The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-29
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| MEXICO CITY, Aug. 29.-The text
of the answer of Federico Gamboa,
Mexican secretary OF state for foreign
affairs, to the second note sent
him by John Lind, President Wilson's
confidential agent in Mexico, under
date of August %. was made public
here.
1t contains several interesting
clauses. In one paragraph the Mex
lean diplomat quotes Mr.. Linds state
ment from President Wilson that IF
Mexico acts Immediately and favorab-
ly upon the foregoing suggestions"
would express to American bankers
assurances that the government of the
United States would look with favor
upon an immediate loan to Mexico.
Answering this, Senior Gamboa begs
to be excused from direct reply for
the time being, other than to say
that this suggestion appears to be an
attractive antecedent proposal to the
end that moved by petty interests,
Mexico should renounce a right which
incontrovertibly upholds the country
at a time when the dignity of the ma
ton is at stake.
II believe" he adds, that there are
not loans enough to induce those
charged by the law to maintain the
dignity to permit it to be lessened."
In another part of his lengthy note,
referring to the insistence of Presi-
dent Wilson that Victoriano Huerta
binds himself not to be a candidate
for election to the presidency at the
October elections, Senior Gamboa
quotes from the constitutional articles
of the Mexican republic to prove that
under these regulations, the secre-
tary of state in charge of the eXecu-
tive power shall not be eligible to the
office Of either president or vice pres
ident when the election thereof shall
take place"
This provision, Senior Gamboa init
mates, prevents Huerta from being a
candidate.
If your original propositions were
not to be admitted, they are now, in
the more restricted form in which
they are reproduced, even more mad
attention is. called to the fact that
they are insistent upon, if it be no.
ticed, that which the first proposals
had already defined.
Precisely because We comprehend
the immense value which is possess
ed by the principle of sovereignty
which the government of the United
States so opportunity invokes =.
precisely for this reason we believe
that it would never be proposed to
us that we should forget our own SOW
ereignty by permitting that a foreign
government should modify the line
Of conduct which we have to follow in
our public and independent life.
Unfortunately, and in view of the
insistence with which his excellency,,
Mr. Wilson, sustains his first ideas
(election, we are compelled to &C
knowledge that We have made a mis-
take.
THE reform of constitutional arti
;'"N numbers IS and 100 =.
yides, among other requirements,
chat the secretary of state
in charge of the executive power shall
not be eligible to the office of either
president or vice president when the
elections shall take place
This transcription pre-
vents the constitutional ad interim
president of the republic from being
a candidate at the forthcoming cleo
tons, and if his eXcellency, President
Wilson, had taken into consideration
that paragraph before venturinC to
impose upon us the conditions in
question, and which we may not
admit. the present state of affairs be-
tween you and ourselves would have
been avoided.
1T should be we'll understood that
the ad interim constitutional presi-
dent could not be elected president or
forthcoming elections, already called
for October, because our own laws
prohibit him from being candidate.
1T is perfectly well known that
there does not exist in the whole
country single newspaper, a single
club. a single corporation, or group
of individuals who have launched his
candidacy 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 inadmiss-
ible. that in order to comply with the
suggestion of the president of the
United States the ad interim presi-
dent of the Mexican republic should
enter into agreements and contract
obligations which have never hereto
fore been imposed upon the ruler of
any sovereign nation.
The question having been set forth
as ! have had the honor of doing in
this reply. his eXcellency. Mr.. Wilson.
will have to withdraw definitely from
his present attitude at the risk that
his motives . may be wrongly
and differently interpreted by all the
other nations which look upon our
present internal conflict with more or
less interest,
And although the president of the
United States of America should take
an altogether different stand from the
universal viewpoint, which considers
differently an administration under the