The Syracuse Journal, Volume 7, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 February 1915 — Page 4

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Story of the Mexican Revolution

MOVEMENT HEADED Bl CAHHANZA AIMS TO ESTABLISH CONSTITUTIONAL FORM OF POPULAR GOVERNMENT

(The better element in Mexico is behind Carranza because of his honesty and integrity and the fact that he stands for a government of principle and not of men.)

The view of the ordinary American citizen in regard• to Mexico is that It has become just one Provisional President after another. Changes have been so kaleidoscopic and the daily news has been so conflicting that it has become almost impossible for "the man on the street” to understand the true situation in the Republic to the south of us. His exasperation has reached that point where he now dismisses the whole affair with a comment that “a lot of bandits seem to be fighting among themselves in Mexico as to who shall be allowed the privilege of looting the country and I reckon Uncle Sam will have to step in one of these days and straighten things out.” The one significant fact that has served to make Americans believe that possibly behind the present turmoil in Mexico there may be after all something big and serious, has been the broad humanitarian view that President Wilson has consistently taken in regard to the Mexican revolution. A brief history of the present revolutionary movement In Mexico tends to clear up many of the things that have remained incomprehensible to Americans and sheds a light on the entire situation that gives a true understanding of the conditions in that country as they exist today. The present revolution actually had its reception with Francisco Madero in 19j[o. Most Americans are familiar with the rapid and unexpected triumph of Madero over Diaz, but it is not generally known that Madero's regime failed to be a success and live up to the high hopes and expectations that had been born with it, because he had been too generous in compromising with the reactionaries and that they on account of their dominance of the two hold-over houses of Congress were able to defeat all his plans for the betterment of his people. Assassination of Madero. The shameful assassination at the instigation of Huerta excited such a feeling of indignation in the United States as to make President Wilson’s stand in refusing to recognize the Government set up by Huerta on the 'dead body of Madero, as being eminently just and in keeping with the best traditions of this country. Maderb’s death put the old cientificos, reactionaries and clerics back again in power. This necessitated that the struggle Madero had successfully waged mu'st again be taken up, and accordingly there came into existence with the new movement a new shibboleth that has rung from one end of Mexico to the other: “Justice and Reform and no compromise.” The first man to refuse to accept the authority of the dictator Huerta and to fling into his face a bitter defiance was Venustiano Carranza, then Governor of the State of Coahuila. Carranza has been one of the strongest supporters of Madero and during the previous revolution had acted as Minister of War in the assassinated President’s provisional cabinet. Carranza’s patriotic stand drew the attention of all liberty loving Mexicans to Coahuila and there soon rallied around the Governor’s standard a number of high-minded and patriotic Mexicans, who banded together to overthrow the usurper Huerta and reestablish a constitutional government in Mexico. Accordingly it was under these circumstances the much heard of, but little understood plan of Guadalupe came into existence. The main planks of this plan are as follows: “For the organization of the military forces necessary to make compliance with our purposes, we name as First Chief of the forces which shall be called ‘Constitutionalists,’ Don Venustiano Carranza, Governor of the State of Coahuila. “On the occupation by the Constitutionalist forces of the City of Mexico, the Executive power shall be taken charge of by Don Venustiano Carranza, First Chief of the forces, or whoever may be substituted in command. “The president ad interim of the Republic shall convoke general elections as soon as peace shall have been established, delivering the power to the person who shall be elected.” Genesis of Revolution. This was the genesis of the revolution against Huerta, which had, as can be seen, as its one big hope, the reestablishment of a constitutional form >f government in Mexico. Followlng’■’s triumph, the- necessary reforms

Indian Village. Misa Fav B. Mock. Mrs. W. 0. Koher is seriously ill at this writing. Wilbur Clingerman and Ralph Mock spent Sunday afternoon with Ralph, Paul and Wayne Brock. Magdeline Stoner spent Sunday with Opal AumsbaUgh.

that the country cried for were thought to follow as a necessary consequence. The movement against Huerta was a magnificent effort on the part of the Mexicans to the ideals Madero had given them, and not to sink back again into the despotic days of Diaz. The present struggle in Mexico has not justifiable grounds for its existence. Villa has made this issue: “I am to dominate Mexico,” and has endeavored to cloak it in a mantle of verbal patriotism and empty sounding platitudes. The element behind Carranza is not supporting the personality of Carranza. At all times it has been willing to sacrifice him for the greater good of the country. It has simply rallied to him in this present conflict, because of his honesty, integrity and deep seated patriotism, and because he stands for a government of principle and net of men. The revolution against Huerta swept through Mexico with the irresistible force that has ever animated every real struggle for liberty and the dashing victories of Villa, Gouzales, Obregon, Herera and others against the Federal troops brought the victorious revolutionists into Mexico City after 17 months of struggle. Huerta fled an exile to Spain. Ohly one small cloud specked the horizon of the revolution during its early days. This was when Villa, being ordered by Carranza to send reinforcements to a brother general, refused to accept the commands of his superior officer and carried his insubordination to such a length that when his resignation as division commander was accepted by'Carranza, he paid no attention to this action and continued to remain in charge of his army. Carranza’s position in this, matter was similar to that of President Lincoln during our Civil Vrar, when McClellan, Fremont, Jlooker, Burnside and Meade scoffed, at the President’s knowledge of military strategy and refused to give anty heed to his directions as Conunsßider in .Chief of Union forces. Ifc each case, Lincoln was compelled remove the insubordinate general fnXm his command. Carranza ‘Retires. Carranza, setting aXide all personal considerations and desirous, above anything else, of bringing the revolution to a triumphant conclusion, agreed to allow General Gonzales to hold a conference with General Villa, In order that the personal differences between the two men might be adjusted and the welfare of the constitutionalist cause not be jeopardized. This was effected, but it was clear to the minds of all Mexicans that unless Villa changed his mental attitude and ceased to allow a certain clique of reactionaries, who had come close to his confidences, to inflate his vanity beyond control, that they would use him as a tool to undermine the now all but attained success of the revolution. Events afterwards proved these apprehensions to be well grounded. From the moment that Villa first began to dream dreams of an empire and the traitorous kitchen cabinet that surrounded him began to see the probability of their nefarious work ripening into success, there began a well organized and systematic campaign of publicity in this country with the purpose of painting Carranza as “AntiAmerican,” “ambitious,” “hostile,” “dictatorial,” “stubborn,” etc. He was dubbed an “old man In his tottering senility,” and other such libelous descriptions of him were sent broadcast fts to create in this country an impression that Carranza was totally unfit to act as the Chief Executive of Mexico. Carranza is not a diplomat, in fact, his blunt honesty is at times disconcerting in Its sincerity; straight cuts rather than winding paths, are the favorite ways of his mental trains. He is essentially Afiglo-Saxon in his mental workings and utterly lacks the usual Latin habits of circumlocution and procrastination. Vera Cruz Note. This was strikingly evidenced in his so-called Vera Cruz note to this country. Carranza felt that the ocupation of Vera Cruz by our troops was a violation of the sovereignty of Mexico. Northerns in the Civil War would have entertained the same feeling of resentment against England bad she on account of some differences with the Confederacy occupied Mobile. All America would have been united in hostile array against the British A somewhat similar sentiment animated Mexico when the United States army by force took possession of Vera Cruz. Fortunately, after a storm of aggravation had swept this country over what was termed “Carranza’s insolent ttand,” the administration came to appreciate Carranza’s position and nothing that marred the friendly feel- - ing between the White House and the Constitutionalist came of this unfor-

Elden Stoner and family were Sunday guests of William Knepper and family. 4(tß. Walter Amsbaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Stoner, spent Sunday in Syracuse. Charles Theodore Klingerman and family of near Syracuse, and Geo. Clipgerman and family were the

tunate incident. In due time the greater part of the American people also arrived at the understanding of the patriotism that had prompted Carranza. After Carranza had established a government in the national capital he issued a call to all the military leaders and governors of States who had signed the plan of Guadalupe to meet in convention on October Ist, in Mexico City, for the purpose of drafting a program of reforms and to name a date- for the calling of general elections. Villa, .ever since his first break with Carranza, had been throwing obstacles in the way of a successful pacification of the country. In order to show him that he harbored no ill feelings Carranza earned Villa to go with General Obregon on a peace mission to settle a local strife in the State of Sonora. Villa in the course of these negotiations became so incensed at Obregon,

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VENUSTIANO CARRANZA First Chief of the Constitutionalists.

who held an equal rank with him in the Constitutionalist army, because the latter refused to accept his unauthorized dictation and withdrew General Hill from Sonora in order that Governor Maytorena, Villa’s ally, might control the situation and array that State against Carranza’s authority, that in a frenzy of anger he attempted to kill Obregon. Fortunately being restrained from this by subordinate officers, he highhandedly placed Obregon under arrest These events happened but a few days before the time that the Mexico City convention was to assemble. • When Carranza was informed of Villa’s unwarranted persecution of Obregon, be ordered the train service north of the City of Aguascalientes, some distance south of where Obregon was held by Villa, discontinued temporarily from Mexico City, until he could determine whether or not Villa intended his treatment of Obregon to presage a hostile military movement against Carranza. Villa’s Insolence. Villa sent a telegram to Carranza asking him to Explain what he termed this hostile action against his division of the North. Carranza sent him the following reply: “Before answering your message which I have just received I desire an explanation of your conduct towards General Obregon in Chihuahua.” Instead of Villa giving the requested explanation to his superior officer he replied insolently that he would no longer recognize Carranza the First Chief of the Republic. In explanation of this traitorous conduct Villa gave the ridiculous and petty reason that he had broken with Carranza and was willing to plunge the country into a civil war, because Carranza did not have sufficient intelligence or ability to govern Mexico. How farcical this statement really was can be best understood when It is explained that Villa can scarcely read or write and has never read a single book in his life, whilst on the other hand Carranza Is a man of education, culture and business experience. The convention that Carranza had called to meet in Mexico City opened Its sessions on the appointed day. Carranza tendered his resignation as First Chief to the convention and asked the delegates to accept It if they thought

Sunday guests of Mrs. A. J. Clingerman. John Brown, of Elkhart, spent Friday afernoon with Wm. Kneppsr and family. Wm. R. Stocker spent over Sunday with Samuel Juday and family of Solomans Creek. Eva Brown is spending several

thereby such action would be conducive to establishing permanent peace in Mexico. The convention unanimously rejected his resignation and passed a vote of confidence in the First Chief. Villa and his army of the North had refused to send delegates to this convention. In a last effort to settle the difficulty between the Division of the North and the remainder of the Constitutionalist army, certain leaders among the Constitutionalists proposed that a commission be sent to treat with Villa and that the convention itself adjourn from Mexico City to Aguascalientes. Carranza, foreseeing, as afterwards came to pass, the futility of this action, opposed it. but finally allowed the delegates of their own volition to move to Aguascalientes to treat with the chiefs of the Northern Division. Primarily the purpose of the Aguascalientes meeting was simply to en-

deaver to persuade Villa to send representatives to the convention. Afterwards it usurped sovereign powers that it did not possess and which Carranza never sanctioned. But Carranza, putting aside the considerations and rising nobly to the demands of th© situation, expressed to the convention in writing his willingness not ■nly to resign as First Chief in charge of the executive power of the nation, but to become an exile from his country if the delegates ask this of him. The single condition that he stated must govern this abdication was that Villa should resign his command of the Constitutionalist army of the North and if the convention so decreeu, must also leave Mexico. Story of Convention. The convention on November 6th passed a resolution calling for the retirement of both Carranza and Villa. Antonio I. VLUareal, Chairman of the convention, thus describes subsequent events: “After the absurd selection of General Gutierrez as Provisional President for 20 days, which had been done in deference to the wishes of Zapata, myself and three others were commissioned to serve notice on the First Chief that he was to resign. Villa had already agreed, so his representatives stated, to tender his resignation. We would have shortly secured Carranza’s retirement had not General Gutierrez, bullied into action by pressure brought upon him by Villa, summoned the latter to Aguascalientes and placed him in command of all the military forces in the country. “This act violated the previous resolution of the convention and was contrary to its own mandates, or in other words, contrary to the desires of what was left of it, as it must be remembered that out of the 155 registered delegates many had withdrawn for one reason or another until at last there were only GO members left and 18 out of this 60 had been recalled by their signatories. A quorum in the convent tion necessitated 79 delegates. “A brief remme of the situation at this critical tine might be stated as follows: We sild to Carranza: ‘Retire or we will flglt you, your retirement being made vith the understanding that Villa will le forced to withdraw.’ We said to General Gutierrez and to

days with her graidma, Mrs. Lizzie Shock. Geo. Gay, wife and children, Mildred, Margaret, ind Marshall, of Ohio, visited with V m - Knepper’s Wednesday and Thiisday. Mabie Hontz of is visiting her parents, ,M\ and Mrs. Robt. Bause.

OUTLOOK FOR WAR-RIDDEN COUNTRY • BRIGHTER THAN MOST AMERICANS REALIZE; PEACE SOON TO REIGN

(Carranza will establish a constitutional form of government based on the.ideals of Madero. Necessary reforms that the people demand will be enacted for the betterment of all.)

the convention: ‘That Villa retire or 1 we will fight him and uphold the resolution of the convention. Villa's retirement being with the understanding that Carranza will be forced to retire? “The reply we received from General Gutierrez was that he had given Villa the command of the forces which were to fight against Carranza; that is, he had violated the fundamental resolution of the convention, which was the basis of the whole agreement ‘ • and the essential condition of our obligation. “This violent and illegal decision relieved us of every obligation toward an assembly without patriotism or moral force, the tool of an ambitious and savage faction to which we had shown undeserved complacency out of love for peace, but whose blind and unconditional figureheads we could not and would not be. “Thereupon we decided with full consciousness of our act, certain that j we were following the course of patriotism and duty, to fight Francisco Villa with all our force until we had removed from the horizon of the nation this menace of reaction and barbarity.” Carranza a Civilian. Carranza is essentially a civilian rather than a military man. From the • inception of the revolution he sought to direct its destinies as did Presi- i dents Lincoln and Davis control events in our Civil war. Accordingly I when Villa commenced his military ■ campaign Carranza the latter ; had not a single soldier directly under his personal command. His only strength lay inlhe justice of his cause and the only means he used to.or ganize an army was to unfurl the ban- , ner of patriotism and to allow such I generals and their armies to gather ! around It as desired to combat for I right and justice. The entire Constitutionalist army, exclusive of the Division of the North, commanded by Villa, flocked to the support of Carranza. Carranza withdrew from Mexico City and established the national capital at Vera Cruz. Pathetic tn its note of helplessness Is the ’ptory that President Gutierrez | told of! conditions existing in Mexico 1 City while he occupied the presiden-1 tial cfeair. He narrated this after he had |fled from the city and endeav-' ored to attach himself to Carranza. The following parts of his narrative ; are taken up after he recites in detail I the executions of Alberto Garcia Ara-1 gon, Vice-President of the Aguascalientes convention and Professor David Berlango, another distinguished mem-1 her of the convention, both of whom had been brutally murdered by the orders of Villa. He says: “The members of the Aguascalientes convention which was now meeting in Mexico City, justly alarmed by these daily murders, informed me that they desired to change their residence from Mexico City to the town of San Luis Potosi, where they expected to convene in safety. ’ 4 “A large number of the members .of the convention proceeded to the above city and General Villa having been informed by his agents of what had hai> pened had the audacity to issue orders of arrest and execution against these persons whose immunity was absolute aud who were the source from which Villa derived the authority with which he is invested. Delegates Flee. “In view of these terrible orders the delegates, carrying the flag of the convention, called for protection on the Carranza Governor of the State of Nuevo Laredo, in which State they are at present.” Indicative of what an empty honor Gutierrez held and how the so-called convention party now means 'but one man—Villa —is the following excerpt from the same narrative: “On Sunday, December 31st, General Villa came to my home, revolver in hand, accompanied by ten or twelve armed men, besides two thousand cavalry, who surrounded my house and removed the meager guard of twenty men who were defending me. With the courage Instilled in him by such an array of force, Villa shamefully insulted me and hurled baseless, mortifying and criminal charges at me. “With shame and indignation I had to be a spectator of all these outrages because I did not have sufficient force to halt the reign of murder and robbery that Villa conducted.” The flight of Gutierrez from Mexico City, accompanied by many prominent men in the so-called Convention party, strikingly illustrated to the world the impossibility of this or any other kindred government ruling in Mexico that was not subservient to the wishes of Villa The abandonment of Gutierrez and the other prominent men of the Convention party has left Villa isolated and alone and made the issue in Mexico now definite and certain. It is: Shall Villa be allowed to become the dictator of the country, or shall the people themselves rule?

Bert Earl, wife and daughters, were guests of Mrs. Earles’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stocker, Sunday. Walter Knepper and family visited with Joseph Miller, of Millers’ Landing, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Frank Brown is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Elmer “Clay, of Go-

The outlook in Mexico at present is really encouraging, though the con- . fusion attendant upon military operations has served to make this country consider the situation more dark than ever before. AIT the patriotic elements in Mexico are rallying to Cai> ranza’s standard. Villa with his own division of the army is fighting the rest of the nation and an indication of what his movement really signifies is the fact that he has invited all the old Federal army officers against whom the Madero revolution and its successor that drove Huerta from power was waged, to join him. World conditions are such that no government in Mexico can exist without the friendship of this country and without its moral and financial help. In a sense then. Americans are in duty bound to look upon the situation in Mexico from an intelligent and a sympathetic angle. : Carranza Misunderstood. Carranza has been grossly misunderstood in this country. He is a man of probity, clean living and intense patriotism. He is not a wealthy man. He has reared his family in comfort, having madfe his living from the raising of cattle. He himself has visited the United States many times. He has had his family educated in this country. Every man whom he has selected to become a member of his Cabinet he has first sent to this country to become acquainted with the American idea, system and plan of conducting the office he is about to assume. Carranza is unmilitary, educated, having taken a law degree, intensely, Mexican, and whole-heartedly ous of heln’n.’: t ,; c' <’—vntro<lden peon to obtain “his c' • in life.” Villa contrastingly i uneducated, ignorant, brutal, unres*’- '• < 1 in his passions, totally unapnri a of the needs of his country !- simply riding his vanity to v bm hones will be the dictatorship r 'lffLeo. Illustrative •r’ ♦' ' haracter of the two men is the f* f t that Carranza, not even to gain valuable political ends, would stultify h’m=elf to the extent of currying favor v ?th the Washington administration as long as our troops were at Vera Cruz. His feelings of friendship he kept locked in his heart until the time he deemed proper to express them. Villa, on the other hand, has been one thing to this country and another to Mexico. He has taken every occasion to slobberingly express his regard and friendship for this country and the administration, while in Mexico he has attempted to gain recruits for his army by demagogically declaring that the United States intends to annex Mexico and that he in the role of his country’s savior- calls Upon the ex-Federals to join him in resisting the invasion that he announces soon is to come. Villa is forced to make this explanation *o his own troops because otherwise they would keenly resent the presence of these Huertistas in their ranks. Carranza and the Constitutionalist cause has been assailed in this country - as being not only Anti-Catholic, but Anti-Religious. The true facts show both these accusations tn be falser The Constitutionalist cause is opposed to any church taking part in the politics of the country and is vehemently opposed to. its aligning itself with the reactionaries and privileged classes, as unfortunately the Catholic church has done since the colonization of Mexico by the Spaniard. Rafael Zuberan Capmany, former agent of the Constitutionalists in Washington, and now minister of the i liter jar in Carranza’s Cabinet, stated in tlie-following ntanner the Constitutionalists’ position in this respect: Church Question. . “Let the Catholics of America understand that the occurrences) which have happened and are explainable under the present disturbed conditions, do not, nor cannot constitute a part of the program of the Constitutionalists who are pledged to the principle of the separation of the State and church and are firm believers in the principle of religious liberty.” One of the main reasons that has prevented a better feeling of cordiality existing between Mexico and this country has been the fact that the ordinary American looks upon all Mexicans as “greasers” aud affects an air of superiority towards the nation, that has bred the worst of understanding Between the two iountries. 1 The lower class of Mexicans, commonly called the “peon.” is undoubtedly ignorant and ill-kempt, but he has sterling virtues of honesty and a genuine love of his country that deserves respect. President Wilson by h’s just attitude towards Mexico has wiped out the old memories that country has held of us since the Mexican v. nr, when we took from it the greater portion of its territory. Mexicans r.w reenv-ix® -Im - t*’-- n .ty ambition this*ca ■ - t.-j i? - - —® u -d to Mexico is t. 1 ' anca tn

ahen. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Shock and son, Richard, of near Wilmot, spent Sunday at the W. 0. Koher home. Faye B. Mock spent Sunday afternoon with Rhea Clingerman. Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Lecounts (Continued on last page)