The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-12-19
CARRANzA WITH REDS IN US.
Plot to Seize Border States Is Revealed
BY Senator Fall.


BY Senator Fall.
Washington, d. C.-Evidence that
radicals in Mexico. with the knowl-
edge and support of President Carran-
"a, plotted to instigate revolution in
the United States. and to seize the
border states acquired by the Ameri-
can government In 1S48 is contained
in a memorandum presented to Presi-
dent Wilson by Senator Fall Of New
Mexico, chairman of the foreign rela-
tions subcommittee investigating the
Mexican situation.
Plans for the proposed revolution
were obtained by the subcommittee
from the minutes Of a meeting last
October IL in Mexico City Of Lodge
%, an organization of extreme agita-
tors and members of the I. w. w.
The Mexican president is linked
most directly with the plot through
correspondence in which he recon-
mends three men for special consid-
Grafton because of their connection
with "the plan which they desire to
put into practice in the state of Texas"
These men, the committee states,
have been identified as active agents
of Lodge %.
The memorandum, which contains
an abstract of the evidence collected
by the committee, was delivered to
the president by Senator Fall Friday
night and made public Monday.
The notes of the October Is meeting
of the lodge declare there appeared
three delegates, two Americans and
one Mexican, who had arrived from
the United States and who claimed
that the society would be able at the
beginning Of next November (that is,
November, 1919 to call a general
strike of all miners and metal workers
in the United States: that they have
100000 adherents in that country;
where they will be able to seize one
western and two Atlantic ports; that
a large number Of American soldiers
were preparing to take sides with
them and that they proposed to estab-
fish capital of reformed govern
ment of the United States in the state
Of Colorado; that when such a revo-
luton was successful, the Mexicans
rendering their assistance, the border
states which were acquired by the
United States under the treaty of 1s4s
would be returned to Mexico"
The three men referred to are the
same. the memorandum states, as
those mentioned by Carranza in let
ters, of which the committee has OBJ
tanned Photographic copies. The first
of these letters, dated June and
addressed to Manual Aguirre Berlanga,
Mexican minister Of Cobernacion,
says:
Senator Limo Cabbalo, bearer of
this letter, is the person who, in COM
pany with two friends, will bring to
you the manifestos and the plan which
they desire to put into practice in the
state of Texas.
"This plan being very favorable for
Mexico, please aid them in every way
and give the necessary instructions in
the frontier states.
II remain your affectionate friend,
"V. CARRANZA."
The second letter, dated August 10.
and addressed to the same government
official, follows:
"The present letter will be delivered
to you by Mr.. Juan N. Garcia and the
two friends from Texas who accom-
pany him, and in accordance with our
conversation, please give them the
guarantees they solicit as well as the
pecuniary assistance they may desire.
II remain your friend affectionately,
"V CARRANZA i"