Evening star., 1915-01-18
Gutierrez FIees, Fearing Death,
When Coup to Surrender
City to Carranza Fails.
CONVENTION DEPOSES
PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT
Names Chairman as National Execu-
tive, Declares Martial Law and
Assumes Supreme Powers.

Cen Rouue Gonzales GarLa last Satur-
day night was named provisional presi-
dent of Mexico by the convention III
session here over which he has pre-
sided. The former provisional pres'-
dent, Gen. Eulalio Gutierrez. tosether
with Gems. Blanco. Robes ana 'ose
Nasconcelos. left Mexico City yesterday
morning at O'Clock for Pachuco.
Martial law has been declared ny
Gen. Cara. and the city is neihs p"
tro1led by mounted police.
In electing Garza. the convention u
clared itself to be supreme, ana unt''
a new president is elected has assumed
all the legislative. executive ana Ju-
dicial powers.
EI. PASO Tex, January 1s.-Gen. Eu-
,,iio c;utierrez. deposed as provisional
Dresident of Mexico by the convention
which Saturday night elected Cen
ROGUE Gonzales Garza as his successor,
fed from the capital early Sesterod.
with several members of his cabinet
TO escape assassination at the hands or
Zapata adherents, according to reports
received here.
Gen. villa. with all the troops at his
Immediate disposal, is reported nurry-
ing to the capital from Aguascaltentes
Gen Felipe Angeles, who recently oc-
cupied Monterey, was reported aIso 10
be hastily returning to Mexico CITY.
Gutierrez's Plan to Surrender.
VERA CRUZ. January 1S.-The cor
respondence taken from the three Of
ficers of the army of Gen. Eulano
Gutierrez who are under arrest here.
has been published. 1t includes copy
of a manifesto which Gen. Gutierrez Is
alleged to have promised to publish II
his proposition to Gen. Carranza 1or
h, surrender of MEXICO City was dC-
cepted.
The CORES pondence as published pro-
posed that Gems. Obregon and Agullar
delay their attack on Mexico CITY until
Gutierrez was abre to get to the north
and wage war on his own account on
Gen. Villa. In the manifesto gutierrez
is alleged to have blamed villa for al
most countless crimes and irregular1-
ties and to have confessed that he was
unable to control Villa.
The three Gutierrez agents held in Vera
Cruz are Col. Jose Rodriguez Cabo and
Lieut.. Col. Aguirre Esconbar and Felipe
Contreras They were arrested outside
Puebla when they asked for an escort
into the city that they might confer with
Gen. Obregon. Obregon met the men. and
declared that they made proposition
that he and Gen. Aguilar Join the opposing
forces. Obregon reported to Carranza,
who ordered the three officers held. Car
rama telegaphed Gutierrez, informing him
that the men would be tried by court
martial. and that if any other commits
sioners were sent to Vera Cruz they
would be shot without trial.
Gen. Cara Young, But Brilliant.
Gen. Rogue Gonzales Cara. one of Cen
Villas principal officers. is the executive
head Of that portion of Mexican terri
tory controlled by the Villa and Zapata
forces, according to advices last night to
the State Department from American
Consul Silliman.
Details of the term of office which
Cara will serve were lacking, but the
general belief in Mexican circles here was
that he had been appointed temporarily
10 meet an emergency created by the sud-
den departure of Gen. Eulalio Gutierrez
and members of his cabinet from Mexico
City.
The belief was expressed in many
quarters that the convention now in
session in Mexico City. over which
Rogue Gonzales GarZa has been pre-
siding. designated him to exercise the
executive power until complete agree
ment can be secured with all elements
on the man who is to fill the unexpired
term Of President Diaz and Madero.
which would end December 81 of this
year
Gen. Felipe Angeles and Dr. Miguel
Silva. former Governor of Michoacan.
are looked upon as the two most prom
inent candidates for the office. which is
to be known as 'pre-constitutional
president the successor to be elected
for the full constitutional term of six
years.
Gutierrez's Flight.
The reasons for the departure Of
-Gutierrez were unknown here, but the
belief prevails that he declined to be
continued in Office under the restric-
tions suggested by the Zapatistas.
These were embodied in eight articles.
the. text of which was made public by
the State Department.
Briefly. two-thrds of the convention
could by the terms of the proposal re-
move the provisional president; he
could take no action of Importance
without the consent of his cabinet. and
the convention. being designated as
the supreme legislative and judicial
body, was to be consulted on all ques-
tions of ma jor interest
copy of a statement issued by Gar
"a upon taking control of affairs. re-
ceived by the State Department. throws
some light on the circumstances under
which he took command of the situa-
tion. In this Garza announced that
Gutierrez had issued orders for a large
part of the government forces to evac-
iuate the capital. In view of the fact
that this would leave the city without
any authorities. Cara said he had as
sumed chief command and was depend
ing upon the troops of the north and
the Zapatistas for defense. all of whom
he added. were under the orders of the
convention He announced his inten-
tion of establishing martial law and
threatened summary execution to any
disturbers of the peace. According tC
the Garza statement, Gutierrez and
some of his cabinet officers left Mexico
City Friday night.
Cara in Control
The belief in official quarters was
that Garza as chairman of the con-
vention called an extraordinary session
Saturday which ratified his assumption
of power.
Rogue Gonzales GarZa is about thirty.
six years old and is Il man of culture
the law school i'll Mexico city and ha,
been practicing law for many years
He first came into prominence as (:
volunteer colonel in the Madero army
which overthrew the Diaz regime. His
brother, FREDERICK Gonzales GarZa, wa.
for several months governor of the
federal district in Mexico city under
the Madero administration. Rogue ant
his brother Joined Gen. villa soon aftei
Huerta came into power, and have ad
hered to villa since the very beginninl
of his friction with Carranza
At the Aguasc3lientes convention
which named Eulalio Gutierrez as TEN.
porary president, Rogue Gonzales CARR
was floor leader of the villa faction
His ability as an orator made him :
conspicuous figure in the debates Hi
dramatic speechSin favor of the plan o