Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-09
HOW ABOUT CARRANZA?

After being at liberty years General Rafael
Pimento who commanded the ruraes in 1918, when
former President Francisco l. Madero and Vice
President Jose Maria Pine Suarez We're assassnated
while they being taken to the pententiary, has
been arrested. The present provisional government
announces that other arrests in this connection will
follow.
All this is very nice. 1t shows, on the surface
that the regime is anxious to clear the name of
Mexico of one the greatest blos has had to bear
But how about the assassination of President
NEWSSTAND Carranza? If Provisional President De
la Huerta and President-eect Alvaro Obregon wish
to convince the world that the government of
Mexico wants to its administration with a clean
record why not settle the mystery of the assassna-
ton of President CarranZa and for all?
Ever since Don Venustano was murdered in the
early morning of May a. of this year, there have
been ugly rumors that the affair nstigated by
some man higher up" Who that man is no
has dared specify for proofs lacking.
But there are two outstanding facts regarding
the affair that believe significant.
First. Carranza WAS murdered. He did not
commit suicide, as claimed by General Rodofo
Herrera, commander of the troops that attacked the
hut in which Carranza sleeping.
By a personal investigation, the writer of this
editorial convinced himself that the aged president
was done to death" The mute testimony of the
bullet holes in the thin wooden walls of the
'chaCaI,"
antongo told the story. The firing had clearly been
concentrated toward the spot where Carran2a was
living The others of the thirty-two bullet holes in
the walls of the chacal were random Shots but the
five near the old presidents pallet showed PUR-
POSE.
The present writer's findings in the matter
published in several Mexico City newspapers, and,
SO far as know to this day they have never been
questioned. Furthermore, the report carried by
he Assoc O a Of he
world, and certain that denial made
by any one, either officially or unoffcialy.
AS matter of fact, the suicide theory is not
regarded seriously in Mexico anywhere else.
President Carranza murdered-there be
question about that.
Second For weeks after the death of CarranZa,
General Herrera allowed his full liberty. open
criticism was made of this in Mexico City at the
time. Government officials limited that they were
not pleased with the fact that formal action
brought against Herrera, but explained that they
could not interfere with the administration of JUS
tice.
So far we know, Herrero has never been ar
rested, although some attempt made to do so
after he had had opportunity to leave the Mex
lean capital
The government had every chance imaginable
to take Herrera into custody. The present writer
interviewed him at of the best hotels of the cap
ital where Herrero not under surveillance.
He had handsome suite of rooms, and numerous
retinue of soldiers and officers.
In the meanwhile, however, General Francisco
Murguia, General Francisco de p. Mariel General
Francisco Urquizo and other leaders who accom-
panied Carranza in his flight from Mexico City to-
ward the coast, languishing in the military
prison of Santiago Talteolco, the charge of not
having put up sufficiently soldierly defense for
their chief. No one, however, limited that they
had taken any active part in the assassination Their
crime if any merely negative one. Yet why
were they locked up, while the prima facie
responsible given the freedom of the city and
permitted to retain his command?
BY no stretch of the imagination or nicely of in
ternationa ethics the present government be
chargeabe with the assassination of Francisco Ma
dero or of Pine Suarez. General Obregon, Provi-
sional President de la Huerta, General p. Elias
Cales or General Benjamin G.. Hill--the present
"big men" of MeXico-had nothing whatever to do
with that affair. President Victoriano Huerta and
his followers alone responsible.
Yet the new regime is assduously "investigat-
ing" the tragic events of 1918.
The present government of Mexico however can
rightly be expected to clear up the Carranza mys-
terry for it is the immediate successor to the Car.
rama regime. Unless the mystery is cleared up
not the suspicion be entertained that the ad-
ministration came into power unrigheously?
The hands of the present leaders of Mexico may
not be stained with blood. But there blood
stains on their threshold and all the perfumes of
Arabia will not wash them away unless the muir
derers of Carranza are apprehended and punished,
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