The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-06-03
MEDIAT0RS THINK BE COULD
RUN AFTER RESIGNlNG
Land PROBLEM WORRIES
The South American Envoys Are Said
to sympathize With Mexican Dele
gates Opinion That no Specific Land
Reforms Should be Formulated by
Conference.

Two questions before the mediators
were especially vexatious, but It Is
thought they have been settled in the
reports which were submitted to
President Wilson and Huerta Thurs
day. These two problems were:
After Huerta has withdrawn in
favor Of a provisional government
which the Unit d States would agree
to recognize shall he be allowed to
be candidate at the presidential
election to be held by such govern
ment?
Shall the delegates offer concrete
plan of agrarian reform or shall they
content themselves with enunciating
policy, leaving the details to be set.
tied by the Mexican congress?
AS to Huerta's right to be candi-
date again there is no doubt that the.
three mediators are in complete SYM,
pathy with the Mexican delegates on
this question.
They hold that the very essence Of
democratic government is that the
people may elect whom they please,
and that dictation from a foreign
country as to who should or should
not be a candidate at an election
would be a gross infringement OF
Mexican sovereignty, and that in the
present case such declaration
against Huerta would be tantamount
to political prescription.
Huerta's temporary elimination is
already eondftionally conceded. But
his total eclipse is what President
Wilson is striving for, and every ef-
fort is being made to find way to
permit the American delegates to re-.
cede gracefully from the position
which they are known to have taken,
but which has never been formally
announced.
The fact that the mediators are en-
tirely in accord with the Mexican
delegates Is believed to have pro-
foundly impressed Justice Lamar and
Mr.. Lehman, and if this point Is
conceded no mention Of its ever hav-
ing been discussed will be allowed to
appear on the minutes Of the con-
ference. It will be ignored entirely
when the delegates Of the two coun-
tries meet in full conference.
After Huerta steps down from the
presidency he may do one Of two
things. He may either get out Of the
country, as Porhrio Diaz did (and In
that case it is believed he would
cease to be factor in Mexican pol
itics) or he may take command Of the
army and start out to pacify the coun-
try.
If he succeeded in this it would
undoubtedly add to his popularity
and even now a large proportion Of
Mexieans look upon his rule as the
embodiment Of Latin-Americanism as
they understand it, and it Is believed
that the very fact that the United
States did not want him to be can,
didate would materially assist his
chances Of election.
The second point is also one Of
which the mediators are thought to
sympathize with the Mexican dele
gates. They do not believe it practi-
cal to attempt to bring about land
reforms at this conference, and they
believe that the delegates after in.
cluding in the platform for the set
tlement of the difficulty a plank
strongly pIedging the new govern
ment to policy of agrarian anchor
alton can well leave the working out
of the details to the congress.
On the other hand the American
delegates want something more spe-
cifc than mere declaration, and the
mediators have been hard at work
for two days trying to reconcile these
conflicting views.