Hale Says Huerta Can Pacify Mexico.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 18, 1913:
Interview Represents Him as Stating That the Present Administration Is Strong.
PRESS URGE HIS EXPULSION
Assert He Comes Under "Pernicious Foreigner" Clause — Lind May Return Home This Week.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    MEXICO CITY, Aug. 17.— Dr. William Bayard Hale, one of President Wilson's sources of information as to affairs in this country, is quoted in a Mexican newspaper this morning as saying that he is confident that the present Administration is strong and is able to establish order and peace, and that he believes the task will be achieved in two months. He also is quoted as saying that he is a great friend of Mexico.
    The local papers continue to devote space to Dr. Hale. Several of them publish to-day interviews in which he is quoted as assuring Mexicans that there is no possibility of intervention by the United States in the troubles of this republic.

Hale Says He Has No Mission.
    Dr. Hale in the interviews is represented as asserting that he has no mission here, either official or confidential, and that he is traveling through the country for pleasure. He is made to say that he happened to be in Vera Cruz at the time of the arrival there of ex-Gov. Lind of Minnesota. President Wilson's personal emissary to this capital as adviser to the United States Embassy, and that he accompanied Mr. Lind to Mexico City "as a mutual friend of President Wilson."
    The doctor further is represented as commenting that the attack made on him in the United States Senate by Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania in the course of a debate on a resolution regarding Mexico was due to political reasons and enmity, and nothing more.
    Most of the papers treat the interview in a lighter vein and express incredulity. El Independente, which drew a ludicrous word picture of the doctor yesterday, says to-day:

Accuses Hale of Falsehood.
    "The greatest falsehood which he told us was that the Senators in Washington attacked him because they were Republicans and he was a Democrat."
    Attacks in the newspapers on Dr. Hale are becoming more personal in their nature. Several of them are insulting. It is regarded as evident that a newspaper campaign has been started with the intention of forcing Dr. Hale to leave the country. Some papers are even urging the application to his case of Article 33 of the Constitution, providing for the expulsion of "pernicious foreigners."
    Several officials have remarked on Dr. Hale remaining here after the attacks made on him. Some of the papers refer to the doctor as a great enemy of Mexico, a sinister figure, and the evil genius of ex-Gov. Lind.
    Mexican officeholders assert that no official note has been received by the Huerta Administration from Mr. Lind. The communication made by the ex-Governor to Federico Gamboa, Minister of Foreign Relations, however, is discussed frequently in official circles here, although the contents of the note, delivered by Mr. Lind in obedience to the instructions of President Wilson, have been hidden carefully from public knowledge.