The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
HUER7A'S ENEMIES
PEN PICTURE OF THE MEN Who
Lead TIE REBELS
VILLA and CABRANzA
Report Says Villa, Chatting at De.
lays and Pulled by Recent Success,
May at Any Time Declare Himself
Dictator of Northern Mexico,
Usurping Carranza's Leadership.

Dictator Of Northern Mexico
Usurping Carranza's Leadership.
Two more completely contrasted
figures than Gen. Venustiano Car
rama and Gen. Francisco Villa, the
principal figures in the present rev.
olution against Huerta in Mexico
would be difficult to find. Gen. Car
rama, who, as governor Of the state
Of Coahuila, first raised the flag OF
revolt against the Huerta government
after President Madero's assassina-
ton, is, nevertheless, peace loving,
quiet, dignified figure OF simple
tastes, solid country gentleman.
Gen. Villa, who commands all the
revolutionary forces in Northeastern
Mexico, with a dozen generals and
probably 10000 soldiers under his
authority, is a dashing bandit type,
picturesque, not dignified, often full
of merriment, sometimes stern and
not infrequently cruel. He has been
fugitive. from justice, compelled to
live by his wits and with a heavy
price on his head for nearly two
decades. He is quick-witted lead
er, a past master in guerrilla warfare
+ and an able general, despite his lack
Of regular military training.
Villa maintains on the surface a
subordination to Gen. Carranza as
the nominal head Of the revolution.
AS his victories accumulate, how
ever, there is no telling when he may
declare himself dictator Of Northern
Mexico.
Carranza was first to denounce the
now President Huerta and raise a
revolutionary army after the killing
Of Madero. He made so clean a
sweep of the neighboring state Of
Durango that even now there IS not a
known Federal sympathizer in the
state.
The State Of Sonora having seced-
ed from the Federal government Of
Mexico and driven the Federal army
under Gen. Redro Ojeda, Col. Emilio
Kosterlitzky and Gen. Jose de la Luz
Blanco from town to town until re-
fuge was sought in the seaport Of
Guaymas, Gen. Carranza moved his
headquarters Of the provisional presi-
dency to Hermosillo, the capital of
Sonora. He is there now, surround
ed by his rebel cabinet.
He and his military aides occupy a
suite Of rooms in a Eermosillo hotel.
There they go through a round Of
correspondence, telephone communt-
cations with army officers at the
front, conferences with state officials
and meetings with the rebel cabinet
until late in the day. There is always
an hour for the perusal Of reports
from rebel agents in New York and
Washington, in Europe and along the
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona bor-
der. The secret agents, working
close to Federal concentration points
in the interior OF Mexico, also send
in frequent reports.
Carranza depends largely for his
information upon these secret service
men who live in the Federal COM
panies, constantly in the shadow Of
death. He also gains much informa-
tion from American newspapers. At
the Hermosillo Palace there Is a
corps of expert translators who con-
vert into typewriter Spanish all
news items OF American origin bear
ing upon Mexican affairs.
Carranza's evenings are lonely, for
he cares little for social affairs and
his family is not with him. The rebel
provisional president left his wife
and daughters behind in Coahuila,
south OF Torreon, when he inaugur-
ated the revolution. In constant dan
ger from the Federals who infest the
country, they have never been able
to reach the border and join him.
That is his one source Of constant
anxiety.
Villa Is one Of the most pic
turesque figures in modem history.
At thirty-seven he Is entering his
twentieth year Of constant warfare.
This has equipped him for the part
he is now playing. His success In
organizing, equipping, training and
disciplining several large armies
within a few months and with them
winning a number Of strategically
important engagements, marks him
as a general of no ordinary calibre.
When Villa was q small boy his
parents moved from Durango to Chi
huahua city. When "Pancho'', as he
was called, was about seventeen. a
Federal army captain, captivated by
the beauty Of young Villas sister, at
tackled her. Since the Villa family
was OF the lower class, there was nc
redress by law. Young Pancho took
the law into his own hands one after
noon when he met the captain prone
nading near the governors palace
One bullet evened the score and the
boy disapDeared, With q price on his