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Show I LIND SAYS I U. S. WINS Special Envoy Reports Huerta Will Resign at Once and Enter Race for Presidency at the October E 1 e c tion General Trevino to Be Executive New York, Sept. 4. The Hrrald this morning prints the follow Ins. lohn Llnd has reported tn President Wilson that he now regards his mis 1 sion to Mexico as having been sue I cessfulb accomplished. Direct and positive assurance that General liner La will not be a candidate for the presidency of Mexico at the coming election has, it is stated, been thon to the government of the United . States by Frcdcrico Gamboa, minister of foreign affairs. H; Sonor Gamboa, who has acted as Hi General Huerta's spokesman in the H' negotiations with the I'nited States. Bi gave this assurance to Nelson Hif O'Shaughnessy, American charge V d'affaires, who has kept in constant Hijt touch with the Mexican foreign of- H!p flee since Mr. Llnd left Mexico City Hiit for Vera Cniz It was given verbally, Hl" but is regarded by Mr O'Shaughni-s. HArj and Mr. I.lnd as none the less alu- Ir. , noie on mat accouni. Would Not Recognize Him HUh officials of the administration jpj stated most emphatically that while f$ they felt quite satisfied now of Hu- P, ertas elimination from the preslden frj tial race, his subsequent election k would not alter the attitude of the jtj I'nited States, namely that recognl- tion could not be extended to him. g Their action would he based on the 8 precedent of President Hayes in C 1ST", who refused to recounize For W ftrlo Diaz for a lone time after he was elected, on the ground that the I I nited States had a rierht to observe jj whether the government set up was Mj approved by the Mexican people and r I could guarantee stability and Inter i' national obligations, lj I'nofflclal reports Incidentally con- tlnue to reach Washington that the Huerta government cannot last much longer nn. account of Its financial lif-flculties lif-flculties Dr. Hale Arrives. The arrival today from Mexico City of Dr William Baard Hale, personal friend of President Wilson, who has 1 been making a study of the political conditions in Mexico for the last three months, is calculated to add materially to the president's Informa-i Informa-i tion on this aspect of the situation Dr. Hale said today he went to Idexl-J Idexl-J co unofficially and of his own volition j but that any data he had gathered V would be at the service of the I'nited I States government He has an en gagement to talk with President Wilson Wil-son at length tomorrow Mr Hale denied de-nied that he carried any document- from Mr Lind, hut t is understood from his recent conversations with Mr. Llnd and his close IntlmsC with the negotiations which hao been ondiKted with Sr-nor Gam DOB he will be able to eive the administration administra-tion n more comprehensive view of the situation |
