The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-19
MADERU UUI
Treachery of His Generals
Costs Him Place.
Arrested i'm Palace and Forced
to Resign.
GEN. HUERTA MADE TERMS.
His Price Was Governor GEN
eral of Republic.
Gen. Banquet Also Given Good
Job.
P0PULACE MADE QUICK CHANGE
They ThrOng Streets to Cheer
New Rulers.
End of 100 Days Battle in
Capital City.
His Price Was Governor Gen.
eral of Republic.
Gen. Banquet Also Given Good
Job.
POPULACE MADE QUICK CHANGE
They ThrOng Streets to Cheer
New Rulers.
End of 100 Days Battle in
Capital City.

Mexico City, Feb. 19.-Francisco I.
Madero. forced from the presidency
by the coup d'etat of two of his gen.
erals yesterday. is prisoner today in
the national palace.
General Victoriano Huerta. who
had been commanding the Madero
forces against the rebellious troops un-
der General Felix Diaz. has been pro-
claimed provisional governor general
of the republic. Auerliano Banquet,
who aided in the overthrow of Madero,
is provisional military commander.
These arrangements have been agreed
to by General Felix Diaz and the ten
days battle which he has been waging
with the federal forces appeared today
to be over.
Throngs of men and women and
children seemingly gave popular ap-
proval to the sudden change in affairs
by crowding the big squares in front
of the national palace and deliriously
shouting "Viva" for the three prin-
cipals and for Manuel Mondragon,
who had been conducting the Diaz
military operations. The demonstra-
tions of the night, however, were not
without serious disorder. O.. Marco
Hernandez, a brother of the minister
of the interior, Rafael Hernandez. was
killed in the streets by rurales when
demonstrative crowd surrounded him
and insisted that he join in the shoot
ing but he defiantly replied Viva
Madero"
He was answered by the pistols OF
the rurales, whose bullets killed him
instantly.
Another instance of disorder was the
firing of the building occupied by the
Nueva Era, a newspaper organ of the
Madero administration. Vice President
Jose Pino SuareZ, who was also ar
rested in the coup detat, was held
prisoner during the night in another
part of the palace from that where
MaderO was confined. Each man was
under guard. The ministers cabinet
was given parole over night. Senor
Juan Sanchez Azcona, private secre-
tary to Madero fed the country dur
ing the night in an automobile. The
deposed president was treated with all
consideration by those who have him
within their power, it is declared.
General Huerta promptly dispatched
a messenger to Mrs. Madero assuring
her of the personal safety of her hus-
band and declaring that he would be
treated well. 1t was the determine
ton that the battle in which heavy ar
tiIlery had been used in the streets
since the outbreak of the Diaz mutiny
must come to end which led a group
of senators last night to urge General
Huerta to the stroke that would not
only terminate the terrible conflict
DuI at the same time remove Ine NH
dero family from public affairs in
Mexico.
Details of the Coup de Etat.
Mexico City, Feb. 19-By 2 O'Clock
yesterday Francisco Madero and his
cabinet. with the exception of Ernesto
Madero, minister of finance, had been
made prisoners.
Ernest Madero managed to effect his
escape a few minutes before General
Blanquets men took the other minis
ters prisoners in the national palace.
Gustavo Madero. another brother OF
President Madero. also was arrested.
He had been denounced in many quar-
ters since the first days of the Madero
administration as an arch-politician
and had been charged with being
false counsellor of the president A
few hours later General Delgado and
General Angels, two of the federal
commanders who were not in accord
with General Huerta's plan, were added
to the list of prisoners.
The plan had originally been made
without the knowledge of Gen. Diaz
and his followers. The news soon per-
meated the rebel lines, and then be-
gan a holiday fusillade from the ma
chine guns and rifles such as had
not been seen since the opening Of
the fight. 1t seemed for a time as
though every machine gun and rife
had been brought into action in an ef-
fort to fire away all the remaining
stores of ammunition there.
1t was, however, -erel.- a celebration
of the arrival of one news that peace
was near.
The awful din was permitted by the
commanders to continue for 20 minutes
before the buglers were ordered to
sound cease firing"
AS the noise Of the reveFberating re-
ports from the guns died away the
sound of merry peals from all the
church bells of the city rang out. This
had been ordered by a message from
the national palace.
1t did not take the public long to
realize what had occurred. Long be-
fore the details of the formation of the
provisional government under Huerta
had been completely worked out. the
residents of the capital had begun to
give vent to their joy and relief all
over the city. The shouts that went up
were not those of the partisans of "A
victorious army but of people whose
nerves had been worn to tatters b.
enforced participation in long and
desperate battle in the confined
space of a great city