Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-28
LIND TOLD TO
co TO MEXICO
His Message to Wilson Is Op-
timistic as to Sit
uation.
Continued from First pngeA

"BNsf
following paragraph in Senior Gam
boa's first reply, saying.
THE request that General Vic
toriano Huerta should agree not to
appear as candidate for the presi-
dency of the republic in the coming
election cannot be taken into consid-
GRAFTON because, aside from its
strange and unwarranted character
there is risk that the same might
be interpreted as a matter of per-
sonal dislike. This point can be only
decided by Mexican public opinion,
when it may be expressed at the
polls
From that administration officials
here believed there is every intention
in some way to launch the eandi-
dacy of Huerta while the govern;
ment machinery is in possession Of
some trusted lieutenant. On the
other hand the view is taken that the
constitutonalists never would lay
down their arms unless Huerta were
absolutely eliminated They have
insisted that positive announcement
by Huerta that he will not be a
candidate is a fundamental pre-re-
quisite to the establishment of peace.
The statement by Minister Gamboa
that the United States had failed to
graph of the Mexican constitution
which refers to ineligibility for re-
election of provisional presidents is
denied by the administration here.
President Wilson is known to have
canVassed the Mexican constitution
and all its amendments recently and
it is contended that even though
Mexico were at peace. the constitu-
tionality of Huerta's provisional
presidency is a matter of serious
legal dispute.
u. S. Claims Right to Inquire.
Also the point is made that the
were forced by duress of arms, and
on those fundamentals the United
States takes the position that 1t has
the right to inquire into the legality
of the executive who seeks recogni-
ton. 1t is a principle of constitu-
tional government, based on law and
order, which the United States be-
lieves should be upheld in Latin
America and for this reason it will
continue to insist that it can ex-
tend recognition only to n constitu-
tionally chosen provisional president
or his legally elected successor.
administration officials see a way
out of the difficulty if the Mexican
congress, convoked of its own ac-
cord, should designate by virtue of
its constitutional powers, a provision
al president who would call an cleo
ton, but there is no doubt that the
United States would continue to voice
its opposition to Huerta, whose pres
enee in executive power, it is de-
clared here, will never be consented
to by the large body of constitution
alsts under arms.
Some optimism was CLEANED by ofti-
I. f1,..rr fN.nF "a n
request that the United States and
Mexico Immediately exchange am
bassadors Senior Gamboa merely
asks now that the embassies be MAIN
tanned with their present stats, but
that they should recognize the ad
interim government of Mexico as
constitutional. There was said to be
little likelihood of the acceptance of
this proposal in view of the objec-
lions raised to the constitutional
status of the present regime.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2s.--All the
documents connected with John Lind's
mission to Mexico City were published
today in the Diario Official, the Mexi-
can government organ, in their proper
chronological order. They consist of
the following:
1.-The original instructions given to
John Lind by President Wilson, which
were quoted yesterday in the Presi-
dents message to Congress in Wash
inston.
2-The reply to John Lind made by
Federico Gamboa, Mexican secretary
of state for foreign affairs. on August
16, which was published in Washing
ton yesterday contemporaneously with
the Presidents message.
3-The second note presented by
hoo
August %.
4GThe Mexican secretary of states
reply to this, dated August &C.
The documents are accompanied by
an article under the caption Our Re-
lations with the United States of
America" which says:
Preserves National Decorum.
"Since the strained relations exist
ing between Mexico and the United
States began, the ad interim govern
ment of the Mexican republic, with a
full understanding of it's obligations
and it's responsibilities, purposed with
the greatest possible spirit of con-
citation to preserve the national
decorum which was in great danger
of suffering a serious and transcen-
dental affront had another line of con-
duct been adopted from that which
was taken under the present circum-
stances.
1.-THE strictly secret character of the
negotiations which are still under way
decided the Mexican government to
withhold until today the publication
as a whole of the correspondence eX-
changed between the two chan
celleries.
ain view of the fact that the Pres
ident Of the United States of Amer
lea has already submitted the case
tc the knowledge of Congress in
Washington, the constitutional ad in
term government believes it to be it's
duty, through its official organ, to in
form all the inhabitants of the repub-
lie of the state of these delicate ne
gotiations.
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