Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-05-20

powers give to the United States their
moral authorization to intervene. III
the Huertistas and $Carranzistas re-
fuse to compromise their differences,
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Second-"1s a single presidential
autocrat necessary to the preservation
Of order in Mexico?'
No, If a compromise government is
assured Of American military support
in the event Of further revolution"
Pesslmlsm 10 General.
III But none Of those with whom I
talked was sanguine. All considered
compromise possible rather than prob
able. I shared their pessimism as I
went past the battered American club
to the beleaguered and worried little
Brazilian minister. What hope is there
for people whose government builds
an opera house more beautiful than
any such building in the British en-
pire or the United States; while the
majority of the people have neither
letters in their heads nor shoes on
their feet? s y, IS; IS. k a
Henry Rice, who used to live in Chi
cago, took me to the general Of police.
We drove past cabmen who looked
and dressed like blanket Indians and
past officers as smart1y uniformed as
the French artillery staff. The gem
eral gave us permission to leave the
city. We hurried pass the boulevard
ed Y. M. C. "A. building to the French
special train, on which we had been
invited to go to Puerto Mexico, lest
the general Of police change his mind.
Y Describes His Experiences. 4
do not like to give too much space
to our own experiences, but must re-
late them in so far, as they illustrate
conditions and abe attitude of the
Huertistas toward Americans. Twice
we were arrested and once held in
communicate short time and
searched as spies for discriminating
documents. Thursday morning Rich
ard Harding Davis. Frederick Palmer
and I left Vera Cruz by train for the
gap in the railway where the Mexicans
cut the track April % 1t is not sur
prising that we were stopped. 1t is
surprising that two Of got to Mexico
City and back again with SO little de-
lay. $;.s t.S{ ~ s.z Z, 2 3L-
Palmer has the appearance Of an
American man OF letters. Davis says
the farther we advanced into the inter-
Tor the more I looked like a shaven
Uncle Sam. Davis himself looked to
me like a mixture Of John Drew and
Theodore Roosevelt shaken well be-
fore using He and ], anyway, seemed
selected for defeat. Adam Weimar, a
German-American employed by the
Banco National, who started with us
from Vera Cruz, did what he could to
help us. II Davis had letters from the
Brazilian consul to his minister In
Mexico City. i had a personal letter
from the French consul introducing
Davis and me to General Mas, while
in addition had q certificate which
showed that represented great Eng.
lish newspaper. Our credentials, like
Mercutio's, were not much, but
enough, but Palmer had only a visiting
card. .ll#.s !tal III i5a5 I: s3.f,lf 4
Men Placed UndeF Arrest.
From the gap we rode by: rail to
Paso del Macho, wherb we stopped
for luncheon. Il }$$ ss5. v; y. HI
NJ 1t was very hot and the platform
was packed: with waiting Mexican ref;
ugees from Vera. Cruz. Suddenly /
saw Davis going through the crowd
with a shabby little officer at his ell
bow. AS I started to his rescue an
other officer, still shabb1er, tapped me
on the arm and invited me to follow
him. ii did. AS the guard closed
around us we turned to welcome
Pa&ner's solemn accession to our
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IA on to the Jail we marched, little
sandaled soldiers shutting along on
either side. They drove q crowd OF
men and women out OF the Jail court
into the pail and asked us for our pa
pers. They read the papers and then
offered chair first to Palmer, not to
sit on. but to facilitate the removal Of
his boots to. see If his socks contained
dispatches. They searched us, but ]
politely refused to give up my letter
to General Mas, which saved us. l
unlimbered my Spanish. They put US
in a nice cell and sent for another
officer. y s+S3 553G. &5s&:2.,
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Meanwhile lieutenant, who looked
like doorkeeper in movie show,
put a sentinel over each of us and os-
tentatiously loaded his gun Davis
said something by way Of coincidence.
l"Silencio!" said his sentinel. &s2i
4 So I'VE sat, cross, hot and mum,
above all, mum. Presently came a
lieutenant who could speak French. !
unlimbered that language, too, and out
we were sent without aguard. Gen.
eral Mas was very civil. He did not
ask Davis or me about our nationality,
but Palmer's visiting card would not
do. He had to go back to Vera Cruz.
| We had no more adventures. A
drunken brakeman said he was death
| on Americans, but If we were English
! we could give him few centavos for
beer. At Orizaba we spent a comfort
able night In hotel kept by a French
man. Frioay we left Tor Mexico City.
It was not until we were leaving the
railroad station for our hotel in the
capital that anything befell us. Then
a young man with the manners Of
hotel runner stopped ua We discov.
cred that he was detective. q.
Accompanied by this man and a
half a dozen Of his colleagues, we
went to the office Of the inspector Of
police. With us went E. T. Oakley,
residen, correspondent Of the London
Times, to see us through. There we
found Walter Whiffen, who had been
confined for twenty-four hours without
a bed, linen or sanitary facilities. SUIT
ton also was there. Oakley vouched
for INA and Dresently we were taken