South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-16

Late Dictator Compares His Ad-
miniStration With Present
Conditions in MexiCo-No-
body Ran Him Out, He Says.

NEW YORK, April 16.-Victoriano |
Huerta former dictator OF Mexico /
who is now staying at the Hotel An
sonia in this city and who has been
accused by Villa of having come mere
to organize a new revolution IN Mex |
leo. gave out a long signed statement
Thursday night setting forth MS
view of the Mexican situation.
After reviewing the MaderO regime /
and the subsequent revolution, when /
as Gen. Huerta says, "for ten days the
streets of the City Of Mexico ran
with blood" the statement continues:
Our congress, our senate and our 1
supreme court of justice, complying |
with ali the requisites of the constitu-
ton of our country, named me as
the constitutional president of the
United States Of Mexico, considering
me as the man for the job. Mr.. Ma
dero. while being conducted TO the
penitentiary, died an unnatural death.
In the opinion of some of the people
of this country, I am blamed as nav
ing taken a part in executing him.
never have tried to shirk my respon-
sibilities and anything l ever dld was
done openly. l am man enough 10
stand by what L do. / know L am not
to blame for the death of Mr.. Madero
Time and history will do me JUSTICE
All Were Protected.
Gen. Huerta then pictures his own
reign in Mexico City as one in which
| both foreigners and law-abiding cltl-
zens of the republic were fully pro
| tected. AS proof of this he refers 20
the former United States ambassador
| Henry Lane Wilson; to nelson
! O'Shaughnessy, the former charge
d'affaires. and to all the members OF
the American colony in Mexico city.
Gen. Huerra goes on TO show thal
he eliminated himself from Mexico Tor
the good of his country and In the
hope of bringing peace. =,
81 left the presidency voluntarily
| he declares Nobody took ii away
| from me. I should be excused for
| talking so much about myself; L am
| only human.
"The actual situation in my coun-
\ try is too bad for me to analyze
\ deeply Anarchy is too soft a Woru
to call il. In the last eight months
! since / left Mexico, hundreds, thou-
I sans tens of thousands of peacetul,
Il 1aw-abiding citizens have been killed
II New tortures unknown in the times
of the inuuistion have been discovered
bv human brutes to make their fell
low brothers and foreigners suffer.
His Blood BOils.
"My indian honest blood bolls,
he saws. when / think of the un-
fortunate conditions existing In my
good clean press like the American
is led by false and artificial tricks to
defend a cause that is nothing more
than one of vandalism and anarchy.
Never mind" he concludes, Mex
leo will be saved by a Mexican. By a
strong Mexican. Not a bandit. Not
by men who kill for the sake of
money or dastardly passion, but by a
Mexican who will act as surgeon
who will cure the sores, who will am
putate the dead parts of the national
body: and then Mexico in a short
time will revive and will be the para
disc on earth which it deserves to be.
where is the man? Who is the
man? When will the man appear? l
do not know"
There was a strong suspicion among
those who saw Gen. Huerta Thursday
night that the picture which he drew
OF the coming savior of Mexico was
very like he general description OF
himself.