The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-24
HUERTA LONGS FOR
 LIFE IN THE FIELD
Chafes Under Restraint of For
 maIity of Presidency

Mexico City, May G4.-GenGraA Huerta is chafng under the restraint imposed by the duties and ceremonies attending his office as President. and some of his old friends in the army will not be surprised if one day he throws off the tri-colored band and again dons the military uniform. It is said that the President, not fully satisfied with the progress which is being made against the revolutionists, is seriously considering the resigna- tion Of his office in order personally to direct the campaign.
 That the army has not made any great advancement in restoring peace 1 is evident, and Huerta, who planned and carried out the campaign against Orozco a year ago. is pardoned by his 1 intimates for believing that he could | do the job more expeditiously. T am 1 not a man of governmental affairs, l said Huerta. recently in the course of an impromptu after-dinner speech. T am a soldier and every time that I see a body of men eatraining, long 1 to go with them into the field.s'
 Who would take H11erLass place as 1 Provisional President is a. matter of
 much speculation. His inability to i find a man who would satisfy the peo-
 pie and display the requisite executive
 ability is what may prevent Mexi-
 co.'s soIdier-Presfdent from abandon 1 ing the palace. To place Felix Diaz l in the presidency probably would not 1 improve the situation greatly. and
 certainly it would not please Diaz, 1 since his occupancy of the provisional post would greatly lessen his chances of holding 1t as an elected incum bent. The selection of Francisco de la Bar 1 ra would please many of his intimat te l friends but the Catholic party has it's eye on de Ia Barra as a candidate for 1 the presidency at some future time I when elections can be held Once if l was suggested that General Geroni- mo Trevino take the provisional pres I idency. But the General is getting on l in years, and in addition he does not I want the place.
 Whether Huerta would do any bet 1 ter. however, in the field than his I officers now are doing. is regarded as
 has an influence over the army great l CT than that of any other General; but the army to-day is a poor thing com pared with that left by Porhrio Diaz notwithstanding that Diaz's army was I far less efficient than he considered it. It has been demonstrated thai | the army is not g. unit of loyalty, and the introduction into it's ranks oi | thousands of ex-rebels appears not te | have greatly strengthened it's loyal ty, and to have lowered discipline and | efficiency As Minister of Wal
 
 cam paign, but as a simple General ir I the field he could direct only srnal part, and what he might accomplish I in one region might easily be offset b5
 what transpired fin other parts of tht Republic.
 Huerta and Dfaz believed in Feb,
 raary that they had restored Mexico to a peaceful condition. and thes
 probably did not dream that t11e coun ter-revolution ever would assume thu
 proportions 1t has to-day. There i no doubt now, however, that the mum } Der of rebels Is greatef than tf1' . number of the governm ent's troops l and it has become practically mat ter of money which side will win. Ma! : began with the government still. ol
 the defensive, but making promise } of the early. inauguration of a terribl' campaign against the rebels. It wa. } believed in the capital that by tha time the rebels would have exhauste'
 their supplies of ammunition an' !, would be unable to buy more, or t } get it across the American boundar, 5 line even if they possessed the neces ! sary means to purchase it. Money 3 not plentiful in the rebel treasury 3 but neither is it in that of the nation : al government. So far as getting gun and ammunition across the line is con sI cerned, the rebels appear to be hay g ing less difficulty than did either Ma oSTO UT OIO1CO, anu hS1ASdnS HI LII ! capital are open in their denunciatiol
 of the Washington government for no : maintaining a. stricter patrol.
 Q Were it mot for the fact that tn !, Mexican soldier generally provides hi f own rations, he would to-day be th f highest paid fighting man in tn y world. Madero raised his wages t : a peso, 50 cents gold, a. day, and Huer e ta has further increased it to a pes e and half ,or 75 cents gold. Tn 2 maintenance of the army in the pas e three years has been Mexico's greates $ item of expense, but notwithstandin . | that the government is hard up an [ 1 has had difficulty in securing the loa : for which it has been striving, Huert : considered the increase a necessit. l With this lure he hoped to gain re