New Britain herald., 1914-07-16
'HUERTA'S RESIGNATION
 VICTORY FOR WILSON
President Announced One Year Ago
 Dictator Must Go.

Washington, July 1e.-Just one year has elapsed since President Will
 son announced his Mexican policy,
 which then consisted of the edict that
 "Huerta must go," and assured the American public that the Mexican
 president was tottering" and soon would fall.
 a There never was any doubt that, the United States having announced sits unalterable opposition to the Mex sican president, he eventually would .shave to give way. Yet the long period required to make the Wash sington edict effective has surprised ssthe world and given the administra- stion many uncomfortable months, be-
 sides winning Huerta a certain inter- q national admiration man of iron. s Silent at First.
 For the first four months of Presi- dent Wilson's administration he was absolutely silent regarding the Mexi- z can situation, though it gradually be- came known that he did not intend
 to grant official recognition to the Huerta government. Late in June, 1913, representatives of a number of
 European powers drew up a letter of
 protest in which it was declared that { the United States had largely con- tributed to the anarchicaI conditions . and that it ought either to recognize ! Huerta and discourage the revolution or assume responsibility for the paci- fication of Mexico. This joint docu- nent reached the hands of President Wilson and resulted in action by him. gs Henry Lane Wilson, hold-over Am fbassador to Mexico, was recalled and : a ,of ri at ho House was asked to resign. John EIind, ex-colleague of Secretary Bryan in the house and former Governor of Minnesota, was designated the Presi- confidential agent and sent to Mexico in an endeavor to get Huerta's sanction to a plan for his elimina- tion. He arrived at the Mexican cap- ita1 with Mrs. Lind whose presence Secretary Bryan said at the time was evidence of the peaceful character of his mission in mid-August.
 Presented Four Proposals.
 MT. Lind presented four proposals , to Huerta through his minister of foreign affairs, the Mexican presi- ident declining to receive the Ameri- can emissary because he had no credentials. These proposals, orr rather demands, were for: the resig- nation of. Huerta, the establishment of provisional government pending the holding of elections, the elimina- tion of Huerta as a candidate for the presidency by election and the con- sclusion of an armistice between the scontending forces.
 Tn the corresponde that igensueJa the United States receded from it's proposals one by one until there re-
 nained only the demand that Huerta be not candidate in the elections due to be held in the fall. It was conceded that in the Lind corre- spondence, Huerta's foreign minister, Gamboa, had decidedly the best of it. and the administration was finally left, as the net result of the Lind discussions, % content itself with Gamboa's statement that certainly Huerta could not me a candidate to succeed himself because of consti- >tutional prohibition to that effect
 Wilson Addressed Congress.
 President Wilson addressed con- gress in the subject upon the failure of the Lind mission, urging a policy of patience. Lind withdrew from Mexico City to Vera Cruz where he remained almost continuously, play ing the role of reporter to the pres ident until August last.
 Soon thereafter William Bayard Hale, the presidents campaign biog- rapher, who had been also serving in Mexico City as an unofficial observer for the president, was assigned to another secret mission and went t., the Mexican border to ascertain the purposes and character of the con- stitutionalists. His reports com bined with others possessed by tae president, are considered to have been chiefly responsible for the president s cause just as far as possible This