Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-13
ANNOUNCEMENT
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| EsteY Ruiz, Mexican sub-seeretary of
! foreign affairs who reached Vera Cruz
from Mexico City on his way to Eu-
rope. Huerta, he said, will surrender
the government to Francisco Carbajal
the new minister of foreign affairs,
who in turn, will step aside when the
time comes, for some other provisional
President, wholly acceptable to the
Constitutionalists.
Reports from sources usually relia-
BILE, were current in Nuervo Laredo
today that Gen. Venustiano Carranza,
Intercepted by Huerta agents re-
garding the acceptability of Francisco
Carbajal as provisional President of
Mexico replied he would not recognize
Huerta or anyone chosen in this way
to succeed him. Just when the change
will come, Esteva Ruiz said he did not
know.
The President did not make me his
confident" he declared, nor did have
much time to talk with him after it
was determined that l should leave
the cabinet
He was convinced. however. that
Huerta would lay down his power dur
ing the coming week and 1t would not
were announced tomorrow.
CarbajaI's Eligibility
Carbajal, he added, was suggested
as provisional President by the
American delegation at the Niagara
Falls mediation conference and agreed
to by Huerta's delegates and the
South American mediators, while the
Constitutionalists indirectly had con-
veyed the idea that he would be ac-
ccptable.
That is explained the Mexican
sub-secretary, "Carbajal would be
more provisional President than the
real provisional President to be nam
ed later"
When the suggestion was first made,
Villa had not indicated his willingness
to accept Carbajal, Esteva- Ruiz went
on, and he doubted Villas willingness
to accept him now AS for Zapata, he
had no idea that the southern leader
would recignize any provisional Pres
ident until demands for the re-distri-
button of leands had been complied
with. and he itimated that objections
TO such a solution of Mexicos prob
lens might come from certain parts of
the northern states.
Esteva Ruiz is convinced that unless
something occurs to disarrange the
present plan, fighting between FEEDER
ais and Constitutionalists is over.
This, he said, was indicated by the
evacuation of Guadalaiara.
Reasons for Decision
Like Porfirio Diaz. who fed from his
country in the hope that his going might
avert long and costly civil war. Hnerta,
according to Esteva-Ruiz, has decided to
yield to superior numbers Both Huerta
and Gen. Banquet, his minister of war,
know that longer resistance was futile
and would mean nothing more than the
slaughter of thousands and perhaps the
So liking of the capital itself with, per-
haps, horrors perpetrated by victorious
army joined by mad mobs from the
slums OF the city. He expected that Blan-
quet would leave Mexico City perhaps
when Huerta fed. but not before. En-
rique Gorostieta. minister of justice, had
offered his resignation. so he had heard,
but he was not sure the report was true.
He assumed, however, that Gorostieta
would resign and all the old cabinet as
we'll ast
New Cabinet Members
The new members of the cabinet lately
appointed, he went on, were supposed to
be those chosen by Carbajal with the
idea that they were men to whom the
Constitutionalists would not object so Sc
riously. as least, as to interfere with the
preliminary work which Carbajal had
undertaken of finding someone to take
his place as president ad interim. Like
De La Lama, the Mexican minister of
finance. who arrived here yesterday, also
on his way to Europe, the sub-secretary
of foreign affairs professed still to main
tain his connection with the government.
He had been named. he said, special am
bassador to Argentina, Brazil and Chile
to convey to those countries the thanks
of the Mexican republic for their efforts
toward mediation. With his family he
will sail from Vera Cruz on the steamer
Alfonso XIII for spain, and from that
country, he declared, he would go on his
mission to South america.
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