Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-04

WILL PROCEED WITH PLANS
EVEN IF REBELS RALk
With Huerta Out of Way Provisional
Government Will Be Established and
Duty Of Dealing With Rsbs's Put Up
to Commission Namsd-Thrsat to-
Withhold Recognition Of Rebels.

Niagara Falls, Ont. June Awhile
waiting to hear from Genaral Carranza
whether he would send delegates to the
conference here, the mediators planned
today tc continue such work as would
not be affected by the constitutionalist
answer.
The peace plan on which the two
sets of delegates have been working
for two weeks has been only partially
completed. Much Of the work will be
of value even If the constitutionalists,
decide not to enter the negotiations.
Up to carranza.
Mediation waits on General Car
rama, commander-in-c -chief OF the con-
Btitutionalist forces in Mexico. Upon
his word depends whether the entire
Mexican problem will be settled by
diplomacy or whether the constitu-
tionalists will continue to fight their
way by force of arms to Mexico City.
The mediators have in a dignified
way smoothed the path for constitu-
tionalist participation. The United
States government wants them to ac-
cept. A rejection Of the invitation may
eventually mean the withdrawal by the
Washington government OF the moral
support it has been extending to the
constitutionalist cause.
The mediators are hopefully con-
ndent that General Carranza will send
ENJOYS here. Instead of believing the
negotiations viii be indefinitely pro-.
longed by such q course they think a
sv he,
more quickly obtained as all parties in
the Mexican dispute would then be
here to shape the program OF peace.
Rebels Suspicious.
1t Is understood here that the con-
ytitutionalists have hesitated to favor
mediation because OF q misconception
81 the character Of the proceedings.
The mediators are daily approaching
Mexican internal questions which have
rs we'll an international aspect, in the
most taotful manner. The Huerta dele
gates for instance have been able to
discuss these phases without yielding
the sovereignty of their naticn.
There is no purpose here to legislate
on the land question. The American
delegates have never suggested any
specific plan for the remedy of the
agrarian troubles nor do they intend to
do so. What the American govern
ment and the mediators desire is that
the new provisional government shall
be morally obligated to take up the
land question and dispose of it with
justice to all interests.
II the constitutionalists are obdurate
and refuse to enter the mediation con-
ference, preferring the pathway OF
blood shed to the ways OF peace, me-
diarion viii proceed. An agreement will
be reached between the United States
and the Huerta admintstration thru
which a new government will be set
ND. General Huerta's withdrawal will
be regarded by the United States as
yunicient reparation for ofYenses which
we're committed.
Will Accord Recognition.
The international conflict will have
been resolved and the probabilities are
lha. Argentina, Brazil and Chile will
feel justified in according recognition
and moral support to the new provi-
sional government in Mexico City. The
United States would be expected to do
likewise Should the constitutionalists
by military force upset such pro-
gram, recognition, It is confidently be-
ueved here, would be withheld until
new government set up along the prin-
ciples OF the mediation conference were
installed.
The argument between the media
tors and delegates here, therefore Is
that the constitutionalists have every
thing to gain and nothing to lose by
entering in the negotiations and sub
mitting their cause to the mediators
and simultaneously to the world.