The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-06

I hs reserve his dignity-his now some what stopped form-convey the impression
 Of great fighter. He's Indian, you know, and he uses Indian methods-not scien- tific, perhaps, but-effective
 To be the only newspaper woman in the United States to be accorded an audience
 with General Huerta since his arrival ir this country on the 18th of May is ar achievement which I think I may be par. doned for alluding to with some small de- | gree of pride.
 General Huerta is absolutely "unin. | terviewable, ungettable," in fact MT Jose Rather and MT. Abraham Rather the generals close personal friends. rep
 esentatives and interpreters. will frank. ly tell you that so far none has achieved
 what is considered by his staff as the impossible.
 But one other American newspaper woman has ever been received by Gen. eral Huerta and that woman was Mrs Teresa Dean whose paper sent her to Mexico in the early stages of the game to write her impressions of conditions and facts relative to the revolution. Mrs. Deans brilliancy and tremen- dously developed sense of diplomacy, her fairness and her unprecedented knowledge Of the Mexican situation, gave her pres tige in General Huerta's favor and she had an entre to his presence which was envied by many veteran newspaper cor respondent then on the scene of action, prominently, Jack London. Richard Hard ing Davis, Frederick Palmer. Emerson and Murray of the New York World Hamilton Peltz of the New York Herald, Hoeffer and Rourke of the London Times and last. but not least, the peeved Mir James Creelman, who probably more than any other one newspaper man. sent out condemning and unjust pen pictures of General Huerta.
 Of MT. Creelman and his attacks upon the general, Mrs. Dean wrote in March, 1914:
 Hotel Porter. Mexico City. James Creelman's vituperatons of General Huerta and Mexico City are com ing back in clippings covered with en- velopes to few and then passed about. MT. Creelman was in Mexico one week.
 The postoffice authorities forestalled any added encouragement to the agin the
 governmenters by destroying all the news
 papers from home that might contain the
 Creelman attack or the reflections. Truly,
 It does seem a great pty--as all of us decided yesterday at little tea gath
 ering and at the passing about of these
 cippings-that man who can handle his
 English into the masterpiece of the pen
 picture of John Lind-in his brown slipper
 period of waiting at this end while Pres
 ident Wilson waits at the other-could
 not have more truthfully depicted General
 Huerta.
 It goes without saying that James CreeI-
 man was denied an interview with Gen.
 eral Huerta. He only got so far as
 Huerta's secretary. and then he after
 wards nailed the thousand and one ru-
 mors. the misconstruing of his own Took
 see"-as the Chinese say-and began his
 gall-dipped pen work against Huerta and
 all Mexico His greatest flash of retail
 iation seems to be in the fact that Gen.
 eral Huerta. like many another good
 diner. good liver, has liking for beverages
 made by man named Hennessy It may
 or may not be true that General Huerta
 laid himself wide open to the attack
 of his enemies one night in a cafe, by
 lifting his after coffee brandy and sipping