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ecri'tly bcRnti the transfer of his gov
ernment to Vera Ortiz. Meanwhile,
I'nltcil StateH warships wore Bent to
tnat vicinity to protect American in-
for him, and they will go to the winner.
The strongest clement In the Pen
rose. blAc appears to be Joliuson and
the Irreconciluble iroun attached to
hint. tint llm rirmiif Inn ta wink. 1 IcronlH.
JoluiHon linn mnbltiniiM of Ills own Hint , Acrompanled by a Rtronz and heavily
probably have not Penrose's real sup- armed force, Cnrrnnwi sallied forth from
port. If .lolinsoii wore to abandon them ' Mexico City with bin cabinet Mir 1
nnd ro-operale fully with Penrose tho and met the rebels at ltlnconnda, hi the
two nf tliem roulu prolinniy nay who .iaio 01 I'lieom.
would lie the Republican rntidldiite. : Pr three days the fe.dernl party was
Sftnntnr's Pmunr tlnmrtnin Ypt Acting quickly in the early ballots, the Mirroundcd, nghtlng grimly. Carranza
Senator S POWOr Uncertain, Yet tw f t'h(,m JhrowfllJt ,lefr Rtmlg, ,0 powonuHir directed the brittle, and even
Mnnv I nnir tn Wlm on "Lnit ' Lowiton could probably uoiulnate him. Had a horse shot under him. Finally,
many LOOK to Mim as uasi , ' - i..,i,.. on May 14. he exclaimed:
Johnson wmtld be the best man for' "We are lost! floodby, gentlemen !"
I PenroM' In bent Wood with, but Pen- Then Carrnnisa (led to the mountains
rose nrnlmlilv docs not want to irn to on horseback with n few trusty fol-
that length. If Wood gets going, the , lowers. He paused it few minutes to
Penrose bloc will not be enough to stop ' watch the rebel forces enter the famous
him. If he does not the Penrose bloc i )cllow presidential train, now shot
will hnrillv know what to do with llii through with bullets, where his treas
ures ami state papers Had been stored
In the forlorn hope that he would again
return to .Mexico city as chief cxecu-
of Old Guard"
OPPOSED TO GENERAL WOOD,
Hopes of Candidates High
as Conventions Approach
Oregon returns Indicate a cloc
mc between Wood and .Tohnxou.
with I.owden third and Hoover
fourth.
A Hoover club has hen organized
nt Pittsburgh.
Investigation of presidential cam
paign expenditures will be started
on Monday by a Senate committee.
Wood managers claim lie will be
nominated on the fifth ballot.
Johnson will address it big meeting
at Chicago, on June 7. mi the eve
of the Republican convention.
Cox and Palmer have received the
most Instructed votes in the Demo
cratic party.
power it has.
Carranza Is Killed
in Puebla Mountains
Omtlniinl from I'ner One
American eou
the Inlted
tive.
So closely had Carranza been sur
rounded that the revolutionists even
iinnouuced he had been cohturcd. (Irn.
'oral Obregou, his chief rival, later do
nnrln n lirnl.l miller ll.nt ' H''1 'nl report, nddltlg that the (lc-
I governments not based on constitutional j,,nnwnc (;nrrnIll!a. h, nrmy
aimioi u . .I..,...,. i.( r, routed and cabinet dispersed, ma'dc a
I , U. w i tti i, n c,i . . , r;lHiml desperate effort to reach the coast
riiiixn wn killed n . a 'l 1 ftot t he b ,)erls,V(i , tho mountains, probably
TJ::: '.'I ' IS! S"1 .3 Ith. 1"Lr, A Uit.hU even, hearing thnt tli, victors
1111(1 Krilllll'ii linn nit: mill uctuuiu.
ny CLINTON W. fill.llKRT I
BUir CorTfIniUnt of the Kirnlng I'ulillr !
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Wwhlngton. May i.'C
Wood's ambition to be
wrecked nt Chicago, the rock on which
U will founder is Senator Penrose
Prixident Wllion's originnUy outlliied
' policy. If he were killed in battle with
i the revolutionists, it probably would
! still be a ipiestlon as to whether the
recognition of liis successors came within
th policy laid down seven years ago.
! The details of the Mexican president's
I death will hnve to be known fully be
J fore the Slut" Department makes any
I decision which would bear on the ijues
I tions of recognition.
Reclining the l'resiilent s attitude.
rinliiHiiimrv nuetits here were ion-
if r-,,iml I cemed and took Immediate steps to learn
-n i.cninu, (ptfjs ,jmt NVnulil clear up the manner
President Is f crrnnr.a denth.
CARRANZA ROSE
FROM OBSCURITY
Venustlano Carranza. elected presi
dent of Mexico, Marcli 11. 1017. by the
largest vote ever cast In a presidential
election in bis country, stepped from
liolltlcnl obscurity to natlonnl and in
ternational prominence on the graves
of the' hopes of llcneral Vlctorlano
Havana,
May ,J,J. (Ily A. P.) I.uls
...I. ..-.. m nijlui. tf thn llnrfniiH
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A bloc is being formed among "'', tl(,aBUrv department ; gnucio Honillns.
leaders, which is anti-Wood. Penrose former 'Mexican uinbosador nt Wash
la at the head of It. From day to day higton. nnd reputed to be the fnvrrcd
senators of the old guard are going uiudldate for president of Mexico, arid
one or two ntn time to visit the Penn- ; all other members of the Carranza cab---i-.i
n.nV I met. accompanied President Carrnnzn
T0t of this it is expected that some . In his Might to the mountains of Puebla.
lclnd of combination will l.e achieved j according o Mexican "papers re
around the candidacy of Senator Knox, ceived in this city jesterday.
It will be detinitcly antl-oou. u
will be against, but ifot so much . ,r"1';
against 1-owiifn. ii ii '"".' ! rietn, who has not yet recognized the
iKiwden to heat o .1 It is ot I kclj ,utiol yertiny gave battle to rev
to support YMi'mIi..H,R nrolutlonnry troois under Ooncral Miguel
mich force In the, earl balloting at ,,,r p.nnMiin Domnm. (Ion.
Chicago as to cause the combination to .,.. ,, ,. nnnollIU,P( ,,,..
vt tn nieces.
Since the Penrose declaration for
Knox, the Pennsylvania senator has
politically. His views upon
mil platfoi
candidate nn
known to the
IlOortn. flip nsiirner. and his followers
Simultaneously with General Huerta's
coup d'etat nnd the assassination of
President Madera, the news went out
to the world that General Venustlnno
Carrnnzn, elected governor of the state
of Coahuila in Hill, refused to recog
nize the usurper and would resist him
by force of arms.
"Madero's revolution was political."
Curranzu is quoted as having said.
"Mine is n social one."
Horn of parents in comfortable cir
cumstances in Cuntro Cienagns, state
of Coahuila, . December 29, 1S59,
Venustlauo Catranzn was educated In
the public schools of his nntive state
and later studied law at the Mexican
capital. When he was admitted to the
bar. however, affection of the eyes pre
vented him from practicing and ho re
turned to his native state to become a
rancher. His experiences as a rancher
Hmi limn ii fnild' Konntor and lluallv
loh resuted in the owthrow ami ovcruor ot Coahuila. made Carranza
'Ji..?' ,l :8ld. " , .R"a" na;,,0bfKnJ fnmlllar with the agrarian problem, the
Mexico. May '.'li.-Mtv A
I Forces of Governor Domingo Ar
The latest revolution in Mexico,
which resulted in the overthrow nnd
Deen active poimraiiy. h nm u.uu , ,
iinifnani nen niirifi Ti i n ir . .
""""" . n i i i' n e v less fiian two montns ago :;:.; nii .. i M..inn
well-iniornieu nere in -,,,, ,.- a.inn nf th. BtIlfl. nf!.uiioi umci m
with the secession of the state
tcrvcntlon seemed Imminent, lhc .kill
ing of W. H. llcuton, n llrltlsh subject,
by a staff officer of Villa, further cony
plicated the situation.
Then camo Villa's -victory at Torreon,
the first real success of the war. Car
ranza .was pressing Hucrta hard when
tho A t C conference to discuss the dif
ferences between the United States and
Huertn Was called in Huffaln. General
Carranza refused to suspend hostilities
and declined to abide by the result of
those diplomatic negotiations. The
fighting' went on with the result that
General Huertn resigned the provisional
presidency July 15, 1014, nnd n month
Inter General Cnrranzn made his tri
umphal entry into Mexico Qlty, Huerto
in the menntlme having lied to Spain.
Shortly afterward Independent revo
lutionists led by Zapata, General Pas
cual Orczco and others' commenced. Dis
sension between Villa nnd Carranza,
which began nt the Torreon conference,
reached n climax September 23, 1014,
when Villa declared war on Carranza.
General Alvnro Obregon became Car
ranzn's leading general.
Obregon Hetnhcs Capital
The Villa generals met at Aguascal
lentcs in November, 1014, and, in alli
ance with the. Zapata faction, formed
it Convcntionist government. Tho capi
tal chnuged hands several times and
was not llnnlly taken by General Obre
gon until the summer of 1015.
The beginning of the end of the Vllla
Zapata party as a military power fol
lowed swiftly the heavy defeats of Villa
by Gcnernl Alvaro Obregon. Villa was
forced to give up Torreon nnd concen
trate his dwindling forces in northern
Chlhtinhua and eastern Sonora, making
occasional forays and raids which cut
minnted in the attack on Columbus, N.
M., that resulted in the invasion of
Mexican territory by General Pershing.
In the diplomatic exchanges thnt en
sued between President Wilson and
Carranza, who had been officially recog
nized as the head of the do facto gov
ernment by the United States in Octo
ber, 1015, ho insisted on the respect by
the United States of Mexico's sov
ereignty and the concession to his gov
ernment of reciprocal rights of invasion.
He maintained his position despite the
crisis caused by the clashes between
Mexican nnd American soldiers at
Parrnl nnd Cnrrlzal. ml when war
seemed unavoidable Cnrranzn succeeded
In stemming the tide by his proposal
for the appointment of a Joint commis
sion to settle the difficulties nmlcnbly.
The proposnl was accepted by President
Wilson and the deliberations ot the
commission resulted in tho withdrawal
of the Amerlcnn nrmy and the restora
tion of friendly relations between tho
two countries.
In the meantime Carranza had called
a Constitutional Congress, which ac
cepted most of the reforms he outlined.
On March 11, 1017, he was elected
president. More than 1,500,000 votes
were cast for him. He took the oath
of office May J , 1017.
Gcnernl Carranza was married nnd
formerly lived in Saltlllo. One of his
daughters, Miss Virginia Carrnnzn, be
came the wife of General Candido
Aguilar.
Wnml'n nomination. He has
against Wood from the time when John '
T. King, of Connecticut. Wood's first
manager, approached mm in me in
r.t nf the seneral. And his opposi
tion is reported to have increased as
li rnmnnlin hns cone on. Now. he
Is represented as unalterably opposed T,lftinK ,,,, to t,ult by Mtty ,-,.
IO M UUU,
LEXIKGT0N COUPE
"Washington. Me may he set down as ns nroten against Carranza's I Started Willi Hand of 000
strongly an. iienniien ..,.p..i . ... miscov,.rmnent. The revolu- tivW .l..fw.,l Huertn. Cnrranza ral-
""'" i !.,.. Ki.nnlul vnlitlt Uiwl tl-tlU IttlllimPfllll ' f ll 1. .1 -t Mf .1ln...,.a (.tUlsal
nun nuti-u. minii;, .. .- r.U(.w. iv Jieu a guiUll unilll VI UlU lUUUtj.o. .ui,ii
by ViHn and other military loaders. grcw nto a sizable army when he won
l.UII' llll linilllll V.IIHUIK.U n K,-iii-iain uie SlippOri 01 rrOUUntu I Hill. 'ni- I bImuI 1000 mll. rnm.
advised him to resign in favor of a raza's intluence spread rapidly, the SZZ"Z-, 'ZnTTJZ My 'ar
president ad interim whom he or con- I military victories of his chief aide. ?'"".
cress could appoint. It Is said the Villa, rallying the various factious of i '
KPiierals presented an ultimatum, northern Mexico around his banner. lor , :nlrlftr, Motor Co of Pennn
a time, however, reni progress was siow. -o
liwti.ml CnrnuiTii Issut'd n man!- Huerta's machinations had embroiled i t.Tinton Rlrf.. R51.AS3 N. Broid St.
festo. appealing for public support, but Mexico with the United States and in- iiniADKr.i'lllA
Uuslness Interests Divided .
The Penrose opposition to Wood in- .5
dlcates a division of opinion nmong uie
business Interests of the country w ioju
Tiews nre influential in Republican !
c'rcles nnd this division seems to re
volve around the dispute over the Ger
man trentv and the league covenant.
Mr. Penrose usually speaks for big,
business in the Republican party coun
cils. He is strongly opposed to the
league, as strongly as Hiram Johnson
himself. Certain big business interests, i
especially interests with international!
connections, put a good deal of pressure:
upon the Republican senators lust win
tor In behnlf of the treaty. Penrose
resented that pressure. He still speaks1
for big business, but not thot big busi-1
ness. He is against the Interests thnt I
support the tteaty. and as he nssocl ,
ate.s the Wood candidacy with certain ,
interests thnt bupport the league, he is I
against the Wood candidacy. At least
that U the current explanation that
sounds most plausible.
Mr. 1'enron? Is the sick ninn of the
Republican purty. The parallel with
Wilson naturally occurs to mind. The
President will say who will be noml- j
nated at San Francisco from u wheel
chair at Washington, Penrose, the last I
of the Republican demigods, will at
tempt to say who shall be nominated'
nt Chicago from a Lake Shore apart
ment. He will hardly show himself in
the convention, probably not nt nil. He
will use the telephone a great deal The (
Jester bosses will come to ec him at
his roums. .
Just now there Is nlmost a daily pil
grimage to his home. He uses the long
distance telephone rather more than any
one In the country. Each of the candi-
dates bus hnd men to see him in their '
Interest. The members of the old guurd
who wnnt n combination made which
will name the winner slip ijuietly over
to Philadelphia.
Penrose Interesting Figure
A certain gliimour attaches to him.
Politicians from nil over the country
ask '"What i Penrose doins? Where
will he throw his i-trength? How is his
heaithV" He is the ni"st interesting sin- '
gle figure in the Republican situation.
Ilulwer l.ytton need to like to write
novels with the word "lost" in their
titles, "The Last Days of Pompeii,"
"The Lost of the Iturous." "The Last
of the Suxou Kings." He might write,
one today about the last of the .
old guard. There is none left of the i
Penrose stature but himself nud he is I
sick. New York hus no bos. Ohio is I
split to pieces. WiiUmi. of Indiana, is I
of n younger genirutimi and a smaller
race. i
How is Penrose? Visitors to him re- ,
turning to Washington put it guardedly.
"He is below pur plnsically." just
as visitors to Wilson fence with the
public curiosity. One is not too explicit i
about the bodily stat.. of kings. Re
certly published pictures- of Penrose,
like recently published pictures of il
son, indicate that lie is "below pur",
It is months since that he bus bein in
Washington. He will be in Chicago.
Whnt kind of n lombinution cun tins
political demigod "below par" make?;
lie will be able to hold Peiuisvlvaulu.
presumably. Indiana mu.v perhaps tie
counted on lifter the early ballots, al- .
ways with the if. that Wood does not
develop grent strength on the early bal
lots. New York Not Indispensable
Nw York would be an important, I
almost indispensable, eleimut in u sue- i
eessful Penrose bloc. Hut no one cun i
deliver New York. People in Wash
ington ask where is Kllhu Root? He :
does not give a sign. Hut he hardly
stands with Pentose. He was for the
treaty with reservations, lie was one .
of those who put the pressure on the
Republican Henutors which 1 eiirose re- !
fcents. Root has no authority In New
York politics, but he is likely to ex- I
erclae much lullueuce there. He is ,
nupposed to be for Wood.
The success of iieh a combii.ntion as
ii.,-.,. lu mnltiiiir ilencndh unon the !
extent to which delegates nnd bosses
believe in It. The old guard, when it
was really an old guard, s .eceeded be
:ause delegates followed it blindly, be
lug conflilent that it had the nomina
tion up Its sleeve.
Some of this old faith reposes in
Penrose. States like Indiana, New
York and Ohio will follow him no long
its they think he cpntrols. Out let them
think that power lia slipped nut of
hlft.Jiamls, that the Wood movement
it fVe I.otviku movement U too strong
ff
I had onli put on
WEED TIRE CHAINS
Regrets avail nothing when the harm is done.
Many an accident might have been avoided
and many a life saved if drivers of automobiles
had only exercised ordinary, everyday pre
caution and had listened to the warnings
which for years have been sounded through
the magazines and daily newspapers, viz.
"Always put on Weed Tire Chains when the
roads and pavements are wet and slippery."
It's all very well to say, "I'm sorry I didn'tmean to doit."
Regrets don't mend broken limbs'
or bring back the lives that have been taken. The
innocent victims have suffered through no fault of
their own while the careless motorist escapes with a
reprimand, the payment of Doctor's bills and the
expense of having his car repaired.
In the inttretl of hu
manityin the intere'tt
of tafe and tane mo
toring Put on yoar Weed
Tire Chain "at the firtt
drop of rain, " and insist
that othen do the tame.
mmmmmmmmImmmmr;
Is there no way to make such fellows realize their
responsibility and have more regard for the right
of others?
Skidding accidents would never occur if every
motorist exercised care in driving and put on Weed
Tire Chains whenever roads and pavements were
wet and slippery or covered with mud and slime.
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SIRAWBRDKE I CLOTHIER
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Spring
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Ever Made by This Clothing Store
Our ENTIRE STOCK of Metfs,
Young Men's, Youths- and Boys'
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the bringing into the Sale of our entire vast stock of MEN'S, YOUNG MEN'S, YOUTHS'
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Eight Thousand Men's and Young Men's
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$35 to $95 Values at $23.50 to $6300
IN ADDITION TO THE
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1000 Boys' Suits in Our Special Lots
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