Evening capital news., 1914-06-18

Statement by Huerta Deie9ates'
Niagara Falls, Ont, June 1S.-The
Huerta delegation to the mediation
conference issued a statement last
night charging that the insistence by
the United States on constitutionalist
for the provisional presidency as OPP
posed to a neutral was "tantamount
to abetting and even exacting fraud and
violence at the elections"
The publication Of this statement was
unexpected by the American delegates
When they learned of 1t their attitude
was that the Huerta delegates were act
ing entirely within their rights when
they criticised the American plan for
establishment of a provisional govern
ment in a communication addressed to
the Americans themselves but they
were greatly surprised by the action in
giving 1t out.
The Mexican statement outlines the
substance of memorandum dated
June r. which the Huerta delegates
gave to the American delegation and to
which the latter have since replied.
The preface of the statement explains
that publication tonight was made be-
cause knowledge of the criticism al
ready had reached representatives Of
the press.
The statement was in part as follows:
"The Mexican delegation, adopting
principle advanced by the mediation
plenipotentiaries, agreed to the desig-
nation as provisional president Of
neutral The American delegation sub
mitted its plan, based on the condition
that the provisional president shall be
a constitutionalist, a provision which
the Mexican delegates flatly refused.
of it's own accord, without even consult
ing its government. To put in writing
the reasons for the rejection, so that
they may be better studied by the
American delegates, the Mexican dele
CATION addressed to them a memoran-
dunn, the chief considerations of which
are the following:
Unused to Electoral Functions.
in a country unused to electoral
functions. such as Mexico. and par
ticularly in the circumstances and con-
ditions 1t would be in, once the revolu-
ton had ceased, a provisional govern
ment composed Of revolutionaries. and
with reyolutionaries in authority
throughout the country, would turn the
elections as it wished, the public vote
would be falsifled; and the result would
necessarily be the election of another
revolutionary Consequently, when the
washington government insists on the
designation of constitutionalist as
provisional president 1t favors also from
today the imposition Of a revolutionary
president at the elections. Such an at
titude is bad for both countries, and
for the chief Sof the revolution (who
will also doubtless be its candidate).
Bad for the two countries. because 1t
will create national sentiment Of hos
tility In the Mexican people, when a
sympathetic rapprochement between
them and the United States should be
striven for; bad for Carranza and for
his party. because public opinion in
Mexico, whose susceptibility in the
matter is we'll known TO them, would
ever accuse them Of having brought
about the Intervention of foreign ma
tion to enable them to achieve power
and of welding an authority submis-
sive to a foreign government.
In the United States. and in soma
European countries. the influence Of
the government in power on elections
IL slight. II any. In Latin American
countries 1t is asual.y decisive, and
nroduct of a revolution which believes