El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-05-16

/ who risked nothing; that personally
Mr. Madero was q most JUSTIFIED ana
lovable person, but that around him
/ were elements who were spelling all
! his work.
Ideas Coincide.
Both Mr. Braniff and myself hadlpre-
viously and even publicly made known
our sentiments exactly Identical to
those that Orozco was manifesting and
I had therefore not the least scruple 10
corroborate what he was affirming IN
! this respect
Finally. he stated that the troops
were even then missing the rud1-
mentary necessaries and that he wished
for the renewal Of the peace conferences
isin order to try and find proper solu-
i ton to this matter, as it was useless
to be talking of peace. as IT the troops
/ had nothing to eat they could not pos
4 sibly keep still or behave
e14~ Sustain Insurgent Troops.
! We then told him that we would
work in the sense that as a prelinin-
/, arv. an armistice should be signed IN
Gliding the condition that the Mexican
& government should sustain the rebel
/ troops while the peace treaty was be-
! ing discussed in fact we proposed TINS
i to Mexico early in the first armist1ce'
] and failing to obtain Satisfaction pr
/ Braniff forwarded TO Sr- Gustavo Ma
i dero $4,000 American money out of his
! own pocket and nobody ever took this
/ in the sense of an attempt at briDlng.
7 supposes this is the incident that,
noaIiciousIy Interpreted has been made
to appear as an attempt to bribe MI
) Orozcc.
/ A casual circumstance later on may
Z also have served for exploitation on
( the 18th we called at Juarez and visited
/ Gen. Navarro, at the time in Mr. Ma
I dero's private quarters. profiting or
| our visit to the latter by preparing
| new conference Gen. Navarro asked me
I 70 obtain for him the issue Of the 18th
| of the FL Paso Times, which referred TO
the defence and capture Of Juarez-
| The same afternoon I returned to
| Juarez with the newspaper 'Wnen Mr..
/ Orozco approached me and I asked him
I TO send someone to deliver this news
paper, and, while awaiting the next car
/ I asked him to show me the field pieces
! they had taken from the federals- he
/ acceded and took me himself TO the
barracks where. while I examined the
: motars be addressed somebody who ap-
I peared to be an artillery officer Then
l happened along Mr. Carranza, who has
been one of the most opposed to peace.
whom I consider, however incapable OF
an intrigue: but whose arrival md OBJ
servation of my presence in the bar
racks with Orozco has undoubtedly
| been exploited to reinforce the pre-
/! sumptions.
orozco Against Cabinet.
! On the morning Of the 18th, as I was
+, dressing Mr.. Orozco called in my room
/ and showed great displeasure concern
| ing the naming of Mr. Maderos ca5t-
net: ne considered it extemporaneous
and badly selected and concluded that
J with the Influence of all these men any
understanding between the govern
ment and the revolution was rendered
very difficult: that in the meantime
/ nobody was attending to the troops,
/ who were greatly excited without food;
] that Mr.. Maderos advisers were jeop-
/ srdizing the revolutionary cause when
1 they were preventing the implantation
/ of its principles before everything be-
sscame disorder and chaos In the coun-
| try; and that consequently he was dis
posed for the retirement OF this cabinet
! If necessary, even II the arrest OF
! It's members became Indispensable;
that he was very sorry, viewing his
( great respect and affection for Mr.
| Madero, who was magnificent man,
! and whom he felt through those cir
! cumstances constrained TO contradict
| to this extent. but Mr. Madero himself
| would later on see that this insubor-
! dination, the same as in the case OF
/ the attack on Juarez. would result to
his great advantage and to the great
| er prestige of the revolution
~ Wanted Safe Guaranty.
! He asked whether it was safely sure
| that the government. would accept the
necessary conditions for securing the
! principles of the revolution, because
he was taking this step as a necessary
! for the revolution. and hence for the
| nation; and whether there was
! means to sustain the troops.
WINGED that the government was dis
posed to give all the necessary and
! practical guarantees to the revolu-
/ ton and that as to the troops, as soon
! as the peace negotiations would be
! resumed, 1t should be proposed as a
| preliminary condition to the afmistice
| that the troops should be cared for.
AS he insisted that this arrangement
would take some time to materialize
and in the meantime the troops had
to be fed. Mr.. Braniff suggested that
the final armistice agreement should
| not be awaited and that he would
i cheerfully contribute personally $1,000
/ he hadJin the Ell Paso bank in the
| same way as he had before contrib
uted fon the same purpose with $4,000.
| alongside with the contributions OF
| Mr. Madero. ST.. and E. Madero.
OrOzco's Plan.
Right here must say in behalf Of
! Orozco that neither did we for one
moment, even remotely. intend to Of
fer him help for the realization of a
plan that he was imposing upon him
SELF nor had we called ON him with
the suggestion Of any such plan, nor
! could we ever have succeeded in put
| ting such intention into effect. even
! had we looked him up with such
| plan and proposition, because during
his conversation he, constantly spoke
Of his fear lest this step on his part
| should be wrongfully interpreted as
inspired in personal interest or adj
! vancement and wanted it quite plain
| that he proposed nothing personal,
that his single desire was to secure the
triumph of the revolution right away,
i that If the government made good
/ propositions they should be accepted,
| and that then he would quietly go
back home and to work, and that il
/ necessary he would make this attitude
known through a manifesto
/ For us the problem arising from the
possession of such delicate conf