Austin American (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 22, 1916 Page: 1 of 10
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VOLUME 5, NO. 22.
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ACTION TO CHECK TREACHERY
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TEXANS ELATED BY THE NEWS
WOMEN AGITATORS AREPUTUNDERARREST
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THOMAS WATT GREGORY
Texans at the national capital are
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MANY BAELOTS BLINDLY CAST
Location of Names on Ticket
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MAKESEXPENSESOF
CANDIDATES HEAVY
Announcement Comes From
White House That Wilson Will
Nominate T. W. Gregory.
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Dublain.
Impossible In Ordinary Cam-
paign to Meet Large Propor-
tion of Voters in Big State.
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Present Federal Attorney Gen-
eral Is Held in High Esteem
as Citizen and Lawyer..
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GREGORY STUDIED AND
PRACTICED LAW IN TEXAS
Funston Forwards to Washington [
From Commander at El Paso Telling He
Black Troopers Were Lured Into Trap With
Flag of Truce—Refugees to Be Protected.
U.S.COMIANOERTAKESQUICK
BELL REPORTS TREACHERY OF
MEXICANS; WILSON IS SILENT
MEXICAN TOWN
DISARMS GUAF
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Steps Taken to Protect Expeditionary Force
and the Lines of Communication—Conviction
Strong That War With De Facto Govern-
ment and All Mexico Now Is Inevitable.
40 AMERICANS REPORTED DEAD Of
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m8 fropan"were the Io!!
Disarms All Soldiers and Civilians in the Mexi-
can Towns of Casas Grandes and Nuevas
Casas Grandes, and Places Both Under
Military Regulation and Supervision.
of cavalry scouting
is awattine the word to mow
•Wed otniclai coo
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Austin Man Picked for Justice
j of U. S. Court in Hughes’ Place
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When arsraa a this.
noon, the American passenger states, the body of General G
was being put aboard a car and a number of wounded Mex
were carried into the coaches of the northbound train. Na
who boarded the train there and who had mingled with the tr
of the concentration camp, freely talked of the manner in w
the fight began. This story is directly opposite to the of
claim at Juarez that the Americans fired on their flag of ti
MEXICANS GLOAT OVER TREACHERY.
These Mexican passengers related with gusto that I
General Gomez learned of the presence of the American trot*
a short distance to the west of his outposts he took a force
to engage them.
Laying his plans last night, this morning Gomez sent a a
detachment under a flag of truce. The officer in comman
this party asked the American officer in command to
for a parley. When an American detachment approachet
chine gun placed in ambush opened fire, both on this det
ment and the main scouting party.
. At once the engagement became general. Gomez i
in the fight. The troopers retreated from the point of am
rallied and charged their enemy. As the Mexicans I
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"ment in 1885 and being admitted to
the bar in the same year.
Until 1900 Mr. Gregory practiced
alone, when he formed a partner-
ship which became famous in the
southwest as the firm of Gregory &
Batts, employed as special counsel
for the state to prosecute violations
of the anti-trust laws. In 1908 the
firm Gregory, Batu & Brooks was
formed and continued until 1913. Mr.
Gregory was a revent of the Univer-
sity of Texas for eight years, and
declined the appointment of assistant
attorney general of Texas in 1892,
and an appointment to the state
bench in 1896. He was one of the
trustees of the Austin Presbyterian
Theological seminary, and has taken
an active interest in educational and
church affairs.
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Mr. Gregory was a very ardent
admirer of Woodrow Wilson, and ac-
tively supported him In the organiza-
ton of hie forces in the state of
Texaa, and in the long-drawn-out
contost at Baltimore.
Shortly after the inauguration Mr
Grexory was offered the position of
special counsel to the government
and put in charge of the New Eng-
land transportation problem, and for
about sixteen months devoted him-
•elf to the affairs of the New'York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad
company, resulting in a settlement
of that controversy without the
necessity of contesting litigation and
to the nattstaction of the attorney
general and the president.
Mr. Gregory was appointed attor-
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comas to a statewide effort old Her-
cules never was assigned a tougher
labor.
All this leads to the conclusion that
the average voter In most instances
does not mark his ballot with a dis-
play of dus intelligence, in other
words, he votes blindly for a great
many man running for state offices.
Fact la, if he does not vote blindly
be will have almost no voice in the
selection of nominees beyond county
"There was sn engagement between
American and Mexican troops at Car-
rizal. We have no detalis. We under-
stand the American casualties were
forty. A number of American pris-
oners have been taken.
••Our own losses we do not know.
Some wounded Mexicans have arrived
in Juarez. I have not talked with any
of them.”
Mexican Consul Andres Garcia, who
is now at the international bridge,
said:
"AU I can say at this hour is to
confirm that we have a report of fight-
ing between American and Mexican
troops at Carrizal, but no details.”
General Bell’s brigade in Kl Paso
MEXICANS
LURE AN
with its military and naval strength.
He replied:
"I have heard of the circumstances,
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rixai to Galeana or El Vale
est point of contact with the
line of communication, is apy
ly seventy miles. Means of
ting the report would be l
to either of the points named
The first oews of the po
Juarez had of the fighting wa
ported arrival of the train
vances two attorneys general from his
cabinet to positions on the United
States supreme court, Mr. Gregory
having succeeded to the attorney gen-
eralship when Mr. McReynolds was
appointed associate justice of the su-
preme court
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Detachment of Tenth Cavalry, While
for Gen. Pershing, Fights Way C
Ambuscade Carefully Planned
Carranza Officer at Carrizal.
cetved some 30,000 votes, notwith-
standing he had long since withdrawn
from the contest. In the same year
a man named Mayfield, who was
wholly unknown outside of his home
county, and who made no campaign
either In that county or elsewhere,
filed his name and got a place on the
official ballot for a state office. Earls
B. Mayfield was running for railroad
commissioner. and his friends were
working for him in every section of
the state. The word was passed along
that Berle Mayfield should be elected
in
the negro regiment that has served so conspicuously in the
hunting.
The Mexicans decoyed the troopers into an ambusc
use of a flag of truce, and opened upon them with a machi
Mexicans at Villa Ahumada were boasting of this strate
afternoon.
This version of the beginning of the fight was given 1
Soes.be"aE
| any longer in Texaa. In each county
a drawing is held for position. The
first name drawn from a hat gets
first position, the second name goes
on next, and so on. This may not be
ths exact program,- but ths resuit
aimed at Is the earns.
EL PASO, Texas, June 21.—Gen. John J. Pershing, com-
mander of the expeditionary forces, seized the Mexican towns
of Nueva Casas Grandes and Casas Grandes at 6 o’clock this
evening. This information has been received by both military
and state department officials here.
The Mexican soldiers and civilians were disarmed. Both
towns are under martial law. The main garrison at Casas
Grandes was evacuated early in the day by the Mexican com-
mander starting in the direction of Madera. *
Twenty arrests were made in Casas Grandes of individuals
who endeavored to incite anti-American demonstrations, in-
"The ballot In the aggregate is not
an intelligent ballot, and that is why
I am opposed to the referendum prin-
ciple,” said a democrat a few days
ego while dlecuaelng freak* in con-
nection with Texaa elections, "The
masaes cannot be educated and en-
lightened sutticlently in a wingie cam-
paign to cast an intelligent ballot on
(Continued on Page Two.)
A There was a clash this morning at Carrizal, near Villa
Ahumada, between Carranzistas and American troops, in which
General Gomez and other Mexicans were killed. Number un-
known Number of Americans killed or wounded unknown.
That General Gomez sent a captain with an order to American
commander to go back, but American said he was going to Villa
Ahumada and opened fire on Mexican captain, wounding him and
killing a.private who was with him. That Americans attacked
General Gomez but were driven back and that several were taken
prisoners. Prisoners were sent to Chihuahua.
‘“Garcia says this is telephoned at the request of General
Gronzales.
and district candidates and in their
election at a later date. On many
occasions in Texas this has been dem-
onstrated in a most convincing man-
ner.
Two years ago Charley White an-
nounced for the office of comptroller,
and his name was printed on the of-
ficial ballot. A month or two before
the primary election he withdrew
from the race, and the fact was an-
nounced through the press in every
section of the state. It was too late
however. to get his name off the bal-
lot. What was the result? He re-
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M Dead and Wounded Placed on Train.
, 1 An American who was on train passing Villa Ahumada
about 2:30 p. m., states that he saw r * 2 : —___
on hisitrain and among them was a dead Mexican general
, IThere.were also several Mexican wounded. He gathered
from, talk of Mexicans that fight was with American cavalry
about five miles west and that the Americans were decoyed
into a trap by using a flag of truce.
“That they were then fired upon by machine guns and had
to retire. Copy furnished Pershing. Reports state our troops
engaged were Tenth cavalry. FUNSTON " P°
i President Wilson retired after reading the report from Gen-
eral Bell without authorizing any statement. He did not see
either Secretary of State Lansing or Secretary of War Baker
Secretary Baker did not visit the war department during the
night. •
Secretary of State Lansing was
asked If, in view of the warning con-
tained in hie note to Carranza, this
government would not act at once
them" Their rear guard defense wasmostrectivr that’S?
icans soon gave up the pursuit.
Genera Funston has no information as to the numh
casualties on either side, nor the number of men engam
either side. Consul Garcia reported to General Bell that G
Gonzales has not received information on these points,
Funston states he has no doubt the cavalrymen, probal
some strength, were scouting up the Santa Clara canvon
Chocolate Pass, where El Valle is located, when they car
contact with the Mexicans. This route is the only men
communication from Villa Ahumada, on the Mexican N
western, across country and through Santa Clara canv
Chocolate pass and El Valle. The Mexicans have conce
a large1 force, estimated at from 5000 to 10,000 at Villa Ahufl
apparently with the plan to march through the canyon ant
upon Pershing’s line of communication at its weakest point
Vua Ahumada, and particularly the movement of troomm R
ward from there, through the use * t7 '
This official statement has been ob-
tained from Gonzales:
WASHINGTON, June 21.—President Wilson received after
.11 o’clock tonight a report from General Funston containing
fXS ocantanzith attacknron.a detachment of the
... General Bell reported that the Americans were decoyed
into a trap by a flag of truce used by the Mexicans. They were
then fired upon by machine guns. +.21522:--------zu.
GeneThe Fnsdonartment later issued the following dispatch from a^JtehES
"The following is received from General Bell at El Paso: “--- ~ '
folio Mexican Consul Garcia telephoned me at 6 p. m., as
two years and then took a spectai
course at the Untversity of Virginia,
where he was a chum and roommate
of Justice McReynolds, whom he
succeeded as attorney general. At
the Untversity of Virginia he won
the Jetterson debaters’ medal, and
in the fall of 1884 he went west and
- --—. _----------—.located at Austin.' graduating from
to succeed himself. He was elected I the Untversity of Texas law depare
nil - ui .0, all right, but how about ths man with 1---* - •— —------ - -
Often Helps or Hurts Chances Ithesame zurnamef He cot something
... like 80,000 votes, carried Galveston
of Aspirant for Office. lcountz and came within a small mar-
oP | tin of carrying Grayson, the county
, in which Karle Mayfield used to live.
It would meem that at least a targe
[By B. F. Harper.] | percentage of the voters of Galveston
Texas is a big state. Within its bor. I county thought they were helping the
den are nom. see *00 mAI 1105: I rallrosd commisaoher becaune of his
coraxare.om. "00,000. enttiedlattitude m the matter ot alveston dif.
tossorateshoosnoeottzuntrazebutlerentiain. In Grayson county they
that Hiht . ot-tham.mxercip thought they were voting for a tavor-
it la awtat"eni “-presden tialzenr. ite sni Many other instances along
poroentwen Koefetathtnzoodix thls iine 0001,1 be dug out of campalg
nV^t £^’4 s;:
Th«rsmall.r m. ..... ..___. -__(where from 50,000 to 100.090 votes
lr doermau vote "ntttasthenmore.near: I Somettmes 11 ia a piece of crafty pol-
1tdrenutherxotrctepproximatestheltes to put up a unknown to help
torats.umhuissecauz’insuesthr.tbee: mpmnsh Aradghe t”
eiidoki irengis“22 orthe Ens-gorhamanuat qeat:
EhxrrPharnau: a.tach.and.inet. given usually is worth thou-
te peronal touch 1 the election that sands of votes. I all " countin
M-uAW---: _. I placed the same name in top position
terTia, mprirenoontireiz.too.much ihe owner of that name, regard I ns
qui(«l7brU.^llX™» L “1.nde: of hia qualfications or his claims on
cumteix.bvany.lvinE man. in.a aingielthe party, would bs successful ortener
cmmpatan o‛.avera=t. duration. ..Alhn N. woul ,o* The avornge
hriurinzittnsnach-otthe 250.oounties voter who does not know any of the
roguirenmonthnof time, and the burn- candidates nearly always indicates the
The uuotsmcetwnmount of enere: firt mAN on the i " AS preter-
Stated m£ht Jo m in Antonm SI This advantage does not obtain
Houston, or Dallas. any other one of
a half dozen cities that might be men-
tioned and not meet 10 per cent of the
voters, though he work fourteen hours
a day for a full thirty days. When it
Gen. Gomez, Leader of Attacking Foro
Killed, His Body and Wounded Mevira
Being Brought to Juarez—Casualties on
Both Sides Not Definitely Known.
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cluded in this number were several women who harangued the 0a Lm-tatarututrscese According to- announcement made from the white house whoWas
* bwl Mexigans to resist the entrance BrSabamdueszzsis-seunre2 WedegrsztmornimggrGregoryengvpattorneygeneras,of the ingatau
of theAmerivans "Izna”czzarsuz2asttdsagzzos vacancy % nicesseqtedntpreh Puhtdentdlyorndoratgladcoun
nation of Charles E. Hughes, who has been nominated as presi-
dential candidate by the republican party. F
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No communication
Passed through Columbus for e
Funston at pm
This delay is believea to be ds
ths fact that th. distance from 3
Ths attorney, general has always
maintained that the duties of a pri-
vate citizen are as onerous as those
of the public servant, and that the
duty of actively participating In the
discusslon of political questions and
in attempting their solution cannot
be properly avoided by any man.
Mr. Gregory married Miss Julia
Nall* of Austin on Feb. 22, 1898,
and his four children. Jan* Gregory,
aged 11, who graduated two years
ago from the University of Texas: T.
W. Gregory Jr., now 11 years old,
a freshman In Princeton university;
Nall* Gregory, 11 years old, and Cor-
nelia Gregory, aged 8.
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Thomas Watt Gregory was born
Nov. 6, 1861, in Lowndes county,
Mississippi. His father. Dr. Gregory,
was a confederate veteran, a captain
in the Thirty-fifth Missisatppi, and
alea shortly after the battle of Cor-
inth. Young Gregory, who was left
a mere child aa the only shteld of
a widow, grew up in the family of
his maternal grand father, Maj.
Thomas Watt, a wealthy cotton
planter. who later removed to West
Point, Miss., where young Gregory
went to school and grew up to an
outdoor life, hunting, fishing and
swimming. He went to college in
Tennessee, graduated with honors in
I Special to The American.
WASHINGTON, June 11—The
I white house announced today that the
I nomination of Attorney General
Thomas Watt Gregory of Austin.
(Texas, to be a justice of toe United
States supreme court vice Charles
I Evan Hughes, would be sent to the
senate in the near future.
John W. Davis of West Virginia,
| now solicitor general of the depart-
■ ment of justice, will be promoted to
the attorney generalship.
I Col E. M. House of Austin, intimate
friend of President Wilson as well as
of Mr. Gregory, is given credit for the
decision of the president to elevate
Mr. Gregory to the supreme bench. By
this nomination President Wilson ad-
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Sevier, H. H. Austin American (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 22, 1916, newspaper, June 22, 1916; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1519231/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .