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Show ENDING OF THE WAR IN MEXICO. General Huerta and his political associates have left the City of Mexico Mex-ico in order to escape before the army of victorious constitutionalists can get within reach of them. Huerta has uied excellent judgment, although al-though by so doing he has failed to make good his boast that ho would be found fighting to the end. The Standard more than once has said that a cold-blooded assassin such as Huerta has proved to be. lacked the real manhood and courage necessary to stand resolutely before the enemy In bis farewell address to the depu tics, Huerta said: "Seventeen months have passed, and In that brief period of time I have formed an army with which to carry out that solemn promise. You all know the immense difficulties which my government has encountered, encoun-tered, owing to a scarcity of funds, as well as to the manifest and decided protection which a great power of this continent has afforded to the rebels so much so that when the revolution revolu-tion had been broken up seeing that Its chief leaders were, and continued to be. divided, the power in question nought a pretext to intervene direct ly in the conflicL and the result of this was the outrage committed at Vera Cruz by the American fleet." Huerta has the talent of a diplomat for lying. His power was broken long before the United States landed troopa at Vera Cruz and the holding of that city by American soldiers had no great bearing on the conflict between be-tween the federals and rebels Huerta further says. "Yt. after the highly patriotic work achieved by our delegates at Niagara Falls, there are still some who say that I. come what may. seek my personal Interest and not that of the republic. And as I need to refute thls allegation with facts, I tender I my tormal rpsignatln i of thn pre3j. dency of the republic ' What n clever idea! We wonder If Huerta would have put himself to the mine test of patriotism, had he been successful ( putting down the 01 1 8S of 'nrranza? President C.'rbajal. ns suco3ssor to Huerta has sen! em'ssnries to Invite the constitutionalist's armies to tiike possession of the capita!. This Is the end of the war And now lor a reconstructive period, dur- j ing which the rebels will have a rare j opportunity to demonstrate to what extent Mexico ls capable of self-government on I |