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Show Agrarian Problem. The constitutionalists assert the foreign mediators have not been able to settle this question in their own countries and yet they appa rently take it upon themselves to settle so grave a matter for a country of whose local conditions they must be ignorant. ig-norant. The leaders explain the agra rian problem is one for local settlement and that the only parties to the Niagara plan who understand under-stand local conditions are men who hold radically opposite views to those of the great majority in Mexico. The inference that Huerta might be allowed to become a candidate for president at a future election Is regarded re-garded as impossible. He is regarded regard-ed as a criminal by the constitutionalists constitution-alists and that he should be a candidate candi-date for anything exeppt the guillotine guillo-tine or the electric chair is not considered con-sidered spriously by them. General Villa's declaration, as given out today by the bu react of information at Juarez, said in part : I have been informed that our enemies, en-emies, the men who belong to the party of treachery, are developing intrigues in-trigues abroad, using my name a nd exalting my military merits, with the object of making me appear with an ambition which I do not possess, for the purpose of establishing divisions and discords among the constityition-a constityition-a lists. If victory has accompanied me it lias bpen not only because of my own personal action, but also for the courage, patriotism and discipline of my companions in arms. |