El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-10
Denounces San Antonio
Conference as Men Who :
Helped Bring War.

San Antonio. Tex. Feb 1O.-De-
nouncing the san Antonio peace con-
ference Of NIexicans and the plan pro-
posed at that meeting Gen. Villa has
refused to consider the. peace proposal
In his reply, received Tuesday night
by Federico GambOa, chairman of the
committee which sent out the proposal
Gen. Villa blamed the sOcalled cientift-
COS in the convention with having
brought about the bloOdshed in Mexico
which they now are eager to end.
Il Gen. Villas message was wired from
PenjamO, Guanajuato, and is as tcl-
lows;
Il refer to your telegram Of yesrer.
day. 1t wOulG be an excellent idea OF
yours if it did not conceal an insane
ambition aEC an immoderate wish 70
cause more bloodshed and make the re-
public l.oOrer. 1 don't think y1u have
any right to be afraid of che frightful
situation in our mother country be-
cause these who, by their ambitions
and by their immOdeTate exploitation
of the republic, provoked the grave
state of affairs, should only conclude
with the punishments due them n d
the exaltatiOn of the Inundated peop-s
In that group there exist eternal enc
mics Of liberty and enemies of the peo-
pie and who will be forever the I'M
conditional friends of the dictators,
Diaz and 'Huerta.
Arraigns Land BarOns.
I'm the convention were present the
big land owners who saw in the poor
people nothing but slaves to serve
them. They are the socalled cienhficos.
who only employ their science in ex-
plotting the men and helping the ty-
rants Thew are the cleriCalS, ambi-
fessional politicians, only preoccupied
in exploiting the men under them; and
you yourself, Mr.. Gamboas have an ad-
vantageOus place in that group as a
tool for the Huerta administration, the
usurper and assassin.
You Originated This Situation.
4 see that the men who remained in
America are the less culpable and all of
the men who went abroad were the
ones who should really have been pun
ished by the aroused people. / see that
the professional politicians think now
of their republic and think that by
means of meetings and conferences the
present state of affairs that they have
provoked should end, but the facts will
demonstrate that the politicians have
not done anything but mix up the pub
lie affairs and darken the horizon.
II do not know why the men who
have originated, this state Of affairs
should find fault with it, being as it is
that they have fled to a strange land
and left here all of the people, like my
self, who are trying to save the repub-
lie with all our strength and blood.
Personally I have not any ambitions
and 1 emphatically declare that I am
ready to retire from the political af-
fairs of Mexico as soon as the peace
of the nation is established and when
see that the men who have made her
poor and lived on the people have re-
tired"
Angeles Also Refuses.
Gen Felipe Angeles. one of Villas
generals, wired from Monterey a reply
to the peace conferences appeal In
his reply Angeles saidi
Il answer your important telegram
and ] am sorry that I cannot make my
self more explicit. / judge that the so
ciety of which you are president is not
for procuring the pacification of
Mexico
MY attitude is justified because
believe the will Of the people is not
being reflected.
Wants Elections Rightly Held.
Il can't do business with the anti
democrats who have profited Of liberty
by throwing from power the correctly
elected officers and have resOrted to
treason and assassination.
Il don't want a government composed
of friends Of ours, but OF persons really
duly elected by the people, even though
they may be my enemies.