Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-16
HUERTA DEFIED ENEMIES
FOR SEVENTEEN MONTHS
Man Who for 4s Years Was Soldier Was Peon by Birth and
hv His Courage Won Himself Highest Post in Republic
OILED With Iron Hand and etaned Support of Army.


victorino Huerta rose, ruled ana
fell in Mexico an army man. Inc
army which the constitutionahsts
Seclara win be the first thing abol-
hshed. supported him and exalted MIN.
When it was no longer able to stem
The onrush of the revolutionary Hooo'
there was nothing else for MIN 10 10
but get out. It mattered not to nm
what the United states might 90
against him, what pressure Europe
exerted. he was to remain just so long
as he had the military establishment
founded by Porfrio Diaz back oil MN,
me establishment erumbled ana the
end came
No one has denied that Genera
Fuerta maintained his government
for seventeen months in the face OF
obstacles which would have daunteo
any bIt an iron willed man. HIS most
Intimate friends have said that from
.he first he knew he was doomed, BUT
ne never gave any indication of it, he
could have fled many times ana ilis
family wanted him to go. but ne pre-.
ferred to remain fighting UP u ''
last - Years
A soldier for Forty-three years.
yet This man who kept up his hght
For seventeen months was born an IN
dian neon in December, 1854, at 20
ntlan in the state of Jahsco. ne
.,,ae bright. active and industrious ana
aacauired the rudiments OF an euuee
lion from good parish priest, whoIh
he had long delighted TO honor n
wanted to be soldier from the l iast'
and his opportunity came IN lo'L'
when General Donate Guerra leu al.
expedition through his native place a.
= the command of President Juar 80
Guerra needed a secretary TO wiz
=nrne disnatches for him, ana young
liberia stepped forward in his san
dals to volunteer. He pleased tue SUI
der. who questioned him.
II want to go TO Chapultepec' was
the renly Chapultepec, the west
Point of Mexico, had always peeil
The school for the aristocrat put
Gnerra liked the lad He interceded
in his favor and President Juarez
gave him an appointment he caine
out four years later heulehant
with honors and in 1876 he Won merit 1
at the battle of Tecoae. Where
hrio Diaz commanded.
Diaz went into the presidency ana
lieutenant Huerta disappeared INTO
the wilds of Mexico, now fighting /
Yaquis in Sonora, now CHASING |
bandits and capturing them, now put
ting down abortive revolutions. IN /
1891 he was a brigadier- general IN !
high favor with the President Inc
executive is said to have been at
iracted to him as a result OF the man
ner in which he ended the actlVlties
OF the bandit Zegaza.
70 ffdn business /
with the military commander ana !
sent emissaries All he wanted was I
hat on certain days no soldiers
should be in a certain town. Inc
nav would be large and not in loot. /
Huerta sent back word Next
Thursday" Zegaza and his troops ,
rushed the town in question and they |
we're literally blown out of existence. |
Head of Geographic Survey.
Diaz made Huerta chief of the geo
graphic survey of Mexico with the
rank of brigadier- general, and he /
spent nearly seventeen years at the |
job. It is asserted that he knows !
more about his native republic than |
any other living human being and has
travelled over every accessible foot
-~f~it.
He went back to his command
about three years before the fall of /
Don Porfirio and became part of the /
system which had governed the coun- |
-ry for near thirty-five years. His /
men idolized him, his officers respect I
I'd him. He had a grim spark OF I
humor. a camaraderie which they I
loved He might have man shot I
FOR disobedience of orders, but he I
would do ii with half grin He !
would inspect their barracks and talk /
Familiarity with them; he would share /
heir food on a march. He would /,
stand any hardship the common
soldier would, and then they knew he |
would lead them where they were to |
90.
Huerta made ready to fight the /
Nadero revolution when it came up /
and when Madero succeeded and had /
she reins of government in his hands |
Iuerta first escorted his old presi- I
dent over to Vera Cruz and safety
and returned to make his peace with |
the new government
Madero's character, it is asserted, |
was shown in his treatment of Huer-
ia. Huerta was given an active COM
.land and when Zapata in the south
9tarted his revolution he was sent
down to quell it. How well he sue
.'eeded is known. He surrounded
Zapata and was closing in on him
when Madero came down from Next
20 CITY and gave the revolutionist
free pardon Huerta advised that
Zapata be executed at once. Madero