Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-05-29
HUERTA ENJOYS
Want HIM TO QUIT
Urge Him to Resign Before
Rebels Sweep Everything,
SEE SPECTRE CT DEFEAT
Coming of Carranza Representative
Stirs Mexican Delegates to urge
Cictator's Resignation.

The specter of defeat may soon slt
at the council table with the Huerta
delegates in the mediation conference
at Niagara Falls, Ont.
A crowning humiliation has been
thrust upon them by word from WASH
ington that a spokesman for CarranAa
and Villa is expected, and though de-
nying the tottering provisional presl
dents delegates recognition, Will slVe
to the mediators the messages OF the
victorious revolutionists.
The official representatives of Huer'
ia are said to be imploring their ch1el
in Mexico City to allow them to save
something from the impending wreck
They await his word that he Will re-
sign and pray that ne may not resign
too late.
AS soon as Huerta's delegates nal
scanned the newspapers the telegraph
and cable lines were brought into
play. The fall of Saltillo, the defeat
of the Huerta forces at Tep1c, the I'M
pending fall of MaZatlan and the ap'
preaching investment OF GuadalaJara
convinced them that the end OF the
Huerta government of Mexico is at
hand. Then they sent urgent messages
to their chief.
The delegates recognize that in
their hands lie the fate and fortunej
OF thousands Of cientifcos or landed
I Nj
delegates, who possesses 100000 acres
of land, is even more anxious than his
colleagues that Huerta shall steJ
down and avert a calamity that might
establish the poems of Mexico In full!
power.
The mediators welcomed the prom
ised arrival of Constitutionallst
agent, expecting him to furnish
clear light on the rising power beyonl
the Rio Grande. They will seek to
learn particularly from the messenger
of Carranza to what extent the rebels
will carry the spoliation OF the great
estates OF the southern republic.
Will the cientifcos be deprived
merely of enough of their millions OF
acres to afford the poems chance to
till the soil and earn livelihood, or
will Carranza and Villa strip their en-.
emies of all their property? Will there
be reprisals upon the leaders who
have been forced to stand by Huerta
or flee from his reach? How far will
the military and economic retributi n
go?
These are the questions to which
the mediators will seek an answer.
They bespeak the fundamental belief
that nothing can prevent the over
throw of Huerta.
States and Huerta is merely the pre-.
lude to mediation between the land
owners of Mexico and its masses. The
mediators expect that Huerta's pride
will keep up the masquerade OF Mexi.
can-American hostility few days
longer-perhaps weeks-but then they
look for the collapse. Thereupon they
will be ready with a compact to be
presented for the acceptance of the
Constitutionalists. This will guaran-
tee safety to the Huertistas and seek
to arrange an equitable settlement
with the poems.
The American delegates held con.
ference with the mediators. The queS.
tion of Constitutionalist represe t.
ton was under consideration. The i'll.
vitation to the Constitutionalists tc
participate in the mediation itself has
not been renewed, though the threE
South American diplomats will avail
more definite information from Goa
stitutionalist sources before mai.
any announcements in this coul.ec
ton.
At the conclusion of the confer n:
between the American commissiuEcr
and the mediators, none CT the parties
would say anything except that thn
talk had been of "confidential Ia.
ture," but it was admitted tha. thA
question of allowing the Ccustita;i II.
alists to participate in the meIi. Ii %!
was thoroughly discussed.