Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-04-05
LESS POLITICS" HAS
BECOME SLOGAN
OF PRESIDENT
HUERTA
POrfirio Diaz's Watchword
Said to Be Actuating No
tive of New Administration
in Mexico.
NEW ARMY OF REBELS
DIsC0NCERTs REGIME

A'f-N correspondence
Mexico city, April -"I.ess poll
tics and more administration the
watchword ~ Porfirio Diaz, has he.
come the slogan Of the new Hucrta
government In the days OF porfirio
Diaz cabinet ministers. heads OF de.
partments and official incumberts
generally. " they had opin ons com
irary to governmental policy, dis
ereetiy kept them 10 themselves. with
me advent Of Madero the psnt an
Hood Of political expression deluscd
the country Political orators went
10 extremes In airing their vleNB.
from platforms throughout thu re.
public the acts OF the adminiatrotion
we've criticised to the point - VIM
cation. Administrative affairs were
allowed to suffer
President iuerta. In his nrst puh-
lie utterances. made " plain that his
policies were 40 be- OF difforan. or.
der. To a group OF newspaper men
whom he summoned 10 the palace he
expressed his appreciation a. free
press but intimated to them that
their efforts should be directed along
lines of aiding In e-estabdshrneni OF
peace. rather than toward huiting out
difficulties with which L. confront
the administration.
In word" he cautioned them.
abandon for the moment pnL'iclI
questions ana give preference to those
of administration
II am convinced" he added that
u Is not wise, In the present moment
OF our national life for you u occu-
py yourselves with affairs purely po-
iitical. but rather with ,hJsc mat.
ters which have q bearing On the "a.
cification of the country"
Caricaturists also will ply their art
with more circumspection. Win the
person of Madero they we've accns-
toned To- take every liberty. .ted were
permitted 10 DO So Before President
huertn had been In office two weeks
he sent for the editor OF one OF tho
best known comic weeklles ~ the
"apitnl. calling his attention 10 a
cnricature az himself the president
said 10 The editor:
- don't like that. wish sou
wouldn't print my picture that way"
But, Mr. President -
We'll, that's an. don't want Won
10 print these cnricaturcs becnuse--
Wei, don't. goodbye"
The editor departed and Il is snre
10 say that he viii think twice before
repeating the offonse.
That peace would return 10 Mexico
almost automatically. after he Ger,
throw of the Madoro government. was
the belief of thousands Of 1ptimists,
both MeXicanS ana Foreigners nut
before the new administrator was
month old IL was evident that "a h'f
undertaken a task the completion OF
which WAS by no means simple, 4
MINORITY OF those who had been fight |
INK against Madero laid down their
arms hut new army Of rebels arose. |
ana the Mexican situation vas not |
unlike that of q play In whIcn The |
actors had been changed and few
shifts or scenery made Enough of /
the old Zapniista army remained un-
der arms Ia provide the government |
with It's problem In the south, while !
Governor Venustiano Carranza. of Co
nhuila. ana Governor Pesuuiera. Of |
sonora. furnished "a rev army In the |
north 90 take the place of Pasoual |
'Hbsch ltitfNt
The movement begun by Carian2l |
created less alarm IN rho capital than |
did that of the rebellious executive of |
Sonora, Early in the campaign /
against Carranza the government
made some hoadway. hut In the north
west the first tricks were taken ny
The rebels. who gained a decided ad-
In the occupation Of Nogales
ana Agun Prleta, The defeat Of CT
nnel Kost"rlitzky won prestige for ne /
new rebels, who had dubbed them
selves "Constitutionalists"
Confidence In an early suffocatipn
NJ this new revolt was expressed ~
the National Palace, and plans wSre
made for sending an army Of not less
han ten thousand against Maytoroda.
Pesquiera and Cbrcgon. the rebel
lenders but this optimism was not
fully shared by the public.
Friends Of the administration re-
fused To admit the strength Of re-
hellion based largely on sentiment or
This new revolt Is
based on these two things, hut behind
Il there Is a well defined grievance cN-
pressed by those who Insist that Ito
new administration is nothing more
han "A return To power Of the old