Arizona republican., 1919-12-09
REVOLUTIONARY PLAN
KNOWN TO CARRANzA
EVIDENCE INDICATES
Mexican Radicals with Sup
port of President Plotted
Overthrow of American
Government
IRepubIIcan A. p. Leased Wlrel

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-Evidence
that radicals in Mexico, with the
knowledge and support of President
Carranza, plotted to instigate revo
luton in the United States and TO
seize the border states acquired by the
American government in 1S48, is con-
tanned in the memorandum presented
to President Wilson by Senator Fall
of New Mexico, chairman of the for
eign relations subcommittee investi-
eating the Mexican situation.
Plans for the proposed revolution
were obtained by the subcommittee
from the minutes of a meeting last Oc-
tober Is, in Mexico City, of Lodge %,
an organization of extreme agitators
and members .of the 1. W. w. The
Mexican president is linked most di
rectly with the plot through corre
spondence in which he recommends
three men for special consideration be-
cause 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
president by Senator Fall Friday night
and made public today.
Plan Seizure Of Ports
| 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 be-
ginning of next November, Chat is
November, 1870 to call a general
strike Of all miners and metal workers
in the United States; that they have
three million adherents in that coun-
try; where they will be able to seize
one western and two Atlantic ports:
that large number Of American sol
diers were preparing to take sides with
them and that they proposed to es-
tablish capital of a reformed gov
ernment of the United States in the
state Of Colorado; that when such :
revolution was successful the Mexi
cans rendering their assistance. th'
border states which were acquired by
the United States under the treaty o.
1S4S, would be returned to Mexico
The three men referred to are tn,
same, the memorandum states, al
InOSe mentioned Dy OdrrdnZd, IN let
ters OF which the committee has Sc
cured photostatic copies. The first o
these letters, dated June 4, and ad
dressed to Manuel Aguirre Berlanga
Mexican minister of Gobernacion
says:
caranzza's Letter
"Senor Limo Caballo bearer of thi
letter, is the person, in company will
two friends, will bring to you the mani
festo and the plan which they rs
to put into practice in the state o
Texas
This plan being very favorable 70
Mexico, please aid them in every wa!
z and give the necessary instructions il
|. the frontier states.
Il remain your affectionate friend
''V. CARRANZA"
The second letter, dated August 1!
and addressed to the same governmen
official, follows:
"The present letter will be delivere
to you by Mr.. Juan N. Marcia and tn
two friends from Texas who accom-
d pany him and, in accordance with ou
conversation, please give them tn
n guarantees they solicit as well as tn
= pecuniary assistance they may desir
e Il remain your friend, affectionatel.
" ffV CARP MA -