The daily sentinel., 1913-06-03
BLOODY HUERTA
ACHES FOR HIS
SWORD AGAIN
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Mexico City, June 3.-General HUI
erta is chatting under the restraint
imposed by the duties and ceremon-
les attending his office as president,
and some of his friends in the army
will not me 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 revolution
lists, is seriously considering the res
gnation of his office in order person
ally to direct the campaign.
That the army has not made any
great advancement in restoring peace
is evident, and Huerta, who planned
and carried out the campaign against
Orozco year ago, is pardoned by his
intimates for believing that he could
do the job more eXpeditiously. 81 am
not a man of governmental affairs,
said Huerta recently in the course of
an impromptu after-dinner speech.
Il am soldier, and every time that
| see a body of men entraining, |
long to go with them into the field"
Who would take Huerta's place as
provisional president is n matter of
much speculation. His inability to
find a man who would satisfy the
people and display the requisite eX-
eCutive ability is what may prevent
MeXicO's soldier-president from aban-
dCning the palace. To place Felix
DiaZ in the presidency probably
would not improve the situation very
greatly, and certainly it would not
please Diaz, since his occupancy Of
the provisional post would greatly
lessen his chances of holding it as an
elected incumbent. The selection of
Francisco de la Barra would please
many of his intimate friends, but the
Catholic party has its eye on de la
Rarra as Il candidate for the presi-
dcncy at some future time when cleo
tiuns can be held. Once it was sug-
gested that General Geronimo Ire
vino take the provisional presidency;
but the general is getting on in years
and, in addition, he does not want
the place.
Whether Huerta would do any bet
ter, however, in the field than his
now are doing is regarded as
by no means certain. He probably
has an influence over the army great
or than that of any other general:
but the army today is a poor thing
with that LETT by Porfirio
Diaz, notwithstanding that DiaZ's
army was far less efficient than he
considered it. 1t has been demon
5trated that the army is not unit
)f loyalty, and the introduction into
Its ranks of thousands of eX-rebels
appears no to have greatly strength
aued its loyalty, an to have lowered
discipline and efficiency. AS minis
tel of war Huerta might direct all
phases of the campaign; bat, as sim
pie general in the field, he could di-
rect only a small part, and what he
might accomplish in one region
might easily be offset by what tran
spired in other parts of the republic.
Huerta and Diaz believed in Feb
ruary that they had restored Mexico
to a peaceful condition, and they
probably did not dream that the
counter revolution ever would assume
the proportions it has today. There
Is no doubt now however, that the
number of rebels is greater than the
number of the governments troops,
and it has become practically mat
ter of money which side will win.
May began with the government still
on the defensive but making promises
Of the early Inauguration of terri
BILE campaign against the rebels. 1t
was believed in the capital that. by
the time the rebels would have eX-
hausted their supplies of ammunition
and would be unable to buy more or
to get it across the American bound
airy line, even If they possessed the
necessary means to purchase it. Mon
ey is not plentiful in the rebel treas
ury, but neither is it in that of the
government. So far as get
4 II. ~.
line is concerned, the rebels appear
10 be having less difficulty than did
either Madero or Orozco, and Mexi-
cans in the capital are open in their
of the Washington gov
for not maintaining a strict
e. patrol.