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Show STILL UNDER THE WAR (LOUD. The gneaa that there will have to be intervention inter-vention in Mexico waa greatly strengthened yea terdav. We do not wonder that even Mesicana recoil before the b sunned rule of General rjner-ta. rjner-ta. He ia a capable officer, knows very well how to handle an army at leaat a small army but down il.'op he is a ruffian after all, and his perfidy per-fidy toward Madero antagoniaea him in the thoughts of every honest man He betrayed a great trust worse yet, he bet rased a friepd, anil stands in the position of n- who goes to a man's house, BBta his roast turkey and drinks his last bottle of rhampsgne. then orders the police to take liis host to jail. The oapital may submit, berause there the army is under Huerta'a command, and Diar. accept ac-cept hia rule; but in the state bordering on our southern border, there ia apparently tiniveraal dissatisfaction, and a known ruffian has control in the far aonth. The only way we can see through which order can be achieved will be in the promise that so soon as congress can be convened, con-vened, a president will be elected, and the indications indica-tions all point to the fact that Felix Diar. will he that president. He is entitled to it, according to the Ihws of war. and seems to be very much of a num. He may be ac'-eptuble to the northern Mexieaus, Hnd eertainly would be to those in the capital. But the present military dictator will find if he tries, as he no doubt intends to do, to rule like a despot, that he, too, will have to go aa have gone the elder Dial and now Madero. And the trouble iN growing so complicated and the demands are so insistent that we hardly BM any way through which the I'nited States can get out of direct intervention. |