Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-21
DICTATOR
IN FLIGHT
Reaches Seaport In Safety
And Escapes From
Country.

/ ~ NAONh NOhikhN aNNOAAlRo W
General Banquet, his minister OF
war. General Huer will remain
aboard bis train tonight. 1t is gener'
ally believed that Huerts and Blan-
quet will go aboard the Dresden, and
the other refugees. including Sonora
Huerta and Sonora Blanket. aboard
the Bristol and that both cruisers
will proceed for Jams ica or Havana.
1t was day of sharp anxiety, es-
pecially for the wives OF the two
leaders who we're passing through a
country where a considerable num-
Der of revolutionists are knot n TO be
operating.
Rise and Fall of Huerta.
Victoriano Huerta took oath as
provisional president of Mexico Feb
ruary, 1913, the day after Francisco
l. Madero had heen arrested at the
national palace. Three days later,
Madero and Jose Maria Pine Suarez,
vice president, were shot to death on
midnight ride under guard from
the palace to the penitentiary.
The manner of their death never
has been satisfactorily explained.
One of Huerta's first acts as pro-
visional president was to telegraph
William H. Taft, then president of
the United States, the following
message:
Il have the honor to inform you
that | have overthrow this govern
ment. The forces are with me and
from now on peace and prosperity
will reign"
The republic Immediately was
plunged into civil war again, not
withstanding Huerta's issuance of a
proclamation of general amnesty.
The Sonora state congress officially
.repudiated the provisional govern
ment before Huerta had settled him
self comfortably in the presidential
chair.
Zapata revolutionary leader to the
south of the capital, after negotiat-
ing a few days with the new regime,
went back to his guerrilla campaign.
Salazar, one of the highest generals
in the army, denounced Huerta. Car
rama, constitutionalist leader in
Chihuahl a, assailed him in bitter
statement made public at San Anto-
Mo. Francisco Villa announced him
self an adherent of Madero and join
ed the ranks of the northern army.
Pascual Orozco, of the clan of the
northern revolutionaries, was the
lone notable figure among the disaf-
fected who declared for the new
President Taft, nearing the end of
his term, left to his successor the
problem of adjusting the diplomatic
relations with Mexico. To Woodrow :
Wilson, Huerta sent fluctuations on
the day of the American Presidents
inauguration.
Hampered at the outset of his adj
by the refusal of the |
United States to recognize him. HUI
erta soon faced growing difficulties
in raising funds to run his govern.
ment His uneasy hold upon affairs
was weakened by MINOR constitu-
tionalists victories in the north and
by recurring rum RS of a break with
Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfrio Diaz,
and Huerta's ally in the overthrow
Of Madero.
On May l Huerta announced he
would urge congress to call elections
in October to choose his successor.
The congI ess selected October 26 as
the date of the election and a decree
TO that effect was issued by Huerta
On June 3.
Felix Diaz, who had announced
as a candidate for the presi-
iency, was sent to Japan on July II.
Henry Lane Wilson, the American
was recalled to Wash
ngton and Nelson O'Shaughnessy
charge affaires, was left in charge Of
American interests in Mexico.
Early in August it became known
that President Wilson intended to
send John Lind, formerly governor
Of Minnesota, to Mexico as his per-
'onal representative in an endeavor
% arrange basis of the republics
peace. Huerta announced he would