The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-07-23
HUERTA LASTED
ONLY ONE YEAR
after WARNING
81. rvinht Follows Twelve Months
Of What May Be Called
lettering.
FALL CERTAIN FROM FIRST
~. Absence Of Recognition by the
limited States 1t Was Recognized
THAT the Dictator Would BE
Unable to Retain Power.

THAT the Dictator "ouio 6e
Unable to Retain Power.
u.shington.-Just one year has
,onsed since President Wilson ian
"nnced that his Mexican policy then
uousisted of the edict that "Huerta
.snst co." and assured the American
nublic that the Mexican president was
catering" and soon would fall.
For the first four months Of Presi-
,ont Wilson'S administration he was
absolutely silent regarding the Next
oon situation, though it gradually be-
o.m0 known that he did not intend
~ Grant official recognition to the HUI
orta government. Late in June, 1913,
conservatives of number of Euro
ooan powers drew up letter Of pro-
+ost In which it was declared that
tho United States had largely contrib
ntpd 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 pacihcation 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 no
credentials. These proposals, or rath'
>er demands, were for:
The resignation of Huerta.
The establishment of q provisional
government, pending the holdings OF
elections.
The elimination of Huerta as 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 ensued
the United States receded from its
proposals one by one until there re
NAMED only the demand that Huerts
be not a candidate in the elections due
to be held in the fall. It was general
ly conceded that in the Lind CORE
spondence Huerta's foreign minister
FREDERICK Gambca, had decidedly the
best Of it, and the administration was
finally left to content itself with Gam
boas statement that certainly Huerts
could not be a candidate to succeed
himself because of a constitutions
prohibition to that effect, as the net re
suit Of the Lind discussions.
President Wilson addressed con
gress on the subject Immediately upol
the failure of the Lind mission, urging
a policy of patience, while Lind wen
to Vera Cruz, where he remained al
most continuously, playing the role o
reporter to the president until Apri
last.
Soon thereafter William Bayar
Hale, the presidents campaign bioe
Tapher, who had also been serving Il
Mexico City, as an unofficial observe
Tor the president, was assigned on ar
other secret mission and went to tn
Mexican border to ascertain the pal
pose and character of the Constitt
tionalists. -
U. S. Backs the Rebels.
His reports, combined with other II
formation possessed by the presiden
are considered to have been chiefly n
sponsible for the presidents decisio
to back the Constitutionalists just a
far as possible. This policy Of SUI
port for the revolutionists was neve
offlcially announced, but became II
creasingly evident.
Meantime Huerta had found, SO
was officially asserted in Mexico Cit.
mat the congress, consisting largei
OF Maderistas, was conspiring agains
MIN and defeating his governments
projects. He accordingly, in Octobe
arrested large number Of the deputie
and put them in prison, where man
or them remained for considerable p
RODS He declared himself virtu'
dictator, pending, he said, the ele
lions, at which a new congress was
De chosen and candidates for presidel
voted upon.