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The Martyrdom of Dominguez of
Mexico.
United Press Dispatch
Mexico City, August 18.— At
last Bellisario Dominguez’s
speech has been published
Where the speaker has gone,
only Victoriano Huerta knows,
but Dominguez’s speech will last
as long as Mexicans worship
their heroes, or indeed, as men
of any nation continue to pay
tribute to a brave man. They
were terrible days-days of
horror—in which Dominguez
spoke. Huerta had been presi
dent only a few months. States
men who opposed him had been
led away in the dead of night,
at his orders. None were ever
seen again. Huerta’s life was
an orgy of cognac, women and
murder.
Dominguez was a senator. The
horror of the times seized upon
him, and he resolved for one,
not to bend before the terror, as
other senators were doing, but
to face it—and die
He took out a life insurance
policy for his son; he wrote
a speech; he rose on the floor of
the senate and delivered that
speech. Only since Huerta, with
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his hoarded gold, fleS, have the j
people of Mexico known what!
Bellisario Domnguez sad that j
evening in August to the Mexi- j
can senate. It is only now that
newspapers have dared to print
his burning, patriotic words
It was an adroit manner by I
which Dominguez secured the
floor for his speech that even
| ing. Sanchez Gavito, senator, j
I had asked for leave of absence,
an ordinary request. Dominguez
I rose to explain why he would
j vote “No.” “I must vote a- j
gainst it,” said Dominguez, “be
| cause Mexico needs such men
as Gavito in the senate during
I these grave times. And then
i Bellisario, in the beautiful sen
'ate chamber, under the sparkle
of the great cut glass chandel
I iers, standing under the arches
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of Mexico’s greatest men, smil
ing, raising his head against the
Terror in the Mexican palace,
I began his suicide. ,
| “Do you not see,” he said,
“senor senators, how dark is the
present situation of Mexico? Do (
you not see the weakness of a
l government which has as its t
head an old soldier who lacks
the konwledge and the culture
indispensable to the government
of a people, and who tries to J
1 make himself appear strong by
acts that receive the reprobation \
of all civilization and morality ?
This old soldier follows his plan |
of terror because he does not ■
know that there are other ways j
by which a good man may ascend
to power. Don Victoriano Huer
ta is controlled by an obsession
that would unseat the mind of a
man of talent. The spectre of
his protector and friend whom
he betrayed—the spectre of Ma
dero—haunts him at the ban
quet table and in his dreams.
When this obsession becomes al
most too great for him to en
dure, he descends to the depths
of cruelty saying to his follow
ers, 'kill, assassinate, burn-’ ”
The impression which Domin
guez made as he spoke these
words was indescribable. It
was as if his fellow-senators
saw him standing before them
with a self-directed revolver at
his head, ready to slay himself,
and they helpless- He continu
ed.
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voking an international conflict
with the United States. In
th is conflict every Mexican who
is a Mexican, must die, for the
combat would be so unequal that
none of us could survive, and we
could save our honor to live af
ter us, so that men who land on
Mexican shores in centuries to
come will say, with uncovered
heads, ‘Here once lived a nation
of a million heroes.’
“But first it is our duty to a
void, if possible, such a con
flict. How shall we do it ? Shall
we stand idle and let history
say that Mexican men wept for
rights they could not defend?
Here is my plan:
“Let every member of this
body sign a petition to Don Vic
toriano Huerta requesting him
to resign. Vouchsafe me the
honor of carrying to Don Vic
toriano Huerta this request. I
will also present to him this
address which I am now mak
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probable that, in his madness,
he will lose his patience with me
before he has read through the
papers I shall take to him, and
he will kill me- But the papers
will remain there in his pres
ence and his curiosity will com
pel him to take them from my
dead body and read them, and
then, perhaps, he will see the
truth and will also slay himself.
“I implore you senors that you
make this session continuous,
and do not adjourn until you
have your answer from Don
Victoriano Huerta”
Dominguez took his seat. The
Mexican senate sat in silence a
moment and then proceeded with
other business- Dominguez had
lost- He rose, walked to the
cloak room, got his hat and
went out into the street and to
his home. Within half an hour
he was arrested.
Of all the terrible stories that
are told of the hideous deaths
of Huerta’s enemies, those de
tailing the death of Dominguez
are the most awful. Mexicans
have every reason to believe
that Dominguez was dragged to
the hospital of Dr. Urrutin, who
was a member of Huerta’s cabin
et, and that there his tongue
was torn from his mouth, and
that, bleeding and almost un
conscious from pain, he was
taken to the hospital yard that
same night of August 23, and j
shot
I have personally asked Dr.
Urrhtin whether the story that
he tore out Dominguez’s ton
gue was true.
hI did not do it,” he told me
“Other members of Huerta’s
cabinet who were jealous of me .
told the story about me. It is
a lie- Dominguez is dead. That
is all I know.”
The facts about Dominguez’s
deeds have come to light just
recently. They mark Victori
ano Huerta ds an unspeakable
and merciless, demented murder
er, drunk and as bloody as Nero
himself.
These same facts also place on
the pages of Mexican history
one of its brightest names.
They give to the world a new
instance of the heights which
human self-sacrifice may some
times attain.
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