The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-02-10
professional Promoter in
Washington is Directing Rev.
oIution in Mexico, Asserts
an American Officer
EVEN THE REBELS DON'T KNOW
Declares lmpersonation Is Need.
ed TO Continue War with
Some Appearance Of Con-
Stitutiona| Authority.

Philadelphia, Feb. l0.-Victuriano
Cawanza, head of the consttutionalist
movement in Mexico, has been dead
since August II and the Mexican pup
pct-show which has set the powers by
the ears and threatened To embroil the
United states with one or more ma
tuns, has been directed since that timo
hy professional promoter Of revolu-
tCns from his office in Washington.
Such is the declaration of Major
Cassius Gillette, retired army en-
ginccr, who has just returned To this
city from Mexico where he spent the
greater part Of six years;
II is Gillette's opinion chat the Am
erican people and the world at large
have been duped for six months by one
Ct the clevcrest and most daring pieces
ofstratcgy within recent history. Since
the time of Carranza's death, Gillette
declares, actors have been found ~ inn
rcryonatc the leader and the stupen-
dous fiction has been carried on be-
fore the eyes of some of the worlds
most experienced diplomats.
Events Seemingly Support Theory.
CarranZa died in the state of Ia
maulipas, Gillette says. This man,
Who had been the federal governor OF
the state of Coahuila, with headluar-
tcrs in the town Of Saltillo. and ca It
his lot with the rebels after having
msdppropriated the funds for the ar
my payroll in his province. was the
only leader among them with the edu-
cation and ability requisite to hold to-
rother the separate revolutionary
bands and organize government
which might in time command the rec
ogultion of the powers.
Consequently. with his death, all
scmblance Of constitutional govern
mcnt would have disappeared in the
eyes Of the civilized world, and the
revolutionary movement would have
appeared in it's true light. as a con-
dillon of anarchy. In order to retain
the interest of the civilized world in
the movement, it was necessary, Gill
I'tte says. To create the belief tn It
'arranza still was alive.
An the events since the middle of
last August fit in with this theory.
During the latter part of August Car
l1uzas alleged headquarters at Mon
t"Na was visited by the representa-
1.-Two of New York newspaper. lie
found all the machinery Of the provis-
ional government, but he did not find
'arranza, who, he was told had de
parted southward for TorreOn the day
before
Now Shut Up in Mountains.
Narranza" was not To- he found at
Torreon, however. and 1t was reported
That he had gone northwest To Par
raS, and them south again to Durango.
ana after facing about once moro,
proceeded to Hermosillo, all the time
carefully avoiding the section of the
country i'm which he was known. After
mai' hing his army, which, by the way,
nobody has seen since the middle f
august, towards the west i'm this eX-
''cdinSly zig-zag fashion he has at
Isst moved south. directly into the
widest and most mountainous regions
oi Mexico. and is at present reported
al Culiacan, with an impassable
mountain range between himself ana
nus aNowcd objective, Mexico city.
Not the least interesting feature Of
me situation is the fact that telegraph
Ie messages from "Carranza" are con-
S'antly being received through Doug
'S' Ariz. from CuliaCan, dated the
pIcNlous day, when that town, 200
n''l's to the south, is lost in a noun
famous wilderness and mas no teleg-
idphic lines communicating with the
Test OF the world