San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-08
THE CARA REVOLUTION.
The Proclamation and Platform
Adopted by the Insurgents.

a. Iuo ohneH nearing O6IOEe tine
U. 5. Commissioner yesterday, the
attorney for the defendant read the
following document:
The revolutionary plan is conceiv
ed aud published with the only pur.
pose OF uprooting the tyranny ana de
potism of General Porfirio Diaz and
res orlng the constitution of 1857. The
undersigned Mexican citizens In the
full enjoyment of our rights and
making use of the laws conceived by
US for our government and the pur.
suit of happ ness, considering, fret
that the people have at all times Che
right ID revoke the charge of their
sovereignty when the executive con-
verts himself into a tyrant and uses
his mower for his personal advantage,
asserts the following reasons as cause
for their action:
FIrst-That General Porfirio Diaz
and his cabluet pervert their power
for private advancement, holdiHg as
law the caprices OF their will to the
end of satisfying their illegitimate
ambition or private vengeance, and
they exceed in cruelty the most tero.
cious beasts In order to crafty their
avarice ard other distorted passions.
Second-That to arrive at that state
of affairs they have demoralized the
nation with system of subordinatior,
.assassinatIng some and prostituting
Others, making them in their COM
paDy steal and sack the national
treasury, having the people under
the most horrible yoke, sdppressing
their principal rights, to wit:
The right of personal security, in
dividual liberty and the right of
property.
Third-That Gen. Porfirio Diaz in
his ambition to acquire riches has
compromised the future of the nation
by thefts, such as the recognizing OF
the English and Spanish debts, the
settlement of the interior debts, con-
traction of the German and other
loans that are at present being nego-
tiated.
Fourth That the integrity of the
nation is So immInently ia danger
that in the Tn ted states member
has proposed TO congress that the
American Union utilize its extra
funds in the purchase OF Lower Cali
fornis, tine same as II iney were
treating of the purchase OF wild
Oc au.c isisnu) and adduciug in sup
port OF dis proposition the reason that
il his opinion Mexico s at present
governed by another General Santa
Ara
Efth-Thst this shameful condition
has the probabilities of Oeing pro-
Ionged 10 the extent of the life of this
sutocrat who sly les himself president;
TOR his audacity and Cynicism have
reached the extreme of imposing in
definite reelection after having advo-
Gated the principle OF no reelection.
Sixth-And lastly that civil Obe-
6!er'e hss it's limits because the PEG.
yie uu belug deprived partly of their
will and strength to constitute social
powers are not compelled to COM
pletely sacrifice those rights; that is
to say, they do not absolutely sbdi-
cate their will and strength only in
SO much as it is eXacted by the good,
the prosperity and the security OF
their co associates, by reason OF all of
which we have agreed in proclaim
ing and sustaining the following
EVOLUTIONARY PLAN
for casting from power General Por-
firio DiaZ and re establishing in the
country the constitution of 1857.
Article J. We do not recognize
the Mexican United States, and on
being captured he shall be tried as q
traitor to the country, to the constitu-
ton that he swore to defend and to
the plan of TuXtipec, which elevated
him to power.
Art 2. We equally do not recog-
nize the secretaries of state and gov
ernors who shall be tried and pun.
ished according to the charges which
may result TO them.
Art. g. The military chiefs or civil
authorities of whatever category they
may be that should take up arms
against this plan shall be held as
traitors to the country and punished
as such.
Art. From and after the publica
ton and circulation of this plan the
nation il declared in a state of war,
and for it's proper execution the Mex
lean people are convoked to arms.
Art. 5 With the same purpose the
co operation of the independent press
is solicited.
Art. 6. This armed body of men
shall be named constitutional
Army" Its wstchword shall be
CONSTITUTION Of 1857 and National H.
tegrity."
Art. 7. The frontier writer, D)I
Catarino E. CARA, is named as chic
of the constitutional army of the
north: and Don Francisco Ruiz Sando
val supreme director of the war, who
shall use the title of general in chic
of the constitutional army and su
preme director of the war.
Art. s. On taking possession OF thu
capital of the republic the supreme
chief director of war shall convoke tn,
country to elections for constitution
al convention, which shall be con
yened in Mexico within four mon tbs
frnY, tho IF tn