The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-19
THE STATEMENT COVERS THE WHOLE RANGE OF CRITICISM
 BY HUERTA DELEGATES.
PRESIDENT WILSON DEPENDED
American Delegates Utterly Repudi- ate Any Suggestion That President Has Any Intent Of Destroying Flee toria Liberty of Mexico.

Niagara Falls. Ont, June 1S.-The American delegation to the Mexican mediation conference tonight made public a statement issued with the consent of the Washington govern ment replying to the statement given out last night by the Mexican delega- tion criticising the American plan for the establishment of provisional government in Mexico with consti- tutionalist at it's head.
 Suggestions that President Wilson had any intent to destroy the cleo toral liberty of Mexico are utterly repudiated" by the American repre- sentatiyes. The statement covers the whole range of criticism by the Huerta delegates. Coming on the eve of the full conference tomorrow of the mediators and delegates, the statement stirred the mediation colony. It was interpreted as fore shadowing the unalterable position of the United States in Puture parleys
 The statement in substance fol lows:
 The American representatives do not think it is conducive to the in- terests of mediation to publish in it's pendency the various pfans or the contentious of the parties, but as the Mexican representatives have given out a formal statement of their ob- iections to the appointment of con stitutionalist as provisional presi- dent, because among other things an election conducted by such q provi- sional government would not repre- sent the will of the Mexican people, it has been thought necessary to give a part of the answer to the letter written by Mir. RabasA
 Tn that answer the American rep resentatives utterly repudiate any suggestions that the American presi- dent has any intent of destroying the electoral liberty of Mexico and insist that the Mexican representative en- tirely understand the motives and ob- iects of the president, who recog- nizes the facts and sees in the past success of the constitutionalist army indisputable evidence of the approval of the Mexican people. But he also sees the full triumph of that army means an indefinite continuance Of war with the suffering and bloodshed and death which every war involves.
 These consequences the president seeks to prevent through mediation, but we greatly fear the language of the Mexican note implies that his efforts may be thwarted because of unwillingness to have a constitutions alist as provisional president, even though that promises the only prac- ticable means by which the horrors of war can be prevented.
 Hope is expressed that the Mexi- can representatives will not further oppose the only plan which promises peace when it's rejection means suf- fering and death to so many. We are convinced that your objections to the plan itself and your fear of the i'll consequences that may follow its adoption are not well founded; and that in attacking the details you lose sight of the large and controlling motive which from the beginning of this trouble has been in the mind of the president and which has influ- enced the American representatives in all that they have said or proposed to the mediators.
 The American government seeks only to assist in securing the pacifi- cation of Mexico. It has no special interest in the method or in the per son by which that great end is to be accomplished and if it presses for any particular method or for the se- lection of a particular type of man it only is because it believes them to be the only means to the desired end.
 Tt would be easy at this confer ence to write an agreement which many would consider desirable, but unless the most excellent plans and the most excellent of men are ac- cepted by the eonstitutionalists we only would have a paper wholly inef- fective to secure peace in war-worn Mexico. To bring that war to a close, to restore peace and constitu- tional government, is the aim of the