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stitutionalist Party (Carranza followers included), who
numbered over a hundred delegates representing practically
ALL the Mexican factions. All the delegates SWORE
to abide by the decisions of this Convention, and then Gen-
eral Eulalio Gutierrez, a man of energy and honesty, of
very high principles and well identified with the ideals of
the revolution, was ELECTED provisional president.
This, of course, did not suit Carranza who was looking
for personal aggrandizement, and who intended to transfer
the power TO A MAN OF HIS CHOICE. After General
Gutierrez took the oath of office, Carranza realized he had
been foiled in his selfish and unrestrained manipulations,
and ordered the delegates identified with his party, to repu-
diate the Convention. Just a few of them did, the others
being sensible enough to remain faithful to their oath. By
this fact Carranza became A REBEL AND A TRAITOR,
and threw away the mask of democracy which had been
concealing his selfishness and greed up to that moment.
The Mexican people have been fighting for generations
in order to achieve real democracy. All liberty-loving peo-
ple, no matter what race of nationality, have to sympathize
with these honest endeavors of a nation, who in spite of
being derided and branded as backward by many persons
who do not understand the social unfolding of humanity,
still keeps up the struggle, disregarding suffering, disre-
garding death, disregarding all the penalties brought about
by such a bitter internecine conflict; just to have the satis-
faction and glory of emerging among the democratic coun-
tries of the world, who have already reached their goal,
but who also had to go through the same ordeal, and who
also knew what devastation and death and suffering meant
for the sake of Liberty.
Now, then, in order to judge this perplexing Mexican
situation from the viewpoint of Justice and Freedom, the
world must know if it does not know yet, Americans as
well as Mexicans must know if they do not know yet, that
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Esteban A. Navarro. The Ills of Mexico by A Mexican - Esteban A. Navarro, book, 1914; Chicago, 1914. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth188060/m1/14/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas at El Paso.