Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-12-12
AP W MEXICO CITY AND IT'S SURROUNDINGS

which the fashionable Jockey club in
vited him.
"a few weeks ago | couldn't have
got inside this place." he said to his en-
tertainers. There has been no change
In me. | am the anne old Indian that
| was. Yet now you let me sit down
and drink champagne with you as If
you thought me as good as you are"
The Jockey club hosts laughed fee
bly,, as though they didn't quite see the
joke.
Huerta talked in much the same
fashion at the dinner given in his hon
or in the American embassy a few
days before the then Ambassador
Henry Lane Wilson was summoned to
Washington. Wilson wanted Huerta
to meet the so called kitchen cabinet
of the embassy, composed of men who
would like to have Huerta do things
their way. All through the dinner
Huerta, between bites and sips, deliv-
cred himself of a continuous mono
logue based upon his keen appreciation
of the condescension of the ambassa-
| dor In bidding the ''plain old Indian to
thrust his legs beneath the official ma
hogany.
He doesn't seem to take himself too
seriously and often INDUCES a gift of
humor in conjunction with his native
shrewdness. The editor of a comic
weekly, given to c%artooning public
men. called ON him a few weeks back
to learn how much cartooning he would
stand without making life unpleasant
for the editor.
81 don't suppose you would give me
thirty-three. said the editor. referring
to the number of the constitutional
provision for the exile of 'undesira-
bles."
Bullets For Cartoons.
"Oh, nothing so bad as that" Huer-
ia replied quietly, "but we might give
you thirty thirty" which is the caliber
of weapons used in the army.
There have since been no cartoons
printed on Huerta, ever good natured
ones.
Huerta's soldier guards have been
chosen from Blanquet's T~wenty-ninth
battalion. AS contrasted with the
princely glitter of Diaz's retinue the
Huerta men are not pretty to look at
or speckless In uniform or equipment.
but they are all fighters. and it would
be suicidal for any one to try to break
through their defense with fell designs
on their chief. These smeary warriors
a.n fr0,. Nth ho rofnRfN6 moon xynnlnD
for bananas and other fruit in front
of the presidents house, litter the side
walk with skins and cigarette ends and
play tricks, on one another all through
their watch when there is no urgency
for them to act otherwise.
All the time, however, they keep a
wary eye out for loiterers in the neigh
borhood, and when Huerta looms in
sight, arriving or quitting his home,
they stiffen up as though they had step
ped ON a live electric wire. and their
salutes for mi general" lack nothing
of dignity.
There is Indian blood in him, as
there is in ex-President Porfrio Diaz.
although it does not show so conspicu-
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tive and nervous than Diaz. Unlike
Diaz, he had the advantage of training
in the Chapultepee Military college;
but, similar to Diaz. who gained his
experience in war by actual experience
on the field, Huerta. is a good lighting
man, because it was born in him to
fight. 1t is instinct in him to take
what he wants peaceably if he can,
but by fighting if he must.
Huerta did good work for Diaz in
Yaqui campaigns in Sonora. Although
for some reason he fell from grace
with Diaz, 1t was Huerta whom the
old general summoned to safeguard
him to Vera Cruz two years ago when
he fed before the triumphant Madero.
Huerta fought well for Madero. 100
but he was too bloodily ruthless to suit
Madero, so after Huerta had vanquish-
ed Orozco in Chihuahua. a year ago
last spring. Madero shelyed him. That
was a mistake on Madero's part anc