Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-10-16
SATURDAY. OCTOBER 10. lala
STATE TOPICS INDUSTRIOUS
MISTAKE.

The Herald dislikes very much 10 quarrel
with its old and valued friend Editor Me-
Lemore OF State Topics. yet il can not but
feel offended al the tone Of the reply of
STATE Topics to this papers criticism Of
State Topics stand with regard to Car
rama. II i a proiitles> business and
worse than useless. we realize. To waste
time discussing dead issues. The determi-
nation of President Wilson and the repub-
hes that were included III the Pan mcri-
can conference 10 recognize the Carranza
provisional government in Mexico settles
the Mexican question for the time. II un-
doubleday leaves the fate IT Mexico In the
hands ot Carranza and the Constitution
alist party happily for Mexico. unless we
are very much mistaken. So. ii T. waste
of time to discuss now the merits of that
decision. Perhaps The Herald was wrong
IN taking up the cndeel~ on behalf Of Car
ranza, upon reading the first editorial in
State Topics which - grossly miSreprc-
. scented the first chlei OF the Constitution
%alists, as Il haS only provoked q f~ruitlesS
discussion Of what i now a dead issue.
Having lone 50. however. we can only
rclteraie our belief that State Topics has
been misiead and miSiuformed. imposed
upon by the mnumcrahlc ISLANDERS and alb
s%olutely false statements acam~; Carranzs
which have been sent or - industuou-lv
BY his enemies durug his hong struggle.
And. - IN the first instance. W. must -aS
again hat we Do uut believe that Editor
McLemorc wrote the last article ~ The
subject appearing IN hI- paper. The ar
tlcle does not bear the carmark~ ~ Ne
IGNORES work. and Nv certain infallhlc
signs we feel certain that he neither wrote
1T nor read proof on IL.
Nevertheless Editor McLemorc stands
responsible for II. lie stands responsible
for the insulting in-inuaiion that The
Herald has been undulv influenced m its
support Of carranza. lie stands re~pon
sible for the bald charge that every repre-
sentative sent hv Pre- idcnt Wilson to Mex
icc, excepting Hon. nuval Nest and J. T..
Canova. D. % low and dishonest that he
has accepted . hnbe from Carranza. lie
stands re. pom lblc further for the charge
that Carranza offered \ hribc 20 West. He
stand responsible for the base inSinuation
that. even President Wilson, after receiv-
ING a report from West which must have
been exceedingly uuiavorablc. II what
West learned III Mexico was ~ bad that
Carranza went 80 far ~ "a insult The
president personal representative with Il
bride. 10 buy his silence-that even prcSi-
Dent Wilson had - little regard for honor
and the prophecies that he has taken the
lead m eNtendin. recognition Ia such Il
man. The Herald does not believe that Ed
tor McLemorc wrote IT.. The entire article
is unlike McLemare-unfair. unjust, filed
with vile accusations based upon mere
hearsay, rceking aS II does with lnsinua-
lions of low. base, unprincipled action on
the part OF nearly everyone who has dared
Ia lift a voice in behalf Of the much sland-
cred, much misunderstood Carranza.
TIL Herald will not reply to State Topics
in kind. II believes that State Topics has
been imposed upon. II believes the editor
Of State Topics j. sincere. .holgiI
ncnsirously mistaken. II ioes no: ielicve
that State Topics has been unduly .in-
fluenced.'' And The Herald believes that
Editor McLemorc, In his heart of hearts.
knows that every word that The Herald
has uttered in behalf Of Iarranza was
sincere and unbiased and not '.in-
fluenced." But we wish that he would not
lend his columns 10 the expression of vile
insults and charges. based upon mere
sstories told and believed by Americans in
Mexico stories which would beSmirch the
good name not only OF the greatest Mexi-
can patriot of modern times, but also of
every American who has dared to speak