Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-28
the OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE HERTA GOVERNMENT TO-DAY PUB
lsHES FULL TEXT OF NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN JOHN LIND and
AMERICAN LOAN
HUERTA WILL NOT Be
A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

/ Camboa quotes from the Mexican con
stitution to prove that under it's regu
lations the secretary OF state in charg
OF the executive power shall not b.
eligible to Office either of presden
or vice president, when elections ar
held.
Gamboa intimates this proposition
prevents Huerta from being a candi
date.
| In his reply the minister says:
| IF your orginial proposals were no
to be admitted, they are now, in thu
r,ore restricted form in which they
are reproduced, even more inadmis
sable and ones attention is called tt
! the fact that they are insisted on, il
| it be noticed, that which the first pro
posals had already defined.
Precisely because we comprehend
! the immense value of the sovereignty
which the government of the United
States so opportunely invokes in the
question of our recognition or non
recognition, precisely for this reason
we believed that it would never be
proposed to us that we should forget
our own sovereignty by permitting
that foreign government should
modify the line of conduct which we
have to follow in our public and inde
pendent life.
IF even once we were to permit the
counsels and advice Qet us call them
tfus) of the United States of America,
not only would we, as | say above,
forego our sovereignty, but we would
as well compromise for an indefinite
future our destinies as a sovereign en-
tity 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..
Confidential Agent, no government
will ever attempt to perpetrate. and
this ! am sure of, unless some mon
strous and almost impossible cata-
o. the Mexican people.
I'VE believed, taking into consider
alton the disproportionate interest
that the president of the United States
OF America has shown concerning our
internal affairs, that he as well as his
government would know perfectly
well the provisions of our constitu-
ton in the matter of elections.
Unfortunately, and in view Of the
ihsistence with which his excellency,
Mr. Wilson sustains his first ideas,
we are compelled to acknowledge that
we have made mistake. The form
of constitutional articles numbers 7S
and 1O9, put into effect by the con-
gress of the union on November Z,
1911, provides among other require
rlents 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 Of
flee of either president or vice-presi-
dent when the elections shall take
place.
"This transcription, which take the
liberty of making Mr. Confidential
Agent, in order that the government
Of the United States OF America may
take due note of it, prevents the con-
stitutional ad interim president of the
republic from being a candidate at the
elections and if his ex-
cellency, President Wilson. had taken
into consideration that paragraph be-
fore venturing to impose on us the
in question and which we
llay not admit, the present state of af-
fairs between you and ourselves would
have been avoided, leaving out of the
discussion our decorum and the per-
sonal pride of the president of the
United States, wrongly interested in
this discussion without foundation.
1T should be well understood that
the ad interim constitutional presi- |
dent could not be elected president or
OF the republic al the
forth coming elections, already called /
FOR October, because our own laws |
prohibit him from being a candidate |
and these laws are the sole arbiters Of |
our destines, but never through the /,
although friendly, and dis !
Interested of the president of ,he !
president of the United States of
America or of any other ruler, power !
'ul or weak (this does not matter in
he case) who would be equally re-
'pected by us.
II beg to inform you, Mr.. Conf
lential Agent. that up to the present
ime. at least, only the president of
he United States of America has
spoken of the candidacy of the consti-
utional ad interim president at the
orthcoming election.
Neither the solemn declaration of
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