File No. 812.00/13649.
Special Agent Canova to the Secretary of State.
At midnight the Convention declared General Eulalio Gutiérrez. Governor of the State of San Luis Potosí, elected Provisional President of the Republic of Mexico. The Zapatistas declared themselves perfectly satisfied and avowed their allegiance to the President-elect.
General Gutiérrez is elected for a period of twenty days, when the Convention, with a full attendance of thirty authorized Zapata delegates, will ratify his permanency as Provisional President until his duly elected successor can assume office or another be named to fill out the provisional term.