Republican farmer., 1920-05-28

,tU11ICu llIC IONOIutlOnlSCS. There is some uncertainty regard ing the actual af1lliation of General Herrera. It is generally believed pos sible, however. that he commanded a small guard which was with the flee ing president. He was in rebellion against Caranza for several years, centering his operations in the state of PuebIa. He surrendered last March to General Mariel, who was in com mand of government forces in that state.
 When GeneraI Marie1 went over to 1 the revolutionists last week a portion of his troops, it is known, remained 1 loyal to the president and belief ex- ists that Carranza might have taken along with him in his flight toward Tuxpam Herrera's forces, which finally turned against him.> ! Tlaxcalaltonga is small village in ] the vicinity of Huauchinango, in the northern panhandle of the state Of | Puebla. It is approximately 85 miles l from San Andres, where Carranza left | his forces and took refuge in the 1 mountains.
 The official announcement which was given out at 10:30 o'clock tonight l from the headquarters of General AL 1 varo Obregon, stated it was based on official despatches which had been
 received.
 l Reports received here early today l state that General Juan Earragan, 1 chief of the presidential staff; Ygna- 1 cio Bonjllas, former Mexican aanbass- ] ador at Washington; Gen. farciano /! Gonzales and General Federico | Montes, who accompanied President Carranza in his flight from San An fo ic S. of | others in the party which it is be- ! lieved included Luis Cabrera, minis 1 ter of the treasury; Alfonso Cabrera, his brother. Governor of Puebla, and 1 General Francisco Murguila, who act l ed as commander of the Carranza
 troops after the president had fled 1 from this city.
 Orders have been given that a train | be taken to Beristain, the nearest railway point to Tlaxca1antongo. to
 receive the bodies of those in the en- | counter in which President Carranza lost his life.
 Venustiana Carranza, elected Presi- ldent of Mexico, March Il, 1917, by the largest vote ever cast in a presidential l
 election in his country, stepped from political obscurity to national and in ternational prominence on the graves of the hopes of General Victoriano
 
 CTS.
 Simultaneously with General Huer-
 ta's coup d'etat and the assassination
 of President Madero, the news went out to the world that General Venus } tiano Carranza, elected Governor of ; the State of Coahuila in 1911, refused to recognize the uSurper and would
 resist him by force of arms. "Madero's revolution was political, y Carranza is quoted as having said. Mine is a social one"
 Born of parents in comfortable cir cumstances in Cuatro Cienagas, State
 of Coahuila, December 29, 1859, Venus
 tiano Carranza was educated in the , public schools of his native state and , later studied law at the Mexican cap
 itol When he was admitted to the
 Ibar, however, affection of the eyes , prevented him from practising and he
 returned to his native State to become a rancfler. His experience as a ran cher first then as judge, senator and finally Governor of Coahuila- made Carranza familiar with the agrar1an problem, the root of political unrest in
 Mexico.
 Having defied Huerta, Carranza ral- lied a small band of 600 followers which grew into a sizable army when he won the support of Francisco Villa
 iCarranza's influence spread rapidly = the military victories of his chief aide Villa, rallying the various factions o1
 Northern Mexico around his banner For a time, however, real progress r was slow. Huerta's machinations had s embroiled Mexico with the Unateo
 States and intervention seemed inInl
 nent. The killing of W. $. Benton, a
 British subject, by stall of1cer o1
 iViIIa. further complicated the situa-
 ton.
 Then came Villas victory at Tor,
 reon the first real success of the war
 1 Carranza was pressing Auerta marc when the A B conference to discus!
 the difference between the United
 1 States and Huerta was called in Buf
 falo General Carranza refused t'
 1 suspend hostilities and declined t' . abide by the result of those diplo matic negotiations. The fighting wen = on with the result that Genera
 Huerta resigned the provisional presi s dency July 15, 1914, and mont n later General Caranza made his tr1 t umpha1 entry into Mexico City, Huer ] ta in the meantime having fled t t I Spain.
 : Shortly afterward independen revolutionists led by Zapata, Genera Pascual Orozco and others commenc
 ed. Dissension between Villa and Car a ranza which began at the Torreo
 conference, reached a climax Sep
 23, 1914, when Villa declared war O . Carranza General Alvaro Obrego
 became Carranza's leading general. q The Villa generals met at Aguas = 1 callentes in November, 1914. and, i
 alliance with the Zapata factior .- formed Conventionist governmen g The capital changed hands severa e times and was not finally taken b t General Obregon until the summer (
 1915.