Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-13
N0w a Mexican Crisis

It is not surprising that the provisional president
of Mexico, whose immediate resignation is demanded
BY President Wilson, has %signifed. as stated in an
Associated Press dispatch, his purpoe to remain in
Office until after the newly elected Mexican Congress
il seated and has performed it's constitutional func-
ton in canvassing the vote for president, and taking
such action in choosing his successor as the con-
~stitution of Mexico may prescribe. Such a course ct
action is the obvious one for Huerta to take. The i'm
perative mandate from Washington is aimed as much
at the Mexican Congress as at him. 1t is aimed at
the body of Mexican constitutional law. and at the
entire system Of Mexican government. 1t is intend
e! to suspend governmental functions long operative
under the laws of Mexico. With what it is proposed
Ic dfsplace them. is not yet disclosed. Nor is it
necessary for Huerta's purpose that they should be.
So far as disclosed. the mandate is that he retire
and leave the Office vacant. He is no longer the
sole object of attack. The Washington administra-
ton which denied the validity Of the credentials
given him by the last Mexican Congress is now
denying, in advance, the right OF the new congress
to issue credentials to any Mexican In the constl-
tutional line of provisional succession. or to any
Mexican under suspicion at Washington of not being
opposed to the existing government of his country.
Mexico itself being now menaced, Huerta finds his
opportunity to make common cause with all Mexicans
against foreign usurpations.
This favorable change OF position Tor HueFta seems
to be clearly seen by Gen. Carranza, the leader of the
cOnstitutionalists. It is realized by him that,
what is now contemplated is pressed to the point
OF attempt, the revolution will be swallowed up In u
popular movement for national assertion of national
right. The zone Of hostile feeling toward the United
States must now be rapidly widening in Mexico.
Senior Carranza sees such prospects as he has had,
disappearing in a situation which could not have
been better calculated to make of Victoriano Huerta
q national hero. Gen. Carranza Is constant in his
urging against Intervention, or any form Of policy
which may tend to war between the two countries.
He insists that only a modified form of recognition
Of the belligerent rights OF the revolutionists will
bring q speedy solution OF the problem through the
triumph of the reyplutionists' cause. The admins
tration At Washington. while claiming that the Huerta
government has not been representative Of Mexican
public opinion, has steadfastly refused any recog-
milton OF that part Of Mexican opinion which is In
organised protest against it. We have, while denying
that Huerta has q dominant strength, refused to rec.
ognixe such elements OF strength as have been oppos.
ing him. Our entire policy has long tended toward
the point We now seem to be reaching; that OF
asserting our own dictatorship In q setting aside Of
Mexican forms Of procedure, and. putting IN place 9
maksshift Of our own devsinE.
30 repugnant Is all Of this to the American sense
81 frssdona and fair play. and g widely q variancss