Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1914 — PRESIDENT SHOWS DETERMINATION [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT SHOWS DETERMINATION

Huerta Can No Longer Evade and Temporize—Nation* Will Stand Firmly By Wilson. President Wilson did not bact up one particle Wednesday an his attitude demanding thorough reparation from Huerta for the insult heaped on this government by the arrest of a deputy U. S. paymaster and several blue-jackets. He sent positive information to Huerta through Crage O’Shaughnessy that the salute to the American flag must be given just as demanded and that the demonstration of battleships would not only take place in the Gulf nf Mexico but also on the pacific coast, totally blockaded intervention in Mexico and his the assembled battleships would be the greatest fighting force the United States has ever assembled on sea. Huerta said that he thought the questions involved should be arbitrated before The Hague, and President Wilson replied that the nation’s honor was not a subject for arbitration and that this country would handle the question without outside influence. President Wilson seemed to have his “dander” up for the first time since he became president and he made it mighty plain that the methods of ■ evasion and delay which Huerta has depended upon in the past will avail him nothing now. President Wilson has certainly ■dealt patiently with Huerto and Villa in trying td bring about an amicable adjustment of the warring factions in Mexico and has withstood many insults and made many sacrifices in an effort to avoid armedd intervention in Mexico and his policy of “watchful waiting” has met general approval, we believe, irrespective of politics. However, our people have generally been of the opinion that ultimately intervention must come and When the right time arrives the president will find a patriotic nation isady to support him in any policy he adopts. If it should now be the decision of the president and his advisers that the United States shall take a more aggressive attitude, we believe the president will find that he is backed by the solid approval of a great nation, for he has used every care, it would seem, to avert this result.