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Show BELIEVES MORAL SUnSIONWILL WIN PRESIDENT DECLARES CARDINAL CONTENTIONS IN MEXICAN IMBROGLIO WILL BE MET. Stepping Aside of Huerta Good News, While the Holding of Fair Election Elec-tion Is Considered of the Greatest Great-est Importance. Washington. President Wilson took the position Thursday that the policy of moral suasion adopted by the United States toward Mexico had accomplished its two cardinal purposes pur-poses to obtain assurances that there would be a constitutional election elec-tion and that Provisional President Huerta would not be a candidate to succeed himself. Advices received here describing in detail the preparations being made for the election of October 26 and stating also that General Huerta would not be a candidate but would support Frederico Gamboa, Mexican minister of foreign affairs, the nominee nomi-nee of the Catholic party, encouraged encour-aged President Wilson and Secretary Bryan to believe that the Huerta government was carrying out what the United States had emphasized in the Lind negotiations as the essential features of a satisfactory settlement of the revolutionary troubles. The president realizes that it will not be immediately possible to judge whether the processes of the election are actually constitutional, and will withhold decision for some time as to whether the choice of that election will be recognized by the United States. |