The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-05-21
RecoeNIzINo HUeRTA.

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governments have sent letters Of rec
ignition to the Hueria regime in
dexico, accepting, and, as Tar as
ley are concerned, establishing the
military dictatorship as the legal gov
rnment in Mexico il is said al
Washington that, owing to the unsat-
'sfactory conditions Of the relations
between the United States and Mexi.
co and the difficulties Of conducting
negotiations upon amy but the most
general questions, it is not improba-
bic that the United States may soon
follow the fashion aud give reeognf-
ton to the Hucrta government
which has now been accepted by all
the great Powers save Germany,
italy and the United States. That
would De a very cheap and rather
supine way out a difficulty, neyerthe
less it may be The most expedient
md expediency rather than principle
8 the rule OF the period Actually
the difficulties Of dealing with the
Huera government which are en-
phasized from Washington SO fire.
quently as to Indicate rather more Of
purpose in The announcemnt than
the reiteraiion Of a very obvious con
dition would seem to justify. are due
more TO The complacency and neglect
OF the Washington government than
to any real element Of the situation.
Tic Mexican affair, IN the last fow
weeks Of President Taft's administra.
ton. was very serious business,
and, up to within two weeks or so
fof the change Of authority 1T Wash
ington threatened to come to the VIII
son administration red hot with the
possibilities or war. President Taft
was on the very edge Of Intervention
for more than month, and, until the
desertion Of the Madero government
by Huerta, followed by The murder OF
the deposed president and vice presi.
sent through the agency Of those
who had overthrow them, the opin-
Ton was very general that the United
States would have to send forces
across the grder and this would
have meant nothing less than war
which woaFN have come 10 the VIII
son administration as most unfor
tunate legacy, interfering with and
altering. the whole complexion OF the
new administrations program In a
sense the Huelta movement, utterly
hateful as it must be in the eyes o.
AN right thinking people, saved the
present administration fom the hand
ling Of a problem that would have
been very disturbing TO It's purposes,
and, in the hope and determination
to avoid a recurrence OF OF the dan
.gorous situation that would so scri-
ously compromise it's whole political
prosram, It Is not improbable that
the Wilson administration has let the
affair be as Il was. without attempt
70 regulate OF direct the course Of
events On no other theory can be
explained for example the con
tinmnee of representation Of the
United States al Mexico City by Aul-
bassador Henry Lame WILSON whose
intimate relations With the 1luerta
government and Whose oyerzealoas
atforts to force reeosnttion Of it i'm.
mediatelg upon It's bloody acquisition
Of poYer assumed very nearly the
propq ions Of a scandal in the tense
aerioS Of the street fighting 5etween
the Madero ana Diaz factions and
The barharous taking Off Of the Made
res and Vice President Suerez. 1t Is
possible, 81 course, that Secretary
Brayan who has already III the two
months Of his office holding, travelled
something ike twelve thousand
miles. and in public addresses. spots
ZEN more than a word for every mile
may not have tieen able 70 put his
mind upon the Mexican problem with
sufficient dnecmess and energy Z
work out a policy toward the Huerta
government. aud SO has permitted
Ithe situation to drift along to what
ever conclusion events might brius
lit President Wilson, however, ha'
mot hesitated TO act as his own sec
iretary Of state when The occasion re
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