The Daily Missoulian., 1914-06-18

ernment in a communication
SURPRISED by the action in givi
The Mexican statement outlines the
substance of n memorandum dated
June II. which the Huerta delegates
gave to the American delegation and
to which the latter since have replied
me preface of the statement eX-
plains that publication tonight was
made because knowledge Of the criti-
cism already had reached representa-
tiNes OF the press. The statement was
IN part as follows:
The Mexican delegation, adopting
principle advanced by the mediation
pienlpotentiaries agreed to the dosig-
nation as provisional president of Il
neutral. The American delegation
submitted its plan, based on the condi =.
tion that the provisional president
shall be a constitutionalist. provi-
sion which the Mexican delegates flat
ly refused of it's own accord without
consulting its government To put in
writing the reasons for the rejection,
SO that they may be better studied by
the American delegates. the Mexican
delegates addressed to them a memo
randum, the chief considerations of
which are as follows:
"ln a country unused to electoral
functions. such as Mexico. and partic-
ularly in the circumstances and con-
ditions it would be in, once the revo-
luton had ceased a provisional gov
ernment composed of revolutionaries
and with revolutionaries in authority
throughout the country. would turn the
elections as 1t wished, the public vote
would be falsified, and the result
would necessarily be the election of
another revolutionary. Consequently
when the Washington government in
sists today on the designation Of a
constitutionalist as provisional presi-
dent, it favors also from today the i'm
position of a revolutionary president
at the elections. Such an attitude is
bad for both countries and for the
chief of the revolution (who will also
doubtless be a canddate). Bad for the
two countries, because 1T will create a
national sentiment of hostility in the
Mexican people, when a sympathetic
approchment between them and the
United States should be striven for;
bad for Carranza and for his party,
because public opinion in Mexico.
whose susceptibility in the matter is
we'll known to them would ever accuse
them of having brought about the in
tervention off foreign nation to en-
able them to achieve power and Of
welding an authority submissive to a
foreign government.
European countries the influence of
the government in power on elections
is slight If any. In Latin American
countries it is usually decisive. and
the product of a revolution which be
leves in it's right to power by conquest.
a revolutionary government does not
hesitate to set aside all law and tram
pie on the public will. In Mexico in
the present circumstances only il we'll
balanced government can guarantee
electoral freedom, so that the rejection
of the neutral government proposed by
the mediators is tantamount to abet-
ting and even to eXacting fraud and
violence at the elections.
THE American delegation draws an
Illogical inference when ii says that
tlie TeDel SuCCeSSeS SHOW lIidl tue ld
ton is with them The central and
eastern states OF the republic, which
have a total population of over 10.-
600 900 inhabitants are not under rebel
control OF these, Guanajrato, Jalisco,
Puebla, Vera Cruz. Mexico and Oaxaca
alone have over 100000.
But admitting said erroneous in
ference to be correct. it is no argument
for the forcible imposition of the
triumph of the revolutionary candi-
date, as under a neutral government
he would be assured of certain and
honorable victory. If the nation is
with CarranZa, as the American dele
cation claims it is. the national election
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, ac-
cusations which public opinion will al
ways make against 1t.
"CarranZa, elected by the nation un-
der neutral provisional government
would command the respect due to the
person who incarnates the nations
will, whereas. elected under govern
ment purposely imposed, as the result
Of any action of the Washington gov
ernment. he would always be regarded
as traitor.
"Now the government of a people in
the front rank of civilization and moral
culture cannot assume for mere mat
ter of form, the responsibility for the
continuation of the slaughter, pillage
and atrocities which accompany the
present struggle in Mexico and which
vain effort has been made to conceal
from the public of the United States"
| The memorandum also refers to two