El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-17
FELIX BIlZ IS
NO L0NGER
4 HERO
Inactivity Of Candidate For
President of Mexico De-
tracts From Popularity.
REBELS NOW EXCEED
PREVIOUS REVOLBS

u EEXICO CITY, Mex, May IL
MI Gen. Felix Diaz has published
Iva his platform in the form of a
manifesto or open letter to the political
clubs supporting him. In 1T he has care
fully refrained from giving any but the
most general undertakings, such as
promise to restore peace; to do Justice
to all: 10 encourage education, etc, and
all without entering into details as to
how he is going to proceed
But the election Of Diaz appears lar
from certain. Had the election for presi-
dent been held the day after the close
of hOstilities in the capital, there Is no
doubt he would have been elected with
out any material opposition With
Huerta in the chair, however, ana Dig
revolution to attract OF distract tns
peOple there IS much less heard of the
popularity of Gen. Diaz. There are
man of his own partisans who have
, expressed the opinion that he never
/ VIII be president. 1t Is nothing that
he has done. say they, to turn from nm
the popular support, but rather the fact
that he mas done nothing spectacular
since he ceased firing shrapnel into ali
quarters Of the city
Dummies on Army Payroll
Investigation of the army payrolls has
shown an expenditure Of $1,000 pesos
(S13500l a month for salaries to OIL
GERS who never appeared IN uniform 1t
is charged that this was the work Of
one of the MaderO family. He Is said
to have used the paymaster Of the rural
guard to paw off his own renchmen-
His method was, according to the story
told at the palace, to name a man whom
he wished to favor OF use, an officer IN
the rurales. at the same time telling
the commanding officer that this new
officer would report once month 1Or
his paw None Of those appOintees has
appeared to collect his money since tie
overthrow of the MaderO regime
See Downfall of Huerta-
Pessimism at the Mexican capital con-
money the administration, in the opinion
/ of thousands Of residents, both native
and foreign. is bound to fal. These
men believe that Intervention by the
! United States or some other power
[ might prevent the overthrow, but. lett
alone. that the HUerta government viii
! see itself slowly crushed backward
I against the wall by the Constitution
alists-
! Francisco I. MaderO. alive. never could
/ induce any considerable number of men
( to take arms in defence of his govern
ment. but Madero. dead has proved a
/ far more potent figure Any estimate
[ of the number of rebels Is largely a
/ guess. but it is safe to assume that in no
/ previous revolution have there been IN
the field so many men armed working so
I closely together.
Small Army Is Handicap
It was not the lack of money that
Handicapped the government so badly nj
| the opening DAYS Of the rebellion as it
! was the smallness and ineffieieney OF
the army. There was a fair part Of
the irregular establishment which could
not be counted on. and when an investi-
CATION was made it was discovered that
not every name on the payrolls was
backed by a soldier present OF account
ed for"
It was believed, however, that with
money to continue the pay Of the sol
dieTs and to organize and equip new
bodies. the government would whip the
rebels. The more hopeful said that II
the government could hold them of for
a wear or more it would win, but the
majority regarded the chance slight even
IN that case