The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-11
.CARRANzA TURNS DOWN PLAN FOR.
 PEACE MEETING
Reply to Appeal Says He Can't Recognize Outside
 Influences.

States and the Latin American coun- tries that he join the leaders of the various factions in Mexico in an en- deavor to bring about peace.
 The reply of General Carranza, which was handed to Jnhn R.5Silliman, Pres ident wilson's representative in Mex tco, yesterday, said that General Car ranza could not consent that the in terior affairs, of the republic be hand led by mediation or blythe iniative of any foreign government. The text of the reply follows:
 General Carranza,s Reply.
 ''Messrs. Ministers;
 Having informed Gen. Venustiano Carranza, the First Chief of the Con- stitutionaIist Army in charge of the executive power of the Union, of your note, which you signed in your official capacities and addressed to him under date of Aug. 15 last, inviting him to a conference with the chiefs of the rebel lion and fe-estabhsh peace, I have seen fit to address your Excel1encies
 in fact have the honor to do, to inform you in the name of the First Chief of the Constftutional1st Army, in charge of the executive power of the republic, that he cannot consent that the interior affairs of the republic be handled by mediation or by any in itfative of any foreign government, tnasnauch as all have the right to re- spect the inalienable right of the SOW ereignty of nations, and since, upon the acceptance of the invitation of your Excenencaes, addressed to him. to attend-ay- conference with the chiefs of the rebel factions with a view of returning peace to Mexico, he would impair profoundly the independence of the republic and would establish the precedent of foreign interference in the determination of it's interior af- fairs, this consideration alone suf11c- ing in prohibiting our government from participating in the legitimate defense of the sovereignty of the Mex ican people and of the other American nations.
 Apart from this fundamental req son there are other reasons which do not wish to pass without mention, in order to produce in your minds the in t1rnate conviction that the conduct of the First Chief of the Constitutional Army, in charge of the executive DOW CT of the nation, in this attitude is inspired solely by the highest duties imposed upon him by his elevated trust.
 Aims of the Revolution am sure that your exceIlencies do not doubt that Mexico is at present in the throes of a sevolution in which 1t is proposed to wipe out the last vestfge of the Colonial epoch, as we'll as all the 9-rors and abuses of past administrators, and realize the noble aspirations for the welfare and the betterment- of the Mexican people
 On the other hand your excel1en- c1es will have been able, to observe from the answers received to your note from the military chiefs and civil sunordinates of the first chieftaincy that the first chief is the only au- thority that could decide and who, in fact. does decide matters submitted to the consideration of the former. who. with their replies, have given an eloquent example of their discipline and solidarity, at the same time giv- | ing evidence that the first chief has known how to preserve unity within 1 the Constitutionalist government, not 1 wfthstanding the pl ciongation of the strife. and in spite of the ignob1e and | repeated intrigues of our enemies for the relaxation of discipline in the 1 Constitutional, army and their at 1 tempts to corrupt it's principal chiefs The first chief in consequence bears l the frnrnense responsibility of the real ization of the national ambitions, and i he cannot by means of any dealings endange@ the fate of the country nor | permit the enemies of the cause which l he represents to participate directly in l the government.
 Nor does he believe it just or wise | to bring to nought the results of the 1 blood spilled on the repu plies soil by 1 following the course which your Ex- | ce11encies courteously and disinterest- l edly indicate to him. but which he considers erroneous fl. view of the ] teachings of our own experience.
 ''In short, the revolution of 1910, in- itiated by Don Francisco I. Madero l was not able to fulfil it's object, be-
 cause of the pact made at Juarez with
 the old regime. The treaties there 1 entered into, left the enemies of the | Irs se-fi -.4 the principal causes of the tragic | events of February 1913, of which u your ExcelIencies are no doubt cogni- zant, and in the macn1natfons o1 which not small part was taken by certain foreign ministers accredited tc the government of Mexico.
 Huerta and Villa Beaten
 fFUpon the assassination of Presi.
 dent Madero and the .consunmation o1
 one of the most infamous treacheries Irecorded in our history, the First Chie1
 of the Constitutionaly army, whc
 was then Constitutional governor O.
 the state of #Coahuila, assumed rnt
 attitude that he should assume ac 1 cording to the constitution, by refus ing to recognize General Victorian Huerta as chief of the Executiv. power and addressing a call to the
 governors of the other states and tc the chiefs in command of the forces to second his attitude to the end O 7 liberating the people from the hated
 dictatorship of the usafpeF Of thu public power.
 .tThe people responded with ezathus ! iasrn to his call, and the strife wa long and sanguinary. Constitutional } ism, headed by the first chief, over } came the usurper, who commanded
 the greatest army which the republi'
 had had, up to that time. But whel
 this brilliant triumph was consum : mated the reactionaries had bribed on, of the Constitiona1ist generals, Fran cisco Villa who came forth as thu chief of a new reactionary movement taking advantage of the powerful ele ments which had been entrusted t, | him by the first chief and being sup 1 l1rr1 rrIn h