Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-02

rapidity. the army would be in Mexico
City in less than week. Yet the con-
stitutionalist leaders point to the de-
alterations Of the commission and the
ignoring this situation. The peace COM
mission even goes SO fas as to propose
that the constitutionalists must recognize
whatever provisional government they
decide to set up. and to declare that they
must be forced to recognize that govern
ment or be crushed.
1.-The constitutionalist leaders are Won
dering how they are to be forced to do
this, In view of their present accom-
plishments. and by whom they are to be
crushed II they decline to obey the COM
mission. Calmly. too, the commission
proposes that Huerta shall be permitted
to be a candidate for the presidency III
order merely to save his face?' Do they
think the constituencies VIII VIII, consen.
to that any more than they will consent
to recognize a provisional government
constituted, as the commission proposes,
of one person selected by Huerta. one by
themselves, and one, perhaps. put not
at all likely, by the constitutionailsts;
NO one. the constitutlonalist leaders
point out. who has had any acquaintance
with the objects and purposes OF their
movements would fancy Tor slhsle
moment that they would ever consent
to do with any one friendly to or hereto
fore connected with Huerta The con-
stftutionalists make it plain heyono quee-
ton that they will only recognize gov
eminent established under the piaIi VI
Guadalupe at the triumph of the revoiu-
ton.
No Dictation to Conquerors.
According TO this plan the COM
mander-in-chief of the consttutionalist
army will be the provisional president OF
the Mexican republic while the elections
are being verified and constitutional
order is restored to the country They
point out the fact that conquerors are
not usually wont to permit the con-
uuered to dictate the terms OF peace,
which is practically what is TO De ashen
of them by the commission. tohsti'u-
tionaJists are especially caustic IN thef
Comment on the proposal OF The COM
mission to take up the aSrarian ques-
ton and propose some FORM OF setie-
ment They declare :nat TINS is purt,
" internal problem. and that they win
tolerate no outside interference. Indeed
This Is their attitude with regard to the
entire proceedings of the mediation com
mission. .ho,
..They declare that if left alone tney
will settle the entire Mexican prooleh, ~,
a few months and In proof OF their aoI.-
ify n do this point to what they nave al
ready accomplished in the way OF driV-
ing the federals from two-thlrds OF the
country with the imminent prospect OF
securing the other third in no great tlille.
They point also TO what they nave
already done and are doing in settling the
agrarian problem.
when shown statements bearing in
frence that should the Niagara Falls plan
not be agreeable to the constitutionallsts
they would be forced to accept 1t or De
crushed, the constitutionalist leaders ask,
how and by whom. They point out that
the alleged object of the Niagara Faiis
conference was to promote peaceful set
Element With nearly two-thirds of Next
co in their control and now being restored
to a basis of peace after four years OF
civil strife, the constitutlonailst leaders
fail to see what peaceful measures couio
be brought to bear to constraln them 10
accept the plan
$4,000 Men in Field.
They assert that with an army of APP
proximately fifty thousand men in the
field the occupation of the remainder of
Mexico. the capture of the capital and
the elimination of Huerta and his follow
ers are matters Of not more than two
months. Should any or all of the foreign
nations party to the conference at Mag
ara decide, as result of that conference,
called to promote peace, to use force to
secure acceptance of their plan. the con-
stitutionalists feel that 1t would present
situation SO contradictory as to be 1udi
crous. The announcement that basis
had been secured for the solution Of the
agrarian question was received with
laughter. The constitutionalists do not
recognize the right of the mediators to
rule concerning this subject. especially as
matter largely was responsible for the
unrest in Mexico.
THE constitutionalists assert the for
eign mediators have not been able to set
tie this question in their own countries,
and yet they apparently take it upon
themselves to settle so grave matter
for country of whose local conditions
they must be ignorant The leaders ex-
plain the agrarian problem is one for
local settlement. and that the only par
ties to the Niagara plan who understand
local conditions are the men who hold
radically opposite views to those of the
great majority In Mexico. The inference
that Huerta might become candidate
for president at future election is re-
garded as impossible. He is regarded as
criminal by the constitutionalists, and
that he should be a candidate for any
thing except the guiilotine or the electric
chair is not considered seriously by
them.
Villa Disclaims Ambition.
A declaration by Gen Villa, as given
out today by the bureau of Information
at Juarez, said, in part:
IT have been informed that our en-
emies. the men who belong to the party
Of treachery, are developing intrigues
abroad, using my name and exalting my
military merits. with the object of maxi
ing me appear with an ambition which
do not possess, for the purpose of es-
tablishing divisions and discords among
the constituencies. II victory has oc-
companied me it has been not only be-
cause of my own personal action. but
also from the courage. patriotism and
discipline Of my companions in arms"
1'Can OnIv Meet Huerta