The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-13
Declares Lack of II is Only in
Way of Restoring Constl-
tutionaI Government.
PRocLAMAIIoN is IssUED.
IN. Which He Claims His Faction
Controls Seven-Eighths OF
Mexican Territory.

- "ASd1ENIION, JuAS
dent Wilson has before him tonight
the first reply to his recent state
ment regarding Mexico. 1t consists
Of lengthy proclamation" to the
people of Mexico issued yesterday by
Carranza asserting the right Of the
Constitutionalst government to rec
ognition by the United States and
other foreign governments. Lack OF
recognition is declared to be the one
difficulty remaining in the way OF
restoring constitutional gcSernment
in Mexico and the statement as
serts-
eat this time we believe ourselves
to be IN a position to overcome this
last difficulty because the Const1tu-
1ionalist government is now actual
ly in definite possAAna OF sover-
eighty and the legitimate exercise
OF sovereignty is the essential condi-
ton which should be taken into con
sideration when deciding upon rec
VIA Sends Answer.
Generalo Villas answer ais
reached Washington today but was
not delivered at the state depart-
ment- Untn it IS presented the V1I-
Ia agency defined to make public
the text
clined to comment on the abstract
Of the Villa statement carried In
press despatches. or upon copy OF
a letter from Villa to Carranza also
received at the agency. which urge2
that differences be forgotten ana
suggests a PERSONAL meeting between
the two leaders to arrange for CO.
operation and the restoration OF
War History Recited.
<a<A1o -
was forna1ly handed to Consul Sill
man at Vera Cruz yesterday for
Transmission TO Washington: The.
document recites the history Of the
revolution through five years begin
nin~ with the Madero uprising
against Porfiro Diaz and what IS
termed the economic and social IN
Iequality of the colonial epoch The
length of the revolution, it asserts.
with elements Of the old regime at
Ciudad Juarez.
President Maderio:s failure. the
document Attributes to the OPPOSITION
from Orozco. Reyes and Felix Dia1.
of the old regime. and Zapata inst
gated by their adherents- Genera
Huerta, It explains. consummated tne1
movement withthe co-operation OF
group of foreigners faEored the
:
Lane Wilson. termer American am
bassador to Mexico. and under the
nretext of saving Mexico from war
old REGIME Recalled.
The sphism Of Villa and his fol-i
lowers which later occurred the the
statement attributed to the further el
intrigue of the old regime
ALTHOUGH it was thousht the Con;
stitutionaiist element had lost the
support OF the people when tney
withdrew from Mexico City the
statement aserts. 1t now has controii
of over seven-elghts ct the national
territory. Administrations,
claimed. are being ORGANIZED 1nl
twenty out OF twenty-seven states Oh
the republic and the Vera Cruz con
trols an the forts OF the gulf ana
the Pacific ocean with the exception
OF Gnaymas. and all ports ofeentry
on the northern and southern
frontiers with tie exception OF Rleo7I
ras Neras, Ciudad Juarez and NO.
~ales:: that more than :. o 0o.O o OF
the 10000 Population OF MexcoI
are subject TO constitutionallst au-l
'thority ..-.arsI
T. {e@asSa-ed is dav by day decreaS-t