The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-18
BELIEVE MEDIATION NOW
NEAR DEFINITE FAILURE

ing plenipotentiaries agreed to the
designation as provisional President
OF a neutral. The American dele
cation submitted its plan, based on
the condition that the provisional
President shall be a Constitutional
fist, a condition which the Mexican
delegation fatty rejected OF its own
accord and without even consulting
Its Government.
ITO put In writing the reasons for
the rejection, so that they might
better be studied by the American
delegates, the Mexican delegation
addressed to them the memorandum
mentioned, the chief considerations
OF which are the following:
I'm country unused to electoral
functions, as Mexico, and particu-
larry In the circumstances and con-
ditions it would be in once the revo-
luton had ceased, a provisional gov
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aries. and with revolutionaries in
authority throughout the country.
would turn the elections as It
wished the public vote would be
falsified and thS result would neces-
sarily he the election of another
revolutionary.
Consequently when the Wash
ington Government insists to-day
on the designation of a Constitu-
tionalist as provisional President 1t
favors also from to-day the impo-
sition OF revolutionary President
at the elections.
had for Both Countries.
"Such an attitude is bad for both
countries and for the chief OF the
revolution (who will doubtless also
be its candidate): bad for the two
countries becaus, II will create n
national sentiment OF hostility in the
Mexican people, when a sympathetic
rapprochement between them and
the 'nited States should he striven
for: bad for Carranza and for his
party because public opinion in
Mexico. whose susceptibility in the
matter is well known to them.
would ever accuse them OF having
brought about the intervention OF n
foreign nation to enable them to
achieve power. and OF welding an
authority submissive to foreign
government.
TN the United States and In some
European countries the influence of
the government in power on cleo
tons is slight, II any. In Latin
American countries it Is usually de-
cisive. and. product of revolution
which believe. in it's right to power
by conquest. a revolutionary gov
eminent does not hesitate 10 set
aside all law and to trample on the
public will. In Mexico. in the pres
ent circumstances, only n we'll bal
anced neutral government can guar
antee electoral freedom, so that the
rejection OF the neutral government
proposed by the mediators is tanta-
mount to abetting and even to ex-
acting. fraud and violence at the
elections.
1.-THE American delegation draws
en- illogical inference when 1t says
that the rebel successes show that
the nation is with them. The CEN
trial and eastern States of the re-
public. which have total popula-
ton Of over 100000 inhabitants.
are not under rebel control. OF
these Guanajuato. Jalisco, Puebla,
Vera Cruz. Mexico and Oaxaca alone
have over 100000.
Resent Imposition of Ruler.
"But admitting said erroneous
Inference to be correct. II Is no
argument for the forcible imposition
OF the triumph OF the revolution
airy candidate, as under a neutral
government he would be assured Of
Q certain and honorable victory. II