Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-17

Washington, June 16.-If Venustiano
Pine Carranza, first chief of the con-
stitutionalists and perhaps soon de
facto president Of Mexico, were to put
on strictly American dress and walk
down the promenade of an American
city no one meeting him would take
him for Mexican or Spaniard. He
is rudy, but not pswarthy, rugged of
face rather than fiery, full bearded
in the manner OF many American ply
sfcians aged in the fifties or sixties.
Behind spectacles which tell of near
sightedness shine grey eyes, An
Anglo-Saxon grandfather from head
to foot.
But one must remember the Ger
manic hordes which poured upon the
fertile fields of Spain in the middle
ages. The fierce Goth is mirrored in
Carranza. He is Mexican of pure
Spanish descent but drawn from a
race (which entered Spain about the
time the Angles and Saxons reached
England.
Carranza's instincts, nevertheless,
are anti-Anglo-Saxon. His position
to Intervention has been firm and de-
fiant. To understand this man whose
shadow lengthens in the land of Next
CO every day it is necessary to under
stand his life of constant struggle
towards goal he now believes al
most within reach.
MaderO's Intellectual God Father.
1t is not generally realized that
Carranza was the intellectual god
father of Francisco Madero. Now fif-
ty-five years of age, he was much old
er than the martyred president. Ma
dero was of the topmost circle of
Mexican aristocracy, with enormous
wealth. Carranza was rancher of
moderate estate. The first chief
came Of fighting stock. His fatk>S
was commander in the warfare
which ended in the execution of the
Emperor Macmillan. Around his
fathers board he heard words which
might have meant death if uttered in
public. AS a young man he became
strongly impressed with the wrongs
of the peon. He studied law in Goa
hula, the state where he was born,
and in pexico City. But his poor
eyes drove him back to the ranch.
In combination of intellectual life
and out-of-doors existence, it has
been remarked, he closely resembles
Theodore Roosevelt
Twice he boldly offered himself al
the polls as candidate for the gov
ernorship of Coahuila against a man
backed by Porfirio Diaz. Diaz sent
ENJOYS to warn, and even threaten
him, but was afraid to order his death
on account of the loyalty of the peo-
pie to the scholarly grancher Oh
course the Diaz candidate won in &
walkover with the polling places filled
with soldiers. But the brave stand o.
Carranza had interested the young
aristocratj Francisco Madero. He pu
up money, for .Carranza's second CUB
ernatorial contest. He sat at the fee
of Carranza and drank in his dis
courses on the robbery of the poems
lands. 1t was the opening Of his eye
by Carranza which caused Madero t.
head his successful revolt which plac
ed him in short lived possession o
the national palace.
Senator Carranza's independence
and his high ideals in politics." Ma
dero once said, caused me to sup
port him in his campaign for the gov
ernorship. i made speeches for hin
and contributed to the expenses o
his campaign. The people wantet
him for governor but he was countet
out. | saw then what the Diaz sys
TEN meant. I had taken no active in
terest in politics up to that time, bu
then realized that We could hav'
no real self-government 80 long al
the Diaz machine, or any other ma
chine with the same purposes, wal