The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-07
PREVENT LIND
FROM LANDING
CONTINUED from gage a.,

ment by the United States would
| bring peace far more quickly than II
| this government withholds its sup
port said Simondetti He asserts he
is not the representative of the
Huerta government. He pictures
IIuerta as humane, brave, accom-
plished and strong man, whose one
aim is to restore peace to Mexico.
Madero was insane, according to the
editor His frontal bone was an inca
thick and the base of his skull very
! thin and an autopsy showed half a
dozen adhesions of the brain to the
skull, due to meningitis in childhood
Simondetti added, 1T Is generally b.
| lieved in Mexico that the man who
caused Madero to be shot was gover
nor of the province. The night before
the shooting he was known to have
smoked marihuana, a weed the pro-
duction of which is prohibited. He
was marihuana drunk when the shoot,
ing occurred. IF Huerta's government
is overturned Mexico will be at the
mercy Of brigands. It is to the inter
est of universal peace and Mexico
that Huerta be assisted by recogns
ton by the United States. The Japa-
nese talk Is nonsense. The Mexican
government cannot sell land to a for
eign nation nor lease It, Mexicans
know that the United States would /
not permit such negotiations with I
Japan. They are not FOOLS
Diaz Remains Mum.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. General
Felix Diaz and his party today are
speeding towards Portland enroute to
Vancouver where he will board
ship for Japan Aug. 10. He refused
to make any further statement re-
garding the situation In Mexico.
Lind Arrives Saturday.
lBy John Edwin Nevin, Staff Cores
pendent of the United Press.l
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-Should
the Huerta government take the posi-
ton that former Governor John Lind.
now steaming toward Vera Cruz on
the battleship New Hampshire to act
as the personal representative of
President Wilson is persona non grata
and refuse to consider any sugges-
tons he may make 1t will not OF It.
self mean armed Intervention by the
United States. That was made en- +
phatically plain by administration
officials today. Should that be the
Huerta position it is extremely prob
lble that the embargo on the insur.
gents importing arms from this side
II the border will be Immediately
'aised. The majority Of the members
u the senate are already in favor of {
Juch action. 1t would have been tax.
an before this If the president and
Secretary Bryan had not insisted that
methods must be tried first. !
SO far as the so-called official declara-
Ion OF the Huerta government that
lind will not be received in Mexico
ity unless he recognizes the defacto
eg1me is concerned, 1t is not taken
cry seriously by either President.
Wilson or Secretary Of State Bryan. {
hey refused today to comment on {
he report. Instead It was decided by i
hem that until Governor Lind re- I
'orts in person Just what reception he {
eceives In Mexico City where he is $
ue to arrive Saturday, the admins
ration will jump at the conclusion S
hat Lind's mission IS not exactly /
that Secretary Bryan characterized it S
n his telegram of last night-"one of /
eace" and until he is convinced that
e Is wrong he will take no further I
tops In the matter.
The constitutionalists have sent '
vord to the senate through Col. Ed h
ardo Hay and through other sources t
0 the president and Secretary of v
tate Bryan that If they are permitted "
. purchase arms on this side of the /,
order they will drive Huerta from r
over in three months. They have