The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-17
CARBAJAL TO TAKE
HUERTAS PLACE
DICTATOR TO QUIT THIS WEEK.
SAYS MEXICAN FOREIGN AZ
FAIRS AGENT.
TO EMULATE P0RFIRIO DIAZ
Would Save the Country From Further
Bioodshed-Esteva-Rui Gives Out
Story When Leaving County
Like Other Officials.

Vera Cruz, July 14.-To save his
country from the horrors of further
civil war and his capital from capture
and perhaps sack by a victorious army,
General Huerta intends to resign the
presidency and leave Mexico.
Statement by Sub-Sccretary.
This statement is made by Roberto
E~steva-Ruiz, Mexican sub-secretary Of
foreign affairs, who reached Vera Cruz
from Mexico City on his way to Eu.
rope. Huerta, he said, will surrender
the government to Francisco Carbajal,
the new minister Of foreign affairs,
who in turn will step aside when the
TIM comes, for some provisional pres.
ident acceptable to the Constitutional.
lists.
Just when the change will come.
Esteva-Ruiz said he did not know.
The president did not make me
his c%onfidant.' he declared. nor did I
have much time to talk with him aft.
er it was determined that | should
leave the cabinet"
Expects Resignation Immed lately.
lie was convinced, however, that
Huerta would lay down his power dur
ing the coming week and it would not
surprise him, he said, if his resigna-
ton were announced Immediately.
Carbajal, he added, was suggested
as provisional president by the Ameri-
can delegation at the Niagara Falls
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Huerta's delegates and the South Am
erican mediators, while the Constitu-
tlonalists indirectly had conveyed the
idea that he would be acceptable to
C%arranza.
That is" explained the Mexican
sub-secretary, "Carbajal would be
a more provisional president than the
real provisional president to be nam
ed later"
Explains Situation.
When the suggestion was first made
Villa had not indicated his willing
ness to accept Carbajal, Esteva-RuiA
went on. and he doubted Villas will.
ingness to accept him now. AS for
Lapata he had no idea that the south
erh leader would recognize any provi-
sional presidency until demands TO,
the redistribution of lands had been
compiled With, and he minated that
objections to such a solution Of Mex
ZOOS problem might come from certain
parts OF the northern states.
Unless something occurs to disar.
range the present plan, Esteva-Ruiz ia
tho GOhf;ar l.
erals and Constituencies is over.
This, he said, was indicated by the
evacuation OF Guadalajara.
Like Porfirio Diaz, who fled from
MS country in the hope that his going
might avert a long and costly civil
war, Huerta, according to Esteva-RMl.
decided to yield to superior num-
bers. Both Huerta and General Blan-
quet, his minister of war, know that
longer resistance is futile and would
mean nothing more than the slaughter
or thousands and perhaps the sacking
of the capital itself. with horrors per-
petrated by a victorious army Joined
by mad mobs from the slums of he
city.
Banquet to Leave, Also.
He expected Banquet would leave
Mexico City when Huerta fled, but not
before, Enrique Gorostieta, minister or
justice, had offered his resignation. SO
ne had heard, but he was not sure the
report was true. He assumed. how
ever, that Gorostieta would resign and
all the old cabinet as we'll.
Like Adolfo De La Cana, the
minister of finance, who ar
rived here Saturday, also in flight to
Europe, the sub-secretary of foreign
protested still to maintain his
connection with the government. With
his family he will sail from Vera Cruz
on the steamer Alfonso XIII for
Spain.
Carranza May Balk.
Laredo.-Reports from sources
usually reliable We're current in Nnevo
that General Nenustiano Car
Intercepted by Huerta agents
regarding ac%ceptability of Francisco
Carbajal as provisional president OF
Mexico, replied he would not recog-
nize Huerta or any one chosen in his
way to succeed him.
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