File No. 812.00/5131a.
The Acting Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.
Washington, September 27, 1912.
Sir: With reference to the Department’s telegram to you of September 16, 12 noon, you are informed in explanation of the rumors of [Page 848] a coup d’état referred to therein, that for more than a week previous reports had been reaching the Department to the effect, first, that the friends of Pino Suárez are busily engaged upon a plan whereby Madero will be caused to resign the Presidency in favor of Pino Suárez. The Department is disinclined to believe that there is a real foundation for this report. Second, that Felix Diaz is to head a movement on the part of the Serrano Indians in Oaxaca in an endeavor to duplicate the course of his illustrious uncle. The Department believes that for this report also there can be but little basis in truth. Third, that there is widespread disaffection in the Federal army in the north and that some sort of an understanding exists between General Huerta and the various insurrectionary leaders operating in northern Sonora. The Department was inclined to think that there might be something in this report, since there was much circumstantial evidence tending to show that an arrangement existed and American consular officers in northern Mexico and American army officers along the Mexican border expressed themselves as believing that some sort of an understanding has been arrived at between the Federal and insurrectionary chiefs.
I am, [etc.]