Arizona republican., 1914-04-23
CARRANzA OBJECTS
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seizure of the customs house there Until we receive a complete report from Rear Admiral Badger about the situation at Vera Cruz Secretary Daniels said, We have nothing to say about Tampico." Senator Shively. acting chairman of the foreign relations committee who conferred with Secretary Tumultv. spoke also of the Washington govern ment's intention to proceed slowly. hoping that it's successive acts of re- prisal might force Huerta to yield from his stubborn position and avert war i The official translation of the text of Carranzas s letter follows:
 { United States Consul J. C. Caroth- CTS: In answer to the message of , Nr. Secretary of State Bryan. which was communicated to me through you. please transmit to the said Mir Bryan the following note addressed to Mir. President Wilson
 Awaiting the action of the Amer ican senate on your eXcellencys mes sage directed to said body caused ny the lamentable incident which oc- cured between crew in a whaleboat of the cruiser Dolphin and the sol dierS of the usurper, Huerta, certain acts of hostility have been executed by the naval forces under command of Admiral Fletcher at the port of Vera Cruz, and, in the face of this violation of national sovereignty which the constitutionalst government did not expect from q government which had reiterated it's desire to maintain peace with the Mexican people, comply with the duty of elevated patriotism in directing this note to you with q view to eXhausting all honorable means before two friendly nations sever the pacific relations that
 still unite them. And the Mexican
 nation. thc real people of Mexico,
 have not recognized as it's executive q
 man who had pretcnded to launch
 blemish on it's national integrity
 drowning blod its free institutions
 consenuently the acts of the usurper
 Huerta and his accomplices do not
 sicnify legitimate acts of sovereignty
 they Go not constitute real public
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 lations. and much less do they rep
 resent sentiments of the Mexican na-
 ton, which arc of co-fTatcrnity to- wards the American people.
 The lack of representative char acter of General Nictoriano Huerta as concerning the relations of MeXl-
 co with the United States as well as
 with the Argentine Republic. Chile
 Brazil. Cuba. is clearly established with the justifiable attitude of these I nations who have refused to recog
 nize the usurper, in this way tendins : to d valuable moral support to that = noble cause I represent.
 The usurped title fthe presiden
 of the republic can not invest Gen
 Huerta with the right to receive :
 demand off reparation on the part O [ the United States, nor the right t' a grant satisfa ctiOn as due.
 f "Victoriano Huerta is culprit wh' Il is amenable to the constitutionalis s government today, the only one un It der the abnormal circumstances o Il our nation, which represents the ma y tioonal sovereignty in accord witt : article 12S of the political legisla
 tion of Mexico. The illegal act 1T committed by the usurper Hucrta, hi = partisans and those which they ma. IS yet perpetrate be they of an inter W national character as these Whicl IT recently occurred at the port of Tam st pico. or of a domestic character Il shall he tried and punished with in d flexibiiity and promptness hy the tri
 bunals of the c0nstitutionalist gov | ernment
 Il, individual acts of Victoriano Huert d inever will be sufficient to involve tn r. Mexican nation in d disastrous Wa
 with the United States because there l $ no soldity whatsoever between the so )f called government of Nictoriano Huer le to and the Mexican nation for the fun
 damenta reason that he is not tn j. legitimate organ of our national SOY = ereignty.
 Moreover, the invasion of our ter > ritory and the permanency of you 9t forces in the port of Vera Cruz are al violation of the rights that constitut ] our existence as free and independer
 sovereignty, and will drag us into q
 unequal war with the dignity but Whic
 until today We desired to avoid.
 lo Tn the face of the real situatio ,e through which Mexico traVerses, veal -o more so than ever after three years { h bloody strife, and compared with tn r. formidable power of the American ma
 ton. in considering the acts committe
 at Vera Cruz as accounts highly oi J. fensive to the dignity and independenc ,c of Mexico and contrary to your reitel
 atcd declaration of not desiring to SeV