The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-06
Provisional President Be-
gins Negotiations With
MOrelos Chieftain.
PROMINENT MEXICANS
IN ARMY OF FUGITIVES
Both at Capital and in Vera Cruz
Conviction Exists That
Crisis Is Imminent.
no REPORT FROM ELECTIONS
Dictator Intends to Repeat Virtually
Compulsory Choice Of Him.
self and Banquet.

Vera Cruz, July 5.-1t is rumored
here that All alliance between Pro-
visonal President Huerta and Emilio
Zapata. the revolutionary leader. will
be formed soon. Most MeNicans re-
gard such combination as incon-
ccivahlc because Of the long ennity
Zarata has borne Huerta. who. under
Madero. gave him the hardest tight
he ever had But the report brought
mere appears to leave little doubt that
Hucrta has entered into negotiations
with the Morclos chicftain.
Both here and in the capital the
conviction exists that Il crisis Is i'm
minent.
Mexicans prominent in the political.
commercial. and social life OF the zap
itu have joined in increasing
Strengt tn, the army OF fugitives. Sew
eral foreigners. other than British.
have taken the advice OF Sir Lionel
Garden. the British minister. to get
out OF what he regards as dangerous
territory
PROMINENT MEXICANS
LEAVE CAPITAL CITY
Two special trains left the capitaI
Tor Puerto Mexico on Friday night ana
Saturday, according 10 persons who ar
rived here from Mexico city to-day.
Among tho passengers are said to
a Ill
ana his family. ANA Querida Aloheno,
eN-Ministcr OF Commerce. II Is re-
ported that Jorge fluerta. son OF the
i'r'Sidcnt, and one OF Huerta's daugh-
ter: also were on one OF the trains
IL is understood the Presidents Mife
remained IN the capital
McNicans from the interior and those
lust beyond the American lines do
not regard seriously the elections
held to-day No announcement ever
has been made AS To the candidates
That General Huerta intends TO re,
pear the virtually compulsory choice OF
hilna"li and General BlanQuet for the
pfecidcnry and the vice c-presidency.
respectively. as he did last year. is
the story brought there to-day by a
judge from Jalapa. H> sail when he
received instructions to prepare bal
lots. publish au announcement that an
election was to be held and to cstab-
iish polling places. seeing TO IL that all
votes cast wer" for Huerta and Blan-
luet. he refused. The judge said lie
was hned for his refusal, but the iefs
politico failed TO send him Immediate
" TO prison. and he escaped 10 safety
within the American lines
NO CHOICE EVEN TO
SMALL PART or PEOPLE.
Any suggestion that General Hucrta
Is leaving the choice I'm the elections IN
even "a small part of the people is ridi
culed here.
one theory suggested for any alliance
iuerta may be able To make with
Aapata is that with the support OF
this chieftain he may he able To hold
BACK Tor many months tl.e Constitu-
tionaiists from the north. Military
men regard the final triumph of tho
Constitutionalists as Improbable for
several weeks. unless there occur Sc
rious defections from the Federal army
or serious uprls,ngs within the capital.
WASHINGTON ANXIOUS
ron ELECTION NEWS
Washington. July J.-Washiurton
awaited anNiously tonight for details
of the elections held to-day IN Mexico
70 choose successor to General
iuerta. W to a late hour little had
been heard from the election except
that one had been held, and that the
voting was light.
While AN early report from Mexico
city said II Was believed General
iiuerta had been the favoritc in voting
for tho presidency. the general belief
here was that Iiuerta had not been a
candidate, and that il was the inten-
ton to choose Pedro Lascurain as
President.
Reiterations were received to-day in
private dispatches from Mexico city
that Huerta. IN ii final effort to restore
peace. intended to turn the government
over to l-ascurain. who in turn will
name some constitutionaiist as Minis
ter OF Foreign Affairs. Then I.ascurain,
according to these reports. would re-
sign, leaving the Constitutionulist to
succeed to the presidency. Huerta
would be assigned to "A foreign post by
lascurain before the lattcr's resi.ua-
tion
HOPE For AUTHORITY TO
MEET HUEItFA ENNOYS
That this plan would work out was
deemed unlikely in some sources here
although some ConstitutionaliSt agents
were inclined to credit the report that
some such scheme would be trisd. Luis
Cabrera and Rafael Zuburan. General
Carranzas chief representatives in
Washington, have not abandoned hoco
that Constitutiouaiist agents will DO
authorized To meet Huerta's delegates
to the mediation conference.
Cabrera left tonight for New York
and Alfredo Breceda, who has been In
Washington for Z week, announced to-
night that he would go TO New York
tonight. Their departure revived re-
ports that the proposed conference
between the Mexican factions nigh, bo
held soon. and that IL would occur in
New York.
Concerning differences between Cen
being considered in n conference at
Washington tonight that satisfactory
SATISFACTORY RESULT
Is EXPECTED TODAY
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