Garza Predicts Huerta's Fall.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 28, 1913:
Mexican Deputy Who Denounced Him Going Back to Make Trouble.
    With a set of Woodrow Wilson's historical writings and a volume of his political speeches in his handbag, Col. Roque Gonzales Garza, a member of the House of Deputies of the Mexican Congress, left here yesterday for Mexico. It is the intention of Col. Garza to visit all of the States over which constitutional Governors rule and stir up sentiment against the Huerta Government by reading to the people extracts from the political philosophy of President Wilson.
    Garza fled to the United States shortly after the killing of the two Maderos. He made a fiery speech in the House of Deputies against Gen. Huerta and Felix Diaz, and was escorted by trusted friends to the railway station immediately afterward. He departed for Mexico on receipt of advices from Governors of Northern States that it would be safe for him to come to territory over which they have control.
    Col. Garza, who is a thin man with a very black beard, was studying Woodrow Wilson's inaugural address when The Times reporter arrived. Beside him was a Spanish-American dictionary, with the help of which he was translating the speech into Spanish. Two other Mexicans were assisting him.
    "Madero and President Wilson Struggled for the same ideal," said Col. Garza, "but what a difference in the outcome in the two countries! I have many letters from Mexico, some from the capital and some from the States. I have watched closely for many weeks, and I freely predict that the Huerta assassins will have to let go of the Government inside of three months.
    "One thing I am glad of. President Wilson can be depended upon not to help along any murder plots and not to recognize the Huerta conspirators. I must ask you in all you write about my interview not the use the name 'President' in reference to Huerta. He offends such a designation.
    "Now, here is what is stirring in Mexico. At first the people were stupified at the atrocities of Diaz and Huerta. Afterwards they were held under the iron hand of the military. In their hearts they are ablaze with revolt, to-day, but the newspapers are controlled, and the spies of the Government are ruthless. So the people in the capital have to wait a little bit.
    "In the States it is not so. Letters inform me that Felix Diaz is aware that the people reject him in their hearts and call for Huerta to take his stained hands out of the public life. They have made a code of assassination. Very well. See where it has led to. Diaz stands to-day in mortal fear that Huerta will assassinate him to get rid of him as a rival for the Presidency, and Huerta stands in mortal fear that Diaz will assassinate him for the same reason.
    "That fear is going to free Mexico. Neither Diaz nor Huerta dares to weaken his strength in the capital by sending large forces against the constitutional Governors who are in arms, and so the flame of revolt is free to spread. They cannot check it, and it would be a terrible thing if they could, for they have tried to make a wreck of all the public liberties that were won for us in the movement that carried Madero to the Presidency.
    "The people now know what freedom means, and I do not believe they can be pushed back for long from the ground they have won. The same power that made Madero President will unmake Huerta. Porfiro Diaz, who was ousted, conducted a bloody Government, but it was clean compared to the Government of Huerta. Since we cannot openly express ourselves see how we are doing it."
    Col. Gonzales held up a sheet of letter paper on which was printed:
    "Huerta — Morte de la libertad."
    "In pressing forward," he continued, "We are only taking up the logical duty imposed upon us at the outbreak of the revolt of 1910. It is still the same movement, stopped for a time by murder, but irrepressible and supported by nearly all the people.
    "The press and the Huerta conspirators try to discredit this approaching popular uprising against them, but they talk nonsense. Brute force and cannon balls cannot keep down the conviction that the people have a right to be freer than they are. Huerta is laughing now at the surface showings of the uprising. He will not laugh much longer."