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Show s HUERTA HAS , MUCH TO DO N Revolution in the j South and in Sonora ?. Will Require Much At- tention - President Huerta Is Opposed to Cartoons is, rf I Mexico Ciiv. Aari 5 "Less poll- ; t, (let and mo.o administration." tho witchword of .-erf rio Din has become be-come lac slogan of the no. Efnerta po crament. In ;re days of Porflrio . T)'.zz cabinet minister?. hocJs of de triment and oiiicial ;. . j Kr.ArrJy, f the; hd opinions con ij, trary to governmental poiic;. . discreetly dis-creetly kept them to themsel cs AMih thA ndvp , r, Madero the pent-vi pent-vi up floo:1 of political expression de- i Ivged the country. Politic:! orators i want to extremes in airing their B v''- Frcm pic u'orrrs thro ig o it I,. the republic the acts of the administration adminis-tration -vcrc criticised to the point of Vilification, Administrative! affairs , were snowed to suffer. President Hucna, in his first puhlie Utterances, r.ir.ae It plain that his pollctee wore, to be of a different order or-der To a group of newspaper ir.en whom ho s,immonKi to the palace he Cipresr-ed his appreciation of a free press, hut Intimated to them that their efforts should he directed along line.- of nWilng ,n re-establishment of peace rather than loward hunting out difficulties with which to confront the ftf-minlstrntlon In word." he cautioned them. ! "abandon for the rr.omen' poliUcal q;c?tlons and give preference to' thc.o of administration " "I nm convinced" he added, "that I! !r. not wj-e, in the i. resent moment of o :t national ilfe political, bu rati-H rati-H cr with those raat'er? which ha e j herring on the pacification of tho Caricaturists also will ply their art II wltb more circumspect! on W i lereon of Madero the,- w-. a c-n- k, tor-.ed to take swerv liberty and were j permitted 10 lo sc. Before Prasidenl Hurr'j rd been lo office ' 3 h sen! for the editor of one ol the heal knon comic weeklies of 'ho cnp'.tnl Calling his attention to a nj enrleature of himself, the presid fi fold to tho edltrr: "1 don't like that, T wish you ' wouldn't print rr. picture that way." n "Bui Mr President, I " ass? "Well, thafo all I don't wan? you m to p. int these carlcal nrcs because "Well. don t. Good bye " ;, The editor dwarfed and It la sifc to eay that he will think twice before rcrortinfr the offen'o r That peace would return to Mexfco -irrnt automat!rally . after th-e over-'lirow over-'lirow of the Mndero srivcrnmenf v as the belief of thousands of optimists, opti-mists, both Mexicans an foreigners i bu hefm-e the new administration was a month old t was evident that it had undertaken a task the completion comple-tion of which was hy no means sim-pis). sim-pis). A majority of those who had been fighting against Madero laid ! I down their arms, but a new nrmv of f rebels arose, and the Mexicans situa- ; j t on was not unlike that of a play in which the actors had been chrnsd t srd a few shifts rf scenery made Enough of the old 7-apatista army remained re-mained under arms to provide the government with Its problem in ihf OUth, while Ooernor Venutiano i Carranza of Coahuila and Goc-rnor Pesqiiiera of Sonora. furnished a new; arm In the north to take the place of Pascual Orozco's forces Tho movement liegun by Carranza created less alarm in the capital than , did that of the rebellious executive of Senora. Farly n the canipaitrn against Carranza the government made some1 headway but in the northwest the Ursl tricks wore taken by tho rebels, ; who gained a decided advantage in the occupation of Nogales and Agua Prieta. The defeat of Colonel Koster-litzky Koster-litzky won prestige for tho new rebels, reb-els, who had dubbed themselves "Constitutionalists." "Con-stitutionalists." Confidence in an early suffocation of this new revolt was expressed at the national in lace, and plans were! made for sending an army of not less , than ten thousand acalnst Maytorena. Hesqulera and Obregon. tbo rebel I leaders, bin this optimism was not I fully shared b the puhlie. FVlends of the administration refused re-fused to admit the strength of a rebellion re-bellion based largely on sentiment or Personalities This now revolt is b.-sed on these two things, but behind it there is a well defined grievance expressed bj those who insist that b new administration is nothing ,'i"r' 'li:in a n turn to power of the 0W utilitarian group, who, they allege, al-lege, will ni3kc no effort to put into effect the reforms promised in the "plan of San Luis Potosi" on which Modero'a revolution was based Pri-Imarlly Pri-Imarlly the new revolt Is based on sentiment. Its leaders are. or pre- 'er.i to be. horrified by the killing of Madero and Pino Saurez and charac-jterize charac-jterize Huerta 3s a mere usurper. To them Madero dead. ;nid now a martyr. Is more powerful, perhaps, than he was during the last months of his life. VVhether the contention of the capital Llial tho movement againsi Huerta is bound to fall, is true or not. it is a fact that the rebel; in llif- northwest galn. "fl many recruits during the first days of the rebellion Military men realize that a ram-i ram-i paign in Sonora would he by no means simple There is reason to believe be-lieve that It will not be easy to get tocether in a short time tb ten thon-sjr.a thon-sjr.a men it is proposed to place In Si tiora. If this is done. however. il, ir mobilization and transport will he a difficult task The movement of an army of ten thousand In Mexico mean- the moomont also of thousands thous-ands of women a rrcessary adjunct under the army's present organization since these women lake the place hugely of a commissarv deparement Transit by land of from ten to fif-teen fif-teen thousand human lolngs. togeth-er togeth-er a nh artillery, horses, mules and otner eTUipment, presents manifold difficall 5S. The easiest way would , be to send them by sea to Cuavmas. hut Mexico ha8 none too many trans-pi trans-pi rts. The government counts upon the, r"lels being unable to secure any great quantity of money, and believes i that arms and ammunition will be! ditficiilt io procure On the other h;md however, the government will have to secure groat amounts of monc-v if it successfully carries out an aggressive policy. The adminis- 1 tialion believes apparently with some reason, that It will have no difficulty' In raising the one hundred and twenty twen-ty million peso ($60,000,000) loan re-rni)y re-rni)y authorized. but even this' amount probably will have to be aug- j Dented if the revolution coutinues for ar.y length of time When the executive ex-ecutive asked congres to authorize i this loan it was assumed that the! government would not have to continue con-tinue facing civil war |