The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-21
HDERTA GIVES UP
Plan FOR SPECIAL
H0A0RS TO JAPAN
VIII Not Hold Demonstration
Intended as Affront to
United States
REPEATS STORY OF
MEXICAN INTRIGUE
Perez Romero, Agent in Wash
ington for Constituencies,
Answers Denial Called
by Limantour

WASHINGTON, July :o.--Informa-
ton received here tonight through Of
fetal channels, indicated that the
Huerta government in Mexico has
given up it's plan of having an i'm
pressive pro-Japapese demonstration
on the arrival in Mexico City of the
new Japanese minister to that country
There have been reports for several
days that the Mexicans would take
advantage of this opportunity to make
demonstrations which would plainly
be intended as an affront to the United
States government.
There is a good reason to believe
that the Huerta government was pro-
noting this plan. as II is supposed to
have promoted the anti-American
demonstrations that have occurred
recently in the Mexican capital. APP
parentfy, however. Huerta and his fol-
lowers have had a SOLDERING second
thought, and have decided to refrain
| from any pronounced pro-Japanese
demonstration.
Stories Not True.
Yesterdays development indicate
that anything but the true stories are
coming from the Mexican capital. 1t
is stated here that instead of Felix
! Diaz being "honored" with a special
mission to Japan. he is in fact escap-
| ing from Mexico. In fear of his life,
| after begging Huerta for months to
/ let him GO
| Furthermore, a denial cabled TO this
! country yesterday from Paris by Jose
| Limantour that he has directed there
an intrigue in connection with the
| $50. 900. 600 bond issue and the repre-
sensations OF the foreign diplomats in
| Mexico City to their governments, is
! treated here by the constitutionalists
| with derision. and they furnished re-
porter with the names of men who
I are said to know the details of the
| alleged intrigue
1 H Perez Romero, confidential agent
| in Washington for the constitution
alists. last night characterized Felix
| Diaz as a weakling. and said that
| Diaz has no more been prospective
/ candidate for president Of Mexica than
has the humbiest peon of that coun-
try. Outside of Mexico, Mr.. Romero
| said there Is misunderstanding as
to the standing of Diaa in his own
country He declared that the various
dispatches from Mexico which dwell
on the possibility of Diaz returning
from Japan in time to be a candidate
A IoF inc bftSiuSbRS aAC PHsSSN ga $3.50
conceptions.
i VIII Be No Election.
."rhe fact is Mr.. Romero said
l"there will be no elections In Mexico
in October, as Huerta predicts. The
American public ought to understa nd
this. Ninety per cent OF the people
of Mexico will refuse to go TO the
polls. They are constitutionalfsts, and
they will not stand for Huerta and
hntr nf fheir
NOW in nominal power in Mexico
City.
at should also be understood that
IL pretended elections are held they
will he illegal an<k the constitution
alists will not recognize them, for the
reason that the constitution of Mexico
provides that there shall not be cleo
tons except when the country o.
Mexico is at peace within and
without
$50 far as Diaz Ia concerned, he Is a
piece of putty. He was put forward
by Mondrason, before the latter es-
capped from Mexico. at the time ole
General Reyes was killed in battle. He
Is a weaking He has been doing his
best to leave Mexico on this, that and
the other pretext, ever since he saw
he was done for ten days after
kHuerta grabbed the power He has
been begging Huerta to let him go
anywhere.
De La Barra an Enemy.
lie la Barra. formerly ambassador
to the United States, and well known
OF course, in Washington, who is now
minister for foreign affairs for Huerta,
is fostering all this. De Ia Barra has
turned out to be the worst enemy the
United States has in Mexico. II
would hardly, be believed how much
De Ia Barra has come to hate the
United States and things American.
Answering denial by Limantour
ca bled yesterday from Paris that he
has fostered there an intrigue which
resulted in the foreign diplomats In
Mexico City making representations
to their government in the hope that
the United States would be forced To
take action in Mexico, which would
lead to fifty million dollars worth
Of bonds being sold for the benefit OF
/ Paris. Mexico City and other specu-
/ lators Mr.. Romero last night made
the following circumstantial state
ment:
Jose Yves Limantour Is n director
in one of the great Paris banks which
is now mostly concerned in the attempt
TO negotiate a loan for Huerta- For
several months past. Hugo Scherer, a
banker OF Mexico City, through whom
the bulk of the Mexican governments
business was done during the Pornrio
association with Mr.. Limantour, rela
tive to the loan.
II am Informed that Mr.. Limantour
\ In order tn help along the plans of the
Huerta regime, sent Mr. Scherer to Lon
don to confer with certain bankers in
that city in an endeavor to persuade
them to participate In the fotation OF
the loan.