEon and Jorge Vera Estanol. for
mer cabinet ministers, to unite upon
candidate for the presidency agree
able TO loyal citizens and rebels. This
suggestion had for its weakness the
assumption that rebels in the field
would not assent to anything but the
overthrow by force of arms of what
they term usurping administration.
The scheme fell OF It's own weight.
The failure of the government to
make any hoadway in Sonora against
the rebels; the daring displayed by
bands. which captured Zacatecas ana
Durango, capitals of adjoining states.
snd raided with impunity the coun-
try and smaller towns. the ocoupa-
ton or blockading of all the border
ports OF entry and the steady and
swift growth of the movement
throughout the republic has created
even at the National palace a spirit
OF pesslmtsn easily perceptibls. HUI
erta and his counsellors betrayed
their dependency by concentrating
all efforts on re-opening the National
railroad from Mexico City to Laredo.
1t was believed that. If this line
could be opened, the effect abroad
mught be such as to enable them to
market bonds for which foreign bank
ers were given options, and Huerta's
forces could thus prolong the fight.
The campaign against Matamoros
was practically abandoned, in order
to use all available troops along the
railroad.
Enforced service has provided HUI
oIta with an army of perhaps As, 900
men, but of such character that the
government commanders dare not de-
tach small bodies Of troops for scout
ing or other work. Bugle calls might
not bring the detachments back to
their camps
The army has been recruited by
conscription, by emptying the jails
and utilizing prisoners captured in
battle. These men are rushed into
service and carefully guarded until
far from the places of their enlist
ment so as to prevent wholesale de-
sertions. 1t was with such a body
as this that General Ojeda was COM
| PEELED to operate in his campaign out
of Guaymas.
Rebels under Emiliano Zapata ap-
| peared fully as active early this
month as in months past, and daily
| incursions of the federal district it
self were common. The raiding of a
property or village almost within
sight of the national capital and tales
of atrocities have ceased to excite
concern.
An incident that illustrates some
what the apathy of the people gem
/ orally occurred recently in a village
in the state of Guanajuato. Rebels
.raided the place and carried away
from the unresisting male population
practically all of the women. The
men drafted a petition to the presi-
dent of the republic to send suffi-
cient soldiers to round up the rebels
and restore to them their captured
wives, sisters and sweethearts. The
number OF males in that town was
greater than the number Of rebels
who raided the place.
Two rebel leaders of minor import
ance in the state of Morelos recently
lost their lives in manner rather ig-
nominious for men whose careers had
been rs stirring as theirs. With their
men they made what turned out to
be their last fight in church. The
federals had penned them in and
then began battering at the doors.
One OF the men ceized a priests robe,
and, when the soldiers gained en-
trance. they found him kneeling be-
fore one of the shrines. The pseudo
priest was dragged from his knees
and his identity revealed. He was
shot.
The other rebel had sought safety
in crypt. Lifting the stone slab he
threw out the crumbling bones OF
the occupant for more than a hun
dred years, crnwled into the space
himself and lifted the stone back in
to place. The bones beside the crypt
excited the curiosity of the soldiers,
who examined the interior The liv-
ing occupant became eligible forth
with for real interment.
Associated Press.
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