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Updated: July 15, 2025
Well, I hears a noise in the brush, see, and I shouts, 'Who goes there? and then this lad answers, 'Carranza! Carranza! I don't know anyone by that name, and so I says, 'Carranza, hell! and I just pumps a bit of lead into his hoof." Smiling, Pancracio turned his beardless head around as if soliciting applause. Then the stranger spoke: "Who's your commander?"
In the Cabinet, the Secretary of War, the vigorous spokesman of the Cabinet group, demanding radical action in the way of intervention, was insisting that we intervene and put an end to the pusillanimous rule of Carranza and "clean up" Mexico.
Nicholas Francus, an Italian poet of the sixteenth century, was a graceful writer and very skilled in the Latin, Greek, and Etruscan languages, but incurred a grievous fate on account of his severe satire on Pope Pius IV. The stern persecutor of Carranza, the powerful Archbishop of Toledo, was not a person to be attacked with impunity.
With Carranza, they got a new constitution. With Obregon, they will get peace and a good government." "Then you are for Obregon?" "Naturally. But I must have men and horses and munitions. I Juan Pachuca cannot fight in the ranks." "I don't see why not," said Polly, candidly. "My brother fought in the ranks and he's a college man. He didn't mind." "Oh, well, in America that is different!
Scarcely was this done when the news reached Washington that a skirmish had taken place between Mexican and United States troops, in which forty had been killed, and seventeen taken prisoners. War was now certain. But once more it was averted. Carranza set his prisoners free and proposed that the two republics should settle their differences by arbitration. To this Mr.
Villa was beaten at Celaya by Obregon and Carranza is winning all along the line! We're done for!" Valderrama's gesture was disdainful and solemn as an emperor's. "Villa? Obregon? Carranza? What's the difference? I love the revolution like a volcano in eruption; I love the volcano because it's a volcano, the revolution because it's the revolution!
They cannot see what is the difference between Huerta, Carranza, and Villa." The only answer he could obtain was that Carranza was the best of the three and that Villa was not so bad as he had been painted. But the phrase that remained with the British diplomat was that one so characteristically Wilsonian: "I propose to teach the South American Republics to elect good men."
Not long afterward Carranza was elected president for a term of four years, but in 1920 another revolt ended in his assassination.
One bandit is just as good as another, and from Pesita to Carranza they're all bandits at heart. They ain't a one of 'em that gives two whoops in hell for poor, bleedin' Mexico unless they can do the bleedin' themselves. It's dog eat dog here. If they caught me they'd shoot me whether I'd robbed their bank or not. What's that?"
At home a ranchman, in public affairs a statesman of considerable ability, knowing how to insist and yet how to temporize, Carranza carried on a struggle, both in arms and in diplomacy, which singled him out as a remarkable character.
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