The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-22
Carranza Ousted Huerta
 Now Loses Own Life

| Venustiana Carranza, elected PreSi- dent 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 1 ternalonal prominence on the graves of the hopes of General V:ctoriano lHuerta, the usurper, and his follow CTS.
 l Simultaneously with General Huer- l 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, Carranza is quoted having said 1 Mine is socral one"
 Born of parents in comfortable cir cums.ances 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 bar, however, affection of the eyes prevented him from practising and he returned to his native State to become a ra,ncher. His experience as a ran Icher first, then judge, senator and finally Governor of Coahuila- made lCarranza familiar with the agraHan problem the root of political unrest in Mexico.
 Having defied Huerta, Carranza. raa- 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 Of Northern Mexico around his banner. For a. time, however, real progress was slow. Huerta's machinations had embroiled Mexico with the Limited States and interv vention seemed immi- nent The killing of W. $. Benton, a British subject, by a staff officer Of Villa, further complicated the situa- ton.
 | Then came Villas victory at Tor | reon, the first real success of the war. | Carranza was pressing Huerta hard | when the A B c conference to discuss l the difference between the United l States and Huerta was called in Buff ] falo. General Carranza refused to suspend hostilities and declined to | abide by the result of those diplo- matic negotiations. The fighting went on with the result that General Huerta resigned the provisional presi- dency July IS, 1914, and month later General ,Caranza made his tr1- umphal entry into Mexico City, Huer- | ta in the meantime having fled to Spain.
 Shortly afterward independent revolutionists led by Zapata, General Pascual Orozco and others commenc- ed. Dissension between Villa and Car ranza, which began at the Torreon conference, reached climax Sept. 23, 1914 when Villa declared war on Carranza General A1varo Obregon became Carranza's leading general.
 The Villa generals met at Aguas- I callentes in November, 1914, and, in alliance with the Zapata faction, formed Conventionist government. The capital changed hands several times and was not finally taken by General Obregon until the summer of 1915.
 The beginning of the end of the Villa -Zapata party as military power followed swiftly the heavy de- feats of Villa by General Alvaro Ob- regon Villa was forced to give up Torreon and concentrate his dwind-
 ling forces in northern Chihuahua and eastern Sonora, making occasional forays and raids which eliminated in the attack on Colubm-s, N. M, that ! resulted in the invasion of Mexican l territory by General Pershing.
 In the diplomatic exchanges that ensued between President Wilson and Carranza, who had been officially re-
 cognized as the head of the defacto i government by the United States in | October, 1915, he insisted on the re- spect by, the United States of Mexico's 1 sovereignty and the concession to his | government of reciprocal rights of in- vasion. He maintained his position despite the crisis caused by the clash es between Mexican and American soldiers at Parral and Carrizal but when war seemed unavoidable Car ranza succeeded in stemming the tide by his proposal for the appointment } of a joint commission to settle the difficulties amicably. The proposal was accepted by President Wilson and the deliberations of the commission resulted in the withdrawal of the I American army and the restoration of friendly rela tions between the two countries.
 @ In the meantime Carranza had called Constitutional Congress, which accepted most of the reforms he outlined. On March II, 1917, he was elected President. More than l. 500, 900 votes were cast for him. He took the oath of office May 1, 1917. In a message to the Mexican Con- gross following his inauguration as president, Carranza declared Mexico's "strict" neutrality. His note to neu- tral nations, however, urging them to declare embargoes against all the European beIligerents, as a means or ending the war. and the warmth of his language in congratu1ating Elm peror William on the occa sion of his last birthday, aroused comment in the United States. as did also the
 publication of the Zimgnerman note
 inviting Mexico to take t.by conquest the States of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico in payment for a declaration of war on the United States acting in l concert with Japan