Mexican Insurgents.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 14, 1912:
    The report that Gen. Felix Diaz has joined the insurgents in Mexico is, indeed, disconcerting to the Madero Government. He is a more formidable personage than Bernardo Reyes was, before his downfall, for Reyes had no following and Felix Diaz is popular. He has been Chief of Police in the Federal District, Governor of Oaxaca, and a formidable figure in the Mexican Congress. He has been spoken of frequently as a fit man to administer the Government in a firm but discreet way. He has not, hitherto, allied himself with any of the revolutionary factions, and while, obviously, not in sympathy with the half measures of the Government, has been regarded as a safe man. The report of his disaffection lacks verification. Of Aguilar, whom he is expected to join, little is known in this country. The latest report from Morelos and the remote parts of the State of Mexico is that the insurgents are losing courage.
    A formidable recruit to the anti-Madero movement, however, is Vicente Segura, who has made a fortune as a matador, and has now allied himself with the waning cause of Orozco, in the north of Mexico. Segura, it is said, has sold property for $250,000 gold, and has lately been in Texas buying arms and ammunition which he proposes to smuggle across the border. If he is really in Texas he should be hunted down and arrested. The bullfighter type is enormously popular with the common kind of Mexicans, and a matador in the field would surely have a large following. Segura has always been a lawless fellow, but strong and courageous, with the swagger of his kind. On the whole, the news from Mexico is not encouraging.