Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-02
WASHINGTON BUSY WITH MEX. PUZZLE Each Capitolian Has Own Theory for Settling
 Dispute.
MAKE TWO REPUBLICS
One Crowd Thinks That Had Carranza Seeded Wilson Would Have Recognized New Republic and
 Trouble Would Be at End.
(By Sidney Espey)

washington, Iune 1.-Ever since President Wilson sent his ultimatum to Provisional President Huerta, de- handing salute to the American flag by o'clock on Sunday April 19, every one at the capital has been ad- vancing his o%A theories of how the dispute should be settled.
 These persons who are ambitious to guide the American and Mexican gov ernments in the paths of wisdom and diplomacy have advanced some re- markable ideas as to the proper solll- ton of the problem. While many of them have decidedly humorous turn because of the difficulty in the way of executing them, some of them seem worthy of consideration.
 Make Two Republics.
 It is argued by one local faction that Carranza let slip an opportunity six weeks ago which would have been fruitful had he taken advantage of it. Carranza, as the head of the Constitu- tionalists, controls north Mexico. The people of Coahuila, Sonora and Chi huahua are fairly we'll united under his standard, and that of his military aide, General Francisco Villa. The followers of President Huerta are confined more to the center of Mexi- co.
 Now when President Wilson sent the Atlantic fleet to Mexican waters he made the move solely against Huerta's' Mexico, not Carranzas. His ultimatum was addressed to Huerta alone. When Huerta rejected the ul- timatum, Carranza and the Constitu- tionalists should have seeded from the Republic of Mexico and set up an independent state. This is the theory of some of the Washington would-be arbiters of MeXicos fate.
 The three northern states with the possible addition of Durango, it is said, would have made a very respect able nation by themselves and, no doubt, Carranza would have been set at it's head immediately. It is safe to say that had Carranza and the Con- stitutionalists taken such action President Wilson would have consent ed. to this change in the map and rec ognized the republic of Northern | Mexico, the republic of Chihuahua or whatever they might have called the new nation.
 All the troubled complications have | arisen from the mixture of the Huer- tista and CarranZista factions since | that time would not have occurred. The United States would have had to deal with Huerta. Had the United States recognized such a new nation, doubtless Great Britain and the other
 
 lies of South America would have | follow our example.
 Error (!) By Wilson. Another theory which has been ad- vanced is that rresident Wilson over looked good loophole which would have let him out of the Mexican diff culties for while at least. It will be remembered that when Villa was preparing for the siege of Torreon, it was the generally accepted belief that he would have an easy conquest. But in the first assaults Huerta's Feder- als drove Villa back. If, when the news of Huerta's first repulse of Villa at Torreon reached Washington, Pres ident Wilson had recognized Huerta, the Mexican dictator's position would AAeAvo OSSA oO OlA CAStACuCu lLdC uC might have been in supreme control of Merico by this time.
 These same street-corner and hotel lobby diplomats, statesmen and ex- perts on international law recently have seen a bad muddle in the Span is Inspect of the Mexican situation. It is declared that Villa had made sort of platform pledge to his followers that when the Constitutionalists gain the ascendancy in Mexico they will at once drive out all Spaniards. As Huerta is the principal element now holding Villa in check and preventing the Constitutionalists from carrying out their policies it naturally follows that Huerta is standing in a position which automatically protects the Spaniards in Mexico. Now the stand President Wilson has taken permits of no settlement of the Mexican difficult ties which does not provide, primar- ily for the elimination of Huerta, that is the removal of the Spaniards' pro- tector. Therefore, some assert that the attitude of the United States in this matter is hostile to, Spain.