Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-03
GUTIERRAS NAMED
PROVISIONAL HEAD
OF THE REPUBLIC
Former Governor of San Luis Potosi
Elected Chief of Mexico for
Twenty Days.
PEACE CONVENTION ACTION
Aguas Calientes Assembly Chooses
Successor to General Car
rama.
LEANS TOWARD VILLA WING
Identified with Movement Result
ing in Huerta's Fall.
FOREIGN MINISTER THREATENS
FabeIa Declares Rody Had No Right
to Proceed in This Manner
Thinks Three Leaders
would Step Down.
FOREIGN MINISTER THREATENS

MEXICO CITY. Nov. "A dispatch re-
ceived here from Aguas Calientes says
that General Eulatlo Gutierrez was
elected provisional president of Mexico
shortly after midnight last night. The
election is for a period of twenty days
only.
The Aguas Calientes convention voted
to meet in Mexica City later.
General Gutierrez has been prominently
identified with the Mexican revolutionary
movement that resulted i'm the expulsion
of General Huerta from the republic. He
is a close friend of General Carransa and
rose with Carranza against Huerta in
Carranza's native state of Coahiula.
Commenting today on the action of the
Aguas Calientes convention, Foreign
Minister Fabela sold:
"The high officers of this government
believe that this convention had no right
to name a successor to General Carranza.
II General villa and General Zapata re-
fuse TO leave the country, with Carranza.
we will have war. The only way to
guarantee peace is for these three chief
tains TO leave the field. General Gutter
reg is a brave and honorable soldier hut
the convention must live up to General
Carranza's demands"
More of BiIla Man.
Ell PASO, Tex, Nov. 2.-Gutierrez was
appointed provisional governor of the
state of San Luis Potosl by Carranza at
the beginning of the constitutionalist
revolution. He is regarded, however as
more OF a sympathizer with Villa in the
present controversy.
The naming of Gutierrez as head of the
- ol,4. -
ecutive of the nation. came as a surprise
at this time. He previously has not
been mentioned as a possibility for he
office. Details of the voting were not
received here.
The new president OF Mexico comes Of
the lower middle class. Before he be-
came a revlutionist he was grocer
The voting at the convention did not
end until after midnight. Gutierrez re-
ceived eighty votes. His nearest compe-
titor was General Juan Cabral, the
Sonora commander, for whom thirty Of
the delegates voted.
Carranza Making Threats
WASHINGTON, Nov. --latest official
dispatches today from Mexico City said
Carranza wss threatening civil war un-
less the convention complied with his de-
mand to retire villa and Zapata with his
resignation. The Mexico City papers, by
order of Cerranza, are publishing the
correspondence with Washington over the
conditions of evacuation of Vera Cruz.
The United States has addressed note
through the Brazilian minister In Mex
leo City, to General Carranza reiterating
its Willingness to withdraw American
forces in Vera Cruz, but insisting on q
compliance with the original demands OF
the State department for certain guar
antees.
A cory of the note was sent simultane-
ously to the American consular agent al
Aguas Calientes to be laid formally be-
fore the convention. The document sets
forth that the United States had beer
ready and willing for some time to evac-
uate Vera Cruz, but has waited for the
specific guarantees.
The note states that a proclamation
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