Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-29
INTERESTS IN OIL
ALLEGED TO Be
BACKING REBELS
Pierce Said to Be in Deal to
Control Railroads and Hold
UP Mediation.
LETTERS OF PRINCIPALS
IN NEGOTIATIONS PRINTED
DeniaIs Made by All Implicated.
Junta Repudiates Story of
Receiving Money.

NEW YORK. June PA project in
which Henry Clay Pierce WAS inter
ested. to get General Nenustiano Car
rama, acknowledged leader of the
Mexican revolution TO unite the rail-
ways of northern Mexico sin a new
system, is revealed in letters and
messages published in the New York
Herald Yesterday.
Correspondence published in the
Herald yesterday shows that Captain
Sherbourne g. Hopkins. of Washing
ton. who was associated with Ma
dero, was the intermediary between
General Carranza and Mr.. Pierce.
The first chief of the CONSTITUTIONAL
lists was urged to organize and oper-
ate the railroads in the territory uu-
der rebel control, deposing the pres
ent directors of the National Rail
ways of Mexico and putting in their
place men agreea BILE TO Mr. Pierce
and the Waters-Pierce Oil Company
In return for this Mr.. Pierce and
his associates were to give financial
aid to the revolution. In return Mr.
Pierce was to get privileges enabling
him to re-enter the northern Mexico
oil field on advantageous terms.
Charles r. Flint Also Named.
Charles r. Flint. the New York
merchant who has long been in close
touch with Latin America. is de-
scribed as one of the men principally
interested with Mr. Pierce in the rail-
way scheme.
Others who had hand in the prof.
ect were Luis Cabrera, Carranza' s
minister of the interior. ard Rafael
Zubaran Capmany, minister OF for
eign relations in the Carranza cabinet,
and the rebel special agent in Wash
ington. Jose Nasconeeles. who kept
watch on the mediation conferences
at Niagara Fails. reporting their
progress to General Carranza, saN
Mr.. Pierce about the railway pro-
posal. and Roberto V Pesaueira, Car
ranza's s representative in Ell Paso, was
present at a conference between Cap
tain Hopkins. Cabrera and Mr.. Pierce
Mr.. Pierce paid. Captain Hopkins
various sums while the endeavor to
persuade General Carranza to agree
to the scheme was under way, and
Vasconceles seems to have received
5000 at one time from Mr.. Pierce.
Hopkins had trouble getting the
money he said he absolutely needed
from Pierce.
The man selected to head the new
organization of Mexican railways was
Alberto PAM, at present designed 10
become Carranza's S minister of COM
munications when the Constitutional
lists finally triumph. PAM was not
known to Mr.. Pierce, but Hopkins
frequent references to my frlend
Pani'' seem to have satisfied the oil
man.
villa Blocked Pants Appointment
General Carranza listened in polite
silence to Hopkins's arguments and
reasoning, but seems not to have con
cluded any agreement with him or
Pierce 1t is said that Carranza fn-
allv got ready to put PAM in as dl-
rector of the railways but General
Francisco Villa, who was ignored IN
the negotiations. kept PAM out. Gen
eral Villa was partial to his own dl-
rector of railways. Eusebio Galzado
When Villa refused to let Carranza
nut PAM in all Captain Hopkins
labor of months went for nothing.
Sherbourne G. Hopkins, VINO is
credited with tacking the name Con
stitutionalist" to the present revolu-
tion i'm Mexico with the hope of VIM
Ming sympathy for it in the United
states. Is the son of Captain Thomas
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