Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-02-28
HUERTA RULE OF
BLOOD AND IRON
Chief Attends to Business
With Extreme Firmness.
MADERO'S BODY IN VAULT
Porforio Diaz Says He viii Return to
Mexico and Fight Whatever Ma
tion Seeks to Restore Peace
in the Republic.

Mexico City.-The Huerta rule of
blood and iron is triumphant-for the
time being.
Madero is dead. His father and his
uncle, Ernesto, have fed OF his i'm
mediate family only his sorrowing
wife and his sister, Mercedes, remain.
Every development of the day had
strengthened the first belief that Ma
dero and Suarez were brutally muir
dered, but this for the present is an
event Of the past, to be discussed only
in whispers.
The people of Mexico City are happy
In appearance, but fearful in their
hearts lest the ironical hoax Of Ma.
dero's attempted fight" be repeated.
Gen. Huerta remains at the national
palace In strictest seclusion attending
Ito the business at hand with the most
extreme firmness.
The city Is bedecked with bunting
and flags, but these symbols of gayety
do not disillusion the new dictator.
He knows that conspiracies are afoot
to avenge the murder of the man
WhOSS oulCt IluulCu pouy Wao pioSCu
in the most secretive and mysterious
manner in mausoleum in the French
cemetery.
Huerta realizes, too, that his admin
istration is on trial. If he dared to
defy the United States-and it has
been charged that he did by disposing
of Madero before he could be fairly
tried = he realizsg that the conse.
quence will be far more serious than
the commission of the act.
News comes from the country dis
tricts that certain rebel leaders are
ready to follow the Huerta banner, but
news also comes of braver-or per-
haps more frank-rebels who are de-
termined not to abide by rule of blood
and iron. A telephone message from
Atlixco, one of the most important
manufacturing cities in the state of
Puebla, states that the city was at
tackled by Zapatistas under Juan De
Lao, son of the famous Zapatista
leader and annihilated. The fighting
was desperate and lasted until the
garrison had been wiped out. The
Zapatistas converted the principal
church into fortress, looted all the
stores and destroyed the Ell Volcan
factory, valued at 100000 pesos.
Madero's Body In Tomb.
Faint viva Madero' from small
group of people huddled with heads
barred outside the frowning gates of
the penitentiary was heard as the final
plaudit for the man who less than two
xrs NJ q
city that strewed his path with flow
ers and thundered his name from the
house tops.
Federal soldiers, with fixed bayo-
nets, dispersed the people, and the
body of Madero, in plain wooden
casket, was borne on the shoulders Of
soldiers to the French cemetery, where
it was placed in Its temporary resting
place in a mausoleum. Shortly after
ward the body of Suarez was removed
to the Spanish cemetery and tempo
rariiy entombed.
Permission has been granted for
the removal of Madero's body to San
Pedro De Los Pines, the family es-
tate in Coahuila.
How the government is to finally
explain the death of Madero and Su-
arez and the immediate secretion of
the bodies is problematical in view of
later developments.
Will Fight Intervention.
Cairo, Egypt.-Porforio Diaz, de.
posed dictator of Mexico and now
again power in the affairs of his
country through the ascendancy of his
nephew, Felix Diaz, in the event of
foreign Intervention will return to
Mexico and fight whatever nation
seeks to restore peace. The aged war
rior received the !. N. S. correspond
ent at Luxor, where he is making a
short stay. He was keenly interested
to learn the latest news from Mexico.
When the subject of intervention was
broached his face showed all it's old
fiery determination.
"In the case of foreign intervention
which includes intervention by the
United States" he declared emphat
ically, II would go back at once-oI
even If 1t didn't-and do my duty to
my country. No, / won't return to
Mexico until the country is in a quite
peaceful condition" he continued. 81
/ expect to leave Egypt early in March
for France, but my movements after
then depend upon future occurrences
At present l am quite content to leave
the destiny of my country to Huerta
have every confidence in Huerta
whom l consider honest and trust.
worthy"