The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-05-27
ARMY Is TO STAY
UNTIL THE SETTLEMENT OF TIE
MEXICAN SITUATION.
Reported That Huerta Has Advised
His Representatives to Withdraw
Him il Necessary.

President Wilson Monday told the
American commissioners, who left
Tuesday for the mediation conference
at Niagara Falls, Ont, that the Unit
ed States government regards the set
tlement of the Mexican problem in
definite form as a prerequisite to the
withdrawal of the American forces
from Vera Cruz.
The president gave the American
commissioners no specific instruc-
tions. He told them to place them
selves in receptive mood and wait
proposals from the three South Amer
ican mediators. But at the same
time he outlined to his representa-
tives that peace in Mexico seemed to
him to be conditioned on the elimi-
nation Of the Huerta administration
and the establishment in its place of
a strong provisional government,
which would conduct an election CIV
ing fair treatment to all factions and
parties and guaranteeing, moreover,
a solution of the agrarian problem
and other international difficulties
which have caused revolution in the
Southern republic during the last
three years.
The president wishes the Mexican
question settled on comprehensive
lines that will take into account the
economic principles for which Zapata,
in the south, as well as Carranza, in
the north, have been fighting, and at
the same time will conserve the right
full interests Of the people in the ter
|ritory now controlled by the Huerta
government.
During Monday a dispatch came to
one Of the foreign diplomats from a
diplomatic source in Mexico City stat
ing that Gen. Huerta was ready to
resign and would permit his repre-
sentatives at the mediation to elimi-
nate him if il should become abso-
lutely necessary. Intimations that
have come from the three Huerta
delegates since their visit to this
country showed that they had realiz-
ed Huerta's elimination was regarded
as essential to a settlement. The
Huerta delegates, too, it is learned
from persons who have talked with
them, understood thoroughly that the
scope Of mediation now comprises the
entire Mexican problem.
They are said to be ready to recon-
mend Huerta's retirement, but only
on the condition that a definite un-
derstanding is reached on the kind Of
government that is to follow. Presi-
dent Wilson, in his final talk with
the American commissioners, at
which Secretary Bryan also was pres
ent, spoke hopefully of the media
ton, indicating that every power and
legitimate influence at the disposal of
the American government would be
exerted to make it succeed.
Although the rebels have not yet
agreed to take part in the mediation,
one high administration Official held
out hopes that the ultimate participa-
ton, saving a misunderstanding,
which might be remedied in a short
time, was largely responsible for their
failure to be represented at Niagara
Falls. The president laid before the
commissioners the entire Mexican
problem as he saw it, emphasizing
that the duty Of the United States was
to seek unselfshly to- assist Mexico
to see set up constitutional govern
'ment which could be accorded recog-
milton by the world.
The Huerta delegates have confo-
ed privately to their friends that in
ternational phases Of the Mexican
question are closely interviewer in
the internal affairs of their country.
The mediators have taken a similar
position in their communication to
Gen. Cararnza, saying that interna-
tional and internal questions were in
|separable; in fact, they have worked
out in a general way a plan which
they will submit to all factions. One
feature Of it became known definite
hly. It seeks to eradicate the per-
picking agrarian question by prescrib-
ing a division Of lands in way that
will be satisfactory to the masses,
but its details have not been reveal
ed. Economic questions, however,
will not be submitted until a satisfac-
tory agreement is reached.
All the suggestions and plans are
to come from the mediators to the
two parties represented at the nego-
tiations, and there is high authority
for the prediction that when plans
reach a tangible form they will be
submitted to Carranza as well as
those who are believed to have in
fuence with Zapata.
The president gave his representa-
tives autograph letters to present to
the mediators. These letters refer
to the unofficial character of the rep
resentative, and indicate clearly that
final decision on all questions pro-
pounded so far as the United States
is concerned will ade by the gov
eminent at Washington.
The mediation conference is expect
ed to reach a climax in short time.
The president does not look for pro-
tracted negotiations, but believes be-
fore many days some definite idea Of
the concessions which Gen. Huerta is
ready to make will be obtained. If
the Fuerta delegates are conciliatory
and show themselves amenable to the
plans proposed by the mediators and
acceptable to the United States, an
effort to draw the constitutionalists
into the agreement undoubtedly will
be made by the American government
the mediation.