Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-09-06
MEXICAN ELECTION.
The Peculiar Manner of Conducting them
Herald.

Nogales Herald.
 The election for state and municipal officers in Sonora will take place to-day. A law in Mexico requires that all elec- tions be held on Sunday. Why such a law was enacted has never been fully eX- plained to us but it was certainly not passed in order to give the working class es an opportunity to vote without losing a day, for the working classes as rule do not care much about voting and those interested ill the elections do not care whether they vote or not In Mexico the privilege of voting Is not as glorious as It is in the United States, and we might add, not nearly so broad.
 They have a system of registration and 1t is religiously lived up to without any attempt or show for stuffng the great register or voting citizens long since dead or decamped. A list of the qualified elec- tors of each town or municipality iN writ ten out and posted in some conspicuous place at least ten days before the election. This list gives the name, age, occupation and residence of each voter and also states whether married or single and whether able to read or w1te or both. The list is arranged alphabetically and each man has his number in the order Ill winch his name comes.
 There must be some law for the dls- qualification of persons for we notice that ill Nogales, Mexico, there are on the list but g2 voters while the town has a pop ulation of 1700 or 1900, and yet persons of Fl years are legal voters so far as age Is concerned.
 There is no pulling and hauling at their elections and button-holing is entirely unknown. Usually the powers that be- select a ticket and that is generally the only one in the field and the stereotyped telegraphic assurance that the election passed off quietly, very light vote be ing boiled" obtains to a large degree Occasionally a patriotic son of Montezu ma fills himself to overtiowing with native tangle-leg and publicly proclaims pref erence for the "Gringo," style of holding elections but convenient jail and willing officers soon get him and by the time ht emerges from the intricate meshes of the law he don't care whether he hears of an
 other election or not.
 1t has been decided that this year Hon
 Luis E. Torres, now provisional governor , of Lower California, shall be elected gov 3 ernor of Sonora and the chances are tha he will get there" without having to kis
 and fondle any of the babies in the bacl districts. Gov. Torres held the reins two terms before and leaves no broom for dOub 7 in the minds of the people as to who l
 governor. Torres does things, up con ! siderably on the American plan and l ! chock full of energy, push and enterprise With him intelligence rules where 1t l r possible and where 1t isn't possible h. S fights the devil with undiluted birthstone
 He is a good man for a border state an( iudiciously works in harmony with Amer . ican officials which not only strengthen : friendly relations but tends to increas a trade between the two Republics ant even intertwine the social interests c both Neither priest nor potentate rule ! Torres and he has done much to give Y foothold to higher civilization in Sonor;