Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-12-02

~ the head of a revolution which prom
lsed TO overthrow the rule Of Profirio
DlaZ III Mexico. Cara was originally
a sewing-machine agent. but h turned
editor, and. To arouse interest. he de
nounced the Mexican government in
violent terms. He published Il small pa
per at Laredo, Texas, and later at Cor
pus christi, If / am not very much mis-
taken III was what would NOWADAYS be-
called a Socialist sheet. At all events il
was a redhot paper and Cara was reck-
less III his statements. 1t was his reck-
lesSneSs which got him into trouble.
Some one whose name is now forgotten.
secured a warrant for CARA for crimi-
mi libel. Ii 80 happened that Cara had
many warm friends among the officials
along the Mexican border. 30 he was
warned 10 take To the cactus. Had he
faced the music he never would have be
come an outlaw. He feared he would be
e~Xtradltel and put 10 death bv order of
DlaZ 50 he concluded he would start Il
revolution. After issuing a ''proclama-
ton, in whirh he denounced the autOc-
racy Of DiaZ and referred to the Con
Stitution Of 81. which all Mexican revO-
lutioniStS invoke. CARA assembled a few
ignorant poems. and. like Don Quixotc.
he started forth.
Down on the Lower Rio Grande across
the river from Starr county. Texas. is
Il small hamlet called Camargo. There
was a customs house ut Camargo. like
wise a small detachment Of troops 10
guard the customs receipts. Here was
staged the first and only battle of the
revolution. Cara led his valiant troops
10 the outskirts of the city ard M
ed to bluff the enemy by firing off six
shooters and winche>tcrS. But the citi-
zen didn't bluff. Instead. they
assembled and started out 10 meet the
enemy. The GarzaitcS fled the field
leaving neither dead nor wounded. Had
the r~evorltioniSlS DISPLAYED = grain of
nerve they coIld with ease have cap
tured Camargo and established 4 nucleus
for an army. Camargo was I'm ideal ~
cation for the starting of Il revolution
because Of its in. feasibility Tt was ~
mote from 4 railroad and Diaz could NOT
Get troops to the scene under several
DAYS. Meanwhile Cara could have "a
thercd several hundred men with which
he could have marched mon Laredo or
MatamorOS. But he dallicd along and
remained on the Texas side If the Rio
Grande.
prediscnt DiaZ rushed several thru
sand troops 10 the border. mobilizine AZ
Nuevo Laredo. The United States upor
diplomatic representations from Mexico
took coeniZanoc of the revolt and sent
several companies 81 i~nfantr, and troops
Of cavalry TO The border. The great
newspapers rushed war correspondents
Ia the scene. and then the real %revull-
tion was on. The ShcriffS of at border
counties had warrants for the arrest Of
Catarino CARA. II was known that old
man Alexandra Gonzales. a wcllto-do
ranchman of NucccS county father In
law of Cara was supplying his ~on-in-
law with money To keep him ont ~ tror
blc AMI the TcXan rangers visited tie
ranch expecting II capture Cara. hnt
in vain. Cara aud his band kept on
the move and rs. is always the ease
when there i rumor of revolution. the
revolutionistS roarrri arcrnl the conn
try stealing cattle "rI l~rnNih" the im
preston that there really was 4 rebellion
on in fill hast.
The New York Herald wa, represent
ed by w. X. Sinclair: Dan Nct'arth-
and Tom Swopc represent ' \er
York World: Cl,rk .'~ ~ - ~rib~nc
Bogart the Chiraep ~iIcrall AND there
were Representatives cf ~ othar li"
dailieS on ~" S"orc TIL" bunch frFnci
n "combine'' 4%.tin~i ne Nvn Nnfb Her
rld. ri ann@,rri That Ilrlti+ haze
made the acrrrtinfrn 4 II @~-."ral prom
iment men nn Ilr border before the trip.
To the front aud all were he sympathy
with CARA. The news at Fort Mclu-
toSh was easy a. get. blt the news from
the front promised to he difficult to -
cure. The combine" made headquarters
ut a hotel where All stopped and where
the clerk kept Sinclair informed of alI
that TRANSFERRED. Sinclair made his
HEADQUARTERS 40 a rel adobe sal un.
which Was the hang OFT e cowboys anil
MexicanS who were familiar with the
CARA situation. IN thc back room ~ the
adobe most Of the revolution was con
Quoted. ~Evrryh,Gv who ftyuucntrtl th.
place was intimate with NrIya AMI nli
were well priWed with hnr,i,r warns.
One morning The correspondents a. the
World and other pIpcrS received "a iclc
gram informing them the New York
Herald had s'oopcd them with i Two
column interview with Cara. Thrv
hunted Sinclair M % FIND ont about III
interview. Sinclair declared with cm
phaSiS that he had stnn and tHikrti wis
Cara and offered ~ lci hc co ll htiu-
witnesses. which would have been ro
trouble. IT so happened that The inter
view had been written IN tn" office of
the Herald and Sinclair had nothing NAP
do with il. He was too well onto the
game. however. ~ give his paper away
So he vowed he had talked with tara
This was IA declaration Of wHr 50 the
"cembinc" got busy having fights. Some
how or other Sinclair was put wise" 10
The stuff the enemV was sending ont ard