The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-07-17

MUST Be
COMPLETE
CkRRANZA SEEKS TO AVOID
BLoCOsHEO AND is NOW NEGO.
TlATiNG FOR PoWER-No CON-
PROMISE ACCEPTED.

and bloodshed is over in Mexico, if
the plans announced here Thursday
by General Venustiano CarranZa first
chief Of the constitutionalist army
go into effect. General Carranza de-
clared his main object would now be
to conduct negotiations for the con
stitutionalists to enter Mexico City
and establish their government with
out disorder shedding of blood or
damage to property.
How these negotiations would be
arranged he declared he had not yet
determined, and he was unable to say
at this time whether they would he
conducted through the A. B. c. medi-
ators or direct with the federals. IN
conditional surrender, however, will
be the only condition on which these
negotiations will be successful. Gen
eral Carranza made that plain to Am
er!can and European newspaper men
who talked with him Thursday.
Carranza declared that the ere
forms for which the constitutionalisIs
fought for, must be obtained at what
ever cost, and the relegation of Huer-
ia and the substitution of Carbajal
in itself would not cause the conSu-
tutionalists to compromise on a single
point of the principles upon which
the movement was founded.
Submission or Force.
"If the government machinery
through which these ends may be oh
tanned was not surrendered voluntar-
lily by the party of Huerta," lie said,
they would be obtained by force"
Because of the effort to make the
installation of the constitutionalist gov.
ernment a peaceful one, General Car
rama said he expected it probably
would be a month before he entered
Mexico City. He stated that he did
not believe Carbaial was strong
enough to handle effectively the reins
Of power passed over to him by Huer
ia. if the latter lad left the republic
for the island of Curacao as was re.
ported here Thursday from the United
States.
Carranza said he thought Carbajal
or any man in civil life would find
the situation m9st difficult and he
expected that The new president would
open negotiations with him at once,
and that telegram service with Mex
ico City would be resumed Thursday.
In view Of the situation facing Car
baial, General Carranza declared that
it might be necessary to send con
stitutionalist troops to Mexico City
to preserve order, and that such a
situation was being prepared for.
Statement of carranza.
In formal statement over his ow n
signature regarding the position Of
the o.Istitutionalists in view of the
resignation of ITuerta was issued by
Carranza as follows
The retirement Of Huerta OF the
power he had usuIped and the sujsti-
tuition in his place of civilian makes
me believe that the substitute will
very soon institute negotiations in
order 10 deliver the remains of the
poWer he has received. l esteem tha
i. would be useless that he would pre-
tend anything else than to surrenCer
unconditlonally to the first chief OF
the constitutiOnalist army the ele
Rents that he has received from Hu
erta on the latter's retirement, but
if it should not be so, the campaign
will continue on our part until we
obtain by force the complete triumph
Of our cause, which is that of justice
and the people, and in every way OBJ
tain in a very brief time the success
ful conclusion of the advance OF our
victorious forces in all parts Of the
republic
"(Signed)
VENUSTIANO CARRANzA &"
Carranza said he had received ad-
vices from an unofficial source thar
commission has left Mexico City
for Celaya, to meet a commission %
constitutionalists for a consultation
with the object of a peaceful and or
derly entry of constitutionalists int"
the capital. No committee has ye
been named ny Carranza, but it IS
believed in event overtures are re
ceived a committee will be immedi-
ately named.
The celebration over the retirement
of General Huerta as provisional pres
ident continued Thursday without
abatement.
Standard Rig.