The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-06-12
DISAGREEMENT
ON TWO POINTS
MedlaiOrS Favor a Neutral For
Provisional President.
AMERICANS AGAINST THE PLAN

Insist That Unless Choice Falls Upon
Man Of Constltutionalist Sympa.
thies There Can Be No Hope Of
Rebel Acceptance Of Any Peace
Program-Also Insist Upon Huer-
ta's Elimination.
Niagara Falls, Ont, June 1l.-Dif-
ferences Of opinion so serious that
they imperil the continuance Of the
conferences here have developed be-
tween the American delegates and
the mediation plenipotentiaries. On
two vital points there is fiat disagree
ment.
First, the mediators, representing
presumably the viewpoint of the Mex
ican delegates, are insisting that the
provisional president of Mexico shall
be neutral, who shall not have been
an active partisan in the Constitution
alist cause. The American delegates
have emphatically stated that unless
the choice falls upon a man of dis
tinct Constitutionalist sympathies,
not necessarily a militant chief or
leader, but one who would command
their CONFIDENCE, there can be no hope
of Constitutiohalist acceptance of any
peace program adopted here.
Secondly, the United States govern
ment is determined that the method
of transition from the present regime
to the new government shah not be
through the appointment by General
Huera, as minister of foreign affairs,
of the man agreed upon for provis-
tional president. To permit him to
exercise the constitutional function of
naming his successor, according to
the American viewpoint, would be
equivalent to recognition of the HUI
erta government.
This view is forcefully opposed by
the mediators, who argue that mas
much as the world will know the me-
diation conference had selected the
next provisional president, the form
of succession is not important.
Which is the greater sacrifice, the
mediators asked, for General Huerta
to name minister of foreign affairs
whose political principles were not in
accord with his own and then to have
the latter almost Immediately succeed
him as provisional president of Mex
leo, OF for the United States to yield
on the technicality as to the manner
in which the transfer should be made?
This Is the argument which they have
presented to the American govern
ment.
The American delegates are op-
posed to what the mediators term the
constitutional method Of succession,
not only because Of their govern
ment's consistent policy of nonrecog-
milton of Huerta, but because the Con-
stitutionalists have informed Wash
ington that they will never accept a
Huerta appointee as provisional pres
ident and that peace can not be re-
stored without their acquiescece.
The mediators were wholly occu-
pied with a discussion of these points
among themselves. They did not con-
fer with either the American or Mexi-
can delegates. The latter let it be
known that they considered the meth
cd Of succession a technicality, but
would not definitely say whether they
would yield their position. They are
anxious, however, that the provisional
president shall be a neutral and, if
possible, man who has not been
identified with political factions in
Mexico. They would not accept a Con-
stitutionalist partisan, they say, espe-
cially no active worker in that move
ment.