The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-07-24
HUERTA LASTED
ONLY ONE YEAR
AFTER WARNING
aiIs Flight Follows Twelve Months
Of What May Be Called
lettering.
FALL CERTAIN FROM FIRST
In the Absence OF Recognition by the
United States Il Was Recognized
That the Dictator Would Be
Unable 70 Retain Power.

That the Dictator Would be
Unable 10 Retain Power.
Washington. -Just one year has
elapsed since President Wilson an
nounced that his Mexican policy then
consisted OF the edict that "Huerta
must 80, and assured the American
public that the Mexican president was
~tottering. and soon would fall.
For the first four months OF Presi
dent Wilson's administration he was
absolutely silent regarding the Aexi-
can situation. though It gradually be-
came known that he did not intend
to grant official recognition TO the Hu.
erta government Late Ia June, 1918,
representatives OF number OF Euro
pean powers drew up letter OF pro
test, IN which II was declared that
the United States had largely contrib
uted TO the Anarchical conditions In
Merco and that II ought either to rec.
ognizs the Husrta government and dis
courage thu revolution or assume re-
sponslbllty for the pacihcatlon 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, holdoyer am
bassador 10 Mexico, was recalled, and
AFTER scant hearing At the White
House was Gsked to resign John
Lind. former colleague OF Secretary
bryan Ia the house Of representatives.
aud former governor OF Minnesota.
was designated the presidents conf
dental agent and sent TO Mexico In
an endravOr to get Huerta's sanction
TO plan for his elimination
Mr. Lind presented four proposals to
President Huerta, through his minis.
ter OF foreign affairs tho Mexican
president declining to receive the
American omlssary because he had no
credentials. These proposals. or rath-
or demands, were for:
The resignation OF Huerta.
The establishment OF provisional
government, pending the holdings OF
SECTIONS
The elimination OF Huerta as a can.
dldate for the presidency by election.
The conclusion of an armistioe be-
tween the contendihg forces,
Y. s. Backs Down.
Ia the correspondence that ensuod
the United States receded from It's
proposals one BY one uatil there re.
manned only the demand that Huerta
be- not a candidate In the elections due
to be held In the fall It was general
ly conceded that In the Lind CORE
spOndruco Huertas foreign minister,
FREDERICK Gamboa. had decidedly the
best Of Il. and the administration was
finally left to content itself With Gam
buas statement that certainly Huerta
could not be candidate to succeed
himself because OF constitutional
prohibition 10 that effect. ~ the net re-.
suit " the Lind discussions
President Wilson addressed con
gress on the subject immediately upon
the failure OF the Lind mission, urging
q policy " patience. white Lind went
10 Vera Cruz. where he remained al.
most continuously, playing the role Of
reporter 10 the preslden, until April
last
soon thereafter William nByard
Hale. thu presidents campaign bog
rapher. who had also been serving In
MsAico CITY. ~ An unofficial observer
for the president. was assigned on an.
other secret mission and went 20 the
Mexican border to ascertain the pur,
pose and character OF thu Coustitu.
Uonallsts,
v. 8, Backs the Rebels,
Hts reports, combined with other In
formation possessed by tho president,
are considered to have been chiefly re
sponsible FOR the presidents decision
20 back the Constitutionalists Just as
far as possible This policy OF sup
port for the reyolutionists WAS never
officially announced, but became In.
creasInsly evident
Meantime Huerta had found. 80 II
was officially asserted In Mexico City.
that the congress, consisting largely
" Madcristas WAS conspiring against
hin and defeating hts governmental
projects Ne accordingly. In October,
arrested large number OF the deputies
aud put them In prison. where many
ot them remained FOR considerable pc
rtcds lie declared himself virtual
dictator, pending, be said. the cleo
ttons, at which new congress was 10
be chosen and candidates for president
voted upon.
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