The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-11-05
GUTERRESC CHOSEN
As MEXICAN HEAD
'Carranza's Protest Ignored BY
/, Conference of Chiefs In
Selection of Provisional
- President.

Mexico, City, Nov. "A dispatch,
received here from Aguas Calientes,
says that General Eulalio Gutierrez
was elected provisional president OF
Mexico shortly after midnight last
night. The election is for a period
OF 20 days only. .
Ella Paso. Tex. Nov. S.-The confer
q nee of revolutionary chiefs at Aguas
~,alientes has disregarded General
:arranza's protest n elected Eulalio
iarran's protest and elected Eulalio
20, according, to an official report
eaching the border today.
Further assurance that conditions,
tipulated, under which he will yield
is position will be carried out, is de-
landed by General Carranza before he
elinquishes the reins Of government.
The conference at Aguas Calientes
: cted upon Carranza's proposition of
ssignation by adopting a clause in the
sw plan which said: 1,
1T is to the interest OF the republic
lat Citizen Venustiano Carranza give
D the position of commander in chief
charge of executive power and that
itizen Francisco Villa retire as chief
I the division of the north"
This was adopted by the joint com
iittee of Carranza and Villa spokes-
len n passed by an overwhelming
ote by the convention of more than
OF" chiefs.
In this matter of General Zapata, the
outhern revolutionist, whose eliniina-
ion also was demanded by Carranza,
40 action was taken, since the Zapata
delegates were not fully authorized to
act, 20
Gutierrez was appointed provisional
governor Of the state of San Luis
Potosi, by C%arranza. at the beginning
~ tho constitutional rpyrnItItfnn" nFl He
s regarded, however, as more OF a
sympathiZer with Villa in the present
controversy. ." 4
The naming of Gutierrez as head of
the convention of chiefs and acting
chief executive of the nation came as
L surprise at this time. He previously
had o been, mentioned as a posSibili-
~ for the office. Details Of the voting
we're not received here.
The new president of Mexico comes
If the lower middle classes. Before
ne became a revolutionist he RAJ a
grocer. 49, -, . ".H' Us
The voting at the convention did not
end until after midnight. Gutierrez
received SS votes. His nearest COM
petitor was Gen. Juan Cabral, the
Sonora commander, for whom go OF the
delegates voted.
Washington, d. c., Nov. --latest
official dispatches today from Mexico
City said Carranza was threatening
.ivfl wal unless the convention COM
piled with his demand to retire Villa
and Zapata with his resignation. The
Mexico City papers,, by order OF Car
'anZa, are publishing the correspond
ence with Washington orer the condi-
ton of evacuation of Vera Cruz.
p The United States has addressed q
note, through the Brazilian minister
m Mexico City, to General CarranZa
reiterating it's willingness to withdraw
AmerhA1<HfUrces in Vera Cruz. but in
Fistin8 on compliance with the or
lgina1 demands of the state depart
ment for certain guarantees. /.
A copy of the note was sent stimuli
!aneously to the American consular
agent at Aguas Calientes, to be laid
formally before the convention. The
document sets for that the United
States has been ready and willing for
some time to evacuate Vera Cruz, but
has waited for the specific guarantees.
giving the guarantees is desired by the
United States from the central gov
.rnment in Mexico. and refers to the
fact that the convention at Aguas' Ca
ientes recently instructed Carranza to
comply with that request. The Amer
can government points out that mas
much as CarranZa officially referred
The matter to the convention his COM
pliance is still being awaited. |.~
General CarTanza has stated to
American Consul Silliman that he is
willing to give oral assurances, but he
(CarranZa) believes that an embar-
rassing precedent would be established
by the issuance of a proclamation.