Lower coast gazette., 1913-11-08
Norwegian and German ministers. at
Vera Cruz. have been fruitless.

and German ministers. at
1era Cruz, have been fruitless.
Washington is working to get the
European powers to leave the settle
ment of the situation to the United
States. If this is done and Huerta
knows it, he will receive these propos.
ais seriously and it shall be to him to
between an acceptance and an
rejection. He shall be alone
then in his defiance, facing the awful
strength of a combination of the great
est nations of the earth, any one of
could enter Mexico and leave it
naught but a bloody blot in the history
of the world.
Gen. Carranza, Constitutional leader,
has submitted a plan whose purpose is
peace The proposal came through DR..
Henry Allen Upper. Of the lnterna-
tional Peace Forum. From him it
went to Secretary Of State Bryan, who
will give it unofficial consideration.
Allow the Constitutionalists to import
arms is what Carranza proposes as a
peace plan.
The United States has notified Huer-
ia that he must resign, and that his
successor must not be Gen. Banquet,
his Minister of War, nor any other
member of his official family or of the
unofficial crowd of his supporters
whom he might control.
The United States wants Huerta to
eliminate himself from the government
of Mexico. Huerta can refuse or &C.
cept. His official elimination would
be hard on the human nature in HIM.
He would be submitting to the rebels
by acknowledging their strength, indi.
rectly by c%onfessing his weakness. But
this may be the better choice for HUI.
erta. The terrifying prospect of facing
the combined strength of the powers OF
the world may urge him to accede. But
Huerta will make trouble as long Az he
is in Mexico. His official elimination
may be a step towards peace, but peace
can be permanently had only when HUI
erta and the thousands of other ty.
rants who lived on the body and blood
of Mexican ignorance ire naturally
eliminated by bullets or boat.
Gen. Huerta, after receiving the
Washington ultimatum through his
secretary, who was served with 1t by
Nelson O'Shaughnessy, the American
charge d'affaires, summoned the diplo
matte corps. The Russian, Norwegian
and German ministers were absent. il
Vera Cruz, comforting with John Lind
Wilson's personal envoy.
Secretary Of State pryan was I'm al
ssght, anticiDatinga mick answer
The night operator in the State De
partment, who leaves generally at mid
night, was ordered to remain through
out the night.
In diplomatic circles reports wer,
current that all foreign government.
mad been given copies of the ultima
tum, and that it would be the policy O
the Administration to keep the foreign
nations advised Of every step take1
concerning the Mexican situation. N,
one could learn what Wilson will d.
If Huerta refuses to resign or appoint,
some friend banned by the ultimatun
to succeed him.
Gen. Felix Diaz and Alexander VIII
liams, the New Orleans newspape
man, who got out Of Mexico in tn
nick of time. arrived safe in Havana
on a tseamer to which they were trans
ferred from the Battleship Michigan
Gen. Diaz praised Rear.Admira
Fletcher for his treatment Of Diaz.
A loss estimated at $4,000, 900, ha
been caused by fires which spiea,
from one oil we'll to another in tn
petroleum district of Moreni, in aou
mania.
The final brief for Harry X. Thav
to prevent his extradition from Ne,
Hampshire to New York, ends wit
the following reference to Jerome, spe
cial attorney general Of New Yor
State: THE language used is bully
Ing and threatening and could b
used for no other purpose than tn
silly thought to intimidate your excel
lency. This unusal and uncalled-ro
extravagant language indicates a pei
sonal, private purpose, and is not cor
sistent with the simple, dignified dis
charge of public duty"
The Vatican at Rome reports tn
Pope's satisfaction at the election q
six more Catholic deputies on the Sc,
ond ballot of the Italian generar sle,
tons. He was pleased at the defea
OF the candidates in Rome supporte
by the coalition of Radicals, Republic
ans and Socialists, which has long cor
trolled the municipality. The defea
Of the former priest, Father Romol
Murri, leader of the Catholic Demo
Gratis. Mayor Nathan, of Rome, vii
soon convoke a meeting of the Rom
aldermen, when it is believed he vii
resign. AS the next municipal election
is in June, the gvernment will, in tn