The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-05-09
Huerta Becoming Desperate;
Rumored thatH He May Resign;
FoesWithout and FoesWithin
HLs BROKEN WITH
. his WAR MINISTER
clsseNsIoN IN CABINET, AMONG
HIS GENERALS, AND THE
POPUlACE, EFT Al.
-, Newspaper Union News Service.

v.usprs Newspaper Union News Service.
Vashington.-A dispatch received a,
A state department from a foreign
Minister at Mexico City briefly said:
sHuerta's position is desperate"
Another dispatch from Mexico City
IA that the city apparently is quiet
II that an outbreak might start al
~ time which might even cost Huer.
q his life.
The Brazilian minister in Mexico
ct notified the State Department
Aat Americans there are not harrass.
4 or in danger, but that he had advis.
4 hem to remain in close quarters
| |mrl they could leave.
Husrta Has Broken With Banquet.
4 is reported that Huerta has brok.
q with General Aurilio Banquet, his
ninister of war, erstwhile intimate
. hiud and closest adviser. Evidence
not lacking that Banquet is plot
Ting against his former friend, to
| vhom he gave valuable aid in over
. hpwing Madero. 1t Is said that Blan-
Qet has designs on the presidency
1mself and that he hopes to profit by
i \ strong feeling against Huerta that
Gbt in the city of Mexico, even as
l1stx rose by the downfall of Ma
bn.
n ID said that the soldiers in the
cg Of Mexico, who have hitherto
IN loyal to Huerta, now are waver-
= and that It would take but little
shduce them to turn on the dictator.
Anti-Huerta Sentiment Strong.
he revulsion Of feeling against
Sera was indicated by the recent
nde OF American sympathizers
sush the streets of Mexico City
aeh Huerta dared not stop.
Rebel sympathizers circulated PAM
nku denouncing Huerta and declar-
= that he had deliberately sought
NDle with the United States in an
mi to unite all the Mexican fac
hG
3adually the people have learned
alhins Of the truth of the military
ation and Of the unbroken success
q the rebels in northern Mexico.
~ are bitter in resenting the false
eFn OF the success of the Federal
~ They are beginning to realize
u mat they have been duped by
Gen. carranza Eliminated.
snefal Carranza and the Constitu-
iess we're practically eliminated
me proceedings of the three
american mediators. They tele-
30 General Carranza that in
q his refusal to agree to an
uce they withdrew their invita-,
nhtve
. nediators told the Constitution
sder that as long as he main
his present attitude they must
y 70 treat with him.
sHal Carranza had INQUIRED as to
so1ects a special representative
% required to discuss. He
mat II the general problem of
s Mexico were to be APPROACH
could not authorize any one
esent him He reiterated that
n consent to mediation only on
''ec1 which had been brought
accidentally between the Unit
and Mexico" He wrote that
@e constitutionalist chosen lead
saom complaint about the insult
ico should have been made.
'egram sent by the mediators
open to Carranza, however. the
OF sending a special repre-
whenever he is willing to ar =,
% armistice with Huerta.
new turn in events ended, in
~ OF many officials, the chance
Ing the entire Mexican problem
tely. The mediators will con.
~e'r efforts to solve the differ
'Seen Huerta and the United
Wen Chosen by Huerta.
solators expressed satisfac-
20 the class of men chosen by
prominent of d. Emilio Ra-
a big man into the pro-
he is about 60 years old, a
1o one OF the foremost au-