The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-28

| Dental Agent, no government will
| ever attempt to perpetrate, and this
and almost impossible catac1ysm
| should occur in the conscience of the
! Mexican people.
| I'VE believe taking into consdera-
ton the disproportionate interest that
! the president of the United States OF
America has shown concerning our in
ternal affairs that as well as his gov
eminent would know perfectly well the
provisions of our constitution in the
matter of elections.
! Unfortunately and in view of the
insistence with which his excelIency,
Mr.. Wilson, sustains his first ideas, we
are compelled to acknowledge that we
have made a mistake.
Constitutional Provision.
THE reform of constitutional artic-
les numbers IS and 109, put into effect
by the congress of the Union on No
vember Z, 1911, provides among other
requirements that which is contained
in the final part of article 70: The sec
rotary of state in charge of the execu-
tive power shall not be eligible to the
office of either president or vice presi-
dent when the elections shall take
place
This transcription which 1 take the
liberty of making, Mr.. Confidential
Agent in order that the government
of it. prevents the constitutional ad
interim president of the republic from
being a candidate at the forthcoming
elections; and if his excellency Mr..
Wilson had taken into consideration
that paragraph before venturing to i'm
pose upon us the conditions in ques-
ton and which we may not admit, the
present state of affairs between you
and ourselves would have been avoid
ed, leaving out of the discussion our
decOrum and the personal pride of the
president of the United States wrongly
interested in this discussion without
foundation
1t should be well understood the ad
interim constitutional president could
not be elected president or vice presi-
dent of the republic at the forthcom-
ing elections already called for October
because our own laws prohibit him
from being a candidate and these laws
are the sole arbiterS of our deStinieS,
but never. through the imposition, al
though friendly and disinterested, of
the president of the United States of
America or Of any other ruler, power
full weak (thiS does not matter in
the case) who would be equally re-
spected by US.
He Grows Sarcastic.
81 beg to inform you, Mr.. Confiden-
tial Agent, that up to the present time |
at least no president of the Unit |
ed States of America has spoken of the |
candidacy of the constitutional ad in |
term president at the forthcoming |
elections.
Neither the solemn declaration of |
this high functionary nor the most |
insignificant of his act-all of which |
have been done with a view of obtain |
ing complete pacification of the |
country which is a supreme national
aim and which he has decided to bring |
about in spite of everything-have au-
any one even to suspect that
such are his ultimate intentions.
1T is perfectly well known, that
there does not exist in the whole coun-
try a single newspaper, a single club,
a single corporation or group of indi-
viduals who have launched his canol-
dacy or even discussed it.
"On what then is the gratuitous sus
picion of the president of the United
States of America based, and his de
mand, which is absolutely inadmissi-
BILE that in order to comply with the
suggestion of the president of the Uni
ed States the ad interim president OF
the Mexican republic should enter into
agreement and contract obligations
which have never heretofore been inn
posed upon the ruler of any sovereign
nation.
Wilson Must Back Down.
The question having set forth as ]
lave had the honor of doing in this
'eply his excellency, Mr.. Wilson, will!
lave to withdraw definitely from his
present attitude at the risk that his
motives, which 1 take pleasure in ac
are as he himself quotes
hem, friendly and disinterested, al
Rustic and without Interior ends-at
he risk 1 repeat, that they may be
wrongly and differently interpreted by
LII the other nations which look upon
conflict |
IT less interest. l
And although the president of the
United States of America should take
altogether different stand from the uni
yersal viewpoint which considers differ |
entity an administration under the con- !
litions in which our own is at present,
The best proof of my assertion is the
recognition of the fore
most powers of the world, among which
he United States of America occupies | I
such prominent and legitimately con-
Iuered rank-he will have to cease to
,all US de facto government and Will
give us the title of ad interim consti- 8
utional government, which is the only
me to which We are rightly entitled.
No Reply to Make.
Permit me. Mr.. Confidential Agent, I
lot to reply for the time being to the
,ffer in which the government of the
United States insinuates that it will
ecommend to American bankers-the
extension of a loan which
will permit us among other things, to !
over the innumerable urgent expenses !
equired by the progressive pacifica ton 4
# the country; for in the terms in 4
which it is couched it appears to be an 4
ttractive antecedent proposal to the =
nd, that moved by petty interests we ,
hould renounce a right which incon- | 4
rovertibly upholds us at a period when 4
he dignity of the nation is at stake. :.
Il believe that there are not loans
nough to induce those charged by the
Nv to maintain that dignity to permit it E
| Il