Carranza Rejects Our Mediation; Asks Only Equal Right to Buy Arms.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 2, 1913:
Leader of Mexican Revolutionists Says He Could Exterminate Huerta Quickly — Truce Would Not Solve Problems.By Telegraph to the Editor of The New York Times.
    EAGLE PASS, Texas, Aug. 1.— I have said many times, and I repeat, that we will not accept mediation nor any other proposition. All we need is arms and ammunition to guarantee the interests of my compatriots and those of the foreigners and to continue the struggle until the usurper Huerta and his partisans are exterminated.
    The mediation of the United States in our internal affairs will not be accepted either by my followers or myself, as it is indecorous for Mexico. The retirement of Huerta, leaving in power some one acceptable to both parties until the possibility of election, would temporarily suspend the revolution, leaving unsolved the important economic, political, and social problems involved in the armed revolt.
    The granting of equal rights to us for providing ourselves with arms and ammunition in the United States will be the most prudent course, as thus the warfare, in which so much blood is being shed, will be greatly shortened, and I shall be able to guarantee the interests of natives and foreigners, and, within a short period, exterminate Huerta and his partisans, who are the cause of the present conflict. He will always be a menace to peace in Mexico if he is not eliminated politically.
    Most of the country is in the hands of the Constitutionalists, except the City of Mexico and some capitals of States. With the downfall of Huerta victory will be complete, because then the enemy will be deprived of the power that he has used so badly and the people will receive their liberty and the rights that belong to them, including schools, good pay, and improvements in all branches.
        V. CARRANZA,
        Governor of the State of Coahuila and Commander in Chief of the Mexican Constitutionalists.