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Show HUERTA HOLDS ON. Saturday night's Washington dispatches dis-patches were to the effect that Pedro Lascurain was to be the choice of the Mexicans at the election Sunday, that Huerta would resume his old place as chief of staff of the army and ultimately ulti-mately be sent abroad on a diplomatic mission, presumably to FTance. Ou Sunday night tho wires brought the information that Huerta and Blauquet had been elected president and vice president by a practically unanimous vote and Lascurain wasn't even mentioned men-tioned as an "also ran." It is impossible to forecast the situation situa-tion in Mexico from one day's end to another, there is so much doubling and twisting and misrepresenting on all sides. One, thing is cerftain, however. Huerta is still dictator. There seem to be more poltroons in the City of Mexico than anywhere else in the republic and if they finally see their homes in flames" and blood running run-ning in the streets it will .be because they have been too cowardly to raise a hand in defense of their country. It may. bo ''that Sir Lionel Cardeu is right in his assumption that his nationals would be safer somewhere else, for if the Huerta and Carranza representatives fail to agree, which will more than likely be the case, the constitutionalists con-stitutionalists will probably take the capital at the point of the bayonet in the course of a very few weeks; Huerta, Blanquet and others responsible for the assassination of Madero will get out of the country, leaving the. citizens who have exhibited such a large and' well-developed well-developed streak of yellow to pay the penalty of their 'cowardice. Thousauds of recruits are now flocking flock-ing to the standard of the constitutionalists, constitution-alists, so many in fact that it has been found impossible to provide them with guns and cartridges. The nearer the army gets to the capital the greater' its size, for "nothing succeeds like success." suc-cess." If it be true that Huerta has said "half the people of Mexico City will be dead before I take flight," the outlook for stopping the effusion of blood is gloomy indeed. At tho present juncture neither the United States nor the A. B. C. mediators medi-ators appear to cut any figure. The protocols signed do not preclude the possibility of war between the United States and' Mexico, for "the white man's burden" still weighs heavily upon' us and we probably will be compelled com-pelled to send an army to Mexico City to prefect the foreigners and foreign interests. Apparently we arc as near war now as we were the day Bear Admiral Ad-miral Fletcher took Vera Cruz with his marines and bluejackets. |