New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-18


orco the revolution had ceased, a pro-
visional government composed Oh ie'o
lutionaries and with revoluuonarieS :"
authority throughout the souhu!
would turn the elections as 1t wisheo,
the public vote would be falsified anu
the result would necessarily be '"e
election OF another revolutionary |Vh-
seauently, when the Washington gov
eminent insists to-day on the desighu-
ton Of a Constitutionalist as proVi-
sional President, it favors also IRON
to-day the imposition Of revolution
ary President Il the elections.
"Such an attitude is bad for ooth
countries and for the chief Of the rev.
olution (vho will doubtless also be us
candidate). Bad for the two countries
because IL will create a national senti-
ment Of hostility in the Mexican peo-
ple when sympathetic rapprochement
between them and the United states
should he strlven for. Bad for Car
RAMA and for his party, because puohc
opinion in Mexico, whose susceptibility
in the matter is well known to them
would ever accuse them OF having
brought about the intervention Of
foreign nation to enable them TO
achieve power and OF welding an
authority submissive 70 foreign gov
eminent.
Power by Conquest.
I'm the United States and in some
European countries the influence OF the
government over electionsis slight, II
any. In Latin American countries 1t is
usually decisive, the product OF a rev.
o,ution which believes in its right to
mower by conquest. A revolutionary
government does not hesitate TO set
aside all law and to trample on the
public will.
In Mexico, in the present circum-
stances. only a we'll balanced neutral
government can guarantee electoral
freedom, so that the rejection OF the
neutral government proposed by the
mediators is tantamount TO apetting'
and even to exacting. fraud and Vlo-
lence at the elections.
The American delegation draws an
illogical inference when 1t says that the
rebel successes show that the nation Is
with them. The central and eastern
sta1es OF the republic, which have q
total population Of over ten million in
habitants, are not under rebel control
OF these Guanajuato, Jalisco. Puebla,
Vera Cruz, Mexico and Oaxaca alone
have over seven million. But admit
ting said erroneous inference to be cor
rect, II is no argument for the forcioie
imposition of the triumph Of the revo-
lutionary candidate, as under neutral
government he would be assured of a
certain and honorable victory
FOREIGN Intervention.
"If the nation is with Carranza. as
the American delegation assumes it to
he, the nation will elect him without
the necessity Of tainting his triumph
with either fraud or violence. or the
charge of its being the fruit Of foreign
intervention. accusations which public
opinion would always make against It.
"Carranza, elected by the nation
under a neutral provisional govern
ment, would command the respect due
10 the person who incarnates the ma
tions will, whereas elected under a
government purposely imposed as the
result OF any action of the Washington
government he would always be re-
garded as a traitor.
IF things are as the American dele
cation claim them to be, Carranza is
certain OF his election, and in this case
only a matter of form is being dis
cussed. which is whether he is to be
elected at elections held by rebel pro-
visional government which will exer-
else violence against the people to
achieve its end, or at elections presided
over by a neutral government which
will carry them out honestly.
Now. the government Of people in
the front rank Of civilization and moral
culture cannot assume, for a mere mat
ter Of form, the responsibility for the
continuation OF the slaughter. pillage
and atrocities which attend the present
struggle in Mexico. and which vain
effort has been made to conceal from
the public Of the United States"
The memorandum refers also to two
other points which are not yet public
property.
1t is understood that one Of the points
which Sefior Rabasa did not feel at
liberty TO discuss refers TO the method
by which the transfer of authority from
General Huerta 10 the proposed Dvo-
visional government is to be accom-
plished. This point has not been set
tied, and the Mexicans are unwilling TO
agree to any method which would in
volve additional humiliation to General
Huerta.
The publication of Mr.. Rabasa's
statement was unexpected by the
American delegates. When they
learned Of It their attitude was that
the Huerta delegates were acting en-
tirely within their rights when they
criticised tho American plan for the
establishment OF provisional govern
ment in a communication addressed
TO the Americans themselves. but they
were greatly surprised by the Mexi-
can delegates action in giving IL out.
The Mexican statement outlines the