Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-23
PRESIDENTS uLT|MATUM
GAVE HOPE TO MEX|CANs
feople OF Capital Interpreted Warm
- ing to Fractional Leaders as
Promise of Intervention.
ANXIOUS FOR SPEEDY RELlEE
only I'm Military and Official Circles
were There Expressions OF Resent
ment-Zapata and Soto CANA
Four Forth TRADE of Invcctiye,

IL.
me iefcs Of the revolution uttered
-hl"'ed ictions on the gringos. And the
appeals they made TO la Patria fell
ON deaf ears
IN" populace of the capital promptly
interpreted President Wilson's note 10
IA" factions as promise of speedy
intervention. Every Mexican who had
an American friend buttonholcd him
cAuberantly and wanted to know when
umSt"h ana hisrarmy were coming.
Nicnen pronto. los Americanos?"
are the Americans coming soon?) they
ASKED. And that was the insistent
question put by the same people who,
hafdiN more than a year ago riot ed
through the streets Shriukinu Niue
ran los Sr!nsos:' death to the grim
SosI
putstd. Of military and official cir
,i's q reward Of loo pesos could not
nave discovered Mexican confident
mat the pressure OF Washington was
destined to unify the f-htmg factions
Ihto government ever likely 10 secure
recognition from a foreign nation.
only Struggling shouldcrs-and none
can snruS so contcmptuously as the
'hhstened Mexican these da yS-greetcd
the challenge to fight that the COM
mander-in chief Of the libcrating Army
al IN" South. Emiliano Zapata. issued
I" the United states in a telegram ad-
dressed via RouTue Gonzalez Cara, the
acting executive.
WHAT ZAPATA SAID
OF WILSON'S NOTE
This was what Iapata. with the help
OF his sccretaries-for the man can
neither read nor writc--nad TO say
about President Wilson's note:
General Rouque GonGalcz Garza-
urgent: -.s.t
Answering YOUR message of to-day
regarding intervention. can only say
that "c are MeN!canS This * twice
that We have been threatened as IL
We were children. The first time be-
caus. they wanted a Pullman for their
delegates. am not aware IL YOU adj
Nis"d them OF my resolution as wired
you. VI they do not wish to have
considerations we have shown
them IN our country: Z they think
ar "cak aud unnbl" 10 defend our
deai patrl". II ~ - honorable for them
10 allow the sinking OF the l.usitanla
10y powerful GERMANY 10 20 unpun-
ished and then TO NEEDLE in wh.
not concern them. intervening only be-
cause they are stronger. tneu let then,
commence hostiiiticS.
Let them lombard u. sure OF their
triumph because We have no battle
ships II makes no difference IL they
send millions Of soldiers. We will
hGht them one against 200. but never
Vii they fr!-h;cn us with their bluns
If my answer results in any en-
parrassm"n, for the nation, We our
elves Will shoulder the responsibility.
md. - necessary, with our lives We
viii 70 before the. Invaders so that
hey may taktF'thvH. '!,r.<s-zAbur ma 4
nill be for Mexico Future history viii
,ovcr US with glory for not having run
from tho powerful country that wishes
10 destroy the nation whose only fault
= that II IS lighting for its liberty and
that II is 'ncompnrably smaller hut
more patriotic.
we have no arms we have no am
nnition; bu, wc have breasts 10 re-
Give their bullets.
III tn. revolutionary union Is decor
ana the people arc TO enjoy its
'ieals. crystallized III the Plan Of .\yala
~ sealed with It's blood. We arc at it's
vice. II not, we viii fight,
iou can max" whatever US" Of the
. sent that YOU patriotically wish.
signed "EMlLiANO IAPATA."
There rushed from the mouth Of An
tonic Diaz soto y Cana. representative
81 Zapata in the so-callcd Sobcrana
Convenciou. and the most eloquent and
nucnt speaker in all Mexico, a buhbliug
torrent OF iuVectivc against the per
hdious Yankee. Time WAS when Soto Y
CANA used 10 praise President Wilson
as the great and good friend of Mex
leo. and particularly Of rfie revolution.
but the arrival OF President Wilson'S
u!timatum to the fighting Ia CT ons gave
hi,n his opportunity To soIneTsault. and
he nopped so swiftly that he nearly
fell backward into the arms OF the Car
ranzistas.
Al this took place in a secret ses-
sion Of the convention which had
been called by Acting Executive Ciarza
10 consider the Wilson note.
CARA URGED IMPORTANCE
or CALM CONSIDERATION
81 again urge upon YOU the con-
veuicncc OF mcdtating with calmncss
upon the great Importance Of tho affair
which We are under the obligation of
iSFg MI for, no Of
nur country" read the official notice
that >;arZa sent to the delegates. TO
which Soto CANA rctortcd. prepara-
tory To his consideration OF the Will
son note:
The unitication of the revolutionary
elements in Mexico should take place
without any further delay, but strictly
in accordance with the principles laid
down in the Plan of Ayala. and as
necessary preliminary to harmony the
sicnation Of General Rogue Gonzalez
"a from the position of acting ex
should be demand ed, blythe con-
Jn' (Sincc this was written
81, Aa has been forced out of the presi-
Tie delegates from the north OF Mex
ico-thc villistas--jccrcd' so loudly that
the Southerncrs reached for their guns
and for a few minutes ii seemed as
if the longthreatencd free-for-all
breakup of the convention had arrived.
But nothing happened
Then in the privacy of the door
locked chamber Soto Y CANA cut loose
with this TRADE:
.The American note is the work of
The cientiiicos-of the faction that
has sold its properties TO magnatcs in
the United States, influential in the
trusts and therefore in politics. From
the Porfristas, lIueristas, clericals
and cientificos. influential Americans
have bought Mexican properties. and
these. Americans have managed to pre-
vail on President Wilson to sign that
note.
The American agent. Duval West.
when he was in the south. insinuated
that General CarranZa had offered the
envoy Sillman and even him (West)
several million pesos and productive
concessions ii his report TO Wilson
should be favorable to the Carranzistas'
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