The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23
Peace Envoy Declares Rev. oIution Is as Good
 as Ended
DIAZ'S RESIGNATION
 NEVER DEMANDED
Madero Denies He Made Such De- mand and Keystone of Revolu- tion Disappears--Govern-
 ment Is Optimistic

.El Paso, Tex, April 22.-Members of the peace mission tonight declared the reyo- luton in Mexico is as good as ended. | General Madero agreed to an armistice providing the government would rest all military operations and a favorable re- ply from the City Of Mexico is regarded as foregone conclusion.
 General Navarro today in advance of official orders, released the three Amer l icsn prisoners, Blatt, Conversse ani Brown from the Juarez Jail, where they have been confined for eight weeks for | participating in the revolution.
 1 The peace mission met with General l Madero in small adobe house just across | the river from the smelter and the latter, repeated to them his statement earlier given the Associated Press that he does not insist upon the resignation of Pres ident Diaz as essential to negotiations for peace. Thus the keystone of the arch of opposition to end the revolution dropped from it's place.
 While every indication points to peace tonight, there is, of course room for some unforeseen slip to occur There is no ob- stacle in sight however. Tomorrow it is expected modus operand will be dis cussed and probably adopted. It also is probable officials at Mexico City and General Madero will negotiate through Inc mission. One member of it. Rafael Hernandez, In an unofficial way repre- sents the government Although he is a nephew of Francisco Madero, Sr., Ernesto Madero, brother of Francisco I. Madero, is not revolutionists and is really the guiding spirit of the present negotiations.
 May Avoid Recognition
 By working through this mission, which has the advantage of being on the ground the government may avoid the recog- milton of the revolution which the appoint ment of official commissioners would inn ply General Madero is not inclined to stick on the point of official recognition He realizes that virtually he has it any ! way. stg | It is regarded as probable that General Madero. as a pledge, that reforms will be lsocntinued and that there will be no perse- cuticn of revolutionists, Will be offered and will accept the position of vice pres | ident, which office presently will be re- signed by Corral. now on leave of absence.
 Peace will come and Mexico will spring forward to hitherto unknown prosperity,
 
 today. '.All great reforms in history have come from bloodshed. General Diaz has heard the voice of the people which hitherto could not reach his ears through a wall Of staff-seekers around him. We i.of the mission take no credit for our small share in the prospect of peace. We are the mouthpiece of the Mexican pco- pie. To them President Diaz and General Madero are ready and anxious to listen. Nervous insurrecto pickets fired half a dozen shots at some fancied encroach- ment of federals opposite the Fl Paso water pumping plant this afternoon, but the accident was without Importance. General Madero said he would insist .upont in addition to the reforms already instituted, that the people of Mexico shall have a square deal, as provided in the constitution. Members of the mission re- turned to Fl Paso highly elated. The de- tails of their interview with the rebel commander were not given out but 1t is known that many facts hitherto unknown to General Madero were poured into his attentive ears. He has, 1t Is sad, been almost in complete ignorance of what was going on in the outside world for more than a month. Owing to the stop [ page of railroad trains few newspapers reached his camp. Z The elder Madero
 
 his son through Chihuahua. found the City of Madeira, where there are many Americans, and in railroad camps along the way no paper less than a month cld.' The first time the general learned the details of the conference particated in at Washington and New York by his father. Minister Iinantour and the then Mexican ambassador, Senor De La Barra Did Not Demand Diaz's Resignation Prospects of peace in Mexico became roseete today when, General Madero. In. an interview with the Associated Pi ess respondent, declared that he had never md does not now. insist upon tie immediate resignation of President | -Diaz as a necessary preliminary to the signing of a peace, ract This admission was so startling that 
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