Arizona republican., 1914-06-22
General Jose Manuel Her. nandez Issues Proclama- tion Directing Civil War and Government Orders It's Publication
SAYS THAT GOD
 WILL BLESS ARMY.
Governments Action Said to Have Been Taken to Show That It is Not Afraid of the Revolu- tiOnists
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcH1

CARACAS, June 21.-The long pre- dicted revolution, headed by General Jose Manuel Hernandez, has started. at least on paper. The proclamation calling the Venezuelans to arms is dated in Trinidad on May 22nd, and was published in the principal news papers of Caracas on this same date by order of the government. Never before has the government taken up- on itself the task of distributing rev olutionary literature. Dr. Marquez Bustillos, provisional president of Venezuela, has evidently done this to show that the government is not afraid of General Hernandez and that he is very willing that everybody should know what the revolutionistS have to say against the present re- gime. The proclamation closes with these words:
 Companions: Victory will be with us due to the justice of our cause. our bravery, decision and energy God will bless our army because it will mean the salvation of a noble and innocent people who have been sacri- feed to the ferocity of iniquitous op- pressors. Now or never. 1 am sure that all of you will arise to the height of honor and duty as good patriots. worthy citizens and disciplined sold- iers. The fate of the fatherland is In your hands: Remember that you will have to give an accounting to God. to the world and history
 General Hernandez has been the leader of several unsuccessful revolu tions in the past. He was expatriated during the latter years of the presi- dency of General Cipriano Castro, but returned when General Gomez became president five years ago and served the Gomez government for several years as member of the federal council. Feigning illness he went to Europe two years ago and shortly af- l forwards announced his intention of 1 leading a revolution to overthrow the | Gomez regime The principal expatri- ated Venezuelan generals who are supposed to be in league with Gen eral Hernandez are: General Cipria-
 no Castro, whose revolution of last
 August failed from the very start. | General Leopoldo Baptista, late mem-
 Der of the federal council who van ished secretly from Venezuela year ago, and General Regulo Olivares.
 recently governor of the state of Ia
 chira
 l The call to arms is based on the
 alleged usurpation of power by Gen eral Gomez on the expiration of the presidential period on April 19. when
 his minister of war was elected pro visional president and he himself commander chief of the army. as
 the constitutional prohibited two suc-
 cessive terms as president. General
 Hernandez says:
 "The nation has been supporting,
 with heroic patience, the yoke of eX- itortions and scandalous thieving, to
 which it has been subjected by this
 man General Gomez) because it ex-
 pected that the last remains of de-
 cency or of hypocritical circumspec-
 ton on the part of the tyrants would
 have put an end to it's long suffer ing, without the necessity of taking iup arms-but Gomez and his advisors mistook patience for cowardice; pru- = ldeuce for weakness: offers of adhes- ion obtained by threats of torture and dungeons, for loyalty; love of peace
 for implicit approval of his despotic
 regime, and the servile applause of 8 few spectators for the free vote of the people. They began to believe themselves the absolute owners of Venzuela, and in the blind fury of / an ambition and avarice without bounds they decided to consumate the most scandalous stroke, a ferocious and absolute crime: the breaking
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