The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-18
MEX|CANS CHARGE AMERICAN POLICY OPPOSED "NEUTRAL" ]" Huerta Mediators Give Out Statement on Selection
 of President AMERICAN DELEGATES GREATLY SURPRISED II. s. Attitude "Tantamount to Abet- ting and Even Exacting Fraud
 and Violence at Elec-
 tions," Is Charge

Niagara Falls, Ont, June I7.-The
 Huerta delegation to the mediation
 conference Issued n statement tonight
 charging that the insistence by the United States on n constitutionalist for
 the provisional presidency as opposed
 abetting and even exacting fraud and
 violence at the elections.c
 The publication of this statement
 was unexpected by the American dele gates. When they learned of 1t their
 attitude was that the Huerta delegates
 were acting entirely within their rights when they criticized the American plan
 for the establishment of provisional government in communication ad- dressed to the Americans themselves, but they were greatly surprized by the
 Mexican delegates action in giving it out
 The Mexican statement outlines the substance of memorandum dated June
 F. which the Huerta delegates gave to
 the American delegates and to which ithe latter since have replied.
 The preface of the statement ex- plained that publication tonight was
 made because knowledge of the criti-
 cism already had reached representa-
 tives of the press. Continuing the state-
 ment follows:
 There is no reason for further con-
 cealment of the differences that has arisen between the American and Mex
 ican delegations, to which the press
 has already referred, over the provis- l lional government for Mexico, which is q nrnc cfd TI,. Mexican delegation adopting a princi-
 pie advanced by the mediating pleni- potentiaries agreed to the designation
 of provisional president Of neutral The 1, American delegation submitted It's plan l based of the condition that the pro- visional president shall be a cpnssitu- tionalist- a condition which the Mexican delegation flatly rejected. Of its own accord and without even consulting it's government. To put in writing the reasons for the rejection. so that they might better be studied by the Amer ican delegates, the Mexican delegation addressed to them the memorandum mentioned Chief Considerations
 Tie chief considerations of the mem oraEdum follow: Tn a country unused to electoral func- tions such as Mexico, and particularly in the circumstances and conditions it would be in. once the revolution had ceased, q provisional government com posed of revolutionaries. and with revo- lutionaries in authority throughout the country would turn the elections as it wished the public vote would be fals- fled and the result would necessarily be the election of another revolutionary Con sequently. when the Washington govern ment insists today on the designation of constitutionalst as provisional Pres ident 1t favors also from today the inn position of revolutionary President at the elections. Such an attitude is bad for both countries and for the revolution (who will doubtless also be it's candi- 1 date), bad for the two countries be- cause 1t will create a national sentiment of hostility in the Mexican people, when a sympathetic reappointment between them and the United States should be striven for; bad for Carranza and for his party because public opinion in Mex ico, whose susceptibility in the matter is well known to them, would ever ae- cuse them of having brought about the intervention of d foreign nation to en- able them to achieve power. and of welding an authority submissive to q foreign government
 Tn the United States and European countries. and for the government in power on elections is slight if any In South American countries it is usually decisive and the product of a revolution which believes in it's right to rule by conqrest. revolutionary government does not hesitate to set aside all law to tIample on the public will In Mex leo in the present circumstances only a well balanced government can guaran- tee electoral freedom. so that the reiec- ton of the neutral government proposed by the mediators is tantamount to abet- | ting and even to exacting fraud and vio- l
 fence at the elections.
 Illogical Reference
 The American delegation draws an il- l
 logical inference when 1t says that the 1 rebel success shows that the nation is | with them. The central and eastern | states of the republic. which have a total | population of over 100000 inhabitants. | are not under rebel control Of these. | Guanajuato. Jalisco. Puebla, Vera Cruz. | Mexico and Oaxaca. alone have over 100000. But. admitting said erroneous inference to be correct, it is no argu- ment for the forcible imposition of the | triumph of the revolution candidate as under a neutral government he would | be assured of certain and honorable | victory. If the nation is with Carranza, as the American delegates claim it is the nation will elect him without the necessity of tainting his triumphs with | either fraud or violence, or the charge | of it's being the fruit of foreign inter- vention, accusations which public opinion will always make against it. Carranza elected by the nation under neutral provisional government would command the respect due to the person. who in- carnates the nations will, whereas elect ed under q government purposely im- posed. as the result of an action of the Washington government. he would always be regarded as a traitor.
 Certain of Selection
 ''If things are as the delegation states them to be- Carranza Is certain of his election and this case only matter of form is being discussed which is whether he is to be elected at elections held byI a rebel provisional government which will exercise violence against the people to achieve its end, or at elections pre- sided over by neutral government which will carry them out honestly. Now thel government of people in the front rank