The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-05-02
REBEL CH|EFTA|N
IS SEM|-H0ST|LE
IN LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILL
SON HE DISAPPRovEs UNIT
ED STATES OPERATIONS.
DOES NOT RECOGNIZE HUERTA
Gen. Carranza Demands That Ameri-
cans Retire and Let Him Pun
ish the Usurper.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Chihuahua.-Replying to message
from Secretary Bryan at Washington,
General Carranza telegraphed that the
United States is not justified in &C.
cupying Mexican territory.
The unofficial translation of the
text of the letter follows:
United States Consul J. c. Caroth-
ers: In answer to the message of Mr..
Secretary of State Bryan, which was
communicated to me through you
please transmit to the said Mr.. Bryan
the following note addressed to Mr..
President Wilson:
Awaiting the action of the Ameri-
can Senate on your excGlency's mes
sage, directed to the said body, caus-
occurred between a crew in a whale
boat of the cruiser Dolphin and the
soldiers Of the usurper, Huerta, GER
tain acts of hostility have been exc
cuted by the naval force under COM
mand of Admiral Fletcher at the port
OF Vera Cruz, and in the faae of this
violation of the national sovereignty
which the Constitutionalist govern
ment did not expect from a govern
mcnt that had reiterated its desire to
maintain peace with the Mexico peo-
pie, l comply with the duty of ele-
waited patriotism in directing this note
to YOU, with a view to exhausting all
honorable means before two friendly
nations sever the pacific relations that
still unite them.
Mexico Does Not Recognize Usurper.
And the Mexican nation-the real
people of Mexico-have not recognize.
ed as its executive a man who had
! pretended to launch a blemish on its
national integrity. drowning in blood
its free institutions, consequently the
acts of the usurper, Huerta, and his
accomplices do not signify legitimate
acts of sovereignty. They do not con-
stitute real public functions Of exte-
rior and interior relations and much
less do they represent the sentiments
OF the nation which are of co-fratern'
ity toward the American people.
1.-The lack of representative charac'
ter of Gen. Victoriano Huerta as con-
corning the relations of Mexico with
the United States, as well as with the
Argentine republic, Chile, Brazil and
Cuba, has been clearly established with
the justifiable attitude Of these ma
lions, who have refused to recognize
the usurper, in this way lending a
valuable moral support to the noble
cause represent.
THE usurped title Of president OF
the republic cannot invest General HUI
erta with the right to receive a de
mand for reparation on the part oil
the United States, nor the right tC
grant satisfaction as due.
Brands Huerta as a cuIprit.
"Victoriano Huerta is a culprit, who
Is amenable to the Constitutionalis
government today the one under the alb
normal circumstances Of our nation
which represents the national sover
eighty. The illegal acts committed
by the usurper and his partisans, be
they of an international character a!
those which recently occurred at tn,
port Of Tampico or of domestic char
acter, shall be tried and punished will
tribunals OF the Constituencies gov
eminent.
1.-The individual acts of Victoriant
Huerta never will be sufficient to in