Texan Assails Wilson's Mexican Policy — Favors Intervention.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 27, 1913:
Special to The New York Times.
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 26.— "With scores of American women outraged and a thousand citizens murdered; with pillage, blackmail, and ransom existing on every hand, in defiance of the rights of American citizenship, the situation in Mexico is beyond endurance. The handling of the Mexican situation by President Wilson has been a farce."
    Gov. O.B. Colquitt of Texas made that assertion just before the annual conference of Governors opened here today. He may be called on to make an address on the situation in Mexico, although he asserts that he is reluctant to do so, because his "blood boils" every time he "permits himself to think of the policy of the United States in this respect."
    Mr. Colquitt said further: "Let me analyze the position of our Government. Wilson had to take the high-minded position of non-interference in Mexico, on the theory that she must settle her own troubles. He has refused to recognize an assassin as the head of a constituted Government. Perfectly right.
    "But he has given Huerta repeated privilege to import rifles and ammunition into Mexico and has denied that right to the rebels. If Huerta tells Wilson to play his next card, what does it mean? It means that the United States will have to invade Mexico or stultify itself. Wilson will have to fight or make a joke of the State Department and a rag of the nation's honor."