Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-28

modify the line of conduct which we
have to follow. in our public and IN
dependent life.
Would Menn Loss of Sovereignty.
II even once we were to admit the
connsels and advice 0et us call them
thus) of the United States of America
not only would We, as I say above,
forego our sovereignty. but we would
as well compromise for an indefinite
future our destines as a sovereign
entity and all the future elections for
President would be submitted to the
veto of any President of the United
States of America
And such an enormity Mr. Com
fidential Agent. no government will
ever attempt to perpetrate This
am sure of. unless some monstrous
and almost impossible cataclysm
should occur in the conscience OF the
Mexican people.
I'VE believed, taking into consid-
GRAFTON the disproportionate interest
that the President of the United
States of America has shown con-
corning our internal affairs that hn
as we'll as his government would
know perfectly well the provisions of
our constitution in the matter OF cleo
tons
Unfortunately and in view of the
lnsistence with which his excellency
Mr.. Wilson sustains his first Ideas we
are compelled to acknowledge that
we have made mistake
Huerta Not Eligible 70. Election.
1.-THE reform of constitutional arti-
cles Nos. rs and 1O9 put into effect
by the congress of the union on No
vember l. 1911, provides among other
| requirements that which Is contained
in the final part OF article rs: The
secretary of state in charge of the
executive power shall not be eligible
to the office OF either president or
Vice-president when the elections
shall take place.
This transcription which | take
the liberty of makingy Mr.. Conflden-
tial Agent, in order that the govern
ment of the United States of America
may take due note OF it, prevents the
constitutional ad interim president
of the republic from being a candi-
date at the forthcoming elections,
and if His Exeellency, President Will
son, had taken into considerations
that paragraph before venturing to
impose upon us the conditions in
question. and which we may not ad-
NIT, the present state of affairs be-
tween YOU and ourselves would have
been avoided, leaving out of the dis
crssion our desorum and the per-
sonal pride of the President of the
United States, wrongly interested In
this discussion without foundation.
ut should be well understood that
the ad interim constitutional presi-
dent could not be elected president
or vice-president of the republic AT
the forthcoming elections, already
called for October, because our own
laws prohibit him from being a
candidate. and these laws are the
sole arbiters of our destinies, but
never through the imposition, all
though friendly and dislnterested. Of
the President of the United States
of America or of any other ruler,
powerful or weak (this does not mat
ter in the case), who would be
equally respected.
Wilson Must Withdraw.
1.-THE question having been set
forth as ] have had the honor OF
doing in this reply, his excellency,
Mr.. Wilson will have to withdraw
definitely from his present attitude at
the risk. that his motives, which l
take pleasure in acknowledging, are,
as he himself quotes them, friendly
and disinterested, altruistic and with
out Interior ends-at the risk, / re-
peat, that they may be wrongly and
differently interpreted by all the
other nations which look upon our
present internal conflict with more or
less interest.
"And although the President of the
United States of America should take
an altogether different stand from the
universal viewpoint, which considers
differently an administration under
the conditions in which our own Is
at present (the best proof of my as-
sertion is the recognition of the fore
most powers of the world, among
which the United States of America
occupies such prominent and
legitimately conquered ranD he will
have to seace to call us de facto
government and will give us the title
of adinterim constitutional govern
ment, which is the only one to which
we are rightly entitled.
Permit me, Mr.. Confidential Agent,
not to reply for the time being to the
significant offer in which the gov
eminent of the United States of
America insinuates that it will rec
ommend to American bankers the I'M
mediate extension of loan which will
permit US, among other things, to
cover the innumerable urgent expense
required by the progressive pacifica-
ton of the country; for in the terms
in which it is couched, 1t appears
more TO be an attractive antecedent
proposal to the end that moved by
petty interests, we should renounce
right which incontrovertibly up
holds us at period when the dignity
Of the nation Is at stake.
niuuifv Mora Than Nancy
81 believe that there are not loans
enough to induce those charged by
the law to maintain that dignity to
permit it to be lessened.
ION the other hand, | have seen
with great pleasure that the Presi-
dent of the United States of America
proposes for a later date and accord
ing 10 what the circumstances permit
the solution which was marked with
the letter a in the original instruc-
ton and in the note to which this is
reply with the number 49, for this
reveals that we are really in the way
of arriving at an arrangement equally
dignified for both sides.
I'm view of this, Mr.. Confidential
Agent. today more than ever we pro-
foundry hope for an immediate solu-
ton of the conflict which unfortu-
nately has separated us. | could &c
even further. l would renounce on our
part the demand that our respective
ambassadors be received Immediately
since for the end in view the present
personnel of our reciprocal embassies
is sufficient If it remains as 1t hasbeen
heretofore until the election of Oc-
tober has taken place; but ] will al
ways stand on the unprovidable con.