The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-05
.HUERTA VIGOROUSLY
 LAYS OUT POLICY
Leaves No Doubt But That He Intends to Hold Mex 'ican Government With Firm Hand

l O1l1C1d1 Sen0TdI1y, II they 1 had opinions contrary to goVernment l al policy, discreetly kept them to 1 themselves. With the advent of Ma 1 dero the pent-up flood of political ex-
 pression deluged the country. Polit- i ica1 orators went to extremes in air
 throughout the republic the acts of
 the administration were criticised to ! the point of vilification. Admins 1 trative affairs were allowed to suffer.
 President Huerta, in his first pub | lie uterances, made it plain that his | policies were to be of a different order. To a group of newspaper men whom l he summoned to the palace he ex- I pressed his appreciation of free press, but intimated to them that their 1 efforts should be directed along lines of aiding in re-esta blishment of peace, ] rather than toward hunting out diff ficuIties with which to confront the administration.
 'In a word" he cautioned them.
 "abandon for the moment political 1 questions and give preference to those of administration
 fI am conFinced,'' he added, "that
 it is not wise, in the present moment
 of our national life, for you to occu-
 py yourselves with affairs purely po- litica1, but rather with those matters which have a bearing on the pacif1ca-
 ton of the country
 Caricaturists also will ply their art
 with more circumspection. With the
 person of Madero they were accustom-
 ed to take every liberty, and were
 permitted to do so. Before Presi-
 dent Huerta had been in office two
 weeks he sent for the editor. of one of
 the best known comic weeklies of the
 capital. Calling his attention to a
 caricature of himself, the president
 said to the editor:
 'tI don't like that, I wish you
 wouldn't print my picture that way"
 ''But, MT. President, I-"
 Well, that's all. I don't want you
 to print these caricatures- Well,
 don't. Good bye.''
 The editor departed and it is safe
 to say that he will think twice be-
 fore repeating the offense.
 That peace would return to Mexi- co almost automatically, after the ov-
 erthrow of the Madero governm lent, was the belief of thousands of opti- mists, both Mexicans and foreigners; but before the new administration was month old it was evident that it had undertaken a task the compIe ton of which was by no means sim pie. A majority of those who had been fighting against Madero laid down their arms, but a new army Of rebels arose, and the Mexican situa- tion was not unlike that of a play in which the actors had been. changed and a few shifts of scenery made. Enough of the old Zapatista army re- mained under arms to provide the government with it's problem in the south, while Governor Venustiano Car ranza, of Coahuilla, and Governor Pesquiera, of Sonora, furnished 8 new army in the north to take the place of Pascual Oroczo's forces. ! The movement begun by Carranza created less alarm in the capital than of of Sonora. Early in the campaign against Carranza the government made some headway, but in the north 1 west the first tricks were taken by the [ rebels, who gained decided advan- l tage in the occupation of Nogales and | Agua Prieta. The defeat of Col | won prestige for the new rebels, who had dubbed themselves | 'fConstitutionalists.'
 Confidence in an early suffocation | of this new revolt was expressed at | the National Palace, and plans were | than ten thousand against Mayto- i rena, Pesquiera and Obregon, the reb- e1 leaders, but this optimism was not fully shared by the public.
 Friends of the administration re- fused to admit the strength of a re- personalities. This new revolt is based on these two things, but behind it there is a well defined grievance ex- pressed by those who insist that the new administration is nothing more than return to power of the old | utilitarian group, who, they aIlege, will make no effort to put into eff feet the reforms promised in the Plan of San Luis Potosi'' on which Madero's revolution was based. Pri- mariIy the new revolt is based on sen timent- Its leaders are, or pretend to be, mortified by the killing of Ma Hero and Pino Saurez and character ze Huerta as a mere usurper. To them Madero dead, and now a mar ,yr, is more powerful perhaps, than ne was during the last months of his fife. Whether the contention of the capital that the movement against duerta is bound to fail, is true or not northwest gained many recruits dur r ng the first days of the rebellion.
 Military men realize that a cam oaign in Sonora would be by no means simple. There is reason to believe hat it will not be easy to get together t is proposed to place in Sonora. If his is done, however, their mobiliza- ion and transport will be a difficult ask. The movement of an army of en thousand in Mexico means the movement also of thousands of wo- nen, a necessary adjunct under the rmy's present organization, since hese women take the place largely of cOmmissary departm ent. Transit 'y land of from ten to fifteen thous- nd human beings, together with ar illery, horses, mules and other equip nent, presents manifold difficulties. The easiest way would be to send hem by sea to Guaymas. but Mexi- 70 has none too many transports.
 The government counts upon the ebe1s being unable to secure any ,reat quantity of money, and believes hat arms and ammunition will be difficult to procure. On the other land, however, the government will rave to secure great amounts of mon y if it successfully carries out an ag- ressive policy. The administration apparently with some req