Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30
'CARRANzA DENIES
FINANC|ERS AIDED
Declares Revolution Has Been
. Sustained by National
Funds Solely.
FLINT EXPL AIMS WHY HEAVY
FINANCING WILL BE NEEDED
sVasconcelos Declares He Never
Sought Concessions for
Pierce in Mexico.

MONTERREY, June capitalization
In the United States of reports that
the Constitutionalist movement has
been assisted by the United States
government with the idea of bene-
fitting certain business interests in
Mexico particularly railway lines,
has brought the following signed
statement from General Carranza:
In the national lines of Mexico,
the Mexican government will con-
serve the representation she already
has in them, and this head of the
Constitutionalist army will not rec
ognize any operation which may be
verified in relation to the said lines,
unless in such an operation or agree
ment the government is represented.
| desire to make known, as result
of articles published in New York,
that the Constitutional government
has no compromises with that nation
(meaning the United States) or any
bother. / have received no pecuniary
assistance from foreign governments
or citizens, and from the beginning
of the present revolution it has been
solely sustained by national funds
and will be until the end.
"VENUSTIANO CARRANzA."
NEW YORK, June 30.-Jose Vas
concelos and Captain Sherburne @.
Hopkins whose names have figured
in the alleged activity of big inter-
ests'' in financing the Constitution
alists in Mexico in their fight against
Huerta, met yesterday in the office
of Charles r. Flint, rs Broad street.
After the meeting Vasconcelos and
Flint were the only ones who were
willing to discuss the affair.
Natural to Protect Interests.
Tlfsv seemed to see nothing sur
prisng inc the fact that men inter-
ested in affairs in the Southern re-
public should want to advance money
to end the struggle, and to prevent
the chaos which might follow the
fall of the Carranza government. Mr..
Flint said the financiers were simply
acting to preserve their interests. The
ConStitutionalistS were endeavoring
Ito obtain funds with which to carry
heir movement to success. That
acre was any attempt at graft was
denied by the represen-
4 tatives' of the Constitutionalists here.
In a letter dated from New York
on April IA to Captain Hopkins and
published in Mondays New York
Herald, Mr.. Vasconcelos, a member
of the Constitutionalist junta at
Washington, acknowledged having
received 5000 from Henry Clay Pierce.
Mr.. Vasconcelos explained yesterday
that the 5000 was paid to him for
travelling expenses from Ell Paso,
Texas, to New York, as an attorney
of the Pierce Oil Corporation. At
that time, he said, he held no connec-
ton with the Carranza government.
Mr.. Flint, whose office, % Broad
street, is several floors above those
occupied by the National Railways
r, of Mexico and those of Mr.. Pierce,
emphatically denied that he had any
connection with those who were re-
ported to be trying to reshape the
railroads of Mexico. BY those" he
especially meant Mr.. Pierce. Mr..
Flint has been interested in the Con-
stitutionalist movement, and as agent
of the Carranzas he has shipped arms
TO Mexico.
Financial Salvation Necessary.
To save Mexico from the chaos
which will follow the end of the pres
ent trouble, it will be necessary to
formulate plan for the financial and
industrial salvation of that country,
according to Mr.. Flint. He believes
that it will take $50,000,000 to estab-
lish a stable government there. He
said:
Those who were acquainted with
conditions in Mexico knew that it
would be a great task to harmonic
conflicting interests. and that those
who were seeking to bring about this
condition of harmonYsshould be up
held in their effort. ~
He repeated, as in previous state
ment, that while the Wilson admins
tration had set high standard, its
fafn 70
sufficiently far-reaching. He declared
that in his activities In connection
with the Mexican situation he was
first of all moved by desire to pre-
vent the loss of life which would have
resulted had the United States or
dered soldiers into the interior of
Mexico.
although the people of Mexico