Huertain Collector Fight.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 29, 1913:
Objection to Possible Texas Appointment Astonishes Washington.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, June 28.— The Huerta Government of Mexico has protested to the United States Government against the suggested appointment by President Wilson of Frank Rabb of Brownsville as Collector of Customs on the lower Rio Grande. The cause of this unusual procedure of a foreign Government protesting against a possible appointment by this Government to a domestic office has not been learned.
    Secretary Bryan when asked to-night about the matter said that he has been advised that an objection has been filed by the Mexican Government, but he has not seen the document, and does not know on what grounds the objection was based. He declined to say what notice, if any, the American Government would take of the protest.
    Frank Rabb is the leader of the Progressive Democrats on the lower Rio Grande, and is being pressed by that element of the party for Collector in the customs district which has its headquarters at Laredo. He is backed by Senator Sheppard, but Senator Culberson has so far declined to support him. The opposition to Rabb is said to come in the main from men who opposed Wilson in the Presidential primaries.
    How Huerta has become involved in the clash between the factions of Texas Democrats over the Collectorship is not clear. On the frontier, however, Mexican politics and Texas politics are often interwoven. The break between Huerta and Diaz appears to have become very wide of late. While Mr. Rabb's sympathies in the Mexican situation are not known. Marshall Hicks of San Antonio, one of Rabb's principal supporters, was the legal adviser of the Diaz-Reyes coalition which began the fight on Madero while Huerta was Madero's leading General.