The Washington herald., 1913-08-29

| in our public and independent life.
+ IF even once we were to permit the
| counsels and advice Oet US cali them
thus, OF the United States Of America
not only would we, as 1 say above.
! forego our sovereignty, but we would as
| well compromise for an indefinite fu-
ture our destinies as a sovereign entity
and all the future elections for Presi-
dent would be submitted to the veto of
| any President of the United States OF
America.
And such an enormity, Mr.. Conf1den-
| tial Agent, no government will ever at
tempt to perpetrate: and this l am sure
of, unless some monstrous and almost
| impossible cataclysm should occur in the
conscience of the Mexican people.
HucrIa Cannot Run.
eve believed. taking into consideration
the disproportionate interest that the
President of the Upited States of America
shows concerning our Internal affairs,
that he, as well as his government,
would know perfectly well the provisions
of our Constitution in the matter OF cleo
tions.
Unfortunately. and in view OF the in
sistence with which His ExcelIency, Mr.
Wilson. sustains his first ideas, we are
compelled to acknowledge we have made
mistake.
THE reform of constitutional articles.
numbers A and 109, put into effect by the
Congress of the Union on November I,
1911, provides, among other requirements,
that which is contained in the final part
of Article IS:
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 election shall take
place"
This transcription, which I take the
liberty of making, Mr.. Confidential
Agent, in order that the government of
the United States OF America may take
due note of it, prevents the constitutional
ad interim President of the republic from
being a candidate at the Forthcoming
elections. and if his excellency, Presi-
dent Wilson, had taken into considera-
ton that paragraph before venturing to
impose upon us the condition in ques-
ton, and which We may not admit, the
present state of affairs between you and
ourselves would have been avoided, leav-
ing 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 that the
ad interim constitutional President could
not be elected President or Vice Presi-
dent of the republic at the forthcoming
elections, already called for October, be-
cause our own laws prohibit him from
being a candidate, and these laws are
the sole arbiters of our destinies but
never through the imposition, although
friendly and disinterested, of the Presi-
dent of the United States of America or
of any other ruler, powerful or weak
Cthis does not matter in the case), who
would be equally respected by US.
Gamboa Grows Tart.
81 beg to inform you, Mr.. Confidential
Agent, that up to the present time at
least, only the President of the United
States of America has spoken of the
candidacy of the constitutional ad interim
President at the forthcoming elections
Neither the solemn declaration of this
high functionary nor the most insignih-
cant of his acts-all of which have been
done with view of obtaining a complete
pacification Of the country, which is the
supreme national aim, and which he is
desirous of bringing about in spite Of
authorized any one even
to suspect that such are his ultimate in
tentions.
TT is perfectly we'll known that there
does not exist in the whole country a
single newspaper, a single club. a single
or group of individuals who
have launched his candidacy or even dis
cussed 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 inadmissible, |
that in order TO comply with the sugges-
ton OF the President of the United States |
the ad interim President Of the Mexi- |
can Republic should enter into agree |
ments and contract obligations which !