The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-09
MAN WITHOUT A
COUNTRY URGED
New Mexico Plays Alien
Caracristi for the SEN
atorship
DEFY FEDERAL FR0WN
Promises Cleanup of Border
Conditions Is He
Wins Out

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ. Sept. s.
Down here along the border one OF
the strangest political fights this
country has ever known is getting
under way.
And still further south, in Vene-
zuela. sits on the porch OF his ex-
uanglve villa Charles II. Y. Caracrlsti,
unwilling guest OF that country for
six years while he has fought to
have his American citizenship recog-
uiEed. lie is the center of New
Mcxco's political eruption.
The story OF Caracristi and his ef-
forts to establish his heritage OF
American citizenship has been told
Previously, but the effect II his story
on voters OF New Mexico adds a dra-
matte chapter to the tale OF the
man without a country
New Mcxlcans Aid Him.
Although the state department in
Washington continues its refusal To
validate Caracristi's claim OF citizen
ship. New Mexicans have decided to
take the case into their own hands.
According to word reaching this
city today tho republican uomina-
ion for United States senator from
New Mexico has been offered to him
by influential men in this state.
As a colonel in the National Guard
OF New Mexico, Caracristi is well
known along tho border and his
friends have rallied to his aid. They
have enlisted the support OF n re-
publican leader. w. II. II. Llewellyn,
whose word carries weight far be-
yond the limits OF the hot little city
Las Cruces. y. NJ, where he liyes.
In a letter from Llewellyn, who
fought as a major under Theodore
Roosevelt IN Cuba, to Caracrisu's
friends in Virginia, the proffer OF the
nomination was made known. The
republican leader says there are nine
aspirants for the nomination already
IN the field and that Caracristi. the
tenth should have little difficulty
capturing both the nomination and
the election in November.
Should this prophecy prove true
the federal administration will have
a strange and uncomfortable problem
10 solve. VIII It, IN the face of the
demand of the voters OF New Mexico
for fair play, continue its refusal TO
grant Caracristi's citizenship, auto
matically barring him from taking
his seat in the senate?
Charges Corruption.
IN view OF the fact that Caracrist
blsmes for his virtual internment III
Venezuela influences aroused by his
knowledge OF the workings of gi-
gantic syndicate of looting office
holders along the border, the ad-
m!nstration Is expected to think a
long time before acknowledging his
right to citizenship. This Is espe-
cally true as Caracristts charges
center about a prominent figure in
the state department,
II granted his citizenship. Cara
crlsil would be able TO leave Vene-
zuela under an American passport
and return to his country to carry on
the fight to "clean up the border"
which he has threatened since 1916.
Many federal offlcenolders Of thie
aud other administrations would
prefer that Caracristi remain In
Venezuela. There he has much prop
erty and all the comforts OF wealth
and should be satisfied, they believe.
Further. 1t is hard to push charges
hurled across hundreds of miles
when one has no standing as cit
i2en among the men one attacks.
The letter from Llewellyn to ono
Of CaracrlstVs intimate friends in
Richmond, Va, relates that the
treatment the exilcd officer has re-
ceived caused certain wealthy and
influential men IN New Mexico 10
urge his nomination to enable him
10 vlndicato himself.
Holds Senatorship Easy.
"The scnatorshlp, so far as Cara
cristi is concerned" writes Llewei-
lyn, "looks like ripe peach waiting
10 be lifted from the tree, and the
congressional nomination is too easy
for him to be discussed.
"The nolltical situation IN New