South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-05-22
Spectre of Defeat Sets at COun-
Gil Table With Mexican DEL
egateS at Mediation Confer
enCe - No Further Word.
REBEL REPRESENTATIVE
WILL ATTEND SESSIONS
Spokesman of Villa and Car
rama Will Give MediatOrS
Messages From COnStitu-
tionaIiSt Leaders.
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
WASHINGTON. May 22.-As a re-
suit Of information received through
American consuis in the northern par
of Mexico. SeCy. OF State Bryan today
stated his belief that Vice Consul j.
X. Suliman had been murdered ON
MAY rs. The secretary of state de-
CIared, however, that he had not been
convinced OF This fact and was max
ing a searching investigation through
Consul Hanna at Monterey, and
through the conStitutiOnaliStS at Tor
reOn, i'm the hope of obtaining full in
formation a. to SillimaD'S fate.
Press reports received here this at
teTnOOn. however. stated that Silliman
had reached Mexico City safely.
MEDIATION HEADQUARTERS
CLIFTON HOTEL. NIAGARA FALLS,
ont. May 22.-The spectre Of defeat
is 10 sit at the council table with the
Huerta delegates in the mediation
conferences from this day onward a
crowning humiliation has been thrust
unOn them by word from Washington
that a spokesman for Carranza and
villa will wait in the hotel where the
conferences are taking place and
while denying the tottering dictator S
delegates the dignity Of recognition
will give 10 the mediatOrs the mes
sages Of the conquerers.
Today the official representatives OF
Huerta are imploring their chief in
Mexico City to allow them to save
something OF honor from the impend-
ing wreck They wait for this word
thai he will resign and they pray
that he may not resign too late.
As soon as Huerta's delegates had
scanned today's papers the telegraph
and cable lines were brought into
play The fall Of Saltillo. the bloody
defeat OF Huerta forces TO Topic. the
imminent fall OF MaZatlan and the in
vestment OF Guadalajara convinced
them that the end of the defacto gov
ernment OF Mexico is at hand. Then
they sent urgent messages TO their
chief. The delegates recognize that
in their hands lies the fate and for
tunes OF thousands OF the landed
aristocrats of their country.
Anxious For Huerta Co Quit.
Luis ElGuerO, the delegate who
possesses 100000 acres in his own
name, is even more anxious than his
colleagues that Huerta shall step
down and avert a calamity that would
establish the poems OF Mexico in
power.
The mediatOrs, representing the
three great powers ot South America
were ready fer their second informal
conference with the Mexicans as soon
as they had breal1fasted. They well
coined the promised arrival Of a con-
stitutonalist agent. expecting him to
furnish a clear light on the rising
power beyond the Rio Grande. They
viii seek TO learn particularly from
the messenger Of Carranza TO what
extent the rebels viii carry the
spOliatiOn OF the great estate of the
southern republic
VIII the federal landlors De de-
prived merely of enough OF their
millions OF acres 20 afford the poems
a chance 10 till the soil and earn a
livelihood?
or viii Carranza and Villa strip
their enemies of an their property?
VIII there be leaders who have been
forced TO stand by Huerta or flee
from his reach
How far will the military and
economic retrihution go?
These are the questions 20 which
the mediatOrs viii seek an answer.
They bespeak the fundamental beHef
that nothing can prevent the over
throw Of Huerta.
Look For Collapse.
Mediation between the United States
and Huerta is merely a prelude 10
mediation between the owners Of
Mexico and its downtrOdden and rebel
tioUs masses. The mediators expect
that Huertas pride Will keep up the
masquerade Of INSTRUMENTATION hos
tlity a few DAYS Ionger-perhaps
weeks-but then they look for the cell
lapse. ThereupOn they will be ready
with a compact TO be presented for
the acceptance of the constitution
alists. This viii guarantee safety 10
the Hucrtistas and arrange an equit-
able settlement with the poems whom
they have robbed
The South American envOys profess
confidence that CarranZa and Villa viii
4dopt "a reasonable attitude. They
have I'm their possession a great mass
or data on the public and private eX-
pressions Of the rebel leaders since the
beginning OF AleXico's tacuonal war.
Ihey know what promises have been
made ana what qualifications have
been added 20 every pledge made by
the constituuonalist party They are
serenely confident that the landlords
gill be granted honorable terms. as
a result OF the mediation. NO matter
Nhat defeats may come 20 their mill
itary forces
Morning Conference Brief
This view IS shared with the Amer
can delegates. More and more the
opinion IS deteloping here that Pres.
~ tlson and the South Americans will
. impose on the Carranza forces "a moral
= litigation for peace that viii not be
uest0ned.
The morning conference between
he Mexican representative and the
nediat0rs began at 1888 and lasted
1ut n few minutes. The MeNicans
acre prepared % make a brief state
nsnt only-