Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-28
RUNNING THE REVOLUTION
Mexican Junta at Los Angeles Feeds
and Arms Insurreotos.
SENDS MONEY, MEN AND WEAPONS
Plans sociSlistic Republic, with Capt
tai at McxiceIi, and Debates In
ternaIIy Its own serious
differences Os Opinion.


For some months now the American public
has been kept informed. or misinformed,
as the case may be. OF the doinBs OF a
little band OF revolutionists on the south
side Of the Mexican boundary line. Not
the least important feature of the news
has been the almost daily reports OF the
smuggling OF arms, men and ammunition
through the lines OF United States troops
to the insurgents Money and food sup
plies have gone through also, although the
American authorities would have you be.
| lieve otherwise. And all Of this, or at
least a very large part of It, has been
done under the direction and according TO
the plans OF little group of writer's and
newspaper workers. with their headquar-
tiers at 519h East Fourth street, Los
Angeles
Ricardo Flores Magon, his brother
Enrique Flores Magon, and John Kenneth
Turner. the author OF series of articles
on Mexico that attracted wide attention, are
the leaders Of the little group. With them
| is Antonio I. Villereal, a well-known
leader Of Mexican anarchists, and l.. Cult
errez De Lara and Mrs De Lara. These
and one or two others make up what they
have called La Junta del Partido LIB
! eraI Mexlcano." They also edit and pub
| lish the revolutionary paper "Regener-
ACTON" This is done openly, although
every effort has been made by the Mexi-
can and even the officials Of the United
States government to stop them.
Busy at Headquarters.
| To the dingy little rooms on the second
floor OF the Nelson Flats on East Fourth
street comes the money, arms and other
supplies for the revolving bands. There
is written the copy for the Regeneration,
| most of Il by the Magon Brothers and
Turner, and there, in an inner room, flock
the soldiers Of fortune, a mixed and I'M
| in a while comes one with something more
savory lot for the most part but once
than q lust for loot and lawlessness in his
eyes
Still another plan Is being worked out in
those rooms. It is no less than TO finance
the insurrectionary movement in the north
Of Mexico, debating its management so as
to harass Mexican troops without open or
actual warfare with the goal of forming
/ an independent state OF the states OF Chi
huahua, Sinoloa, Sonora and Baja or
Lower California, under one government
and that a socalistic one, and eventually
turning this new nation over TO the United
States. The headquarters Of this great
scheme are in Chicago, but the main direct
ing point is there in those dirty upper
rooms. There is a fear even among the
most optimistic of these revolutOnists, and
all revolutionists are optimistic by nature
else they could not be ,evolters, that the
plan OF a federation of states will be baked
even II the revolution goes through, for
there is conflict Of opinion among the in
surgents themselves
what the Drain Says.
Said LAberado Rivera, called the Brain
by his companions: I'VE have pushed for
ward our movement in Lower California
far more than has been done elsewhere in
Mexico, and we liberals propose TO lead
and not be led. In many things we are at
on ewith Villereal, but we are unable to
agree with his theories of government; we
are not anarchists. We propose to go ahead
I and establish our own system Of govern
ment in Baja California, with Mexicali as
/ a capital There we hope to found a So
cialistio government. From that city we
hope to reach out and eventually cover all
Of Mexico.
I'VE are in sympathy with the other
movements against the present Mexican
government, but that sympathy extends
/. only so far as those movements look Ia
, the overthrow of Diez. The forces headed
by Madero we consider, in case of sue
cess, would establish another capitalistiC
government, with possibly some of the
most Objectionable features of the Dial
regime removed"
Activity of the JuntR.
Founded long before the actual outbreak
of hostilities, the Junta has been steadily
pouring a stream OF men, money, arms
and ammunitions Of war into big supply
b depots hidden away in North Mexico
s Not even the spies employed by President
: Diaz and the American government have
$ been able TO trace these, shrewdly has
8 the work of forwarding them been car
o ried on by the Junta. Sending ammuni
ton and food has been easy compared
b to the smuggling across the border Of
+ the soldiers OF fortune who have Joined
5 the instruction movement here. Tha
y has been a task that taxed the ingenuity
h of the leaders to the uttermost. Always
It they have had the knowledge that every
y body who enters the headquarters build
ing was watched They have known tina
n spies have rented apartments on the floo
I below them and across the hall from
It them and that nothing they did in thos
n rooms was free from suspicion an,
II espionage.
IL But they have succeeded in attaining
= their object One Of the last and larges
+ OF all the drafts they have sent soutl
n left this city on the night OF Saturday
~ March 4, bound for Mexicali via the I'm
II psrial Valley OF California. There were
II is said, I02 men in the party ninet
IN OF whom were recruits, the remainde
No. being guides, who returned to Los An
- geles after assisting the filibusters &
- eluding the governments of two reput
lies Every man in the company was wei
:. armed and thoroughly equipped
8, Operation IL simple.
Ia The plan was simple. The men divide
m into squads Of ten or twelve. Each squa
ht was in charge of a guide. The ticket
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