The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-07-24
NUERTA LASTED
ONLY ONE YEAR
after WARNING
His Flight Follows Twelve Months
of What May Be Called
lettering.
FALL CERTAIN FROM FIRST
IN the Absence Of Recognition by the
United States It Was Recognized
That the Dictator Would Be
Unable to Retain Power.

Unable to Retain Power.
Observation-Disclosures one year has
elapsed since President Wilson an
nounced that his Mexican policy then
consisted Of the edict that "Huerta
must co." and assured the American
public that the Mexican president was
a,ottering." and soon would fall.
For the first four months of Presi-
,Aent Wilson's administration he was
absolutely silent regarding the Mexi-
can situation, though 1t gradually be-
came known that he did not intend
TO grant official recognition to the HUI
srta government. Late In June. 1918.
representatives of a number OF Euro
pean powers drew up a letter Of pro-
test, in which 1t was declared that
the United States had largely contrib
uted to the anarchical conditions in
Mexico and that it ought either to rec
ognize the Huerta government and dis
courage the revolution or assume re-
sponsibility for the p%acifcation Of
Mexico, This joint document reached
the hands Of President Wilson, and re-
suited in action by him.
Lind Sent to Mexico.
Henry Lane Wilson, hold-over am
bassador to Mexico, was recalled. and
after a scant hearing at the White
House was asked to resign. John
Lind. former colleague Of Secretary
Bryan in the house of representatives
and former governor of Minnesota,
was designated the presidents conf.
Dental agent and sent to Mexico In
an endeavor to get Huerta's sanction
to a plan for his elimination.
Mr.. Lind presented four proposals to
President Huerta, through his minis
ter of foreign affairs, the Mexican
president declining to receive the
American emissary because he had nc
credentials. These proposals. or rath'
Or demands, were for:
The resignation OF Huerta.
The establishment Of a provisional
government, pending the holdings O
elections.
The elimination OF Huerta as a can
didate for the presidency by election
The conclusion Of an armistice be
tween the contending forces.
U. S. Backs Down.
In the correspondence that ensue'
the United States receded from it
proposals one by one until there re
NAMED only the demand that Huerti
be not a candidate In the elections du
to be held in the fall. 1t was genera
ly conceded that In the Lind CORE
spondence Huerta's foreign minister
FREDERICK Gamboa. had decidedly tn
best of it, and the administration wa
finally left to content itself with Gan
boa's statement that certainly Huert
could not be a candidate to succee
himself because of a constitutions
prohibition to that effect. as the net RI
suit Of the Lind discussions.
President Wilson addressed col
gress IN the subject Immediately upo
the failure Of the Lind mission, urgin
a policy OF patience, while Lind weI
to Vera Cruz, where he remained a
most continuously. playing the role {
reporter to the president until Apr
last.
soon thereafter William Bayar
Hale, the presidents campaign bio
rapher, who had also been serving
Mexico City, as an unofficial observe
for the president, was assigned on a
other secret mission and went to tn
Mexican border to ascertain the pu
pose and character OF the Constit'
tionalists.
V. 8. Backs the Rebels.
His reports, combined with other |
formation possessed by the presiden
are considered to have been chiefly r
sponsible for the presidents decisic
to back the Constitutionalists just
far as possible. This policy Of su
port for the revolutionists was new
officially announced. but became
ereasingly evident.
Meantime Huerta had found, so
was officially asserted in Mexico Cit
That the congress, consisting lari;e
OF M~aderistas, "a conspiring agai
nlm and defeating his government
projects. He accordingly, In Octohe
arrested a large number Of the deputi
and put them in prison, where mai
OF them remained for considerable +
RODS. He declared himself a virtu
dictator, pending, he said. the ele
TONS, at which a new congress was
oe chosen and candidates for preside
voted upon.