The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-01
j. 5. MAKES REPLY
ANSWERS STATEMENT OF MEXI-
CAN REPRESENTATIVES.
REBEL MUST Be chosen

This Government Will Insist That
Constitutionalist be Made Provi-
sionaI President Because Their
Party Has the Approval of a Ma
iority Of the Mexican People.
The American delegates to the
Mexican mediation conference Thurs
day night made public statement,
issued with the consent Of the Wash
ington government, replying to the
statement given out wednesday night
by the Mexican delegation, criticiz-
ing the American plan for the estab-
ilishment of a provisional government
in Mexico with a Constitutionalist at
; it's head. Suggestions that President
Wilson had any intent to destroy the
electoral liberty OF Mexico are cut
teriy repudiated" by the American
Representatives. The statement COW
ers the whole range of criticism by
the Huerta delegates. 1t was inter
preted as foreshadowing the unal-
iterable position Of the United States
in future parleys.
The statement, in substance, fol-
lows: "The American representa-
tives do not think it is conducive to
the interests of mediation to publish
during it's pendency the various plans
or the contentious Of the parties;
but as the Mexican representatives
have given out a formal statement
of their objections to the appoint
ment of a Constitutionalist as provi-
sional president, because, among
other things, an election conducted
by such a provisional government
would not represent the will Of the
Mexican people, it has been neces-
sary to get part Of the answer to
the letter written by Mr.. Rabasa.
I'm that answer the American rep
resentatives utterly repudiate any
suggestions that the American presi-
dent has any intent Of destroying the
electoral liberty of Mexico and insist
that the Mexican representatives en-
tirely understand the motives and
objects of the president, who recog-
nizes the facts and sees in the past
success of the Constittuionalist army
Iindisputable evidence Of the approval
of the Mexican people. But he also
sees that the full triumph OF that
army means an indefinite continu-
ance of war, with the suffering and
bloodshed and death which every war
involves.
"These consequences the president
seeks to prevent through mediation,
but we greatly fear the language OF
the Mexican note implies that his ef-
forts may be thwarted because OF
unwillingness to have a Constitu-
ltionalist as provisional president,
even though that promises the only
practical means by which the hor-
rors of war can be prevented.
"Hope is expressed that the Mexi-
can representatives will not further
oppose the only plan which promises
peace, when it's rejection means suf-
fering and death to so many. We
are convinced that your objections
to the plan itself and your fear OF
the ill-consequences that may follow
its adoption are not well founded,
and that il attacking the details you
lose sight of the large and control
ling motive which from the begin
ming Of this trouble has been in the
mind of the president, and which has
Influenced the American representa-
tives in all that they have said or
proposed to the mediators.
"The American government seeks
only to assist in securing the pacih-
cation Of Mexico. 1t has no special
Interest in the method or in the per-
son by which that great end is to be
accomplished; and if pressed for any
particular method, or for the selec-
ton of particular type of man, it
lis only because it believes them to
be the only means to the desired
end.
"It would be easy at this confer
ence to write an agreement which
many would consider desirable, but
unless the most excellent Of plans
and the most excellent Of men are
laccepted by the Constittuionalists we
only would have paper plan, wholly
ineffective to secure peace in war
torn Mexico. To bring that to a
close, to restore peace and constitu-
tional government, is the aim Of the
president; and that end only can be
attained by consulting the just
wishes of the Constitutionalists, who
are not in numerical majority, but
are the dominant force in the coun-
try.
"If those selected by the mediators
to administer the provisional gov
|ernment have the confidence of the
Constitutionalists a long step will
have been taken towards the pacifi-
cation Of Mexico without furnishing
any occasion for alarm to those Mr..
lRabasa represents, for II the
plan is accepted both by Gen. Ruerta
and Gen. Carranza the cessation OF
arms follows and a provisional gov
ernment is established to call
an election at which every qualified
voted may cast his ballot for the
president of his choice, while if the
plan indorsed by the Mexican repre-
sentatives should be adopted and a
neutral should be chosen, we would
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