The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-08-16
LIND ESTABLISHES HIMSELF.
5 MOVEMENTS CLOSELY
WATCHED By WILSON.
Personal Representative OF President
and Mexican Minister Of Foreign
Relations Have Unofficial Meeting.

"aShihStoh' aug l.<-NeWS from
Mexico City that John Lind, personal
representative of President Wilson,
and FREDERICK GamLoa, Mexican min
lister OF foreign relations, had estab-
lished unofficial relations today by a
personal meeting brought encourage
ment to administration officials here.
Ii was felt by them that the first step
in the programme of the American
government to throw it's influence in
the direction Of a quiet and peaceful
settlement Of the revolutionary trou-
bles had succeeded.
The incident however, 1t was learn
ed from official sources, tonight will
not change the procedure outlined to
Mr.. Lind before he left Washington
He will submit all his representations
to Charge O'Shaughnessy. who will
transmit them In accordance with
diplomatic proprieties TO the Mexican
minister Of foreign relations.
The meeting OF Mr.. Lind and Min
ister Gamboa was looked upon by
officials here as the beginning Of
frank though unofficial relations,
through which the Mexican govern
ment might be informally and the
more fully acquainted with the ideas
Of the Washington administration. II
has been left entirely to Mr.. Lind's
discretion upon whom to CALI There
is nothing to prevent his calling on
Provisional President Huerta, but it
is not Thought he will unless invited.
The statement of the British gov4
efnnhsht' Explaining that It, as we'll as
Germany and France, has recognized
the Huerta government after Amibas.
sador Henry Lane Wilson had made
a congratulatOry speech to President
Huerta, encouraged administration
officials to believe that foreign pow
ers would give their moral support to
the efforts Of President Wilson
through constitutional processes to In :
fiuence the restoration of peace In
Mexico.
Charge O'Shaughnessy cabled the
state department today that the situa.
tioh I'M Mexico City was peaceful ana
quiet
The message was gratifying to adj
fninistration officials who desire that
all MISUNDERSTANDING the Mexican
government may have as to the in =
tentions OF the United States shall be
cleared up before any further steps
are taken in the peace policy of Pres
ident Wilson.
The presentation OF a note repre-
senting the views Of President Wilson
Is expected soon but the various steps
I'm the American governments pro-
gramme will be carried out gradually.
The first note will be transmitted
In duplicate to all foreign govern
ments represented here and will de-
clare for the first time i'm formal terms
the attitude of the administration to-
ward Mexico. Administration officials
who are hoping that European eoun-
tries will lend their moral support to
the efforts to adjust the Mexican sit
uation peacefully were favorably i'm
pressed with the statement of the
British government that the recogni.
tion OF Huerta had been only ca rec
ognition Of a provisional president,
pending an election" and was done on
the theory that 1t was "nkely to as
sist In the restoration Of order"
The added comment from the Brit
ish government that France and Ger
many had recognized President
Huerta after the American ambassa
dor, Henry Lane Wilson. had made a
congratulatory speech at a reception
given by President Huerta to the dip
iomatic corps. was received as further
strengthening the view Of President
Wilson that the American ambassador
had been personal factor in the Sit
uation.
with the elimination of the am
oassador the United States govern
ment has made it plain that It could
not recognize any government founded
on irregular and arbitrary forces and
that 1t can only extend recognition to
regularly established constitutional
government. President Wilson is said
10 nope that European nations will
support this contention az one OF the
enective ways Of securing stability OF
government In Latin America.
MIS- JAS. Pinckney Entertains.
Stateburg. Aug. 13.-On Saturday
evening at her homo '"r,o p,,, >,