The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-01
CARRANzATURNS AGAINST U. S.
indications Are That America VIII
Soon Find Both Factions in Mexico
Arrayed Against Her-ln Letter to
President Wilson, Rebel chief Says
He Regards Attack on Vera Cruz
as War Against Mexican Nation.

Chlhuahua, MeX.-Replylng to q tel
egram from Secretary Bryan, at Wash
ington, General Carranza telegraphed
that the United States is not justified
in occupying Mexican territory.
THE invasion" says the letter. twill
drag us (Mexico) into an unequal war
with dignity, but which, until today.
we desired to avoid.
The unofficial translation of the
text of the letter follows:
Omitted States Consul j. C. Caroth-
ers:
I'm answer to the message of Sec
rotary of State Bryan, which was CON-
municated to me through you, please
transmit to the said Mr. Bryan the
following note, addressed to Mr.. Presi-
dent Wilson:
Awaiting the action of the Ameri-
can senate on your excellency's mes
sage directed to said body caused by
the lamentable incident which occur
red between crew in whaleboat Of
the cruiser Dolphin and the soldiers
of Usurper Huerta, certain acts Of hos
tility have been executed by the naval
forces under command of Admiral
Fletcher at the port of Vera Cruz, and
in the face of this violation of ma
tional sovereignty which the constitu-
tionalist government did not expect
from government that had reiterated
its desire to maintain peace with the
Mexican people, comply with the
duty of elevated patriotism in direct
ing this note to you with a view to
exhausting all honorable means before
two friendly nations sever the pacific
relations that still unite them. And the
Mexican nation, the real people of
Mexico, has not recognized as its ex-
ecutive a man who had pretended to
launch a blemish on it's national integ-
rity, drowning in blood its free insti-
tutions, consequently the acts Of the
usurper, Huerta, and his accomplices
do not signify legitimate acts of SOW
ereignty; they do not constitute real
public functions, and much less do
they represent the sentiments of the
Mexican nation which are of co-frater-
nifty towards the American people.
Huerta Cannot Deal With U. S.
1.-THE lack of representative general
character of General Huerta as repre-
senting the relations of Mexico with
the United States, as we'll as with
Argentine, Chile, Brazil and Cuba, had
been clearly established with justifi-
able attitude of these nations who
have refused to recognize the usurper,
in this way lending valuable moral
support to the noble cause represent.
"The usurped title of the president
of the republic cannot invest General
Huerta with the right to receive de.
mand for reparation on the part Of the
United States, nor the right to grant
a satisfaction as due.
"Victoriano Huerta is culprit who
is amenable to the constitutionallst
government, today the only one under
the abnormal circumstances of our
nation which represent the national
sovereignty in accord with article 1913
of the political constitution Of Mex
leo.
The illegal acts committed by the
usurper Huerta and his partisans and
those which they may yet perpetrate,
be they of an international character,
as those which recently occurred at
the port of Tampico, or of a domes-
tic character, shall be tried and pun
ished with inflexihillty and prompt
ness by the tribunals of the constitu-
tionalist government.
"WiIl Drag Us Into War;"
"The individual acts of Victorlano
Huerta never will be sufficient to m
volve the Mexican nation in a disas-
trous war with the United States be-
cause there is no solidarity whatever
between the so-called government of
Victoriano Huerta and the Mexican
nation for the fundamental reasons
that he is not the legitimate organ
of our national sovereignty.
Moreover, the invasion of our ter
ritory and the permaneney Of our
forces In the port Of Vera Cruz are
violation Of the rights that constl-
tute our existence as free and indie
pendent sovereignty and which will
drag US into an unequal war with dig
nifty, but which, until today, we de-
sired to avoid.
In the face of the real situation
through which Mexico trayerses, weak,
more SO than ever after three years of
bloody strife and compared with the
formidable power Of the American ma