The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-09-10
Appears To Be Clearing
Just a Little.
THE HUERTA REGIME WILLING
To Renew Negotiations To
Bring About Peace In
That Country.
HUERTA MUST BE ELIMINATED

Washington, Sept. 5.-President
Wilson's untiring effort to bring
: about peaceful conditions in rebel
lion-ridden Mexico at last appear to
be a success.
Administration officials late to-
night declared that both Nelson
O'Shaughnessy, Charge d'Affaires of
the American Embassy at Mexico
City, and John Lind, President Will
sons personal envoy at vera Cruz,
were in frequent communication
with officials of the Huerta Govern
ment concerning a new basis for
negotiations through which it was
hoped to bring about peace.
A message from Mr.. Onslaught
messy reached President Wilson to-
day and while it's contents were not
disclosed it was said to be indica-
tive of important developments in
the next few days.
The new basis for the parleys,
most of which are being carried on
orally, contemplates certain ques-
tions as having been definitely dis
posed of.
The Washington Government con-
siders that it has made quite clear
that it cannot under any circum-
stances recognize the Huerta Gov
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further demands along that line.
The Administration, moreover,
though hoping for a positive assur-
ance that Huerta will not be can
didate in the approaching elections,
is inclined to accept at its face value
the assertion of FREDERICK GamboaI
Mexican Minister of Foreign At
fairs, in his two notes to Mr.. Lind,
that Huerta is ineligible for re-
election as meaning his elimination
from the Presidential race.
Washington officials look upon
this point as the most important of
their proposals and think an AMIGA
Bile understanding on it soon will
be reached.
With these fundamentals settled,
it is understood that further nego-
tiations by Messrs. O'Shaughnessy
and Lind would look to the estab-
lishment of an effective armistice
and the holding of a fair and free
election.
By some diplomats, and among
the Constitutionalists here, the view
is held that the constitutional pro-
hibition against Huerta's candidacy
would easily be evaded by his resig-
nation in favor of another Provis-
ional President some time before
the election.
Administration officials, who real
ize that such contingency is posi-
BILE, believe. nevertheless, that Senior
Gamboa was acting in good faith in
his declaration that the candidacy
of Huerta had not been raised as an
issue in Mexico before the United
States brought it into the discussion.
that everybody there also had taken
into consideration his ineligibility
for the Presidency and had not
launched any campaign for him.
Outside of Administration quar-
tiers, however, much significance is
attached to the pronouncement in
concert of various official and semi
official newspapers in Mexico City a
few days ago that Huerta would
now be compelled to be a candidate
because he had successfully detied
the United States in the Lind nego-
tiations.
High officials of the Administra-
ton stated most emphatically that
while they felt satisfied now of HUI
erta's elimination from the Presi-
dental race, his subsequent cleo
tion would not alter the attitude of
the United States, namely-that
recognition could not be extended to
him. Their action would be based
on the precedent of President Hayes
in 1877, who refused to recognize
Porfirio Diaz for long time after
he was elected on the ground that
the United States had a right to OBJ