The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1913-10-24
GENERAL HUERTA
WILL NOT QUIT
President Of Mexico RGpudiatGs
Agreement TO Resign
SUSPICIOUS OF WAR NJ MISTER

indications That England Is Trying to
Control Tampco Oil FieIds-Con-
stitutionaIst Leaders Say War
Would Stop In Twenty Four Hours
If Huerta Would Step Out
New complications in the entangle-
ment of Mexican affairs are the re-
pudiation by General Huerta of an
agreement to resign, and the indica-
tons that Great Britain, through her
minister to Mexico, Sir Lionel Car
den, is fighting for control of the
Tampico oil fields.
General Huerta's suspicion of Gen
eral Banquet, his minister Of war,
and one of the men who, with Felix
Diaz, conspired with him in the down.
fall of President Madero, is the rea-
son assigned for his refusal to aban-
don his virtual dictatorship. Private
advices from Mexico City say the pro-
visionaI president fears a plot to ruin
him.
General Banquet is understood to
be on friendly terms with General
DieZ, whose arrival is awaited with
much interest, since it may result in
important developments in the whole
Mexican situation.
That the American administration
would regard Banquet in power with
as much disfavOr as it does the regime
Of Huerta himself, is no secret here.
1t is known that the two men were in
the plot against Madero's life. 1t is
not so widely known, however, that
General Banquet was the prime mover
in the conspiracy and that General
Huerta at first opposed the step as I'M
necessary and unwise.
Mexicans in Washington assert that
General Banquet is not 3 native of
Mexico and is therefore Ineligible for
the presidency. 1t is not expected,
however, that, with the army at his
back, he would allow such a trifling
matter as the constitution 10 stand
in his way.
Assurances have been forwarded to
President Wilson by leaders of the
constitutionalists that General Huerta
can end the warfare in twenty-four
hours byn stepping out of Office and
turning the presidency over to a new
neutral man in whom all factions can
have confidence.
1t is admitted that President Will
son is irritated by the action of Sir
Lionel Garden, the British minister,
in taking an open stand against the
leadership of the United States in try
ing to settle the Mexican trouble. I'm
DERIVING the antagonism to American
interests, some observers profess to
see desire by the British government
to obtain control of the Tampico oil
fields, so that an adequate supply OF
fuel will be available for the OIL burn
ing vessels of the British navy.
1t is asserted that the discovery of
a conspiracy to grant an oil monopoly
to British capitalists among the sew
enty-four deputies, now imprisoned.
was one reason prompting the drastic |
action of General Huerta.
President Wilson still refuses to be-
lieve that the British government is
opposed to his efforts to settle the |
Mexican situation. American resi- |
dents in Mexico, in private dispatches |
received here, profess no such GER |
tainty. Belief is indicated in these ad- !
vices the chief consideration of the |
British government is the interests of |
British concessionaries, especially the |
group headed by Lord Cowdray, |
which, besides trying to sell its in
terest in the Tehuantapec railway to |
the Mexican government, is under |
stood to be playing a much bigger
game, in which the Tampico oil fields
figure.